‘Deliverance’ Actor Herbert Coward Killed in North Carolina Car Accident

Herbert Coward — who performed the notorious Toothless Man from the movie, “Deliverance,” was killed in a automotive crash in North Carolina alongside along with his pal and beloved pets, TMZ has confirmed.

Coward was making a left prove of a parking zone after a medical appointment in Haywood County Wednesday, when his silver Nissan was struck by one other automobile that attempted to keep away from him, in keeping with the North Carolina Freeway Patrol.

The actor and his 3 occupants — Bertha Brooks, a chihuahua and a squirrel — had been trapped contained in the wreckage and needed to be extracted from the automotive by first responders, police stated. The 4 died on the scene.

The opposite motorist, 16, suffered minor accidents and was taken to an area hospital out of an abundance of warning. Investigators didn’t cost {the teenager} as a result of they decided no crime was dedicated.

Within the traditional 1972 thriller “Deliverance,” Coward performed the horrifying function of a hillbilly with lacking entrance tooth often known as the “Toothless Man.” In one of many film’s horrific scenes, Coward’s character and his hillbilly sidekicks sodomized a person in entrance of his pal, who was tied to a tree within the forest.

Coward was 85.