Acting

Paul Newman

Born 1925-01-26 · Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA

Died 2008-09-26

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also 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. Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity.

Credits

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Breakdown: 1975
as Self (The Towering Inferno-archive footage)
2025
Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror
as Self (archive footage)
2025
Superpowered: The DC Story
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Paul Newman: The Restless
as Self (archive footage)
2023
Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé
as Self (archive footage)
2022
The Last Movie Stars
as Self (archive footage)
2022
Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Morceaux de Cannes
as Self (archive footage)
2021
Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth
as Self(archive footage)
2020
Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story
as Self (archive footage)
2020
Steve McQueen: American Icon
as Self (archive footage)
2017
Cars 3
as Doc Hudson (voice) (archive sound)
2017
Best of Enemies
as Self (archival)
2015
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Iconic Couples of Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
2015
The Emperor's New Clothes
as Self (archive footage)
2015
Tab Hunter Confidential
as Self (archive)
2015
Talking Pictures
as Self (archive footage)
2013
I'm Still Here
Thanks
2010
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
The Meerkats
as Narrator (voice)
2008
The Price of Sugar
as Narrator (voice)
2007
Dale
as Narrator (voice)
2007
Geared-Up
2006
Mater and the Ghostlight
as Doc Hudson (voice)
2006
Cars
as Doc Hudson (voice)
2006
The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch and Sundance
as Self
2006
Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time
as Chance Wayne (archive footage)
2006
Roving Mars
as Self (Introduction)
2006
Who Needs Sleep?
as Self
2006
All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
as Self
2006
Iconoclasts
as Self
2005
Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon
as Dave Scott (voice)
2005
The Art of 'The Sting'
as Self
2005
Empire Falls
as Max Roby
2005
Empire Falls
Executive Producer
2005
James Dean: Forever Young
as Self (archive footage)
2005
Tell Them Who You Are
as Self
2004
The Education of Gore Vidal
as Self
2003
Our Town
as Stage Manager
2003
Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages
as Self
2002
Road to Perdition
as John Rooney
2002
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time
as Self
2002
HypaSpace
as Self
2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
as Self (archive footage)
2002
The Hustler: The Inside Story
as Self (archive footage)
2002
The Story Behind "Absence of Malice"
as Self
2001
Where the Money Is
as Henry
2000
Black Light Dreams: The 25 Years of the Famous People Players
as Self
2000
Altman on His Own Terms
as Self
2000
Message in a Bottle
as Dodge Blake
1999
The Directors
as Self
1999
Twilight
as Harry Ross
1998
Super Speedway
as Narrator (voice)
1997
E! True Hollywood Story
1996
Nobody's Fool
as Sully Sullivan
1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Brick / Chance Wayne (archive footage)
1994
Baseball
as (voice)
1994
Inside the Actors Studio
as Self
1994
The Hudsucker Proxy
as Sidney J. Mussburger
1994
La Classe américaine
as Dave (archive footage)
1993
Mansell & Newman Haas 1993
as Himself
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
as Self - Audience Member
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
1992
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
as Walter Bridge
1990
The Mastery of Motion
as Himself
1990
Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge
as Self (archive footage)
1990
The Simpsons
as Paul Newman (voice)
1989
Blaze
as Gov. Earl K. Long
1989
Fat Man and Little Boy
as Gen. Leslie R. Groves
1989
Ancient Forests: Rage Over Trees
as Host
1989
Production Story: Fat Man and Little Boy
as Self
1989
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre
as Self
1989
Hello Actors Studio
as Self
1988
John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick
as Self
1988
The Racing Experience
as Host
1988
The Glass Menagerie
Director
1987
Driven to Excellence
as Himself
1987
The Color of Money
as Eddie Felson
1986