Paul Leonard Newman

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Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, writer, race car racer, IndyCar owner, and philanthropist.

He received and was nominated for several accolades, including an Oscar for his role in the 1986 film The Color of Money, a BAFTA Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and several others.

Other roles include the title characters in The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Harper (1968), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1972), and The Verdict (1982).

In the first installment of Disney-Pixar's Cars, he portrayed Doc Hudson in his last acting appearance, with voice recordings being used in Cars 3 (2017). In open-wheel IndyCar racing, the Newman claimed several national championships as a racer in Sports Car Club of America, and his teams won several championships.

He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food business for which he donated all post-tax income and royalties to charity.

These donations as of November 2018 have totaled over US$535 million.

He was a co-founder of Safe Water Network, a non-profit that develops healthy drinking water solutions for those in need. SeriousFun Children's Network is a national network of summer camps and programs for children with disabilities, which has welcomed 290,076 children since its inception in 1988.

Early life

Arthur Sigmund Newman Sr. (1893–1950), a young man who operated a sporting goods store in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the second son of Theresa Garth (née Fetzer, Fetzko, or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fetsko; 1894–1982) and Arthur Sigmund Newman Sr. His father, Simon Newman, and Hannah Cohn, Hungarian Jewish and Polish emigrants, arrived from Hungary and Poland respectively, respectively. Paul's mother was a Christian Science scholar. She was born in Peticse, Zemplén county, Hungary's Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Ptie, Slovakia). As an adult, a newman followed no faith but declared himself a Jew "because it's more of a challenge." When raising Paul and his elder brother Arthur, a newman's mother worked in his father's store.

As a child, the actor showed an early interest in the theater; his first appearance was in a school production of Robin Hood. At age 10, Newman appeared in a production of Saint George and the Dragon, and he was a central actor and critic of their Curtain Pullers children's theater program. He graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1943 and attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was welcomed into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.

In World War II, a Newman served in the Pacific theater for the United States Navy. He enrolled in Yale University's Navy V-12 pilot training program, but was dismissed when his colorblindness was discovered. A bootcamp was followed by training as a radioman and rear gunner. In 1944, the first generation of torpedo bombers qualified. Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii. He was later assigned to VT-98, VT-99, and VT-100, two Pacific-based replacement torpedo squadrons that were primarily responsible for training replacement pilots and aircrewmen, with a particular focus on carrier landings. In an Avenger torpedo bomber, he later flew as a turbino gunman. His unit was sent by a radioman-gunner to Bunker Hill shortly after the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. The pilot of his aircraft had an earache and was grounded, as had his crew, including Newman. The remainder of their team travelled to Bunker Hill. A kamikaze attack on the vessel killed many hundred crewmen and airmen, as well as other soldiers of his unit just days later.

Newman completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in 1949. He began playing basketball in Wisconsin shortly after earning his degree and joined many summer stock companies, most notably the Belfry Players in Wisconsin and the Woodstock Players in Illinois. He played with them for three months and learned his skills as a member of Woodstock Players. He attended the Yale School of Drama for a year before heading to New York City to study under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio. In the beginning, Oscar Levant said that Newman was hesitant to leave New York for Hollywood, and that Newman had observed, "Too close to the cake." "There is also no place to study."

Personal life

He was married twice. Jackie Witte's first marriage was from 1949 to 1958. Susan (born 1953) and Stephanie Kendall (born 1954) had three children, Scott (1950–1978) and two daughters, Susan (born 1953). Scott, who appeared in films including Breakheart Pass, The Towering Inferno, and the 1977 film Fraternity Row, died in November 1978 from a heroin overdose. In honor of his son, Scott Newman founded the Scott Newman Center for drug abuse prevention. Susan is a documentary filmmaker and philanthropist with Broadway and screen credits, including a lead role in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) and a small role opposite her father in Slap Shot. She has also been nominated for co-producer of his telefilm, The Shadow Box, by Emmy Award No.

On the production of Picnic on Broadway, the newman met actress Joanne Woodward in 1953. It was Newman's debut; Woodward was an understudy. Witte divorced Woodward shortly after filming The Long, Hot Summer in 1957. The Newmans moved to East 11th Street in Manhattan before purchasing a house and raising their family in Westport, Connecticut. They were one of the first Hollywood celebrity couples to raise their families outside of California. They were married for 50 years until his death in 2008. Woodward has said, "He's really nice looking and really sexy and all of those things," Woodward said, but all of that goes out the window, and what is really left is, if you can make someone laugh... And he sure does keep me laughing." "Some fusion of lust, admiration, and patience," the newman attributes their love to "some mash-up of passion, admiration, and patience." And determination.

They had three children: Elinor "Nell" Teresa (b. ), who was born in London. Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (b. 1959) was a member of the United States "Missy" Stewart (b. Olivia ("Clea"), 1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (b. 1965. Newman was well-known for his service to his wife and family. "Why go out for a hamburger when you have steak at home?" he joked as he inquired about his fidelity. He also said he never met anyone who had as much to lose as he did. He confessed to leaving Woodward after a fight, walked around the front door, told Joanne that he had nowhere to go and told her he had no one to go. Nell was directed by Nell and her mother in the films Rachel, Rachel, and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds. Allison Janney's mentors, both Newman and Woodward, served as mentors. They first met her when she was a freshman at Kenyon College during a play that Newman was directing.

Shawn Levy, a film critic, argued that Newman had an affair with divorcée Nancy Bacon, a Hollywood journalist, in the late 1960s, which lasted one and a half years. The incident was reportedly denied by a friend of Levy's wife Joanne, who was outraged by the allegation. Levy chastised The New York Post, a tabloid newspaper, for focusing on and emphasizing this element of his biography.

Ethan Hawke, The Last Movie Stars, covered Woodward and Woodward in a 2022 docuseries.

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Career

In 1951, a Newman and his first wife, Jackie Witte, took up residence in the St. George section of Staten Island.

In 1953, he appeared in William Inge's Picnic, with Kim Stanley. Joanne Woodward, an understudy, was on the set when he was assisting with the production. In 1958, the two were married. In 1955, he appeared in the original Broadway revival of The Desperate Hours. He appeared in the first Broadway revival of Sweet Bird of Youth with Geraldine Page in 1959 and three years later appeared with Page in the film version. During this period, Newman began to act in television. He first appeared in "Ice from Space," a 1952 episode of Tales of Tomorrow. He appeared twice on CBS's Appointment with Adventure anthology series in the mid-1950s.

In February 1954, Newman appeared in a screen test for East of Eden directed by Gjon Mili. For the role of Aron Trask, Dean, a newman was tested for the role of Aron Trask, Dean. Dean earned his role, but Richard Davalos defeated Newman. In a live, color television broadcast of Our Town, a musical interpretation of Thornton Wilder's stage performance, he co-starred with Eva Marie Saint and Frank Sinatra in the same year as a last-minute replacement for Dean. In a television adaptation of Hemingway's "The Battler," written by A. E. Hotchner, which was broadcast live on October 18, 1955, Newman replaced Dean in the role of a boxer. Rocky Graziano appeared in the film Somebody Likes Me in 1956, which led to his rise to his role as Rocky Graziano. The Dean-Bay association had a new sense of resonance. Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gun, a film that was earmarked for Dean, was originally slated for him. In addition, Dean was supposed to appear in Somebody Likes Me; however, Paul Newman took over the role after his death.

The Silver Chalice (1954), co-starring Italian actress Pier Angeli, was Newman's first film for Hollywood. The film was a box-office flop, and the actor would later admit to his disdain for it. In 1956, Newman earned acclaim for his role in Somebody Likes Me, and the film reunited him with Pier Angeli; the couple's last film together. He appeared on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), opposite Elizabeth Taylor. The film was a box-office smash, and Newman's first Academy Award nomination came from him. In 1958, Newman appeared in The Long, Hot Summer with his future wife Joanne Woodward, with whom he reconnected on the film in 1957 (they first met in 1953). For this film, he was named Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival in 1958. In 1958's Playhouse 90 television program The 80 Yard Rundown, he and Woodward appeared on screen together again. Together, the pair will make a total of 16 films.

Barbara Rush, Robert Vaughn, and Alexis Smith co-starred in The Young Philadelphians (1959), a drama film directed by Vincent Sherman, and Newman appeared in The Young Philadelphians (1959). (60), he continued with leads from Exodus (1960), Hud (1961), Torn Curtain (1966), Harper (1966), The Secret Inferno (1974), Nobody's Fool (1994), and Nobody's Fool (1994). Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973), he worked with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill. Boys, Long Summer (1958), Rally Round the Flag (1961), Winning (1969), Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990), and Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990). They appeared in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls, but did not have any scenes to post.

In addition to acting in and directing Harry & Son, Newman produced four feature films starring Woodward. Rachel, Rachel (1968), based on Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God; the television screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972); and a screen version of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (1987). Newman reprised his role as "Fast Eddie" Felson in the Martin Scorsese-directed film The Color of Money (1986), for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor, twenty-five years ago. In 1994, Newman appeared in Tim Robbins' comedy The Hudsucker Proxy as Sidney J. Mussburger.

In mid-1987, Newman sued Universal Pictures for reportedly failing to properly account for revenues from four of his films made for Universal, and Universal owes him at least $1 million for the home video versions of The Sting, Slap Shot, Winning, and Occasionally a Great Notion. Universal is accused of delaying cassette revenues in a way that incorrectly reduced revenues due to Newman, according to the actor, who needs both an accounting and a $2 million fine.

In 2003, Newman appeared in a Broadway revival of Wilder's Our Town, receiving a Tony Award nomination for his role. The showtime showtime network and PBS produced a taping of the production, and Newman was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie.

In the 2002 film Road to Perdition, opposite Tom Hanks, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Newman's last live action movie appearance was as a tumultuous mob boss. His last live action appearance, although he continued to produce voice work for films, was in 2005's Empire Falls (based on Richard Russo's Pulitzer Prize-winning book in which he played Miles Roby's dissolute father of the protagonist, Miles Roby) in which he starred in a Golden Globe and a Primetime Emmy. In 2006, he played Doc Hudson, a retired anthropomorphic racer in Disney/Pixar's Cars, as well as his final role in the first Cars video game, as well as in the short film Mater and the Ghostlight, in keeping with his keen interest in car racing. Though he was not in the second film, Cars 2 (2011), his voice was later used in the third film (which was done using archive recordings): Cars 3 (2017), which received a bill almost nine years after his death.

"You begin to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, and you begin to lose your invention," a newman who started acting in May 2007 said. "I believe this book is effectively a closed book for me." He came out of retirement to record narration for the 2007 film Dale, about NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt's life, and the 2008 documentary The Meerkats, which is his last film role overall.

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