Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

January 25, 1925 (100 years old)

Place of Birth

Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA

Paul Newman

Biography

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also 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 IndyCar racing. Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity.

Known For

Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson

The Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness

All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé

King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre

John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick

The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch and Sundance

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Black Light Dreams: The 25 Years of the Famous People Players

Pole Position: i guerrieri della Formula 1

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time

Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

What She's Doing Up There is Not Accidental

Three Young Americans in Search of Survival

Production Story: Fat Man and Little Boy

Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine

The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds

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