Paul Leonard Newman( January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race auto motorist, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was the philanthropist of multitudinous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a tableware Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.( 1)
Born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, a exurb of Cleveland, Newman showed an interest in theater as a child and at age 10 performed in a stage product of Saint George and the Dragon at the Cleveland Play House. He entered his Bachelorette of trades degree in drama and economics from Kenyon College in 1949. After traveling with several summer stock companies including the Belfry Players, Newman attended the Yale School of Drama for a time before studying at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. His first starring Broadway part was in William Inge’s Picnic, and he starred in lowerplaces for a many further flicks before entering wide attention and sun for his performances in notoriety Up There Likes Me( 1956) and Cat on a Hot drum Roof( 1958), the ultimate of which also starred Elizabeth Taylor.
She went on to star in a number of successful flicks similar as Sabrina( 1954), in which Humphrey Bogart and William Holden contend for her affection; Funny Face( 1957), a musical where she sang her own corridor; the drama The Nun’s Story( 1959); the romantic comedy Breakfast at Tiffany’s( 1961); the suspenser- love Charade( 1963), contrary Cary Grant; and the musical My Fair Lady( 1964). In 1967 she starred in the suspenser stay Until Dark, entering Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations. After that, she only sometimes appeared in flicks, one being Robin and Marian( 1976) with Sean Connery. Her last recorded performances were in the 1990 talkie TV series Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement – instructionalProgramming.
Newman’s major film places include The Hustler( 1961), Hud( 1963), Harper( 1966), Cool Hand Luke( 1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid( 1969), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean( 1972), The Sting( 1973), The Towering Conflagration( 1974), Fort Apache, The Bronx( 1981), and voice part of Doc Hudson in the first investiture of Disney- Pixar’s buses as his final amusementnon-documentary part, with his archival voice recordings being used again in buses 3( 2017), nine times after his death. A ten- time Oscar designee, Newman was awarded an Academy Award for Stylish Actor for The Color of Money( 1986).
Newman won several public crowns as a motorist in Sports Car Club of America roadracing, and his race brigades won several crowns in open- wheel IndyCar racing. He was aco-founder of Newman’s Own, a food company from which he bestowedallpost-tax gains and royalties to charity.( 2) As of May 2021, these donations havetotaled overUS$ 570 million.( 3) In 1988, Newman innovated the SeriousFun Children’s Network, a global family of summer camps and programs for children with a seriousillness which has served1.3 million children and family members since its commencement.( 4) In 2006, Paul Newman alsoco-founded Safe Water Network with John Whitehead, former president of Goldman Sachs, and Josh Weston, formerpresident of ADP, to ameliorate access to safe water to underserved communitiesaround the world.( 5)
