Paul Newman

from Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA

Artwork for CarsImage of 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.

Timeline

2024Aged 99

  • Poster for Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes

    Self (archive footage)

2023Aged 98

  • Poster for Paul Newman: The Restless

    Self - Portrait Subject & Interviewee (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Enigmatic Charlotte Rampling

    Self (archive footage)

2022Aged 97

  • Poster for Denzel Washington: A Model American

    Self (archive footage)

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

    Self (archive footage)

2021Aged 96

  • Poster for kid 90

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes

    Self (archive footage)

2020Aged 95

  • Poster for Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth

    Self (archive footage)

2017Aged 92

  • Poster for Cars 3

    Doc Hudson (voice) (archive sound)

  • Poster for Steve McQueen: American Icon

    Self (archive footage)

2015Aged 90

  • Poster for Tab Hunter Confidential

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for The Emperor's New Clothes

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Warren Beatty - Mister Hollywood

    Self (archive footage)

2010Aged 85

  • Poster for I'm Still Here

    Thanks

2009Aged 84

  • Poster for Waking Sleeping Beauty

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Pixar Short Films

    Doc Hudson (voice)

2008Aged 83

  • Poster for The Meerkats

    Narrator (voice)

2007Aged 82

  • Poster for Dale

    Narrator (voice)

  • Poster for The Price of Sugar

    Narrator (voice)

2006Aged 81

2005Aged 80

  • Poster for The Art of 'The Sting'

    Self

  • Poster for Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon

    Dave Scott (voice)

2004Aged 79

  • Poster for Tell Them Who You Are

    Self

2003Aged 78

  • Poster for Our Town

    Stage Manager

  • Poster for The Education of Gore Vidal

    Self

2002Aged 77

2001Aged 76

  • Poster for The Story Behind

    Self

2000Aged 75

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

    Self

  • Poster for Altman on His Own Terms

    Self

  • Poster for Where the Money Is

    Henry

1999Aged 74

  • Poster for Message in a Bottle

    Dodge Blake

1998Aged 73

  • Poster for Twilight

    Harry Ross

1997Aged 72

  • Poster for Super Speedway

    Narrator (voice)

1996Aged 71

  • Poster for The Celluloid Closet

    Self (archive footage)

1994Aged 69

  • Poster for The Hudsucker Proxy

    Sidney J. Mussburger

  • Poster for Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

    Brick / Chance Wayne (archive footage)

  • Poster for Nobody's Fool

    Sully Sullivan

1993Aged 68

  • Poster for La Classe américaine

    Dave (archive footage)

1990Aged 65

1988Aged 63

1987Aged 62

1986Aged 61

1985Aged 60

  • Poster for Circuit

    Self

1984Aged 59

  • Poster for Harry & Son

    Harry Keach

1982Aged 57

  • Poster for Come Along with Me

    Hughie (voice)

  • Poster for Night of 100 Stars

    Self

  • Poster for The Verdict

    Frank Galvin

1981Aged 56

  • Poster for Fort Apache, the Bronx

    Murphy

  • Poster for Absence of Malice

    Michael Colin Gallagher

1980Aged 55

  • Poster for Pole Position: i guerrieri della Formula 1

    Self

  • Poster for The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for When Time Ran Out...

    Hank Anderson

  • Poster for The Shadow Box

    Director

1979Aged 54

  • Poster for Quintet

    Essex

  • Poster for Angel Death

    Narrator / Host

1978Aged 53

1977Aged 52

  • Poster for Slap Shot

    Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop

1976Aged 51

  • Poster for Silent Movie

    Self

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

    The Star (William F. Cody)

1975Aged 50

1974Aged 49

  • Poster for The Towering Inferno

    Doug Roberts

1973Aged 48

1972Aged 47

1971Aged 46

  • Poster for Sometimes a Great Notion

    Hank Stamper

  • Poster for They Might Be Giants

    Producer

1970Aged 45

  • Poster for The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'

    Self

  • Poster for A Long Way from Nowhere

    Narrator

  • Poster for King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for WUSA

    Rheinhardt

1969Aged 44

1968Aged 43

  • Poster for The Secret War of Harry Frigg

    Pvt. Harry Frigg

  • Poster for Rachel, Rachel

    Producer

1967Aged 42

  • Poster for Hombre

    John Russell

  • Poster for Cool Hand Luke

    Luke Jackson

1966Aged 41

  • Poster for A Year Towards Tomorrow

    Narrator

  • Poster for Harper

    Lew Harper

  • Poster for Torn Curtain

    Michael Armstrong

1965Aged 40

  • Poster for Lady L

    Armand Denis

1964Aged 39

  • Poster for What a Way to Go!

    Larry Flint

  • Poster for The Outrage

    Juan Carrasco

1963Aged 38

  • Poster for Hud

    Hud Bannon

  • Poster for A New Kind of Love

    Steve Sherman

  • Poster for The Prize

    Andrew Craig

1962Aged 37

  • Poster for Sweet Bird of Youth

    Chance Wayne

  • Poster for Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man

    The Battler

1961Aged 36

  • Poster for The Hustler

    Eddie Felson

  • Poster for Paris Blues

    Ram Bowen

1960Aged 35

  • Poster for From the Terrace

    David Alfred Eaton

  • Poster for Exodus

    Ari Ben Canaan

1959Aged 34

  • Poster for The Young Philadelphians

    Anthony Judson Lawrence

1958Aged 33

  • Poster for The Left Handed Gun

    Billy The Kid

  • Poster for The Long, Hot Summer

    Ben Quick

  • Poster for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

    Brick

  • Poster for Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!

    Harry Bannerman

1957Aged 32

  • Poster for The Helen Morgan Story

    Larry Maddux

  • Poster for Until They Sail

    Capt. Jack Harding

1956Aged 31

  • Poster for Somebody Up There Likes Me

    Rocky Graziano

  • Poster for Bang the Drum Slowly

    Henry "Author" Wiggen

  • Poster for The Rack

    Capt. Edward W. Hall, Jr.

1955Aged 30

  • Poster for Our Town

    George Gibbs

  • Poster for The Battler

    Ad Francis

1954Aged 29

  • Poster for The Silver Chalice

    Basil

Year unknown

  • Poster for On the Harmfulness of Tobacco

    Director