After Hasselhoff, who portrayed Mitch Buchannon, and Jeremy Jackson, who played Hasselhoff’s on-screen son Hobie Buchannon, Newman was the third most frequent performer. He played himself in the well-known show as a lifeguard.
Jackson, meanwhile, declared that he was “honoured to have crossed paths” with Newman and that he was “so fortunate to have watched you be a real man”.
“There [will] never be another warrior like this,” he added, describing Newman as a “true leader.”
In addition, Newman worked as a full-time firefighter during the 1989–1999 production of the popular US drama.
He starred in several spin-offs and costarred with Louis Mandylor and C. Thomas Howell in the 1999 movie Enemy Action.
He worked with the Michael J. Fox Foundation in his later years in an effort to develop a Parkinson’s disease cure.
His friend Matthew Felker, who just directed the documentary After Baywatch: Moment In The Sun, confirmed Newman’s passing.
He took hold of my hand tightly before I left him, gave me a dead-eye look, and simply nodded. “We will see each other again, I promise,” I added, nodding.
