Paul Newman

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Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 - September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, and producer. He was a liberal, who, despite being heterosexual and married to a woman, supported same-sex marriage. He was also the founder of a food company, Newman's Own, which donates all of its profits to charities. He was a former chain-smoker, who died of lung cancer at the age of 83.

As an actor, Paul Newman was best known for taming the wild, rebellious youth stereotype typefied by James Dean and Marlon Brando. Instead, his characters were often cool, reserved and with a sense of heart.

Newman appeared in film, on television, and on Broadway. Some of his best-known movie roles were in:

  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1959),
  • Exodus (1960),
  • The Hustler (1961),
  • Hud (1963),
  • Harper (1966),
  • Cool Hand Luke (1967),
  • Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969),
  • The Sting (1973)
  • The Towering Inferno (1974),
  • Slap Shot (1977),
  • Absence of Malice (1981),
  • The Verdict (1982),
  • The Color of Money (1986),
  • Nobody's Fool (1994), and
  • Road to Perdition (2002).

Newman appeared with his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, in

  • The Long, Hot Summer (1958),
  • Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958),
  • From the Terrace (1960),
  • Paris Blues (1961),
  • A New Kind of Love (1963),
  • Winning (1969),
  • WUSA (1970),
  • Harry & Son (1984), and
  • Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990).

Newman received ten Academy Award nominations, winning once for Best Actor for The Color of Money.

Newman was an auto racing enthusiast. He drove a Porsche in Lemans in 1979.

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