Paul Newman

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Biography

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards.

He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing. Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity.

Known For

Cars

Doc Hudson (voice)

The Simpsons

Paul Newman (voice)

Cars 3

Doc Hudson (voice) (archive sound)

Road to Perdition

John Rooney

The Sting

Henry Gondorff

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Butch Cassidy

Cool Hand Luke

Luke Jackson

The Color of Money

Eddie Felson

Full Filmography

Year	Title	Role
2023	Superpowered: The DC Story TV	Self (archive footage)
2022	Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2022	The Last Movie Stars TV	Self (archive footage)
2022	The Andy Warhol Diaries TV	Self
2021	Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2021	Morceaux de Cannes MOVIE	Self
2021	kid 90 MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2020	Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth MOVIE	Self(archive footage)
2020	Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	Steve McQueen: American Icon MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2017	Cars 3 MOVIE	Doc Hudson (voice) (archive sound)
2015	Best of Enemies MOVIE	Self (archival)
2015	Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2015	Iconic Couples of Hollywood TV	Self (archive footage)
2015	The Emperor's New Clothes MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2015	Tab Hunter Confidential MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2013	Talking Pictures TV	Self (archive footage)
2009	Hollywood sul Tevere MOVIE	Self
2009	Waking Sleeping Beauty MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2008	The Meerkats MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2007	The Price of Sugar MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2007	Dale MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
2006	Geared-Up MOVIE	Self
2006	Mater and the Ghostlight MOVIE	Doc Hudson (voice)
2006	Cars MOVIE	Doc Hudson (voice)
2006	The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch and Sundance MOVIE	Self
2006	Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time MOVIE	Chance Wayne (archive footage)
2006	Roving Mars MOVIE	Self (Introduction)
2006	Who Needs Sleep? MOVIE	Self
2006	All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' MOVIE	Self
2005	Iconoclasts TV	Self
2005	Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon MOVIE	Dave Scott (voice)
2005	The Art of 'The Sting' MOVIE	Self
2005	Empire Falls TV	Max Roby
2004	Tell Them Who You Are MOVIE	Self
2003	The Education of Gore Vidal MOVIE	Self
2003	Our Town MOVIE	Stage Manager
2002	Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages MOVIE	Self
2002	Road to Perdition MOVIE	John Rooney
2002	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time MOVIE	Self
2002	HypaSpace TV	Self
2002	Heart of the Festival MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2002	Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2002	The Hustler: The Inside Story MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
2001	The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" MOVIE	Self
2000	Where the Money Is MOVIE	Henry
2000	Black Light Dreams: The 25 Years of the Famous People Players MOVIE	Self
2000	Altman on His Own Terms MOVIE	Self
1999	Message in a Bottle MOVIE	Dodge Blake
1999	The Directors TV	Self
1998	Twilight MOVIE	Harry Ross
1997	Super Speedway MOVIE	Narrator (voice)
1996	E! True Hollywood Story TV	Self
1994	Nobody's Fool MOVIE	Sully Sullivan
1994	Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage MOVIE	Brick / Chance Wayne (archive footage)
1994	Baseball TV	(voice)
1994	Inside the Actors Studio TV	Self
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy MOVIE	Sidney J. Mussburger
1993	La Classe américaine MOVIE	Dave (archive footage)
1993	Late Show with David Letterman TV	Self - Audience Member
1992	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno TV	Self - Guest
1990	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge MOVIE	Walter Bridge
1990	The Mastery of Motion MOVIE	Himself
1990	Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1989	The Simpsons TV	Paul Newman (voice)
1989	Blaze MOVIE	Gov. Earl K. Long
1989	Fat Man and Little Boy MOVIE	Gen. Leslie R. Groves
1989	Ancient Forests: Rage Over Trees MOVIE	Host
1989	Production Story: Fat Man and Little Boy MOVIE	Self
1989	Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre MOVIE	Self
1988	Hello Actors Studio MOVIE	Self
1988	John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick MOVIE	Self
1988	The Racing Experience MOVIE	Host
1987	Driven to Excellence MOVIE	Himself
1986	The Color of Money MOVIE	Eddie Felson
1986	A Step Away from War MOVIE	Host
1985	Circuit MOVIE	Self
1984	Harry & Son MOVIE	Harry Keach
1982	The Verdict MOVIE	Frank Galvin
1982	Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady MOVIE	Self
1982	Night of 100 Stars MOVIE	Self
1982	Come Along with Me MOVIE	Hughie (voice)
1982	American Playhouse TV	Hughie (voice)
1981	Absence of Malice MOVIE	Michael Colin Gallagher
1981	Fort Apache, the Bronx MOVIE	Murphy
1980	When Time Ran Out... MOVIE	Hank Anderson
1980	The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1980	Pole Position: i guerrieri della Formula 1 MOVIE	Self
1979	Angel Death MOVIE	Narrator / Host
1979	Quintet MOVIE	Essex
1978	The Kennedy Center Honors TV	Self
1978	War Without Winners MOVIE	Host
1977	Please Turn the Page TV	Self
1977	Slap Shot MOVIE	Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop
1976	From the Prairie to the Palace MOVIE	Self
1976	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson MOVIE	The Star (William F. Cody)
1976	Silent Movie MOVIE	Self
1975	The Drowning Pool MOVIE	Lew Harper
1975	Harper Days are Here Again MOVIE	Self
1975	McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter MOVIE	Self - Host
1974	The Towering Inferno MOVIE	Doug Roberts
1974	Spécial cinéma TV	Self
1973	The Sting MOVIE	Henry Gondorff
1973	The MacKintosh Man MOVIE	Rearden
1973	Paul Newman MOVIE	Self
1972	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean MOVIE	Judge Roy Bean
1972	Pocket Money MOVIE	Jim Kane
1972	Hollywood: The Dream Factory MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1972	The Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness MOVIE	Narrator
1972	What She's Doing Up There is Not Accidental MOVIE	Himself
1971	Sometimes a Great Notion MOVIE	Hank Stamper
1971	Once Upon a Wheel TV	Self - Host / Narrator
1970	WUSA MOVIE	Rheinhardt
1970	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis MOVIE	Self (archive footage)
1970	A Long Way from Nowhere MOVIE	Narrator
1970	The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' MOVIE	Self
1970	A Private Decision MOVIE	Self
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid MOVIE	Butch Cassidy
1969	Winning MOVIE	Frank Capua
1969	Three Young Americans in Search of Survival MOVIE	Host
1968	The Dick Cavett Show TV	Self - Guest
1968	The Secret War of Harry Frigg MOVIE	Pvt. Harry Frigg
1967	Cool Hand Luke MOVIE	Luke Jackson
1967	Hombre MOVIE	John Russell
1966	Torn Curtain MOVIE	Michael Armstrong
1966	Harper MOVIE	Lew Harper
1966	A Year Towards Tomorrow MOVIE	Narrator
1965	Lady L MOVIE	Armand Denis
1964	The Outrage MOVIE	Juan Carrasco
1964	What a Way to Go! MOVIE	Larry Flint
1963	The Prize MOVIE	Andrew Craig
1963	A New Kind of Love MOVIE	Steve Sherman
1963	Hud MOVIE	Hud Bannon
1962	The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson TV	Self
1962	The Merv Griffin Show TV	Self
1962	Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine TV	Eddie Felson
1962	Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man MOVIE	The Battler
1962	Sweet Bird of Youth MOVIE	Chance Wayne
1961	The Mike Douglas Show TV	Self
1961	The Mike Douglas Show TV	Self (archive footage)
1961	Paris Blues MOVIE	Ram Bowen
1961	The Hustler MOVIE	Eddie Felson
1960	Exodus MOVIE	Ari Ben Canaan
1960	From the Terrace MOVIE	David Alfred Eaton
1959	The Young Philadelphians MOVIE	Anthony Judson Lawrence
1959	The Bell Telephone Hour TV	Self
1958	Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! MOVIE	Harry Bannerman
1958	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof MOVIE	Brick
1958	The Long, Hot Summer MOVIE	Ben Quick
1958	The Left Handed Gun MOVIE	Billy The Kid
1957	Until They Sail MOVIE	Capt. Jack Harding
1957	The Helen Morgan Story MOVIE	Larry Maddux
1956	The Rack MOVIE	Capt. Edward W. Hall, Jr.
1956	Bang the Drum Slowly MOVIE	Henry "Author" Wiggen
1956	Somebody Up There Likes Me MOVIE	Rocky Graziano
1956	The Kaiser Aluminum Hour TV	Pvt. Danny Scott
1956	Tony Awards TV	Self - Presenter
1955	The Battler MOVIE	Ad Francis
1955	Playwrights '56 TV	Ad Francis
1955	Our Town MOVIE	George Gibbs
1955	Appointment with Adventure TV	Mack
1954	The Silver Chalice MOVIE	Basil
1954	Producers' Showcase TV	George Gibbs
1954	The Joe Palooka Story TV	Fight Spectator (uncredited)
1953	The United States Steel Hour TV	Tom Corey
1953	The Man Behind the Badge TV	Self
1953	The Oscars TV	Self
1951	Tales of Tomorrow TV	Sgt. Wilson
1950	Danger TV	Jeff
1950	The Web TV	Alex
1950	Armstrong Circle Theatre TV	Jimmy Polo
1950	What's My Line? TV	Self - Mystery Guest
1949	Suspense TV	Captain Radetski
1948	The Philco Television Playhouse TV	Billy the Kid
1948	The Ed Sullivan Show TV	Self
1947	Kraft Television Theatre TV	Self
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient
1944	Golden Globe Awards TV	Self - Nominee

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