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Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, filmmaker, racecar driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He has been described as "one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars". He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, seven Golden Globe Awards, an Actor Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear for Best Actor, a Cannes Film Festival Award for…
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Born 26 January 1925 · Died 26 September 2008 · Q41871
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AOL.com: 1973 Film, Starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford, Ranked Among Greatest Movies of All Time
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At the age of 72; her death was not made public until October 7, 2025
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Awarded Motorsports Hall of Fame of America (2024).
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The Guardian: The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man by Paul Newman audiobook review – unfiltered Hollywood
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As The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man
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The Guardian: Paul Newman memoir to be published in 2022, 14 years after star’s death
The Guardian: From the archive: gazing into Paul Newman’s blue eyes, 1986
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The Guardian: Can I cook like … Paul Newman?
The Guardian: Paul Newman's Rolex watch sells for record $17.8m
“Cars 3 (2017; filmato d'archivio)”
In 2011, Paul Newman's estate gifted land to Westport to be managed by the Aspetuck Land Trust.
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Paul Newman's estate gifted land to Westport to be managed by the Aspetuck Land Trust
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Died 2008-09-26.
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“You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: "Holy Christ, whaddya know — I'm still around!" It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.”
“s spokesman told the press that the star was”
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Gifted the food company to Newman’s Own Foundation, which was made possible by the passage of the Philanthropic Enterprise Act of 2017
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“I'd like to be remembered as a guy who tried — tried to be part of his times, tried to help people communicate with one another, tried to find some decency in his own life, tried to extend himself as a human being. Someone who isn't complacent, who doesn't cop out.”
“I was terrorized by the emotional requirements of being an actor. Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed.”
“I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.”
“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.”
“I was always a character actor. I just looked like Little Red Riding Hood.”
“The first time I remember women reacting to me was when we were filming Hud in Texas. Women were literally trying to climb through the transoms at the motel where I stayed. At first, it's flattering to the ego. At first. Then you realize that they're mixing me up with the roles I play — characters created by writers who have nothing to do with who I am.”
“I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?”
“I've been accused of being aloof. I'm not. I'm just wary.”
“I had no natural gift to be anything — not an athlete, not an actor, not a writer, not a director, a painter of garden porches — not anything. So I've worked really hard, because nothing ever came easily to me.”
“Building weapons that we don’t need, don’t work, and aren’t necessary, and have no mission — that’s not bad politics, that’s robbery.”
“To that extent that you can sustain and maintain that childlike part of your personality is probably the best part of acting.”
“Just when things look darkest, they go black.”
“When I realized I was going to have to be a whore, to put my face on the label, I decided that the only way I could do it was to give away all the money we make. Over the years, that ethical stance has given us a 30 per cent boost. One in three customers buys my products because all the profits go to good causes and the rest buy the stuff because it is good.”
“It's all been a bad joke that just ran out of control. I got into food for fun but the business got a mind of its own. Now — my good Lord — look where it has gotten me. My products are on supermarket shelves, in cinemas, in the theater. And they say show business is odd.”
“I like racing but food and pictures are more thrilling. I can't give them up. In racing you can be certain, to the last thousandth of a second, that someone is the best, but with a film or a recipe, there is no way of knowing how all the ingredients will work out in the end. The best can turn out to be awful and the worst can be fantastic. Cooking is like performing and performing like cooking.”
“I'm like a good cheese. I'm just getting mouldy enough to be interesting.”
“Being on President Nixon's enemies list was the highest single honor I've ever received. Who knows who's listening to me now and what government list I'm on?”
“Study your craft and know who you are and what's special about you. Find out what everyone does on a film set, ask questions and listen. Make sure you live life, which means don't do things where you court celebrity, and give something positive back to our society.”
“I started my career giving a clinic in bad acting in the film, "The Silver Chalice," and now I'm playing a crusty old man who's an animated automobile [in "Cars"]. That's a creative arc for you, isn't it?”
“People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.”
“To be an actor, you have to be a child.”
“Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.”
“Money won is twice as sweet as money earned.”
“A man with no enemies is a man with no character.”
“Variant: If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.”
“Twenty-five years ago I couldn't walk down the street without being recognized. Now I can put a cap on, walk anywhere and no one pays me any attention. They don't ask me about my movies and they don't ask me about my salad dressing because they don't know who I am. Am I happy about this? You bet.”
“The embarrassing thing is that my salad dressing is out-grossing my films.”
“É inutile essere un artista se devi vivere come un impiegato.”
“İyiliksever olmakta istisna ya da asalet içeren bir şey olmadığını düşünürüm. Diğer türlü davranışlar beni şaşırtır.”
“Ho he fet millor i pitjor, però al capdavall, era millor que no fer res en absolut.”
“Ho due regole da ricordare. Prima: è inutile mettere il freno quando sei al rovescio. Seconda: se le cose sembrano scure, finiscono con il diventar nere.”
“Zamanının bir parçası olmaya çalışan bir adam olarak, insanların bir diğeriyle iletişim kurmasına yardımcı olmaya çalışmış biri olarak, kendi yaşamında bazı nezaketleri bulmaya çalışan bir kişi olarak, bir insanoğlu olarak kendisini ilerletmeye çalışan birisi olarak hatırlanmayı isterim. Kendini beğenmiş, oyunbozan bir kişi olarak değil.”
“Actuar és com permetre que t'abaixin els pantalons, quedes exposat.”
“Actuar es como bajarse los pantalones: estás expuesto». [Acting is like letting your pants down; you're exposed].”
“Per me è come dragare un fiume. È un'esperienza penosa. Io semplicemente non ho talento intuitivo. Recitare mi è sempre faticoso e compiango sempre me stesso per le mie interpretazioni.”
He contributed $20,857,000 for the year of 2008 to the Newman's Own Foundation, which distributes funds to a variety of charities.
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Kenyon College announced that Newman had donated $10 million to the school to establish a scholarship fund as part of the college's $230 million fund-raising campaign
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“Cars - Motori ruggenti (2006)”
Newman also co-founded Safe Water Network with John Whitehead, former chairman of Goldman Sachs, and Josh Weston, former chairman of ADP, to improve access to safe water to underserved communities around the world
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Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Empire Falls (2005).
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Released album “This Is How It Is Lost”.
The United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, considering it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant"
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And the 24 Hours of Daytona once again in 2005
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Newman appeared in a Broadway revival of Wilder's Our Town, winning a nomination for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance
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Released album “Re-issue! Re-package! Re-package! Re-evaluate the Songs”.
Released album “Machine Is Not Broken”.
Released ep “Travels in Constants, Volume 8”.
Released album “Only Love Can Break Your Heart”.
Released album “Frames Per Second”.
Awarded Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (1994).
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Awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres (1994).
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Newman played alongside Tim Robbins as the character Sidney J
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Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (1992).
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Awarded Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want in New York City (1991).
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Awarded Four Freedoms Award – Freedom from Want (1991).
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Newman co-starred with Woodward in the James Ivory film adaptation Mr
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“I cannot bear to look at a film that I made before 1990. Maybe 1985. There's no sense even trying to explain it. I really just can't watch myself. I see all the machinery at work and it just drives me nuts, so I don't look at anything.”
Newman founded the SeriousFun Children's Network, a global family of summer camps and programs for children with serious illnesses
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In 1988, Newman founded the SeriousFun Children's Network, a global family of summer camps and programs for children with serious illnesses.
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Actor for The Color of Money (1987).
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Newman directed a screen version of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie starring his wife Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, and Karen Allen
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Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1986).
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“Upon winning the 1986 Academy Award for Best Actor, (in The Color of Money), after having being nominated seven times; quoted in Tom O'Neil, "Gold Derby,", Los Angeles Times (3 September 2006)”
Twenty-five years after The Hustler, Newman reprised his role of "Fast Eddie" Felson in the Martin Scorsese–directed film The Color of Money, for which he finally received the Academy Award for Best Actor
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Awarded Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award (1985).
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Newman starred in and directed Harry & Son
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Going on to win eight drivers' championships under his ownership
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Newman became a major donor for The Mirror Theater Ltd, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino, matching a grant from Laurance Rockefeller
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Hotchner, Newman founded Newman's Own, a line of food products intended to give all the profits away, in 1982.
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Acted in Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice
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Who was a liberal Republican, instead of the incumbent Democratic president, Jimmy Carter
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Newman directed the television screen version of the Pulitzer Prize–winning play The Shadow Box
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Newman reunited with director Hill in the hockey sport comedy Slap Shot
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To speak in favor of breaking up Big Oil into separate components
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His third film with First Artists was the Harper sequel The Drowning Pool, in which Woodward appeared
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Newman co-starred with Steve McQueen in John Guillermin's disaster film The Towering Inferno
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Newman reunited with director George Roy Hill and fellow actor Robert Redford in The Sting
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At Thompson International Speedway, quietly entered as "P
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Newman's vehicles produced by First Artists included Pocket Money and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
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To star in and to host television special Once Upon a Wheel, on the history of auto racing
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Newman directed and starred in Sometimes a Great Notion based on Ken Kesey's novel
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Newman produced and co-starred with Woodward in Stuart Rosenberg's WUSA, based on Robert Stone's novel A Hall of Mirrors
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Newman co-starred with Woodward in James Goldstone's auto racing film Winning
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Newman directed Rachel, Rachel starring Woodward and based on Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God
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Newman starred in Martin Ritt's Hombre
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And was also present at the first Earth Day event in Manhattan on April 22, 1970
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Newman starred in Hud and co-starred with Woodward in A New Kind of Love
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Newman starred in Robert Rossen's The Hustler
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Endorsed Gore Vidal's congressional run and in 1964, he and his wife, Joanne Woodward, supported Lyndon B
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Starred in Exodus and co-starred with Woodward in From the Terrace
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Newman starred in The Young Philadelphians, a film that also featured Barbara Rush, Robert Vaughn and Alexis Smith and was directed by Vincent Sherman
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Was in the original Broadway production of Sweet Bird of Youth with Geraldine Page and three years later starred with Page in the film version
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Newman starred in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opposite Elizabeth Taylor
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In the Playhouse 90 television play The 80 Yard Run
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Newman starred in The Long, Hot Summer with his future wife Joanne Woodward, with whom he reconnected on the set in 1957 (they had first met in 1953)
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Newman worked again with director Wise in Until They Sail
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Newman garnered much attention and acclaim for the role of Rocky Graziano in Robert Wise's biographical film Somebody Up There Likes Me
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Awarded Theatre World Award (1953).
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And his final was in Thornton Wilder’s Our Town in 2003
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With his first wife Jackie Witte, taking up residence in the St
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Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii
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Briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity
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In Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and raised in nearby Shaker Heights, the second son of Theresa Garth (née Fetzer, Fetzko, or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková; 1894–1982) and Arthur Sigmund Newman Sr
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In Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and raised in nearby Shaker Heights
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Born 1925-01-26.
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