Newman, Paul (1925–2008)
US actor and director. He was one of Hollywood's leading male stars of the 1960s and 1970s, in such films as The Hustler (1961), Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), Hud (1963), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), and The Sting (1973). He won an Academy Award for The Color of Money (1986).
Initially he often played alienated characters, but later he performed a variety of roles. His other films include Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Absence of Malice (1981), The Verdict (1982), Mr and Mrs Bridge (1991), and The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). He directed his wife Joanne Woodward in Rachel, Rachel (1968) and other films.
| He launched his ‘Newman's Own’ line of foods in 1987, the profits from which were donated to a number of charities. |
