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Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an
United States|American actor and film director.

Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, near
Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland, to Theresa Fetzer (a
Hungarian Catholic, who became a Christian
Scientist) and Arthur Newman (a non-religious
Judaism|German Jew) who owned a successful
sport|sporting goods store. Paul served in the
United States Navy|Navy in World War II, in the
Pacific Theater of Operations|Pacific theater.
When he returned to America he attended Ohio
University, Kenyon College and Yale University.
While he was attending graduate school at Yale, he
became a successful stage actor on Broadway. His
first film|movie, The Silver Chalice (1954) has
been described by Newman as the "List of movies
that have been considered among the worst
ever|worst movie of the entire 1950s decade," but
he rebounded with a series of acclaimed roles.
Newman was one of the few actors who successfully
made the transition from 1950s to the 1960s and
1970s cinema. His rebellious persona translated
well to a subsequent generation.

He has married twice:

1) Jackie Witte (1949-1958) by whom he had a son
Scott Newman who died in 1978 and two daughters
Susan Kendall Newman and Stephanie Newman. Susan
is a stage actress and philanthropist.

2) Joanne Woodward on 29 January 1958. They have
three daughters: Melissa Newman, Nell Potts and
Clea Newman. Paul has directed Joanne in several
films, such as the 1968 film Rachel, Rachel, a
film for which he was Academy Award for Best
Picture|nominated for an Oscar as producer.

He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for his
lead role in a 2003 in television|2003 production
of Our Town.

==Academy Awards==
Newman has been nominated for an Academy Award
nine times as an actor, in addition to the
producer nomination he received for Rachel,
Rachel.  Of his acting nominations, he won once,
for his leading role on The Color of Money in 1986
in film|1986.  That award came a year after he won
an Academy Honorary Award|honorary Oscar for his
"many and memorable and compelling screen
performances."

In 1994 in film|1994, the Motion Picture Academy
awarded him The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
in recognition of his charitable work. He has used
his considerable name recognition to sell a series
of sauces, popcorn, and lemonade which is used to
support his hole in the wall charity. The latter
is named after his gang in Butch Cassidy and the
Sundance Kid.

==Auto racing==
Newman co-founded Newman/Haas Racing with Carl
Haas, a Champcars|CART Championship auto racing
team, in 1983 in sports|1983. He first became
interested in the sport ("the first thing that I
ever found I had any grace in") while filming
Winning, a 1968 in film|1968 film, despite the
fact the he is color-blind.  

Newman's first professional event was in 1972 in
sports|1972, in Thompson, Connecticut. He ran the
24 hours of Le Mans once in 1979, finished second
in a Porsche 935.  He is the oldest driver to win
a major sanctioned race, having won the 24 Hours
of Daytona in 1995 in sports|1995 at the age of
70.  Newman told an Associated Press journalist in
March 2005 that he'll "probably race for another
year".

==Philanthropy==
Newman founded Newman's Own, a line of food
products, in 1982.  The brand started with
vinaigrette|salad dressing, and has expanded to
include pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn, and salsa
(sauce)|salsa, among other things. Newman donates
the proceeds, after taxes, to charity.  As of
early 2005, the franchise has resulted in $175
million in donations.  He co-wrote a memoir about
the subject, Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of
the Common Good (ISBN 0385508026). 

One beneficiary of his philanthropy is the Hole in
the Wall Gang Camp, a summer camp|residential
summer camp for seriously ill children located
between Ashford, Connecticut|Ashford and Eastford,
Connecticut|Eastford in Connecticut. Newman
cofounded the camp in 1986; it was named after the
gang in his film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid (1969). Newman's college fraternity, Phi Kappa
Tau, adopted "Hole in the Wall" as their "national
philanthropy" in 1995.

==Miscellaneous==
For his strong support of Eugene McCarthy in U.S.
presidential election, 1968|1968 (and effective
use of television commercials in California),
Newman was 19th on Richard Nixon's Nixon's Enemies
List|enemies list. He has said that this is one of
his life's proudest achievements.

In recent years, students at Bates College and
Princeton University have marked a day (called
"Newman Day" at Bates, "Newman's Day" at
Princeton) during which students try to drink 24
beers in 24 hours while continuing with their
regular activities.  The newfound tradition has
been held in January at Bates since the early
1990s, and on April 24 at Princeton since the late
1990s.  The event is named after Newman for
unknown reasons, though most often cited are a
comment attributed to him ("24 hours in a day, 24
beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.") and a
well-known egg-eating contest in Cool Hand Luke
(1967). Through his attorney, Newman has asked
both universities to end the tradition, a request
they have difficulty honouring since the event has
no official campus sponsor.

==Filmography (as actor)==
* The Silver Chalice (1954)
* Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
* The Rack (1956)
* The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
* Until They Sail (1957)
* The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
* The Left Handed Gun (1958)
* Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
* Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958)
* The Young Philadelphians (1959)
* Exodus (movie)|Exodus (1960)
* From the Terrace (1960)
* The Hustler (1961)
* Paris Blues (1961)
* Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
* Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
* Hud (movie)|Hud (1963)
* A New Kind of Love (1963)
* The Prize (1963)
* What a Way to Go! (1964)
* The Outrage (1964)
* Lady L (1965)
* A Year Toward Tomorrow (1966) (short subject)
* Harper (film)|Harper (1966)
* Torn Curtain (1966)
* Luke (1967) (short subject)
* Hombre (1967)
* Cool Hand Luke (1967)
* Once Upon a Wheel (1968) (documentary)
* The Private War of Harry Frigg (1968) or "Secret
War of ..."
* Winning (1969)
* Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
* The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid (1970) (documentary)
* King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
(1970) (documentary)
* WUSA (movie)|WUSA (1970)
* Sometimes a Great Notion (1971)
* Pocket Money (1972)
* The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
* The MacKintosh Man (1973)
* The Sting (1973)
* The Towering Inferno (1974)
* McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter (1975)
(documentary)
* The Drowning Pool (movie)|The Drowning Pool
(1975)
* Silent Movie (1976) (cameo)
* Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's
History Lesson (1976)
* Slap Shot (movie)|Slap Shot (1977)
* Quintet (1979)
* When Time Ran Out... (1980)
* Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
* Absence of Malice (1981)
* The Verdict (1982)
* Harry and Son (1984)
* The Color of Money (1986)
* John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
(1989) (documentary)
* Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
* Blaze (1989)
* Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
* The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
* Nobody's Fool (1994)
* Super Speedway (1997) (documentary)
* Twilight (movie)|Twilight (1998)
* Message in a Bottle (1999)
* Where the Money Is (2000)
* Road to Perdition (2002)
* The Life Between (2003) (documentary)
* Tell Them Who You Are (2004) (documentary)
* Going Through Splat: The Life and Work of
Stewart Stern (2005) (documentary)
* Cars (movie)|Cars (2006) (voice) (currently
filming)

==External links==
*imdb name | id=0000056 | name=Paul Newman
*http://www.newman-haas.com/ Newman/Haas Racing
*http://www.newmansown.com/ Newman's Own
*http://www.holeinthewallgang.org/ The Hole in the
Wall Gang Camp
*http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/11/film
.newmanat80.ap/ Paul Newman: I'm ready to retire,
a March 2005 Associated Press article, via CNN
*http://www.princetonspectator.com/news/2004/04/21
/Princeton/Newman-666277.shtml Newman's Day at
Princeton
*http://bates.dailyjolt.com/traditions.html
Traditions at Bates College and a
http://abacus.bates.edu/pubs/newsletter/sum96/stor
ies.html Memory of Newman Day from a 1991 graduate