Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, race car driver, racing team owner and humanitarian. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and an Emmy award, along with many honorary awards. He 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 Indy Car racing. He was also the founder of Newman’s Own, a food company from which Newman donated all profits and royalties to charity. As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded US$220 million. Newman died at his long-time home in Westport, Connecticut after a battle with lung cancer.
Illness and death
Newman was scheduled to make his professional directorial stage debut with the Westport Country Playhouse’s 2008 production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, but he stepped down on May 23, 2008, citing health issues.
In June 2008 it was widely reported that Newman, a former chain smoker, had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was receiving treatment at Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York City. Photographs taken of Newman in May and June showed him looking gaunt. Writer A.E. Hotchner, who partnered with Newman to start Newman’s Own salad dressing company in the 1980s, was quoted in the media as saying that Newman told him about the disease about 18 months ago. Newman’s spokesman told the press that the star is "doing nicely," but neither confirmed nor denied that he had cancer. In August, Newman reportedly had finished chemotherapy and had told his family he wished to die at home. His daughter, Nell, is poised to take over Newman’s Own.
Paul Newman died of lung cancer on September 26, 2008 aged 83 at his long-time home in Westport, Connecticut. He was surrounded by his family and close friends
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Paul Newman Filmography, awards, and nominations
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
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| 1954 | The Silver Chalice | Basil | |
| 1956 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | Rocky Graziano | |
| The Rack | Capt. Edward W. Hall Jr. | ||
| 1957 | The Helen Morgan Story | Larry Maddux | |
| Until They Sail | Capt. Jack Harding | ||
| 1958 | The Long, Hot Summer | Ben Quick | |
| The Left Handed Gun | Billy the Kid | ||
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Brick Pollitt | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role |
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| Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys! | Harry Bannerman | ||
| 1959 | The Young Philadelphians | Anthony Judson Lawrence | |
| 1960 | From the Terrace | David Alfred Eaton | |
| Exodus | Ari Ben Canaan | ||
| 1961 | The Hustler | Eddie Felson | BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
| Paris Blues | Ram Bowen | ||
| 1962 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Chance Wayne | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
| Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man | Ad Francis, ‘The Battler’ | Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture | |
| 1963 | Hud | Hud Bannon | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
| A New Kind of Love | Steve Sherman | ||
| The Prize | Andrew Craig | ||
| 1964 | What a Way to Go! | Larry Flint | |
| The Outrage | Juan Carrasco | ||
| 1965 | Lady L | Armand Denis | |
| 1966 | Harper | Lew Harper | |
| Torn Curtain | Prof. Michael Armstrong | ||
| 1967 | Hombre | John Russell | |
| Cool Hand Luke | Luke Jackson | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
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| 1968 | The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Pvt. Harry Frigg | |
| 1969 | Winning | Frank Capua | |
| Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Butch Cassidy | Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | |
| 1970 | WUSA | Rheinhardt | |
| 1971 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Hank Stamper | |
| 1972 | Pocket Money | Jim Kane | |
| The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Judge Roy Bean | ||
| 1973 | The MacKintosh Man | Joseph Rearden | |
| The Sting | Henry Gondorff | ||
| 1974 | The Towering Inferno | Doug Roberts | |
| 1975 | The Drowning Pool | Lew Harper | |
| 1976 | Buffalo Bill and the Indians | William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody | |
| 1977 | Slap Shot | Reggie "Reg" Dunlop | |
| 1979 | Quintet | Essex | |
| 1980 | When Time Ran Out… | Hank Anderson | |
| 1981 | Fort Apache the Bronx | Murphy | |
| Absence of Malice | Michael Colin Gallagher | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor | |
| 1982 | Come Along with Me | TV | |
| The Verdict | Frank Galvin | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
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| 1984 | Harry and Son | Harry Keach | |
| 1986 | The Color of Money | Fast Eddie Felson | Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
| 1989 | Fat Man and Little Boy | Gen. Leslie R. Groves | |
| Blaze | Gov. Earl K. Long | ||
| 1990 | Mr. and Mrs. Bridge | Walter Bridge | |
| 1993 | La Classe américaine | Dave | in redubbed archive footage only |
| 1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Sidney J. Mussburger | |
| Nobody’s Fool | Donald J. "Sully" Sullivan | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama |
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| 1998 | Twilight | Harry Ross | |
| 1999 | Message in a Bottle | Dodge Blake | |
| 2000 | Where the Money Is | Henry Manning | |
| 2002 | Road to Perdition | John Rooney | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture |
| 2003 | Our Town | Stage Manager | Nominated – Emmy Award |
| 2005 | Empire Falls | Max Roby | Emmy Award; Golden Globe |
| Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D | Dave Scott | voice | |
| 2006 | Cars | Doc Hudson | voice |
| 2007 | Dale | Narrator | voice |