"death in an automobile collision. Newman's first film for Hollywood was ""The Silver Chalice"" (1954). The film was a box office failure and the actor would later acknowledge his disdain for it. In 1956, Newman garnered much attention and acclaim for the role of Rocky Graziano in ""Somebody Up There Likes Me"". In 1958, he starred in ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"" (1958), opposite Elizabeth Taylor. The film was a box office smash and Newman garnered his first Academy Award nomination. Also in 1958, Newman starred in ""The Long, Hot Summer"" with Joanne Woodward, with whom he reconnected on"
"movies. While working at nights on Broadway in ""What Makes Sammy Run,"" Newman starred as attorney John Barnes in the daytime drama, The Edge of Night for two years. Earlier, Newman also co-starred in his first film, the gangster potboiler, ""Pretty Boy Floyd"" (1960) but he made his breakthrough with his first starring role in ""The Lawyer"" (1970), directed by Sidney Furie, for which Newman received critical acclaim. Newman then went on to star in the 1971 cult movie ""Vanishing Point"", as Kowalski, followed by starring roles in 20th Century Fox's ""Salzburg Connection"", and Paramount's ""Fear Is The Key."" In"
"it was not ""commercial enough"", but Ritt flew to New York and convinced the executives to release the film unmodified. Advertising posters, with Newman in blue jeans in a ""suggestive, full-length pose"", read: ""Paul Newman is ""Hud""! ... the man with the barbed-wire soul"". ""Hud"" was acclaimed during its premiere at the 24th Venice International Film Festival. After its general release on May 29, 1963 the film grossed $10 million at the domestic box office, earning $5 million in theatrical rentals. It was the 19th-highest-grossing film of the year. ""Life"" called ""Hud"" an ""arrestingalmost greatmovie"", describing Paul Newman's acting as"
"Paul Newman Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film ""The Color of Money"", a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others. Newman's other roles include the title characters in ""The Hustler"" (1961), ""Hud"" (1963), ""Harper"" (1966) and ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967), as well as ""Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"""
"England at the time. As Penn grew up, he became increasingly interested in film, especially after seeing the Orson Welles film ""Citizen Kane"". He later attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and was a featured commentator in the documentary ""Fully Awake"" about the college. After making a name for himself as a director of quality television dramas, Penn made his feature debut with a western, ""The Left Handed Gun"" (1958) for Warner Brothers. A retelling of the Billy the Kid legend, it was distinguished by Paul Newman's sharp portrayal of the outlaw as a psychologically troubled youth (the role"
"mother was a practitioner of Christian Science. She was born to a Slovak Roman Catholic family in Peticse (near Homonna) in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Ptičie near Humenné, Slovakia). Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, saying ""it's more of a challenge"". Newman's mother worked in his father's store, while raising Paul and his elder brother, Arthur, who later became a producer and production manager. Newman showed an early interest in the theater; his first role was at the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of ""Robin Hood"". At"
"side showman P.T. Barnum.[2] Celia Newman, began acting in theater, at the age of 5; with the San Antonio Little Theater ""Saltines"". As a teenager, she began a modeling career in Texas and dabbled in acting. She began to pursue a serious acting career when she was cast in the feature film ""The Legend of Billie Jean"". This was the same time she became a SAG member and began traveling to Los Angeles on a regular basis for auditions.[5] After completing the filming of ""Lost Angels"" directed by Hugh Hudson, Celia moved to Los Angeles and was represented by The"
"Ted's Excellent Adventure"" (1989). Like his counterpart Henry Mancini, Newman's credits during the early years of his career were mostly scoring B-movies such as ""The Runestone"" (1990) and ""The Kindred"" (1987) before he gradually transitioned to score mostly comedy films during his prime such as ""Bowfinger"" (1999), ""The Freshman"" (1990), and ""The Spy Next Door"" (2010). His score for ""The Spirit"" (2008) was a tribute to Mancini's 1950s and 60s neo-noir scores such as ""Touch of Evil"" (1958) or ""Experiment in Terror"" (1962). He received an Academy Award nomination for the score to the animated film ""Anastasia"" (1997), following his"
"the most expensive wristwatch ever sold. Paul Newman Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, voice actor, film director, producer, race car driver, IndyCar owner, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He won and was nominated for numerous awards, winning an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 film ""The Color of Money"", a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy Award, and many others. Newman's other roles include the title characters in ""The Hustler"" (1961), ""Hud"" (1963), ""Harper"" (1966) and ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967), as well as"
"story of how, as a child, he was cuffed round the ear by a policeman who accused him of stealing. The blow left Newman deaf in his right ear. Wanting to be a star, he attended acting school at the age of 16, where he learnt about Stanislavski. His first script was written, at the age of 18, for the ITV police series No Hiding Place (1959–67). Newman has very strong and sometimes controversial views on a variety of subjects, and these are reflected in his choice of subjects for writing. He has little faith in conventional medicine, believing that"
"(1969), ""The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean"" (1972), ""The Sting"" (1973), and ""The Verdict"" (1982). He voiced Doc Hudson in the first installment of Disney-Pixar's ""Cars"" as his final acting performance, with voice recordings being used in ""Cars 3"" (2017). 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. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which he donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of January 2017, these donations have totaled over US$485"
"Nuisance"" (1933), ""Another Language"" (1933), ""Dinner at Eight"" (1933), ""Stage Mother"" (1933), ""Going Hollywood"" (1933), ""Riptide"" (1934), and ""The Merry Widow"" (1934), working with Ernst Lubitsch. He was nominated for an Oscar for ""David Copperfield"" (1935), and worked on ""China Seas"" (1935), and ""I Live My Life"" (1935), ""Rose-Marie"" (1936). ""San Francisco"" (1936) earned him another Oscar nomination. He worked as assistant director on ""Lady of the Tropics"" (1937), ""Maytime"" (1937), ""The Firefly"" (1937), and ""Too Hot to Handle"" (1938). Newman began directing short films starting with ""Man's Greatest Friend"" (1938). He followed it with ""The Story of Alfred Nobel"""
"starred Edmond O'Brien. Newman directed George Raft in ""Lucky Nick Cain"" (1951) aka ""I'll Get You For This"" in England, distributed by Fox. Newman went to Fox where he directed ""The Guy Who Came Back "" (1951); ""Love Nest"" (1952), featuring an early supporting role for Marilyn Monroe. The studio were impressed and assigned him to larger budgeted films: ""Red Skies of Montana"" (1952) with Richard Widmark; and ""The Outcasts of Poker Flat"" (1952). Fox picked up his option and he directed ""Pony Soldier"" (1952) with Tyrone Power; and ""Dangerous Crossing"" (1953) with Michael Rennie. In 1952 it was announced"
"the set in 1957 (they had first met in 1953). He won Best Actor at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for this film. He had a supporting role in the Coen brothers' first big-budget production, 1994's ""The Hudsucker Proxy"". Newman starred in ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)"", ""The Young Philadelphians"" (1959), ""Exodus"" (1960), ""From the Terrace"", (1960), ""The Hustler"" (1961), ""Hud"" (1963), Torn Curtain (1966), ""Harper"" (1966), ""Hombre"" (1967), ""Cool Hand Luke"" (1967), ""The Towering Inferno"" (1974), ""Slap Shot"" (1977), ""Absence of Malice"" (1981) and ""The Verdict"" (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George"
"(1966); ""The Madwoman of Chaillot"" (1969); ""The Raging Moon"" (1971), as a young woman in a wheelchair and ""International Velvet"" (1978). Newman married actor-writer-director Bryan Forbes in 1955. She acted with Forbes in ""The League of Gentlemen"" (1960), which Forbes also scripted, and went on to appear in most of the feature films that Forbes directed, including ""The L-Shaped Room"" (1962), ""Seance on a Wet Afternoon"" (1964), ""The Wrong Box"" (1966), ""The Whisperers"" (1967), ""Deadfall"" (1968), ""The Madwoman of Chaillot"" (1969), ""The Raging Moon"" (1971), ""The Stepford Wives"" (1975) and ""International Velvet"" (1978). In his 1983 book ""Adventures in the"
"and supported nuclear energy development as a solution. Newman was an auto racing enthusiast, and first became interested in motorsports (""the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in"") while training at the Watkins Glen Racing School for the filming of ""Winning"", a 1969 film. Because of his love and passion for racing, Newman agreed in 1971 to star in and to host his first television special, ""Once Upon a Wheel,"" on the history of auto racing. It was produced and directed by David Winters, who co-owned a number of racing cars with Newman. Newman's first professional"
"was a major in the Signal Corps during World War II. While there he directed the short film ""Diary of a Sergeant"" (1945) starring Harold Russell which led to Russell's appearance in ""The Best Years of Our Lives"" (1946). After the war Newman returned to directing shorts at MGM: ""The Luckiest Guy in the World"" (1947) and ""The Amazing Mr. Nordill"" (1947). He went back to features with the low budget""Jungle Patrol"" (1948) at Fox. He went on to direct ""The Great Dan Patch"" (1949), the film noir crime dramas ""Abandoned"" (1949), with Gale Storm, and ""711 Ocean Drive"", which"
"as Stephen Burns, the stepson of cult leader David Burns. Newman starred as Paul Atreides in the Sci Fi Channel's 2000 miniseries adaptation of Frank Herbert's ""Dune"" and reprised the role in its 2003 sequel ""Children of Dune"". He has had guest appearances on U.S. television series ""Angel"", """" and ""Tru Calling"". He also guested on the British spy drama ""Spooks"" and played the Rebus-inspired Jim Buchan in BBC 4's ""Reichenbach Falls"". He took the title role of Victor Frankenstein in the 2004 ""Frankenstein"" US TV miniseries, opposite Donald Sutherland and William Hurt. On film in the UK, Newman played"
"age 10, Newman performed at the Cleveland Play House in a production of ""Saint George and the Dragon"", and was a notable actor and alumnus of their Curtain Pullers children's theatre program. Graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater. Initially, he enrolled in the Navy V-12 pilot training program at Yale University, but was dropped when his colorblindness was discovered. Boot camp followed, with training as"
"Newman. An accomplished violinist, and successful concert conductor, Newman was educated at the University of Southern California. His first film work was on Tim Burton's short film ""Frankenweenie"" in 1984. In 1987, he scored Danny DeVito's ""Throw Momma from the Train"". This was his first collaboration with DeVito, and he went on to score nearly all of his subsequent films, including ""The War of the Roses"" (1989), ""Other People's Money"" (1991), ""Hoffa"" (1992), ""Matilda"" (1996) and ""Death to Smoochy"" (2002). Newman has also scored the comedies ""The Flintstones"" (1994), ""The Mighty Ducks"" (1992), ""The Nutty Professor"" (1996), and ""Bill &"
"a past encounter, then out of feelings of her own. Academy Award Golden Globe Award Laurel Awards A New Kind of Love A New Kind of Love is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Melville Shavelson and starring Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Frank Sinatra sings ""You Brought a New Kind of Love to Me"" over the opening credits. A womanizing American reporter assigned in Paris (Paul Newman) mistakes a cynical fashion copycat designer (Joanne Woodward) for a prostitute after she receives a makeover. He decides to interview her for a series of articles, then falls in love"
"starred in the short-lived comedy about a couple living in an Arizona retirement community, ""Coming of Age"", opposite veteran actors Paul Dooley, Glynis Johns and Alan Young. On screen, she appeared in ""Picnic"" (1955), ""Let's Rock"" (1958), ""Bye Bye Braverman"" (1968), ""To Find a Man"" (1972), ""Mannequin"" (1987), ""Only You"" (1994), ""The Beautician and the Beast"" (1997), ""A Price Above Rubies"" (1998), and ""The Human Stain"" (2003). In addition to her appearances on original cast recordings, Newman recorded an album of contemporary songs, ""Those Were the Days"", for Sire Records in 1968. In England, the album was released as ""Phyllis"
"the hopes of ending his own life. The film was a flop in the United States, but was praised by French film critics for its bold experimentation with the stereotyped American Western genre. In 1961 it won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association. The Left Handed Gun The Left Handed Gun is a 1958 American western film and the film directorial debut of Arthur Penn, starring Paul Newman as Billy the Kid and John Dehner as Pat Garrett. The screenplay was written by Leslie Stevens from a teleplay by Gore Vidal, which he wrote for the"
"Desperate Hours"" in 1955. In 1959, he was in the original Broadway production of ""Sweet Bird of Youth"" with Geraldine Page and three years later starred with Page in the film version. During this time Newman started acting in television. His first credited role was in a 1952 episode of ""Tales of Tomorrow"" entitled ""Ice from Space"". In the mid-1950s, he appeared twice on CBS's ""Appointment with Adventure"" anthology series. In February 1954, Newman appeared in a screen test with James Dean, directed by Gjon Mili, for ""East of Eden"" (1955). Newman was tested for the role of Aron Trask,"
"prison farm. He wears the trademark shades of Boss Godfrey throughout the episode. Nashville-based Christian alternative rock band Cool Hand Luke is named after the film. Cool Hand Luke Cool Hand Luke is a 1967 American prison drama film directed by Stuart Rosenberg, starring Paul Newman and featuring George Kennedy in an Oscar-winning performance. Newman stars in the title role as Luke, a prisoner in a Florida prison camp who refuses to submit to the system. The film, set in the early 1960s, is based on Donn Pearce's 1965 novel of the same name. Pearce sold the story to Warner"
"the difference in the private eye character ""is the level of commitment. He has more of a sense of humor about his job."" In the title sequence, Newman dunks his head into a sinkful of ice cubes to rouse himself awake; a bit that he repeated in the 1973 film ""The Sting"". Newman reportedly followed this routine every morning in real life. The film was a hit at the box office. It launched Goldman's career as a screenwriter. The film earned $5.3 million in North American rentals in 1966. Goldman adapted another Macdonald novel, ""The Chill"", for the same producers,"
"(1938), ""Money to Loan"" (1939), ""The Story That Couldn't Be Printed"" (1939) (the story of John Zenger), ""Maintain the Right"" (1940), ""Know Your Money"" (1940) (part of the ""Crime Does Not Pay"" series), ""Women in Hiding"" (1940), ""Cat College"" (1940), ""Buyer Beware"" (1940), ""Respect the Law"" (1941), ""Coffins on Wheels"" (1941), ""Triumph Without Drums"" (1941), ""Don't Talk"" (1942), and ""Vendetta"" (1942). Newman returned to assistant directing with ""Tarzan's Secret Treasure"" (1941) and ""The Bugle Sounds"" (1942). Newman made his debut as a director of feature films with ""Northwest Rangers"" (1941), a B-movie about the Canadian Mounties starring James Craig. Newman"
"asked to take the part. Australian actor Rod Taylor was also considered for the part; although unsuccessful, his screen test impressed MGM enough for them to offer him a long term contract. The film was also notable for being one of Paul Newman's first starring roles and for being one of the first films in which Steve McQueen appeared. It also marked the film debuts of Frank Campanella, Robert Loggia, Angela Cartwright, and Dean Jones, all in uncredited bit parts. Perry Como's version of the song, ""Somebody Up There Likes Me,"" is played over the opening and closing credits. According"
"Hollywood was helping Paul Newman learn to play hockey for the film ""Slap Shot"". Also, since the early 1980s, he has made appearances in more than 250 films and television series, such as portraying a recurring character Tom, an aspiring lawyer in the television sitcom ""Cheers"". He also wrote a book ""The Actor’s Choice"", published by Heinemann in 1996. He served as a training coach for the United States women's national ice hockey team, especially during Olympics, from 1996 to 1998. He was a camp director for the United States National Women’s Hockey Festival from 1997 to 1999. He served"
"was reputed to be a circus strongman, and her mother was also in show business. In the 1940s, she lived in Pullman Court, Streatham Hill. She was educated at Sternhold College, the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts stage school and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Newman made her first screen appearance at age 11 in the 1945 short ""Here We Come Gathering: A Story of the Kentish Orchards"". Her feature film debut as a teenager was in ""Personal Affairs"" released in 1953. There followed a number of period roles, including the heroine in ""The Wrong Box"""
"to Yale University, where he graduated as a Bachelor of Arts in 1977 and a Master of Music in 1978. While at Yale, he met composer Stephen Sondheim, who became an early mentor. Newman and his wife, Ann Marie, have three children. They reside in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles. At first, Newman was more interested in musical theater than in film composition, working with Sondheim in Broadway plays. Lionel, who succeeded Alfred as music director for 20th Century Fox, gave Thomas his first scoring assignment on a 1979 episode of the series ""The Paper Chase"". In 1983,"
"Nelson Mandela bio-pic titled ""Invictus"", starring Freeman as Mandela and Matt Damon as rugby team captain Francois Pienaar. In 2010, Freeman co-starred alongside Bruce Willis in ""Red"". In 2013, Freeman appeared in the action-thriller ""Olympus Has Fallen"", the science fiction drama ""Oblivion"", and the comedy ""Last Vegas"". In 2014, he co-starred in the action film ""Lucy"". In 2015, Freeman played the Chief Justice of the United States in the season two premiere of ""Madam Secretary"" (Freeman is also one of the series' executive producers). Freeman made his directorial debut in 1993 with ""Bopha!"" for Paramount Pictures. In July 2009, Freeman"
"Pan Alley"" (1940), ""The Song of Bernadette""(1943), ""Mother Wore Tights"" (1947), ""With a Song in My Heart"" (1952), ""Call Me Madam"" (1953), ""Love Is a Many Splendored Thing"" (1955), ""The King and I"" (1956) and ""Camelot"" (1967). He composed the familiar fanfare which accompanies the studio logo at the beginning of 20th Century Fox's productions, and still introduces Fox pictures today. A segment of Newman's score for David O. Selznick's ""The Prisoner of Zenda"" (1937) became the standard music which accompanied the Selznick International Pictures logo when introducing its films. At the University of Southern California, the 280-seat Allan Hancock"