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Paul Newman - Actor, film director

Occupation: Actor, film director Birth Name: Paul Leonard Newman Birth Date: 01/26/1925 Birth Place: Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA Height: 5' 9" Sex: M Nationality: American Father: Arthur Mother: Theresa Spouse: Jackie Witte (Dec 1949 - 1958), Joanne Woodward (actress, since Claim Fame: As Butch Cassidy in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969)

Paul Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an American actor and film director.
He was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio to a Catholic mother and a Jewish father who owned a successful sporting goods store. He served in the Navy in World War II, in the Pacific theater. When he returned to America he attended Kenyon College and Yale University. While he was attending graduate school at Yale, he became a successful stage actor on Broadway. His first movie, The Silver Chalice has been described by Newman as the "worst movie of the entire 1950s decade", but he rebounded with a series of acclaimed roles. Newman was one of the few actors who successfully made the transition from 1950s to the 1960s and 1970s cinema. His rebellious persona translated well to a subsequent generation.
Although frequently nominated, Newman has won only one Oscar in a competitive category, for his leading role on The Color of Money in 1986. The award came a year after he won an honorary Oscar for his "many and memorable and compelling screen performances."
He married Joanne Woodward in 1958, and later directed her in Rachel, Rachel, a film for which he won a Golden Globe as director and was nominated for an Oscar as the producer. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for his lead role in a 2003 production of Our Town.
Newman is known as the co-owner of the Newman-Haas team a CART Championship auto racing team. He first became interested in the sport ("the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in") while filming Winning, a 1968 film. His first professional event was in 1972, in Thompson, Connecticut.
As a gentlemen driver Paul Newman ran the 24 hours of Le Mans once in 1979, driving a Porsche 935, he finished second.
He cofounded Newman/Haas Racing in 1983.
He is the now the oldest driver to win a major sanctioned race, having won the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1995 at the age of 70.
Newman founded Newman's Own, a line of food products, in 1982. The brand started with salad dressing, and has expanded to include pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn, and salsa, amoung other things. Newman donates the proceeds, after taxes, to charity. As of 2003, the franchise has resulted in $150 million in donations. He cowrote a memoir about the subject, Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good (ISBN 0385508026).
One beneficiary of his charity is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, located between Ashford and Eastford, Connecticut. Named for the gang in his film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, it is a camp for seriously ill children he cofounded in 1986.
In 1994, the Motion Picture Academy awarded him The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in recognition of his charitable work.
For his strong support of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 (and effective use of television commercials in California), Newman was 19th on Richard Nixon's enemies list. He has said that this is one of his life's proudest achievements.
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".

Filmography:

Year	Name	Star	Genre	Other
2009	Slap Shot		MV
2006	Cars	Doc Hudson (voice)	MV
2005	Empire Falls	Max Roby	TV
2005	Empire Falls	Max Roby	TM	aka All Good Things
2005	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D		MV
2003	Our Town	Stage Manager	TM
2003	Our Town	Stage Manager	TV
2002	Road to Perdition	John Rooney	MV
2000	Where the Money Is	Henry Manning	MV	aka Hei?er Coup, Ein (Germany)
1999	Message in a Bottle	Dodge Blake	MV
1998	Twilight	Harry Ross	MV
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy	Sidney J. Mussburger	MV	aka Hudsucker - Der gro?e Sprung (Germany)
1989	Blaze	Earl Long	MV
1986	The Color of Money	Fast Eddie Felson	MV
1982	The Verdict	Frank Galvin	MV
1982	Come Along with Me		TV
1982	Come Along with Me	Dr. Armstrong	TM	aka Space Vampires
1981	Absence of Malice	Michael Colin Gallagher	MV
1979	Quintet	Essex	MV
1976	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson	William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody	MV	aka Buffalo Bill and the Indians
1975	The Drowning Pool	Lew Harper	MV
1974	The Towering Inferno	Doug Roberts	MV
1973	The Sting	Henry Gondorff aka Shaw	MV
1973	The MacKintosh Man	Joseph Rearden	MV
1972	Pocket Money	Jim Kane	MV
1971	Sometimes a Great Notion	Hank Stamper	MV	aka Never Give an Inch
1970	WUSA	Rheinhardt	MV
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Butch Cassidy	MV
1969	Winning	Frank Capua	MV
1968	The Secret War of Harry Frigg	Pvt. Harry Frigg	MV
1967	Cool Hand Luke	Luke	MV
1966	Harper	Lew Harper	MV	aka The Moving Target
1966	Torn Curtain	Professor Michael Armstrong	MV
1965	Lady L	Armand	MV
1964	The Outrage	Juan Carrasco	MV
1964	What a Way to Go!	Larry Flint	MV
1963	A New Kind of Love	Steve Sherman	MV
1963	Hud	Hud Bannon	MV
1962	Sweet Bird of Youth	Chance Wayne	MV
1962	Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man	Ad Francis	MV	aka Adventures of a Young Man
1961	The Hustler	Eddie Felson	MV	aka Robert Rossen's The Hustler
1961	Paris Blues	Ram Bowen	MV
1960	Exodus	Ari Ben Canaan	MV
1958	The Left Handed Gun	William 'Billy the Kid' Bonney	MV
1958	The Long, Hot Summer	Ben Quick	MV
1958	Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!	Harry Bannerman	MV
1957	The Helen Morgan Story	Larry Maddux	MV	aka Why Was I Born?
1954	The Silver Chalice	Basil	MV
1952	The Aldrich Family	Occasional Cast Member	TV
1949	The Aldrich Family	Occasional Cast Member (1952-53)	TV

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