Paul Leonard Newman (innate January 26, 1925) is an American actor and film director.

Newman was natural inside Shaker Heights, Ohio, near Cleveland, to Theresa Fetsko (a Hungarian-born Catholic, who became the Christian Scientist) and Arthur S. Newman, the successful sporting goods store owner, world health organization was innate in the U.S. to a Hungarian Jewish father, Simon Newman, and a Polish Jewish mother, Hannah Cohn.

Newman served in the Navy in World War II, in the Pacific theater. Whilst he returned to America he attended Ohio University, Kenyon College and Yale University. He was expelled from either Ohio University. When he was attending grad school at Yale, he became the successful stage actor in Broadway. His number 1 movie, The Silver Chalice (1954) has been described by Newman as a "worst movie of the entire 1950s decade," but he rebounded using the series of acclaimed roles. Newman was one of a couple of actors world health organization with success mass produced a transition from either 1950s to the 1960s and 1970s cinema. His rebellious persona translated well to the subsequent generation.

He has married twice:

I) Jackie Witte (1949-1958) by whom he had the boy Scott Newman who died in 1978 and two girl Susan Kendall Newman and Stephanie Newman. Susan occurs as stage actress & altruist.

Ii) Joanne Woodward on 29 January 1958. It use troika girl: Melissa Newman, Nell Potts and Clea Newman. Paul has directed Joanne inside many films, like a 1968 film Rachel, Rachel, a film for which he was nominated for an Oscar as producer.

He was as well nominated for an Emmy Award for his lead role in the 2003 production of Our Town.

Academy Awards
Newman has been nominated for an Academy Award nine times as an actor, additionally to the producer nomination he received for Rachel, Rachel. Of his acting nominations, he won it used to be that, for his leading role on The Color of Money in 1986. That award come a year fallowing he won an honorary Oscar for his "many and memorable and compelling screen performances."

Auto racing
He foremost became concerned in a sport ("the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in") piece motion-picture photography Winning, a 1968 film, despite a fact the he is color-blind.

Newman's number one sales person event was inside 1972, in Thompson, Connecticut. He ran a 24 hours of Le Mans once in 1979 and finished second inside the Porsche 935 of Dick Barbour thanks to the driving skills of German team mate Rolf Stommelen.

At a age of Seventy, he became the oldest driver to become a portion of a winning team around a major sanctioned race, the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1995. Newman told an Associated Press journalist in March 2005 that he'll "probably race for another year".

Too, Newman co-founded Newman/Haas Racing with Carl Haas, a CART Championship auto racing team, in 1983.

Philanthropy
Newman founded ''Newman's Own, a line of food products, in 1982. A brand began by having salad dressing, and has expanded to include pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn, and salsa, among other items. Newman donates a return, fallowing revenue enhancement, to charity. When of early 2005, a franchise has resulted inside $175 million inside donations. He co-wrote the memoir about the subject, Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good (ISBN 0385508026).

1 beneficiary of his philanthropy is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a residential summer camp for seriously ill youngsters, which is placed between Ashford and Eastford in Connecticut. Newman cofounded a camp around 1986; it was named when a gang around his film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969). Newman's college fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau, adopted "Hole in the Wall" as their "national philanthropy" around 1995.

Miscellaneous
For his hard trend lines of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 (and effective use of television commercials in California), Newman was 19th on Richard Nixon's enemies list. He has said that this is one of his life's lofty accomplishment.

Within recent years, students at Bates College and Princeton University have marked a day (known as "Newman Day" at Bates, "Newman's Day" at Princeton) during which students try to drink 24 beers in 24 hours while continuing with their regular activities. A newfound tradition has been held inside January at Bates since a early 1990s, and in April 24 at Princeton since the late 1990s. the event is known as fallowing Newman for unknown reasons, though virtually all typically cited come a comment attributed to him ("24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.") & the easily-known egg-eating contest inside Cool Hand Luke (1967). Across his lawyer, Newman has asked each universities to prevent a tradition, a asking it keep close at hand difficulty honouring since the event has there are no official campus sponsor.

Newman sleep in Connecticut most of the year. He as well sleep in the village of Golden Beach, Florida.

Filmography (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) Exodus (1960) From the Terrace (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) A Year Toward Tomorrow (1966) (short subject) Harper (1966) Torn Curtain (1966) Luke (1967) (short subject) Hombre (1967) Cool Hand Luke (1967) Once Upon a Wheel (1968) (documentary) The Private War of Harry Frigg (1968) or "Secret War of ..." Winning (1969) Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' (1970) (documentary) King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970) (documentary) 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) McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter (1975) (documentary) The Drowning Pool (1975) Silent Movie (1976) (cameo) 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) Harry and Son (1984) The Color of Money (1986) John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick (1989) (documentary) Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) Blaze (1989) Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990) The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) Nobody's Fool (1994) Super Speedway (1997) (documentary) Twilight (1998) Message in a Bottle (1999) Where the Money Is (2000) Road to Perdition (2002) The Life Between (2003) (documentary) Tell Them Who You Are (2004) (documentary) Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of Stewart Stern (2005) (documentary) Cars'' (2006) (voice) (currently filming)