TMI (Today’s Movie Info)
PAUL NEWMAN was an actor, director, racer and philanthropist. He was nominated for 10 Academy Award, and won for The Verdict (1982)
At the time of his death in 2008, he had been married to actess Joanne Woodward for 50 years (pictured together in 1960)
He is one of only five performers to be nominated for an Oscar twice for playing the same role in two separate films. He played as Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler (1961) and The Color of Money (1986), Peter O’Toole as Henry II in Becket (1964) and The Lion in Winter (1968), Al Pacino as Michael Corleone for The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), Bing Crosby as Father O’Malley in Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945) and Cate Blanchett as Elizabeth I in Elizabeth (1998) and Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007).
Is one of only five actors to be nominated for acting honors by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences over five decades (1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s). The others are: Laurence Olivier (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s), Katherine Hepburn (1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s), Jack Nicholson (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s) and Michael Caine (1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s and 2000s).
Since Robert Shaw is so terrific in the role, it’s difficult to believe that Newman turned down the role of Quint in Jaws (1975)
Cars, his final movie, was the highest grossing film of his career. He voiced “Doc Hudson”
An avid racer, he finished second in the 1979 24 Hours at Le Mans race
His company, Newman’s Own (salad dressings, spaghetti sauces) has donated every dollar of profit to charity (more than $100 million)
In 1988, he founded The Hole in the Wall Gang, a charity for sick children. The foundation now serves more than 20,000 children and families each year.
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