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ALL ABOUT PAUL NEWMAN
Full Name: Paul Leonard Newman
Date of Birth: 26 January 1925
Date of Death: 26 September 2008
Place of Birth:Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Place of Death: Westport, Connecticut, USA
Cause of Death: Cancer
Spouse: Joanne Woodward (29 January 1958 - present) 3 children
Jackie Witte (December 1949 - 28 January 1958) (divorced) 3 children
Trade Mark: Sparkling, blue eyes
His movies often reflect his political views
Salary: Blaze (1989) $5,000,000
The Towering Inferno (1974) $1,000,000 + 10% of gross
The Sting (1973) $500,000 and profit participation
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) $750,000
Winning (1969) $1,100,000
Hombre (1967) $750,000 + 10% of gross
Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) $350,000 + percentage of profits
Exodus (1960) $200,000
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) $17,000
Bio:
In a business where public scandal and bad-boy behavior are the rule rather than the exception, Paul Newman is as much a hero offscreen as on. A blue-eyed matinee idol whose career has successfully spanned five decades, he is also a prominent social activist, a major proponent of actors’ creative rights and a noted philanthropist. Born January 26, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, Newman served in World War II prior to attending Kenyon College on an athletic scholarship; when an injury ended his sports career, he turned to drama, joining a summer stock company in Wisconsin. After relocating to Illinois in 1947, he married actress Jacqueline Witte, and following the death of his father took over the family’s sporting-goods store. Newman quickly grew restless, however, and after selling his interest in the store to his brother, he enrolled at the Yale School of Drama. During a break from classes he travelled to New York City where he won a role in the CBS television series The Aldrich Family. A number of other TV performances followed, and in 1952 Newman was accepted by the Actors’ Studio, making his Broadway debut a year later in Picnic, where he was spotted by Warner Bros. executives.
Upon Newman’s arrival in Hollywood, media buzz tagged him as “the new Brando.” However, after making his screen debut in the disastrous epic The Silver Chalice, he became the victim of scathing reviews, although Warners added on another two years to his contract after he returned to Broadway to star in The Desperate Hours. Back in Hollywood, he starred in The Rack. Again reviews were poor, and the picture was quickly pulled from circulation. Newman’s third film, the charming Somebody Up There Likes Me, in which he portrayed boxer Rocky Graziano, was both a commercial and critical success, with rave reviews for his performance. His next film of note was 1958’s The Long Hot Summer, an acclaimed adaptation of a pair of William Faulkner short stories; among his co-stars was Joanne Woodward, who soon became his second wife. After next appearing as Billy the Kid in Arthur Penn’s underrated The Left-Handed Gun, Newman starred opposite Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, scoring his first true box-office smash as well as his first Academy Award nomination.
After appearing with Joanne Woodward in Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! — the couple would frequently team onscreen throughout their careers — Newman travelled back to Broadway to star in Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth. Upon his return to the West Coast, he bought himself out of his Warner Bros. contract before starring in the 1960 smash From the Terrace. Exodus, another major hit, quickly followed. While by now a major star, the true depths of Newman’s acting abilities had yet to be fully explored; that all changed with Robert Rossen’s 1961 classic The Hustler, in which he essayed one of his most memorable performances as pool shark “Fast” Eddie Felson, gaining a second Oscar nomination. His third nod came for 1963’s Hud, which cast him as an amoral Texas rancher. While a handful of creative and financial disappointments followed, including 1964’s The Outrage and 1965’s Lady L, 1966’s Alfred Hitchcock-helmed Torn Curtain marked a return to form, as did the thriller Harper.
For 1967’s superb chain-gang drama Cool Hand Luke, Newman scored a fourth Academy Award nomination, but again went home empty-handed. The following year he made his directorial debut with the Joanne Woodward vehicle Rachel Rachel, scoring “Best Director” honors from the New York critics as well as an Oscar nomination for “Best Picture.” The couple next appeared onscreen together in 1969’s Winning, which cast Newman as a professional auto racer; the motor sport remained a preoccupation in his real life as well, and he was the most prominent of the many celebrities who began racing as a hobby. He then starred with Robert Redford in 1969’s Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, which went on to become the highest-grossing western in movie history. It was followed by 1971’s W.U.S.A., a deeply political film reflecting Newman’s strong commitment to social activism; in addition to being among Hollywood’s most vocal supporters of the civil rights movement, in 1968 he and Woodward made headlines by campaigning full time for Democratic Presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy.
After directing and starring in 1971’s Sometimes a Great Notion, Newman announced the formation of First Artists, a production company co-founded by Barbra Streisand and Steve McQueen. Modeled after the success of United Artists, it was created to offer performers the opportunity to produce their own projects. Newman’s first film for First Artists’ was 1972’s Pocket Money, followed by another directorial effort, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. After a pair of back-to-back efforts under director John Huston, 1972’s The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean and the next year’s The Mackintosh Man, Newman reunited with Redford in The Sting, another triumph which won the 1973 “Best Picture” Oscar. He next appeared in the star-studded disaster epic The Towering Inferno, followed by 1975’s The Drowning Pool, a sequel to Harper. His next major success was the 1977 sports spoof Slap Shot, which went on to become a cult classic.
A string of disappointments followed, including Robert Altman’s self-indulgent 1979 effort Quintet. The 1981 Absence of Malice, however, was a success, and for 1982’s courtroom drama The Verdict Newman notched his fifth “Best Actor” nomination. He finally won the Oscar on his sixth attempt, reprising the role of Eddie Felson in 1986’s The Color of Money, Martin Scorsese’s sequel to The Hustler. After starring in two 1989 films, Blaze and Fat Man and Little Boy, Newman began appearing onscreen less and less. In 1991, he and Joanne Woodward starred as the titular Mr. and Mrs. Bridge, and three years later he earned yet another Academy Award nomination for his superb performance in Robert Benton’s slice-of-life tale Nobody’s Fool. His films since then have been fairly sparse and of mixed quality, with Joel Coen’s and Ethan Coen’s The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) being at the higher end of the spectrum and the Kevin Costner vehicle Message in a Bottle (1999) resting near the bottom. Newman again graced screens in 2000 with Where the Money Is, a comedy that cast him as a famous bank robber who fakes a stroke to get out of prison.
Still, despite his movement away from Hollywood, Newman has remained a prominent public figure through his extensive charitable work; he created the Scott Newman Foundation after the drug-related death of his son and later marketed a series of gourmet foodstuffs under the umbrella name Newman’s Own, with all profits going to support his Hole-in-the-Wall Gang project for children suffering from cancer.
Trivia:
Chosen by Empire magazine in 1995 as #12 in the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.
Said that he burned his tuxedo on his 75th birthday because he is through with formality.
Says the sound he loves most is that of a V-8 engine.
Owns The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp for children with cancer and other blood-related diesases (and their siblings) in Ashford, Connecticut, and also runs a fall “Discovery” program for inner city kids, also in Ashford.
Ranked #19 in Empire (UK) magazine’s “The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time” list in October of 1997.
Lives in Connecticut; has been known to race at The Lime Rock Road Circuit.
Has his own line of food products, “Newman’s Own”, featuring mainly spaghetti sauces and salad dressings. The company has made more than $100 million in profits over the years, all of which he has donated to various charities.
Owns half of the Champ Car (auto racing) team Newman-Haas.
Awarded an honorary Oscar in 1994 in recognition of his charity work.
Father, with Joanne Woodward, of actress Melissa Newman, Nell Potts, and Claire (Clea) Newman.
A son and two girls with first wife Jackie Witte. His only son, Scott Newman, died of a drug overdose in 1978. Daughter, Susan Kendall Newman, is well known for stage acting and her philanthropic activities.
Before he became an actor, Newman ran the family sporting goods store in Cleveland, Ohio.
Chosen by People magazine in 1990 as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world.
He was the visual inspiration for the original illustrations of superhero Green Lantern/Hal Jordan.
Finished second in the 1979 Le Mans 24-hour race in a Porsche 935.
Returned to live theater for first time in 35 years in June of 2002 in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” at the Westport Country Playhouse near his home in Westport, CT. He directed and starred as the Stage Manager. Wife Joanne Woodward is the playhouse’s Artistic Director.
He was among the celebrities on the famous “Enemies List” kept by President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
Was training to be a pilot while in the Navy, but was discovered to be color-blind, ending his flying aspirations.
Nominated for a 2003 Tony Award for Best Actor in the Revival of a Play, for “Our Town”.
Was mentioned in Dolce vita, La (1960), in a discussion about salaries paid to film stars.
Within a space of five months in 2003, he was nominated for an Oscar (for Road to Perdition (2002)), a Tony (for “Our Town”) and an Emmy (for Our Town (2003) (TV)).
Although he played the lead male roles in the original productions of three Broadway classics near the beginning of his career - “The Desperate Hours”, “Picnic” and “Sweet Bird of Youth” - Newman did not receive a Tony Award nomination until 2003, when at the age of 78 he was nominated as Best Actor for his performance in the 2002 revival of the “Our Town”.
Was so ashamed of his debut in the failed costume drama The Silver Chalice (1954), that he took out an ad in Variety apologizing for his performance.
His father was of Hungarian and Polish heritage and his mother was of Hungarian heritage.
He was voted the 13th Greatest Movie Star of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
The 4th nomination on Empire Magazine’s “Gods Among Us” series along with Al Pacino, Marlon Brando, and Jack Nicholson.
Students at Princeton University have named 24 April Newman’s Day. Students try to drink 24 beers over the 24 hours of the day. The tradition stems from a comment that Newman is alleged to have made; “24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.” The event is not officially sponsored by the university, and Newman has commented that he would “like to bring an end to the tradition”.
He and Frank Sinatra are the only actors to win an Actor Academy Award, an Humanitarian Academy Award and a Special Honorary Academy Award. Sinatra won the Best Supporting Actor Award (1953), Humanitarian Award (1970) and a Special Award (1945, Best Short Subject The House I Live In (1945)). Newman won the Best Actor Award (1986), the Humanitarian Award (1993) and a Special Award (1985, Lifetime Achievement Award).
Lee Strasberg, who trained Newman at the Actor’s Studio, said that he would have been as great an actor as Marlon Brando if he hadn’t been so handsome. According to Strasberg, Newman had the talent, but he too often relied on his good looks to coast through a role.
Stumped the U.S. for Eugene McCarthy during his unsuccessful bid for the Democratic Party presidential nomination in 1968. Newman made the cover of LIFE Magazine with a McCarthy pin on his jacket on the May 10th, 1968 issue.
Appeared on Quigley Publications’ annual poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars 14 times from 1963 to 1986, which ranks him #7 for all-time in appearances in the top 10. He trails Bing Crosby, who made the list 15 times, Clark Gable (16 appearances on the list), Gary Cooper and Tom Cruise (18 times each), Clint Eastwood (21 times) and John Wayne (25 times).
Was named the #1 Box Office Star by Quigley Publications in its annual Top Ten Money Making Stars poll of movie exhibitors two years in a row, 1969 and 1970. Newman had been #2 in 1968 and #3 in ‘67 and would rank #3 in both 1971 and ‘74. Newman, who entered the list for the first time in 1963 at #9 and the last time in 1986 at #10, has made the list 17 times.
Early in his acting career, he was often mistaken for Marlon Brando. He claims to have signed around 500 autographs reading, “Best wishes, Marlon Brando.”
In 2005 Premiere Magazine ranked him as the #6 Greatest Movie Star of All Time in their Stars in Our Constellation feature.
Otto Preminger, a Jew himself, cast him in Exodus (1960) because he wanted someone of Jewish heritage who didn’t “look Jewish”.
Brother of the Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity
He was nominated for nine acting Academy Awards in five different decades - the 1950s (Best Lead Actor for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)), 1960s (Best Lead Actor for The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963) and Cool Hand Luke (1967)), the 1980s (Best Lead Actor for Absence of Malice (1981), The Verdict (1982) and The Color of Money (1986) winning for this last film), the 1990s (Best Lead Actor for Nobody’s Fool (1994)) and finally in 2002’s Road to Perdition (2002) for Best Supporting Actor.
He and his daughter Nell Potts were supposed to be in Paper Moon (1973) in the leading roles, but this changed when original director John Huston bowed out and was replaced by Peter Bogdanovich.
The role of Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) was originally awarded to James Dean, who died before filming began. Due to Dean’s death, Newman was cast in the role. Dean also was signed to play Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gun (1958), but that role was also inherited by Newman after Dean’s death. Dean and Newman had shot their last screen tests for East of Eden (1955) together; the six-years-younger Dean got the part and Newman went on to star in The Silver Chalice (1954), a notorious turkey.
He is only one of five performers to be nominated for an Oscar twice for playing the same role in two separate films. He played as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986), Peter O’Toole as Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Al Pacino as Michael Corleone for The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather: Part II (1974), Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945) and Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).
He has one brother, Arthur Newman, who was named after their father, Arthur S. Newman, a successful sporting goods store owner.
Ethnically, Newman is one-quarter Polish and three-quarters Hungarian. His mother, the former Theresa Fetzko, was born in Hungary. His father, Arthur S. Newman, was the U.S.-born offspring of a Hungarian father, Simon Newman, and a Polish mother, Hannah Cohn.
Michelle Pfeiffer wanted Newman to play her father, patriarch Larry Cook, in the 1997 movie A Thousand Acres (1997), which she produced. Newman turned down the part, which went to Jason Robards.
When Premiere Magazine does a list of 24 Great Performances from each year, they often ask the actors who their idols are. Newman has been the most frequently cited idol so far.
Was nominated 10 times for the Academy Award, including eight times as Best Actor, once as Best Supporting Actor, and once for Best Picture (the latter coming the same year he famously did not receive a Best Director nomination despite having won the then-equally prestigious New York Critics Award as Best Director for Rachel, Rachel (1968). In the acting field, the only actors with more nominations are Jack Nicholson with 12 nominations (8 Best Actor and 4 Best Supporting Actor nominations) and Laurence Olivier (nine Best Actor nominations and 1 Best Supporting Actor nod). On the distaff side, Bette Davis, who was nominated 10 times for an Academy Award, all of them Best Actress nods. Katharine Hepburn, with 12 nods (all in the Best Actress category) and Meryl Streep, with 13 nods (11 in the Best Actress category) have more acting nominations than Newman.
Is one of only five actors to be nominated for acting honors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences over five decades (1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s). Laurence Olivier (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s), Katharine Hepburn (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s),Jack Nicholson (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) and Michael Caine (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) are the others who have turned the trick.
Has donated between $150 million-$175 million to charity since the 1980s.
His performance as Frank Galvin in The Verdict (1982) is ranked #19 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
His performance as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) is ranked #64 on Premiere Magazine’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006).
Was director Robert Wise’s first pick for the lead in The Sand Pebbles (1966), eventually played by Steve McQueen, who won his only Oscar nomination for the role. Wise had earlier directed Newman in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) and Until They Sail (1957).
Turned down the role of Quint in Jaws (1975).
His performance as Butch Cassidy in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) is ranked #20 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Heroes & Villains. This is a ranking which he shares with Robert Redford, who played the Sundance Kid.
His performance as Luke Jackson in Cool Hand Luke (1967) is ranked #30 on the American Film Institute’s 100 Heroes & Villains.
Ranked the #1 Box Office star of 1969 and 1970 by Quigley Publications’ annual poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars. He was ranked #2 in 1968 and at #3 in 1967, 1971 and 1974. In all, he made the Top Ten list 14 times from 1963, when he entered it at #9, and 1986, when he bowed out of the Top 10 at #10. He was ranked in the Top Ten for 10 straight years from 1966-1975, peaking in the Top Three from 1967 to 1971.
The GI Bill got him through his first 3 months at Yale. To pay tuition for the rest of his time there, he sold Encyclopedia Britannica. He claims he was very good at it.
For a Mother’s Day gift, he gave wife Joanne Woodward 2 hours of uninterrupted driving around the roads of Westport, Connecticut that they had never seen before.
Has said he did not want his epitaph to say two things: “Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown” and “Here lies the old man who wasn’t a part of his time.” -1960’s.
Godfather of Jake Gyllenhaal.
Great admirer of Jim Carrey.
While campaigning for the Democrats in the 1968 U.S. Presidential election, Newman would rent a Jaguar on the weekends. When he found out that opponent Richard Nixon , who was known to his naysayers as “Tricky Dick”, was renting the same car during the week, Newman left a note in it saying “This clutch is tricky, so you won’t have any trouble with it.”.
Prior to filming The Hustler (1961) , Newman lacked talent at playing pool. But after brushing up on it for the role, he felt very confident in his ability. So he bet co-star Jackie Gleason $50 on a game of pool. Being the excellent pool player he was, Gleason beat Newman. Instead of paying him in dollar bills, Newman dumped $50 worth of pennies on the table for Gleason to take.
When Newman failed to receive an Oscar nomination for his performance in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), producer Charles Schnee and director Robert Wise gave him what they called a “Noscar.” The engraving says, “The Schnee-Wise Noscar award to Paul Newman for best portraying a terrible no-good, for turning him into a charming and lovable sprite, and for thereby doing what Lincoln said should never be done, i.e. fooling all of the people all of the time”.
After being asked so many times what the secret was to being married so long to Joanne Woodward, he was asked yet again and simply responded, “I don’t know what she puts in my food”.
One of the most sought after and valuable collectible Rolex watches, the early “Daytona” model, from the 1960’s, is known unofficially and passionately world wide, as the Rolex “Paul Newman.” “Paul Newmans” in steel fetch as much as $100,000 in auctions. This nickname was adopted as he sported one in film.
A film poster of him in Hud (1963) appears in Midnight Cowboy (1969).
During the 1950s and 1960s he was a close friend of fellow Democrat and civil rights activist Charlton Heston. Later, in 1983, after Heston’s political beliefs had moved to the Right, both actors took opposing sides in a television debate on President Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars defense missile program. Heston, much better briefed and prepared than Newman, was judged to have won the debate easily. Some years later, when Newman learned that Heston was supposed to introduce him at an awards ceremony, Newman insisted that his one-time friend be replaced by the liberal Donald Sutherland.
Supported Sen. Ted Kennedy’s campaign to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 1980.
In 2007, his auto racing team, known as Newman-Haas, became Newman/Haas/Lanigan due to Chicago businessman Michael Lanigan becoming a partner.
Turned down the part taken by Robert Duvall in The Paper (1994).
Announced in May 2007 that he is retiring from acting. He had previously announced his retirement in 1995, but came back to make four more movies.
Opened a restaurant in 2006 called “Dressing Room” with co-owner and chef Michael Nischan in Westport, Connecticut. It was originally opened to help subsidize the Westport Country Playhouse, which sits next to it.
He is a vocal supporter of gay marriage.
Was offered the role of “Judah Ben-Hur” in Ben-Hur (1959) but turned it down because he said he didn’t have the legs to wear a tunic.
Got two roles which were first offered to Elvis Presley but which were turned down by Presley’s manager: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962).
The Eiger Sanction (1975) was originally intended as a vehicle for him.
His father, Arthur, died in 1950 at the age of 55 and his mother, Theresa, died in 1982 at the age of 86.
Announced in July 2007 that his Champ Car team is merging with NASCAR team Robert Yates Racing. It is now called Yates/Newman/Haas/Lanigan racing. Newman said the deal “in no way lessens our commitment to open-wheel racing. We want to broaden our horizons.”.
Ranked #19 in Empire Magazine’s 2007 100 Sexiest Movie Stars of all time.
Became a rear gunner of a TBF Avenger torpedo bomber when his color blindness disqualified him from being a pilot.
Longtime supporter of gun control, and a member of Handgun Control Inc.
Supported anti-war Senator Eugene McCarthy’s bid to win the Democratic nomination from incumbent President Lyndon Johnson in 1968, and actively campaigned for George McGovern in the 1972 presidential election.
According to Joe McGinnis’ book about the advertising industry’s participation in Richard Nixon’s 1968 campaign, the first telethon for the Eugene McCarthy Campaign, which was emceed by Newman, raised $125,000 (about $800,000 in 2008 money, when factored for inflation, a good sum for the time). Nixon’s advertising people attributed the success of the telethon to Newman’s participation.
In the 1970s, long before Brokeback Mountain (2005), he was thwarted by Hollywood in his desire to star in the movie version of the best-selling novel “The Front Runner”, about the love affair between a male coach and a male star runner. The project remains unmade.
Supported Al Franken’s campaign for election as US Senator from Minnesota.
Attended the main Democratic fund raiser for Senator John Kerry before the Democratic National Convention at Radio City Music Hall, along with Whoopi Goldberg, Jon Bon Jovi, Meryl Streep, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mary J. Blige, Chevy Chase and Jessica Lange. (13 August 2004).
Donated $1 million to “The Nation” magazine in order to keep it going.
Attended the inauguration of President Jimmy Carter on 20 January 1977.
Recorded a television advertisement for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in June 2007.
As of 2007, he is one of six directors who has directed his wife to a Best Actress Oscar nomination (Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel (1968)). The other five are Joel Coen directing Frances McDormand in Fargo (1996), John Cassavetes directing Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence (1974) & Gloria (1980), Blake Edwards directing Julie Andrews in Victor Victoria (1982), Paul Czinner directing Elisabeth Bergner in Escape Me Never (1935) and Richard Brooks directing Jean Simmons in The Happy Ending (1969). Jules Dassin also directed his future wife Melina Mercouri in an Oscar-nominated performance (Pote tin Kyriaki (1960)), but they weren’t married yet at the time of the nomination.
Turned down the role of Harry Callahan in Dirty Harry (1971) because he thought the screenplay was too right-wing, and recommended Clint Eastwood for the part instead.
Quotes:
“Acting isn’t really a creative profession. It’s an interpretative one.”
“Every time I get a script it’s a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors, imagery. It has to have a smell. It’s like falling in love. You can’t give a reason why.”
“I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.”
“If you don’t have enemies, you don’t have character.”
“If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.”
“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
“Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.”
“Newman’s second law: Just when things look darkest, they go black.”
“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”
“Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.”
“So you wound up with Apollo. If he’s sometimes hard to swallow. Use this.”
“The star of oil and vinegar and the oil and vinegar of the stars.”
“To be an actor you have to be a child.”
“Who’s to say who’s an expert?”
“You can’t be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: ‘Holy Christ, whaddya know - I’m still around!’ It’s absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.”
“You only grow when you are alone.”
Filmography:
Paul Newman Filmography as an Actor:
2006 Mater and the Ghostlight (2006) (V) (voice) …. Doc Hudson
2006 Cars (voice)
2005 Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D (voice)
2005 Empire Falls (TV)
2003 Our Town (TV)
2003 “Freedom: A History of Us” (2 episodes)
2002 Road to Perdition
2000 Where the Money Is
1999 Message in a Bottle
1998 Twilight
1994 Nobody’s Fool
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
1990 Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
1989 Blaze
1989 Fat Man and Little Boy
1986 The Color of Money
1984 Harry & Son
1982 The Verdict
1982 Come Along with Me (TV)
1981 Absence of Malice
1981 Fort Apache the Bronx
1980 When Time Ran Out
1979 Quintet
1977 Slap Shot
1976 “Great Performances: Dance in America” (1 episode)
1975 The Drowning Pool
1974 The Towering Inferno
1973 The Sting
1973 The MacKintosh Man
1972 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972 Pocket Money
1971 Sometimes a Great Notion
1970 WUSA
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 Winning
1968 The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1967 Cool Hand Luke
1967 Hombre
1966 Torn Curtain
1966 Harper
1965 Lady L
1964 The Outrage
1964 What a Way to Go!
1963 The Prize
1963 A New Kind of Love
1963 Hud
1962 Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
1962 Sweet Bird of Youth
1961 Paris Blues
1961 The Hustler
1960 Exodus
1960 From the Terrace
1959 The Young Philadelphians
1958 Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys!
1958 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1958 The Left Handed Gun
1958 The Long, Hot Summer
1958 “Playhouse 90″ (1 episode)
1957 Until They Sail
1957 The Helen Morgan Story
1956 “The Kaiser Aluminum Hour”(2 episodes)
1956 The Rack
1954-1956 “The United States Steel Hour” (3 episodes)
1956 Somebody Up There Likes Me
1955 “Playwrights ‘56″(1 episode)
1955 “Producers’ Showcase”(1 episode)
1955 “The Philco Television Playhouse” (1 episode)
1955 “Appointment with Adventure”(2 episodes)
1954 The Silver Chalice
1954 “Danger” (1 episode)
1954 “Armstrong Circle Theatre” (1 episode)
1954 “Goodyear Television Playhouse” (2 episodes)
1954″The Mask” (1 episode)
1954 “The Joe Palooka Story” (1 episode)
1952-1953 “The Web” (4 episodes)
1953 “You Are There” (3 episodes)
1952-53 “The Aldrich Family” TV series
1952 “Suspense” TV episode
1952 “Tales of Tomorrow” (1 episode)
Paul Newman Filmography as a Producer:
2005 Empire Falls (TV) (executive producer)
1984 Harry & Son
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1972 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (co-executive producer)
1971 They Might Be Giants
1971 Sometimes a Great Notion (co-executive producer)
1970 WUSA (co-producer)
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (co-executive producer)
1969 Winning (co-executive producer)
1968 Rachel, Rachel
Paul Newman Filmography as a Director:
1987 The Glass Menagerie
1984 Harry & Son
1980 The Shadow Box (TV)
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
1972 Sometimes a Great Notion
1968 Rachel, Rachel
Paul Newman Awards:
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie
2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic Road to Perdition
1994 Best Actor Nobody’s Fool
1993 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
1986 Best Actor The Color of Money
1985 Honorary and Other Awards
1982 Best Actor The Verdict
1981 Best Actor Absence of Malice
1968 Best Picture Rachel, Rachel
1967 Best Actor Cool Hand Luke
1963 Best Actor Hud
1961 Best Actor The Hustler
1958 Best Actor Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
2005 Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Movie Empire Falls
Berlin International Film Festival
1995 Silver Bear for Best Actor Nobody’s Fool
British Academy of Film and Television
1961 Best Foreign Actor The Hustler
Broadcast Film Critics Association
2003 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic Road to Perdition
2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic Road to Perdition
Cannes Film Festival
1958 International Prize For Best Actor The Long, Hot Summer
Directors Guild of America
1968 Best Director Rachel, Rachel
Golden Globe
2005 Best Supporting Actor in a Teleivison Series Empire Falls
2002 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic Road to Perdition
1994 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Nobody’s Fool
1986 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Com The Color of Money
1983 Cecil B. DeMille Award
1982 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama The Verdict
1968 Best Director Rachel, Rachel
1967 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Cool Hand Luke
1965 Henrietta Award
1963 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Hud
1963 Henrietta Award
1962 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama Sweet Bird of Youth
1962 Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Pic Adventures of a Young Man
1961 Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama The Hustler
1956 New Star of the Year - Male
National Board of Review
1986 Best Actor The Color of Money
National Society of Film Critics
1994 Best Actor Nobody’s Fool
New York Film Critics Circle
1994 Best Actor Nobody’s Fool
1968 Best Director Rachel, Rachel
Screen Actors Guild
1994 Best Actor Nobody’s Fool
Toronto Film Critics Association
2002 Best Supporting Actor [Runner-up] Road to Perdition
