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Paul Newman Biography

(1925–2008)

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Films
1954 The Silver Chalice
1956 Somebody Up There Likes Me

1956 The Rack
1957 The Helen Morgan Story
1957 Until They Sail
1958 The Left-Handed Gun
1958 Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
1958 The Long Hot Summer
1958 Rally 'Round the Flag Boys!
1959 The Young Philadelphians
1960 Exodus
1960 From the Terrace
1961 The Hustler
1961 Paris Blues
1962 Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man
1962 Sweet Bird of Youth
1963 Hud
1963 A New Kind of Love
1963 The Prize
1964 The Outrage
1964 What a Way to Go!
1965 Lady L
1966 Harper
1966 Torn Curtain
1967 Cool Hand Luke
1967 Hombre
1968 The Secret War of Harry Frigg
1968 Rachel, Rachel (director, producer)
1969 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
1969 Winning
1970 King (narrator)
1970 WUSA
1971 Sometimes a Great Notion
1971 They Might Be Giants
1972 The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-on-the-Moon Marigolds (director, producer)
1972 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972 Pocket Money
1973 The Sting
1974 The Towering Inferno
1975 The Drowning Pool
1976 Buffalo Bill and the Indians
1977 Slap Shot
1979 Quintet
1980 When Time Ran Out
1981 Absence of Malice
1981 Fort Apache the Bronx
1982 The Verdict
1984 Harry and Son (actor, director, producer, co-writer)
1986 The Color of Money
1987 The Glass Menagerie (director)
1989 Blaze
1989 Fat Man and Little Boy (UK The Shadowmakers)
1990 Mr and Mrs Bridge
1994 Nobody's Fool
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
1998 Twilight
1999 Message in a Bottle
2002 Road to Perdition
2006 Cars (voice)

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actor. Paul Leonard Newman was born on January 26, 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio. With more than five decades’ worth of great performances to his credit, Paul Newman was one of Hollywood’s most talented and beloved actors. He was not only an actor, but a humanitarian, donating 100% of the profits from the food company he founded to numerous charities.

Newman grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with his older brother Arthur and his parents, Arthur and Teresa. His father owned a sporting-goods store and his mother was a homemaker who loved the theatre. Newman got his first taste of acting while doing school plays, but it was not his first love at the time. In high school, he played football and hoped to be a professional athlete.

Graduating high school in 1943, Newman briefly attended college before enlisting in the U.S. Navy Air Corps. He wanted to be a pilot, but he was told that he could never fly a plane as he was colorblind. He ended up serving as a radio operator and spent part of World War II serving in the Pacific.

After leaving the military in 1946, Paul Newman attended Kenyon College in his home state of Ohio. He was on an athletic scholarship and played on the school’s football team. But after getting into some trouble, Newman changed course. “I got thrown in jail and kicked off the football team. Since I was determined not to study very much, I majored in theater the last two years,” he told Interview magazine in 1998.

After finishing college in 1949, Paul Newman did summer stock in Wisconsin where he met his first wife, actress Jacqueline Witte. The couple soon married, and Newman continued to act until his father’s death in 1950. He and his wife moved to Ohio to run the family business for a time. Their first child, a son named Scott, was born there. After asking his brother to take over the business, Newman and his family relocated to Connecticut where he studied at the Yale School of Drama.

Running out of money, Newman left Yale after a year and tried his luck in New York. He studied with Lee Strasberg at the famed Actor's Studio alongside Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Geraldine Page.