Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Newman showed an interest in theater as a child and at age 10 performed in a stage production of ''Saint George and the Dragon'' at the Cleveland Play House. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics from Kenyon College in 1949. After touring with several summer stock companies including the Belfry Players, Newman attended the Yale School of Drama for a year before studying at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. His first starring Broadway role was in William Inge's ''Picnic'' in 1953.
Newman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''The Color of Money'' (1986). His Oscar-nominated performances were in ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1958), ''The Hustler'' (1961), ''Hud'' (1963), ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), ''Absence of Malice'' (1981), ''The Verdict'' (1982), ''Nobody's Fool'' (1994), and ''Road to Perdition'' (2002). He also starred in such films as ''Harper'' (1966), ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969), ''The Sting'' (1973), ''The Towering Inferno'' (1974), ''Slap Shot'' (1977), and ''Fort Apache, The Bronx'' (1981). He also voiced Doc Hudson in ''Cars'' (2006).
Newman won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which he donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of May 2021, these donations have totaled over US$570 million. Newman continued to found such charitable organizations such as the SeriousFun Children's Network in 1988 and the Safe Water Network in 2006. Newman was married twice and fathered six children. He was the husband of the actress Joanne Woodward. Provided by Wikipedia
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Blaze / Touchstone Pictures presents in association with Silver Screen Partners IV ; an A & M Films production ; produced by Gil Friesen and Dale Pollock ; written for the screen and directed by Ron Shelton.
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In search of peace / directed by Keith Greenberg ; produced by Joel Sucher and Steven Fischler.
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The hustler / Twentieth Century Fox presents ; produced and directed by Robert Rossen ; screenplay by Sidney Carroll and Robert Rossen.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid / 20th Century Fox ; a George Roy Hill, Paul Monash production ; written by William Goldman ; produced by John Foreman ; directed by George Roy Hill. by Bacharach, Burt
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Fort Apache, the Bronx / 20th Century Fox ; Time-Life Films presents a David Susskind production ; written by Heywood Gould ; produced by Martin Richards and Tom Fiorello ; directed by Daniel Petrie.
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Slap shot / a George Roy Hill film ; written by Nancy Dowd ; produced by Robert J. Wunsch and Stephen Friedman ; directed by George Roy Hill ; a Pan Arts presentation ; a Friedman/Wunsch production associated with Kings Road Productions.
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The color of money / Touchstone Pictures presents, in association with Silver Screen Partners II ; a Martin Scorsese picture ; screenplay by Richard Price ; produced by Irving Axelrad and Barbara De Fina ; directed by Martin Scorsese.
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