Paul Newman's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) Empire Falls Max Roby Iconoclasts Paul Newman Appointment with Adventure Mack The Joe Palooka Story Fight Spect…

Main Movie Roles 2008 - The Meerkats 2006 - Roving Mars 2006 - Cars 2004 - Tell Them Who You Are 2002 - Road to Perdition 2002 - The Kid Stays in the Picture 2000 - Where the Money is 1999 - Message in a Bottle 1998 - Twilight 1994 - Nobody's Fool 1994 - The Hudsucker Proxy 1989 - Fat Man and Little Boy 1989 - Blaze 1986 - The Color of Money 1982 - The Verdict 1981 - Absence of Malice 1981 - Fort Apache the Bronx 1980 - When Time Ran Out... 1979 - Quintet 1977 - Slap Shot 1976 - Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson 1976 - Silent Movie 1975 - The Drowning Pool 1974 - The Towering Inferno 1973 - The MacKintosh Man 1973 - The Sting 1972 - Pocket Money 1972 - The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean 1970 - The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' 1970 - Sometimes a Great Notion 1969 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1968 - The Secret War of Harry Frigg 1967 - Hombre 1967 - Cool Hand Luke 1966 - Harper 1966 - Torn Curtain 1964 - What A Way to Go! 1963 - A New Kind of Love 1963 - The Prize 1963 - Hud 1962 - Sweet Bird Of Youth 1961 - The Hustler 1961 - Paris Blues 1960 - From the Terrace 1960 - Exodus 1959 - The Young Philadelphians 1958 - The Left Handed Gun 1958 - The Long, Hot Summer 1958 - Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 1956 - Somebody Up There Likes Me

BIOGRAPHY:

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 (I) 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 (I) 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, Connecticut. 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.


TRIVIA:

• A film poster of him in _Hud (1963)_ (qv) appears in _Midnight Cowboy (1969)_ (qv).
• His father was of German heritage and his mother was of Hungarian heritage.
• Lives in Connecticut; has been known to race at The Lime Rock Road Circuit.
• Chosen by Empire magazine in 1995 as #12 in the 100 Sexiest Stars in film history.
• Early in his acting career, he was often mistaken for 'Marlon Brando' (qv). He claims to have signed around 500 autographs reading, "Best wishes, Marlon Brando."
• Announced in May 2007 that he is retiring from acting. He had previously announced his retirement in 1995, but came back to make four more movies.
• For a Mother's Day gift, he gave wife 'Joanne Woodward (I)' (qv) 2 hours of uninterrupted driving around the roads of Westport, Connecticut that they had never seen before.
• His performance as Luke Jackson in _Cool Hand Luke (1967)_ (qv) is ranked #30 on the American Film Institute's 100 Heroes & Villains.