RIP Herbert

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A true American icon

Herbert Coward, known for his "Toothless Man” role in the movie “Deliverance,” died Wednesday in a crash on a western North Carolina highway, according to authorities. He was 85.

The crash happened Wednesday afternoon as Coward and Bertha Brooks, 78, left a doctor’s appointment, North Carolina Highway Patrol Sgt. M.J. Owens said by telephone on Thursday.
Coward pulled out onto U.S. Route 19 in front of a pickup truck, which hit his car, Owens said. Coward and Brooks as well as a Chihuahua and pet squirrel were killed, he said. Coward, who lived in Haywood County,
was famous locally for having a pet squirrel, he said.
The 16-year-old driver of the truck was taken to a hospital as a precaution. Authorities don’t believe speed or distraction were factors in the crash, Owens said.

Coward had a small but memorable role in John Boorman’s 1972 classic “Deliverance.” The film starred Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox as a group of businessmen canoeing down a river in remote Georgia.
Their adventure turns into a backwoods nightmare when local mountain men assault them.
Coward’s character, known as the “Toothless Man” for his missing front teeth, is one of the men who hold several of the paddlers at gunpoint during the assault.
Coward became the indelible face to one of the most infamous scenes in 1970s cinema, contributing the line, “He got a real purty mouth, ain’t he?”

you got a real purdy mouf

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And a fockin pet squirrel? Gtfo

[Voltaire 5,315]

Not just the "purdy mouth" line, this was the film with the dueling banjos scene.

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32 minutes ago, Voltaire said:

Not just the "purdy mouth" line, this was the film with the dueling banjos scene.

 

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Your misleading headlines consistently suck ass.   

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Just now, jerryskids said:

Your misleading headlines consistently suck ass.   

Hey since you grew up in PA, did you have any phillyb team allegiances? And if so, wheen and how did you transition to AZ teams?

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1 minute ago, jerryskids said:

Your misleading headlines consistently suck ass.   

And RIP Coward seemed completely inappropriate

[BeenHereBefore 1,517]

I thought this post was about Justin Herbert.

[Hardcore troubadour 15,407]

MAGA! 

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1 hour ago, cmh6476 said:

And RIP Coward seemed completely inappropriate

RiP Herbert Coward, dummy?

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34 minutes ago, BeenHereBefore said:

I thought this post was about Justin Herbert.

And you've been here before

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Read a story about this movie years ago. The rape scene with Ned Beaty “Squeal like a pig” was played by a stuntman friend of Reynolds, as was most of the antagonist. Reynolds was a stunt man before he became a famous Hollywood actor, so he always supported his brothers. Hence the reason he made Hooper. Anywho, during that scene, it was mostly improvised.He was on set and flipped out and pushed the guy off of Beaty. He was disgusted how real it looked. Interesting movie.

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5 minutes ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

Read a story about this movie years ago. The rape scene with Ned Beaty “Squeal like a pig” was played by a stuntman friend of Reynolds, as was most of the antagonist. Reynolds was a stunt man before he became a famous Hollywood actor, so he always supported his brothers. Hence the reason he made Hooper. Anywho, during that scene, it was mostly improvised.He was on set and flipped out and pushed the guy off of Beaty. He was disgusted how real it looked. Interesting movie.

 

 

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