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Paul Newman

Birth name: Paul Leonard Newman

Birth date: 26.01.1925

Screen legend, superstar, and the man with the most famous blue eyes in movie history, Paul Newman was born in 1925 in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of a successful sporting goods store owner. He acted in grade school and high school plays and after being disharged from the navy in 1946 enrolled at Kenyon College. After graduation he spent a year at the Yale Drama School and then headed to New York, where he attended the famed New York Actors Studio. Classically handsome and with a super abundance of sex appeal, television parts came easily and, after his first Broadway appearance in "Picnic" (1953), he was offered a movie contract by Warner Brothers. His first film, The Silver Chalice (1954) was nearly his last. He considered his performance in this costume epic to be so bad that he took out a full-page ad in a trade paper apologizing for it to anyone who might have seen it. He fared much better in his next effort, Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), in which he portrayed boxer Rocky Graziano and drew raves from the critics for his briliant performance. He went on to become one of the top box office draws of the 1960s, starring in such superior films as The Hustler (1961), The Prize (1963), Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967) and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). He also produced and directed many quality films, including Rachel, Rachel (1968) in which he directed wife Joanne Woodward and which received an Oscar nomination for best picture. Nominated nine times for a best actor Oscar, he finally took one home for his performance as an aging pool shark in The Color of Money (1986). Though well into his 70s as the century drew to a close, Newman still commanded lead roles in films such as Message in a Bottle (1999). He lives with his wife in Westport, CT. A caring and supremely generous man, he is the founder of "Newman's Own" a successful line of food products that has earned in excess of $100 million, every penny of which the philanthropic movie icon has donated to charity. Renowned for his sense of humor, in 1998 he quipped that he was a little embarrassed to see his salad dressing grossing more than his movies.

Filmography

Cars (2006) (VG) (voice) .... Doc Hudson Cars (2006) (voice) .... Doc Hudson Empire Falls (2005) (TV) .... Max Roby Our Town (2003) (TV) .... Stage Manager Road to Perdition (2002) .... John Rooney Where the Money Is (2000) .... Henry Manning ... aka Heißer Coup, Ein (Germany) ... aka Where the Money is - Ein heißer Coup (Germany: DVD box title) Message in a Bottle (1999) .... Dodge Blake Twilight (1998) .... Harry Ross Nobody's Fool (1994) .... Sully Sullivan The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) .... Sidney J. Mussburger ... aka Hudsucker - Der große Sprung (Germany) Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) .... Walter Bridge Blaze (1989) .... Gov. Earl K. Long Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) .... Gen. Leslie R. Groves ... aka Shadow Makers (UK) The Color of Money (1986) .... Fast Eddie Felson Harry & Son (1984) .... Harry Keach The Verdict (1982) .... Frank Galvin Come Along with Me (1982) (TV) Absence of Malice (1981) .... Michael Colin Gallagher Fort Apache the Bronx (1981) .... Murphy When Time Ran Out... (1980) .... Hank Anderson ... aka Earth's Final Fury (USA: TV title) ... aka The Day the World Ended (USA: video title) Quintet (1979) .... Essex Slap Shot (1977) .... Reggie "Reg" Dunlop "Great Performances: Dance in America" ... aka Dance in America (USA: short title) - American Ballet Theatre (1976) TV Episode .... Narrator Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976) .... William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody ... aka Buffalo Bill and the Indians The Drowning Pool (1975) .... Lew Harper The Towering Inferno (1974) .... Doug Roberts The Sting (1973) .... Henry Gondorff The MacKintosh Man (1973) .... Joseph Rearden The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972) .... Judge Roy Bean Pocket Money (1972) .... Jim Kane Sometimes a Great Notion (1971) .... Hank Stamper ... aka Never Give an Inch (UK) WUSA (1970) .... Rheinhardt Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) .... Butch Cassidy Winning (1969) .... Frank Capua The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968) .... Pvt. Harry Frigg Cool Hand Luke (1967) .... Lucas 'Luke' Jackson Hombre (1967) .... John Russell Torn Curtain (1966) .... Professor Michael Armstrong Harper (1966) .... Lew Harper ... aka The Moving Target (UK) Lady L (1965) .... Armand Denis The Outrage (1964) .... Juan Carrasco What a Way to Go! (1964) .... Larry Flint The Prize (1963) .... Andrew Craig A New Kind of Love (1963) .... Steve Sherman Hud (1963) .... Hud Bannon Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962) .... Ad Francis, 'The Battler' ... aka Adventures of a Young Man (UK) ... aka Ernest Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (USA: complete title) Sweet Bird of Youth (1962) .... Chance Wayne Paris Blues (1961) .... Ram Bowen The Hustler (1961) .... Eddie Felson ... aka Robert Rossen's The Hustler (USA: complete title) Exodus (1960) .... Ari Ben Canaan From the Terrace (1960) .... David Alfred Eaton The Young Philadelphians (1959) .... Anthony Judson Lawrence/Narrator ... aka The City Jungle (UK) Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958) .... Harry Bannerman Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) .... Brick Pollitt The Left Handed Gun (1958) .... Billy The Kid The Long, Hot Summer (1958) .... Ben Quick "Playhouse 90" - The 80 Yard Run (1958) TV Episode .... Christian Darling Until They Sail (1957) .... Capt. Jack Harding The Helen Morgan Story (1957) .... Larry Maddux ... aka Both Ends of the Candle (UK) ... aka Why Was I Born? (USA) "The Kaiser Aluminum Hour" - The Rag Jungle (1956) TV Episode .... Charlie Correlli - The Army Game (1956) TV Episode .... Danny Scott The Rack (1956) .... Capt. Edward Worthington Hall Jr. "The United States Steel Hour" ... aka The U.S. Steel Hour (USA: alternative title) - Bang the Drum Slowly (1956) TV Episode .... Henry Wiggen - The Five Fathers of Pepi (1956) TV Episode .... Giorgio - The Rise and Fall of Silas Lapham (1954) TV Episode .... Tom Corey Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) .... Rocky Graziano "Playwrights '56" ... aka The Playwright Hour - The Battler (1955) TV Episode .... The Battler "Producers' Showcase" - Our Town (1955) TV Episode .... George Gibbs "The Philco Television Playhouse" ... aka Arena Theatre (USA: new title) ... aka Repertory Theatre (USA: new title) ... aka The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse (USA: new title) - The Death of Billy the Kid (1955) TV Episode "Appointment with Adventure" - Honeymoon in Spain (1955) TV Episode - Five in Judgment (1955) TV Episode .... Mack The Silver Chalice (1954) .... Basil "Danger" - Knife in the Dark (1954) TV Episode "Armstrong Circle Theatre" - The Contender (1954) TV Episode "Goodyear Television Playhouse" ... aka Goodyear Playhouse (USA: new title) - Thunder of Silence (1954) TV Episode - Guilty Is the Stranger (1954) TV Episode "The Mask" - The Party Night (1954) TV Episode "The Joe Palooka Story" - The Big Blow-Off (1954) TV Episode (uncredited) .... Fight Spectator "The Web" - One for the Road (1953) TV Episode - The Bells of Damon (1953) TV Episode "You Are There" - The Fate of Nathan Hale (September 22, 1776) (1953) TV Episode .... Nathan Hale "The Aldrich Family" (1949) TV Series .... Occasional Cast Member (1952-53) "Tales of Tomorrow" - Ice from Space (1952) TV Episode .... Sergeant Wilson