Paul Newman
Acting
- Born:
- 1925-01-26
- Died:
- 2008-09-26
- Place of birth:
- Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
Biography
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing. Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity.
Known For
Filmography
Breakdown: 1975
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
Superpowered: The DC Story
Paul Newman: The Restless
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
The Last Movie Stars
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
Morceaux de Cannes
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story
Steve McQueen: American Icon
Cars 3
Best of Enemies
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
Iconic Couples of Hollywood
The Emperor's New Clothes
Tab Hunter Confidential
Talking Pictures
I'm Still Here
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Hollywood sul Tevere
The Meerkats
The Price of Sugar
Dale
Geared-Up
Mater and the Ghostlight
Cars
The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch and Sundance
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
Roving Mars
Who Needs Sleep?
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
Iconoclasts
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
The Art of 'The Sting'
Empire Falls
James Dean: Forever Young
Tell Them Who You Are
The Education of Gore Vidal
Our Town
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
Road to Perdition
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
HypaSpace
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
The Hustler: The Inside Story
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
Where the Money Is
Black Light Dreams: The 25 Years of the Famous People Players
Altman on His Own Terms
Message in a Bottle
The Directors
Twilight
Super Speedway
E! True Hollywood Story
Nobody's Fool
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Baseball
Inside the Actors Studio
The Hudsucker Proxy