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Sep 22, 2024 · Learn about Paul Newman, an American actor and director who starred in iconic films such as The Hustler, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sting. Find out about his early life, career, family, and philanthropy.
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6 days ago · Like his sometime partner Robert Redford, Paul Newman bridged between the studio system that dominated Hollywood through the 1960s and the New Hollywood approach that rose to prominence in the 1970s. A classically handsome actor who loved to play duplicitous and often complex characters, Newman starred in some of the greatest films of all time, earning multiple Academy Award nominations and one Best Actor win.
3 days ago · The Death of Paul Newman. On September 26, 2008, the world said goodbye to one of its most cherished stars, Paul Newman. The acclaimed actor and philanthropist passed away at the age of 83 after a private battle with lung cancer. Newman was known not only for his incredible talent on screen but also for his dedication to helping others.
2 days ago · Early in his career, Paul Newman became a bridge between old and New Hollywood. Having signed a contract with one of the major studios in the early 1950s and starred in a Biblical epic (which he immediately disavowed), he easily made the transition to the younger, brasher, more renegade films of the New Hollywood movement in the ’70s as if he was born to make them.
Sep 22, 2024 · Paul Newman - Actor, Films, Racing: Newman worked for a number of noted directors on pictures that were box-office failures at the time of their release but went on to become cult favourites. He played alongside Lee Marvin and Strother Martin in the antiheroic western Pocket Money (1972), directed by Stuart Rosenberg.
- Michael Barson
3 days ago · Paul Newman took over for Richard Colla as the director of “Sometimes a Great Notion,” and played the lead role of Hank Stamper. The film has one of the most legendary scenes between Newman and Richard Jaeckel (Joe Ben Stamper).
Sep 19, 2024 · Starring the legendary Paul Newman six years before he embodied one of the Western's best-loved antiheroes as Butch Cassidy, Hud tells the story of a generational Texas cattle ranch pushed to the edge of extinction by a breakout of the dreaded foot-and-mouth disease, and it is one of the best serious Westerns ever made.
