WESTPORT, Conn., Sept. 27, 2008
Legendary Actor Paul Newman Dies At 83
Academy Award-Winner Starred In "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke," "Butch Cassidy" And Other Classics
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Play CBS Video Video Remembering Paul Newman CBS' Bill Whitaker examines the life and legacy of veteran actor Paul Newman, who had a prolific career in Hollywood which spanned for over half a century.
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Paul Newman was a heartthrob who in his long and stellar career was just as likely to play against his looks, becoming a fan and critic favorite for convincing portrayals of rebels, tough guys and losers. (AP)
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Newman starred with Robert Redford and Katherine Ross in "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Its success prompted a re-teaming of Newman and Redford in the Oscar-winner "The Sting" a few years later. (20TH CENTURY FOX)
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Actress Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman are pictured during a press conference about the Westport Country Playhouse production of "Our Town," May 15, 2002, in Westport, Conn. Woodward is the artistic director of the Playhouse; Newman played the central role of the Stage Manager. (AP/Kerry Sherck, The Advocate)
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In addition to a career in front of and behind the camera, Newman also excelled in the field of auto racing. (CBS)
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Photo Essay Paul Newman 1925-2008 A Hollywood legend known as much for his generosity as for his bright blue eyes.
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Timeline Newman's Rich Life A look at the career of the Academy-Award winning actor, activist, race car driver and philanthropist.
• Paul Newman Dies At 83
• An Appreciation Of Paul Newman
• Remembering Newman
• Newman's Favorite Role: Philanthropist
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• Timeline: Newman's Rich Life
Newman had two daughters, Susan and Stephanie, and a son, Scott, from a previous marriage to Jacqueline Witte.
Scott died in 1978 of an accidental overdose of alcohol and Valium. After his only son's death, Newman established the Scott Newman Foundation to finance the production of anti-drug films for children.
Newman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the second of two boys of Arthur S. Newman, a partner in a sporting goods store, and Theresa Fetzer Newman.
He was raised in the affluent suburb of Shaker Heights, where he was encouraged him to pursue his interest in the arts by his mother and his uncle Joseph Newman, a well-known Ohio poet and journalist.
Following World War II service in the Navy, he enrolled at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, where he got a degree in English and was active in student productions.
He later studied at Yale University's School of Drama, then headed to New York to work in theater and television, his classmates at the famed Actor's Studio including Brando, James Dean and Karl Malden. His breakthrough was enabled by tragedy: Dean, scheduled to star as the disfigured boxer in a television adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Battler," died in a car crash in 1955. His role was taken by Newman, then a little-known performer.
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By 1958, he had won the best actor award at the Cannes Film Festival for the shiftless Ben Quick in "The Long Hot Summer."
In December 1994, about a month before his 70th birthday, he told Newsweek magazine he had changed little with age.
"I'm not mellower, I'm not less angry, I'm not less self-critical, I'm not less tenacious," he said. "Maybe the best part is that your liver can't handle those beers at noon anymore," he said.
Newman is survived by his wife, five children, two grandsons and his older brother Arthur.
An Actor's Legacy
Paul Newman made numerous appearances on television in the 1950s before breaking into Hollywood movies. Among the shows on which he guest-starred were "Suspense," "You Are There," "The Aldrich Family," "Playhouse 90," "The U.S. Steel Hour" (starring in "Bang the Drum Slowly"), and the "Producers' Showcase" production of "Our Town" in 1955.
Films, As Actor:
"The Silver Chalice" (1954)
"Somebody Up There Likes Me" (1956)
"The Rack" (1956)
"The Helen Morgan Story" (1957)
"Until They Sail" (1957)
"The Long, Hot Summer" (1958)
"The Left Handed Gun" (1958)
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (1958)
"Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!" (1958)
"The Young Philadelphians" (1959)
"From the Terrace" (1960)
"Exodus" (1960)
"The Hustler" (1961)
"Paris Blues" (1961)
"Sweet Bird of Youth" (1962)
"Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man" (1962)
"Hud" (1963)
"A New Kind of Love" (1963)
"The Prize" (1963)
"What a Way to Go!" (1964)
"The Outrage" (1964)
"Lady L" (1965)
"Harper" (1966)
"Torn Curtain" (1966)
"Hombre" (1967)
"Cool Hand Luke" (1967)
"The Secret War of Harry Frigg" (1968)
"Winning" (1969)
"Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (1969)
"WUSA" (1970)
"Sometimes a Great Notion" (1971)
"Pocket Money" (1972)
"The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" (1972)
"The MacKintosh Man" (1973)
"The Sting" (1973)
"The Towering Inferno" (1974)
"The Drowning Pool" (1975)
"Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson" (1976)
"Slap Shot" (1977)
"Quintet" (1979)
"When Time Ran Out..." (1980)
"Fort Apache, the Bronx" (1981)
"Absence of Malice" (1981)
"The Verdict" (1982)
"Come Along With Me" (1982) (TV)
"Harry & Son" (1984)
"The Color of Money" (1986)
"Fat Man and Little Boy" (1989)
"Blaze" (1989)
"Mr. & Mrs. Bridge" (1990)
"The Hudsucker Proxy" (1994)
"Nobody's Fool" (1994)
"Twilight" (1998)
"Message in a Bottle" (1999)
"Where the Money Is" (2000)
"Road to Perdition" (2002)
"Our Town" (2003) (TV)
"Empire Falls" (2005) (TV)
"Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D" (2005) (voice)
"Cars" (2006) (voice)
As Director:
"Rachel, Rachel" (1968)
"Sometimes a Great Notion" (1971)
"The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" (1972)
"The Shadow Box" (1980) (TV)
"Harry & Son" (1984)
"The Glass Menagerie" (1987)
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See all 95 CommentsAdios, Butch.
Class and style is what Mr. Newman will always be to me
Newman told Playboy magazine when asked if he was tempted to stray."
Me too - I might window shopping for a few hamburgers now and then, but I ALWAYS go home for my one and only steak.
Paul Newman is one of my heroes.
Wayman
Jacksonville, FL
Rest In Peace, Paul.
What he said in the movie was quite inspiring and honest. The awards we receive in life are empty and hollow without those who we cherish in life with us (I got that from "they''re just a bunch of empty cups" when "Lightning McQueen" commented on the fact he had won 3 "Piston Cups").
It might have been an "animated" feature, but as the older and wiser of the group he made us think.
Rest in peace, Mr. Newman, we will always remember your smile and goodwill.
"What we have here...is (a) failure to communicate". And, may we get past those failures.
Godspeed, Mr. Newman, you were one of a kind.
Marie & Barbara
Las Vegas, NV
Goodnight hope to bump into you again in the future.
WHY?? Providence_8?? HOW could a wonderful man like Paul Newman ave "lost his soul"?? Success?
Guess what, a rich man, obsessed with "the world" to the point of losing self will be an automaton, making presumptions EXACTLY like yours.
Hey who are we really talking about here? Paul or You? It sounds as if you have not resolved the issue of your intimate relationship with God? You can if you want to. Then you would see the Christian statements in the light of love. Jesus died for you will you call on him because of your sin debt?
Corinthians was not a right up for Mr. good?
Corinthians belong to those who are in Christ?
Those who have been born again by the power of God through placing their faith in Jesus by calling on him.
The word of God was not for anyone justifying their position without Christ. But a drivers manual to walk by faith with Christ. He imparts all those qualities you speak of. We in ourselves are not righteous but self centered.
The search comtinues.
Meanwhile these 3 things remain. Do you really KNOW them? Or simply profess with annoying repetition?
Believe me that I know when people use doctrinal dictation? But speaking blunt and simple is just that blunt and simple and humanly apologetic with sympathy and compassion? Why? Because Jesus said so!
Posted by zeroKnots at 10:52 PM : Sep 27, 2008
Mar 8:36 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Paul would want us to know this!
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