Alan Scott Newman (September 23, 1950 – November 20, 1978) was an American film and television actor and stuntman whose most prominent roles were in The Towering Inferno and Breakheart Pass.
When Scott was still a young boy with two younger sisters, Susan and Stephanie, his father moved to California to further his career, leaving his family in New York City.
[2] By the late 1960s, Scott had dropped out of college and started to take jobs as a stuntman in his father's films, making over five hundred parachute jumps to become a certified instructor.
[2] In the early 1970s, his father used his influence to initiate an acting career for his son, and arranged a part for him in The Great Waldo Pepper (1975), starring Robert Redford.
He also assaulted a police officer, kicking him in the head in a squad car after being arrested for vandalizing a school bus while drunk.
Newman also played small parts in TV series during 1975, such as Marcus Welby, M.D., Harry O.,[4] and S.W.A.T..[citation needed] During the same year, he also appeared in the Charles Bronson film Breakheart Pass.
In a 1974 interview with New York Daily News columnist Sidney Fields, he said "Out there in Hollywood you can't stand on daddy's feet.
He told Fields that "as a kid I felt I was entitled to everything my father gave me," but that in recent years he had "made and paid my own way.
All I have is the goddamn name.”[2]In his posthumously published 2022 memoir, The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, Paul Newman agonized over his relationship with Scott in what the Wall Street Journal described as "anguished confusion."
And it’s no big deal if you don’t want to do it.’”[7] After a motorcycle accident in the fall of 1978, he was taking painkillers to ease the discomfort of his injuries.