Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, race car driver, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. His major film roles include The Hustler, Hud, Harper, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and leading roles in The Sting and Slap Shot. His voice role of Doc Hudson in the first installment of Disney-Pixar’s Cars was his final acting performance, with his archival voice recordings being used again in Cars 3, nine years after his death. He died of a heart attack in 2009, at the age of 89.
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Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, race car driver, and entrepreneur. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Newman served as a Navyman in the Pacific Theater of World War II and received his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics from Kenyon College in 1949. His first starring Broadway role was in William Inge’s Picnic, and he starred in smaller roles for a few more films before receiving widespread attention and acclaim for his performances in Somebody Up There Likes Me and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. His major film roles include The Hustler, Hud, Harper, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, and leading roles in The Sting and Slap Shot. Newman 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. In 1988, Newman founded the SeriousFun Children’s Network, a global family of summer camps and programs for children with serious illness which has served 290,076 children since its inception. In 2006, Newman also co-founded Safe Water Network with John Whitehead, former chairman of Goldman Sachs, and Josh Weston, ex-chairman of ADP, to improve access to safe water to underserved communities around the world. Newman was the husband of Oscar winning actress Joanne Woodward.
His voice role of Doc Hudson in the first installment of Disney-Pixar’s Cars was his final acting performance, with his archival voice recordings being used again in Cars 3, nine years after his death. He died of a heart attack in 2009, at the age of 89. He is survived by his wife, Joanne, and their two children. He also had a son, Paul Newman Jr., who is a producer and production manager, and son, Arthur Sigmund Newman, who runs a sporting goods store. Newman’s father was Jewish, the son of Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, Hungarian-Jewish and Polish-Jewish emigrants from Hungary and Vistula Land. His mother was born to a Slovak Roman Catholic family in Peticse in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Newman practised no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, saying \”it’s more of a challenge\”. He was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, the second son of Theresa Garth 1894–1982) and Arthur Siggund Newman Sr. , who ran a sporting Goods store. He briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He later attended Yale School of Drama for a year before studying at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. He served in the U.S. Navy in World War Two as a color pilot program at Yale University when his colorblindness was discovered. In 1944, he was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii, as a radioman and rear gunner in torpedo bombers.
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