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. As of July 2011, these donations exceeded $300 million.

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 : Un modèle américain

    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 recording)

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)

2014Aged 89

  • Poster for And the Oscar Goes To...

    Self (archive footage)

2010Aged 85

  • Poster for I'm Still Here

    Thanks

2009Aged 84

  • Poster for Waking Sleeping Beauty

    Self (archive footage)

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

2003Aged 78

  • Poster for Our Town

    Stage Manager

  • Poster for The Education of Gore Vidal

    Self

2002Aged 77

  • Poster for The Hustler: The Inside Story

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time

    Self

  • Poster for Road to Perdition

    John Rooney

  • Poster for The Kid Stays in the Picture

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages

    Self

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 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

  • Poster for Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

    Walter Bridge

1989Aged 64

1988Aged 63

  • Poster for Hello Actors Studio

    Self

1987Aged 62

  • Poster for The Glass Menagerie

    Director

1986Aged 61

  • Poster for The Color of Money

    Eddie Felson

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

    Self (Narrator)

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

  • Poster for The MacKintosh Man

    Rearden

  • Poster for The Sting

    Henry Gondorff

1972Aged 47

  • Poster for The Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness

    Narrator

  • Poster for Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    Self (archive footage)

  • Poster for Pocket Money

    Jim Kane

  • Poster for The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

    Judge Roy Bean

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

    Producer

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

  • Poster for Winning

    Frank Capua

  • Poster for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

    Butch Cassidy

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 Bennies and Goofballs

    Self

  • Poster for Harper

    Lew Harper

  • Poster for Torn Curtain

    Michael Armstrong

1965Aged 40

  • Poster for Lady L

    Armand Denis

1964Aged 39

  • Poster for Hollywood and the Stars

    Self

  • 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 The Army Game

    Pvt. Danny Scott

  • 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.

  • Poster for The Rag Jungle

    Charlie Correlli

1955Aged 30

1954Aged 29

  • Poster for Knife in the Dark

    Jeff

  • Poster for The Silver Chalice

    Basil