You didn’t know this about Paul Newman Dead

Paul Newman has died at age 83.

This article is about the American actor and race team owner.

Born in Ohio in 1925, the actor rose to fame in such roles as The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, in which he starred opposite Robert Redford.

He understands that the biggest job of being an actor, the hardest thing to do is to really capture 45 seconds of truth on film in the course of a long day.”

Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as the anti-hero of such films as “Hud,” “Cool Hand Luke” and “The Color of Money” — and as an activist, race-car driver and popcorn impresario — has died.

His most recent academy nod was a supporting actor nomination for the 2002 film “Road to Perdition.”

He got his start in theatre and on television during the 1950s, and went on to become one of the world’s most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held in awe by his peers.

If he was dead, his family would make an announcement.

— On “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid” in “1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die,” edited by Steven Jay Schneider.

Despite his love of race cars, Newman continued to make movies and continued to pile up Oscar nominations, his looks remarkably intact, his acting becoming more subtle, nothing like the mannered method performances of his early years, when he was sometimes dismissed as a Brando imitator.

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… ike most of their colleagues, Redford and Newman would rather be.real people’ than actors, and would rather be.real actors’ than romantic leads.

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Actor; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof , Cool Hand Luke , Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid , The Sting , The Color of Money.

He was nominated for Oscars 10 times, winning one regular award and two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including “Exodus,” “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” “The Verdict,” “The Sting” and “Absence of Malice.”

Newman is survived by his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, 78.

A screen legend by his mid-40s, he waited a long time for his first competitive Oscar, winning in 1987 for “The Color of Money,” a reprise of the role of pool shark Fast Eddie Felson, whom Newman portrayed in the 1961 film “The Hustler.”

— Roger Ebert, review of “Where the Money Is,” 2000.

His legacy lives on in the charities he supported and the Hole in the Wall Camps, for which he cared so much.

Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio , the son of Theresa and Arthur S. Newman, who ran a profitable sporting goods store.

“He decided at a relatively late age he was going to be an actor, and that he was going to drama school.

One of Newman’s nominations was as a producer; the other nine were in acting categories.

25 years after “The Hustler”, Newman reprised his role of “Fast” Eddie Felson in the Martin Scorsese directed The Color of Money for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor.

New years 2008: my little brother Chris dropped dead a moving testimony to a brother with asperger’s syndrome, by zen peace.

You were part of a movie actor era that is fading fast, an era full of gentlemen and ladies who gave us high quality movies, who were commited to thier trade and families.

My funniest memory of Paul was the reputation he had in Hollywood for being quite the drinker in his younger days and he would often show up at a celebrity party drinking out of a chamber pot!

Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian and auto racing enthusiast.

He appeared with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in the feature films The Long, Hot Summer , Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys!

On September 26th, 2008, Newman died at his long-time home in Westport, Connecticut succumbing to complications arising from lung cancer.

As Cool Hand Luke or Butch Cassidy, Newman gave his audiences a vicarious thrill by thumbing his nose at an unjust society.