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Born	Paul Leonard Newman ()January 26, Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S.
Died	September 26, () (aged&#;83) Westport, Connecticut, U.S.
Education	Kenyon College (BA)
Occupations	Actor Film director Race car driver Philanthropist Entrepreneur
Years&#;active	–
Organizations	SeriousFun Children's Network, Safe Water Network
Works	On screen and stage
Political party	Democratic
Spouses	Jackie Witte &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#;
Children	6, including Scott, Nell, and Melissa
Allegiance	United States
Service / branch	United States Navy
Years&#;of service	–
Rank	Petty Officer Third Class
Battles / wars
Awards	Navy Good Conduct Medal

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, – September 26, ) was an American actor, film director, racing car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.

He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.^[1]

Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Newman showed an interest in theater as a child and at age 10 performed in a stage production of Saint George and the Dragon at the Cleveland Play House.

He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics from Kenyon College in After touring with several summer stock companies including the Belfry Players, Newman attended the Yale School of Drama for a year before studying at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. His first starring Broadway role was in William Inge's Picnic in

Newman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Color of Money ().

His Oscar-nominated performances were in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (), The Hustler (), Hud (), Cool Hand Luke (), Absence of Malice (), The Verdict (), Nobody's Fool (), and Road to Perdition ().

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He also starred in such films as Harper (), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (), The Sting (), The Towering Inferno (), Slap Shot (), and Fort Apache, The Bronx (). He also voiced Doc Hudson in Cars ().

Newman won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing.

He co-founded Newman's Own, a food company that donated all posttax profits and royalties to charity.^[2] As of May , these donations totaled over US$&#;million.^[3] Newman continued to found charitable organizations such as the SeriousFun Children's Network in and the Safe Water Network in Newman was married twice and fathered six children.

He was the husband of the actress Joanne Woodward.

Early life and family

Newman was born on January 26, , in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and raised in nearby Shaker Heights, the second son of Theresa Garth (née Fetzer, Fetzko, or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková;^[4][5] –) and Arthur Sigmund Newman, Sr.

(–), who ran a sporting goods store.^[6][7]

His father was Jewish,^[8][9][10] the son of Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, Hungarian Jewish and Polish Jewish emigrants, from Hungary and Congress Poland, respectively.^[6]

Paul's mother was a practitioner of Christian Science.

She was born to a Roman Catholic family in Peticse, Zemplén county, in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern Ptičie, Slovakia).^{[5][12][13][14]} Newman's mother worked in his father's store while raising Paul and his elder brother, Arthur.^[15]

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 age 10, Newman performed at the Cleveland Play House in a production of Saint George and the Dragon, and acted in their Curtain Pullers children's theater program.^[16] Graduating from Shaker Heights High School in , he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity.^[15]

Navy service

Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II, in the Pacific theater.^[15] He enrolled in the Navy V pilot training program at Yale University, but was dropped when his colorblindness was discovered.^[15][17] He later recounted that it was "a bit more complicated" than colorblindness.

He also "couldn't do the mathematical things that being a pilot requires." A subsequent test found that he was not colorblind. Boot camp followed, with training as a radioman and rear gunner. He performed poorly as a gunner, and a friend from the service recounted in Newman's posthumous memoir that his friends lied to Navy trainers so he could pass.

Qualifying in torpedo bombers in , Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii.

He was assigned to Pacific-based replacement torpedo squadrons VT, VT, and VT, responsible primarily for training replacement combat pilots and aircrewmen, with special emphasis on carrier landings.^[17] He later flew as a turret gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, his unit was assigned to the aircraft carrier Bunker Hill, along with other replacements shortly before the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of The pilot of his aircraft had an earache and was grounded, as was his crew, including Newman.

The rest of their squadron flew to the Bunker Hill. Days later, a kamikaze attack on the vessel killed several hundred crewmen and airmen, including other members of his unit.^[20][21]

In a interview, screenwriter Stewart Stern recounted that Newman drew on an incident from his Navy years as an "emotional trigger to express the character's trauma" when acting in the film The Rack.

He said that Newman thought back to an incident in which his best friend was sliced to pieces on an aircraft carrier by a plane's propeller.^[22]

Education

After the war, Newman completed a Bachelor of Arts in drama and economics at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in ^[23] Shortly after earning his degree, he joined summer stock companies, including the Belfry Players in Wisconsin^[24] and the Woodstock Players in Woodstock, Illinois.

He toured with them for three months and developed his talents.^[15][25] He later attended the Yale School of Drama for one year, before moving to New York City to study under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.^[15]Oscar Levant wrote that Newman initially was hesitant to leave New York for Hollywood, and that Newman had said, "Too close to the cake.

Also, no place to study."^[26] Newman arrived in New York City in with his first wife, Jackie Witte, taking up residence in the St. George section of Staten Island.^[27][28]

Career

– Early roles

He made his Broadway theatre debut in the original production of William Inge's Picnic with Kim Stanley in While working on the production, he met Joanne Woodward, an understudy.

The two married in He also appeared in the original Broadway production of The Desperate Hours in In , 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 episode of Tales of Tomorrow entitled "Ice from Space".^[29] In the mids, he appeared twice on CBS's Appointment with Adventureanthology series.

In February , Newman appeared in a screen test with James Dean, directed by Gjon Mili, for East of Eden (). Newman was tested for the role of Aron Trask, Dean for the role of Aron's twin brother Cal. Dean won his part, but Newman lost out to Richard Davalos. That same year, as a last-minute replacement for Dean, he co-starred with Eva Marie Saint and Frank Sinatra in a live, color television broadcast of Our Town, which was a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's stage play.^[30] After Dean's death, Newman replaced Dean in the role of a boxer in a television adaptation of Hemingway's story "The Battler", written by A.

E. Hotchner, that was broadcast live on October 18, That performance led to his breakthrough role as Rocky Graziano in the film Somebody Up There Likes Me in ^[31] The Dean connection had additional resonance. Newman was cast as Billy the Kid in The Left Handed Gun, which was a role originally earmarked for Dean.

Additionally, Dean was originally cast to play the role of Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me; however, with his death, Newman got the role.^[32][33]

Newman's first film for Hollywood was The Silver Chalice (), co-starring Italian actress Pier Angeli. The film was a box-office failure, and the actor would later acknowledge his disdain for it.^[34] In , Newman garnered much attention and acclaim for the role of Rocky Graziano in Robert Wise's biographical film Somebody Up There Likes Me.^[35] That year, he also played the lead in Arnold Laven's The Rack.^[36] In , Newman worked again with director Wise in Until They Sail.^[37] Also that year, he acted in Michael Curtiz's The Helen Morgan Story.^[38]

– Career stardom and acclaim

In , he starred in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opposite Elizabeth Taylor.

The film was a box-office smash, and Newman garnered his first Academy Award nomination. Also in , Newman starred in The Long, Hot Summer with his future wife, Joanne Woodward, with whom he reconnected on the set in (they had first met in ). He won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for this film. He and Woodward also appeared on screen earlier in in the Playhouse 90television playThe 80 Yard Run.^[39] The couple would go on to make a total of 16 films together.^[40]

In , Newman starred in The Young Philadelphians, a film that co-starred Barbara Rush, Robert Vaughn and Alexis Smith, and was directed by Vincent Sherman.^{[citation needed]} He also co-starred with Woodward in the film Rally Round the Flag, Boys!.^[41] In , he starred in Exodus^[42] and co-starred with Woodward in From the Terrace.^[43]

In , he starred in Robert Rossen's The Hustler. The film, which was based on a book of the same name by Walter Tevis, tells the story of small-time pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson (Newman), who challenges a legendary pool player (Jackie Gleason).

The film was a critical and financial hit. In the best actor category Newman won the British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Argentinian Film Festival, at the Academy Awards he was nominated.^[44]Stanley Kauffmann, writing for The New Republic, praised the principal cast, calling Newman "first-rate".^[45]

Also that year, he co-starred with Woodward in Paris Blues.

In , he starred in Hud and co-starred with Woodward in A New Kind of Love. In , he starred in Torn Curtain and Harper.

In , he starred in Martin Ritt's Hombre.^[46] The film received many good reviews.^[47] Also that year, he starred in Stuart Rosenberg's Cool Hand Luke.^[48] Newman was nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards.^[49] In , the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, considering it "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".^[50][51] Critic Roger Ebert wrote, "Luke is the first Newman character to understand himself well enough to tell us to shove off.

He's through risking his neck to make us happy. With this film, Newman completes a cycle of five films over six years, and together they have something to say about the current status of heroism".^[52]

In , Newman directed Rachel, Rachel starring Woodward and based on Margaret Laurence's A Jest of God. According to Woodward, Newman didn't like the book and had no intention of directing the film.

He changed his mind when Woodward couldn't find any other director. To do the project, the pair accepted a deferred payment. The film was nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Picture and won two Golden Globes including Best Director.^[53]

In , Newman co-starred with Woodward in James Goldstone's car racing film Winning.^[54] It was one of the top grossing film that year in the US reaching the thirteenth position and grossed $14,,^[55]

Also that year, he teamed up with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

Prior to even writing a script, scriptwriter William Goldman talked to Newman about his ideas on approaching the subject matter. Once a script was completed, actor Steve McQueen who read it called Newman suggesting that they star in it together. Newman, assuming he would play the character of Sundance, suggested that they jointly buy the intellectual property to which McQueen hesitated.

It was eventually bought by producer Paul Monash, and Newman was cast as Butch, which created a title change and Redford as Sundance. Newman explained that for the scene where his character performs bicycle tricks a stuntman was hired who left director Hill unsatisfied; Newman had to perform the tricks. Furthermore, Newman explained that it was him and Goldman who developed the musical interlude.

The film was a success, grossing over $15 million at the box office, and it was fourth highest grossing film of the year. At the Academy Awards it was nominated for Best Picture as well as winning and receiving nominations in other categories.^[56]

Finally that year, along with Barbra Streisand and Sidney Poitier, Newman formed First Artists Production Company so actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves.^[57]

In , Newman produced and co-starred with Woodward in Stuart Rosenberg's WUSA, based on Robert Stone's novel A Hall of Mirrors. Newman and his partner John Foreman purchased the rights for $50, The film flopped both commercially and critically.^[58] However, Newman later said that it is "the most significant film I've ever made and the best".^[59]

In , Newman directed and starred in Sometimes a Great Notion based on Ken Kesey's novel.

Although several directors were considered, it was announced that Newman would direct. However, Richard A. Colla was signed to direct the film in May Five weeks after principal photography began, Colla left the project due to "artistic differences over photographic concept", as well as a required throat operation. At the same time, Newman broke his ankle and the production shut down on July As co-executive producer, Newman considered replacing Colla with George Roy Hill, but Hill declined the offer, so when filming resumed two weeks later, Newman was directing.^[60]

Also that year, Newman hosted David Winters' made-for-tv documentary Once Upon a Wheel.^[61] Winters said that at the time Newman had publicly stated he didn't want to do television and turned it down for this reason until he pitched his vision to him.^[62] Newman, a race car enthusiast, said, "The show gives me a chance to get close to a sport I'm crazy about, I love to test a car on my own, to see what I can do, but racing with 25 other guys is a whole different thing.

There are so many variable, the skill demanded is tremendous."^[63]Bob Bondurant, Newman's driving instructor who appears in the film,^[64] explained that Once Upon a Wheel was a passion project for Newman "because he wanted to learn how to drive", and that he refused projects that would have paid him a much larger salary.^[65] The project marked Newman's return to television after a decade long absence,^[66] and his first time as the lead of a program.^[67] During post-production, Winters said that Newman, who liked what he saw, gave him the idea to add some footage to sell it as a theatrical film worldwide.^[62] Upon its release, the documentary generally received good reviews for its directing, pace, photography, music, and human interest stories.^{[68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77]}

In , Newman's vehicles produced by First Artists included Pocket Money^[78] and The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.

Also that year, Newman directed The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. It was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and Joanne Woodward won the best actress award.^[79]

In , Newman reunited with director George Roy Hill and fellow actor Robert Redford in The Sting.

The film made over $68,, in the North American box office, and was the highest grossing film of ^[80] For his participation, Newman received top billing, $, and a percentage of the profits.^[81] The film was awarded Best Picture at the Academy Awards.^[82]

In , Newman co-starred with Steve McQueen in John Guillermin's disaster film The Towering Inferno.

Newman plays an architect stuck in a skyscraper he designed that catches fire. Newman was paid $1,, plus a percentage of the gross, and he insisted he do his own stunts. The film was a success and its North American gross was $55,,^[83]

In , his third film with First Artists was the Harper sequel The Drowning Pool, in which Woodward appeared.

In , he reunited with director Hill in the hockey sport comedy Slap Shot. At the time of its release the film received mixed reviews, many saying that it was "setting a new standard in its use of obscenities". Years later on Home Video and cable showings the film gained a cult status.^[84]

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In , Newman directed the television screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Shadow Box.

In , he acted in Sydney Pollack's Absence of Malice.^[86] He starred in Sidney Lumet's The Verdict in The film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, and Newman received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[87] In , Newman starred in and directed Harry & Son.

In , twenty-five years after The Hustler, Newman reprised his role of "Fast Eddie" Felson in the Martin Scorsese-directed film The Color of Money,^[88] for which he finally received the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[89] The film was a commercial success although it received mixed reviews.

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Newman starred alongside Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, and John Turturro.

In mid, Newman sued Universal Pictures for allegedly failing to properly account for revenues from video distribution of four of his films made for Universal, and Universal owed him at least $1 million participation for the home video versions of The Sting, Slap Shot, Winning and Sometimes a Great Notion.

The complaint claimed that Universal accounted for the cassette revenues in a way that improperly decreased amounts due to Newman, with the actor wanting a full accounting along with $2 million in damages.^[90]

Also in , Newman directed a screen version of Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie starring his wife, Joanne Woodward, John Malkovich, and Karen Allen.^[91] The film was in competition at the Cannes Film Festival.^[92]Variety called it "a reverent record" of the Williams play "one watches with a kind of distant dreaminess rather than an intense emotional involvement", and cited the "brilliant performances well defined by Newman's direction".^[93]

In , Newman co-starred with Woodward in the James Ivory film adaptation Mr.

and Mrs. Bridge based on the Evan S. Connellnovel of the same name. In , Newman played alongside Tim Robbins as the character Sidney J. Mussburger in the Coen brothers comedy The Hudsucker Proxy, which received mixed reviews.^[94] Also that year, he acted in Robert Benton's Nobody's Fool earning yet another nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.^[95]

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In , Newman appeared in a Broadway revival of Wilder's Our Town, receiving a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play nomination for his performance.

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PBS and the cable network Showtime aired a taping of the production, and Newman was nominated for an Emmy Award^[96] for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie. Newman's last live-action movie appearance was as a conflicted mob boss in the Sam Mendes directed film Road to Perdition () opposite Tom Hanks, Jude Law, and Stanley Tucci.

For his performance he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

Although he continued to provide voice work for movies, Newman's last live-action appearance was in the HBO mini-series Empire Falls (based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Richard Russo), in which he played the dissolute father of the protagonist, Miles Roby, and for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie.

In keeping with his strong interest in car racing, he provided the voice of Doc Hudson, a retired anthropomorphic race car, in Cars (). This was his final role in a major feature film, as well as his only animated film role.

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Almost nine years after his death, he received billing as Doc Hudson in Cars 3 (), his appearance made through the use of archive recordings. Newman retired from acting in May , saying: "You start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me."^[97] He came out of retirement to record narration for the documentary Dale, about the life of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, and for the documentary The Meerkats, his final film role overall.

Personal life

Marriages and family

Newman was married twice.

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His first marriage was to Jackie Witte^[15] from to They had a son, Scott (–), and two daughters, Susan (born ) and Stephanie Kendall (born ).^[15] Scott, who appeared in films including The Towering Inferno (), Breakheart Pass (), and Fraternity Row () died in November from a drug overdose.^[98] Newman started the Scott Newman Center for drug abuse prevention in memory of his son.^[99] Susan is a documentary filmmaker and philanthropist, and has Broadway and screen credits, including a starring role as one of four Beatles fans in I Wanna Hold Your Hand (), and also a small role opposite her father in Slap Shot.

She also received an Emmy nomination as co-producer of his telefilm, The Shadow Box.

Newman met actress Joanne Woodward in ,^[] on the production of Picnic on Broadway.^[] It was Newman's debut; Woodward was an understudy.^[] Shortly after filming The Long, Hot Summer in , he divorced Witte to marry Woodward.

The Newmans moved to East 11th Street in Manhattan,^[] before buying a home and raising their family in Westport, Connecticut. They were one of the first Hollywood movie star couples to choose to raise their families outside California.^[] They remained married for 50 years until his death in ^[] Woodward has said "He's very good looking and very sexy and all of those things, but all of that goes out the window and what is finally left is, if you can make somebody laugh And he sure does keep me laughing." Newman has attributed their relationship success to "some combination of lust and respect and patience.

And determination."^[]

They had three daughters: Elinor "Nell" Teresa (b. ), Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (b. ), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (b. ). Newman was well known for his devotion to his wife and family. When once asked about his reputation for fidelity, he famously quipped, "Why go out for a hamburger when you have steak at home?" He also said that he never met anyone who had as much to lose as he did.

In his profile on 60 Minutes, he admitted he once left Woodward after a fight, walked around the outside of the house, knocked on the front door and explained to Joanne he had nowhere to go.^[] Newman directed Nell alongside her mother in the films Rachel, Rachel and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.

Newman and Woodward also acted as mentors to Allison Janney. They met her while she was a freshman at Kenyon College during a play Newman was directing.^[]

Film critic Shawn Levy, in his biography Paul Newman: A Life (), alleged that Newman had an affair in the late s with divorcée Nancy Bacon, a Hollywood journalist, that lasted one and a half years.^[][] In an article in the Irish Independent, which stated also that Levy's claims "caused outrage" and were widely considered "an attempt to sully the image of a revered cinematic legend and committed philanthropist", the affair was reportedly denied by a friend of Newman's wife, Joanne, who said she was upset by the claim.

Levy criticised the tabloid newspaper, the New York Post, which had a long-standing feud with Newman,^[] for focusing on and emphasizing this aspect of his biography.^[]

He and Woodward were the subject of a docuseries by Ethan Hawke, The Last Movie Stars, which was broadcast on HBO Max.^[] The docuseries was based upon tapes compiled by his friend, Stewart Stern, for a memoir that Newman abandoned but which was published in as The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man.Laura Linney voiced Woodward and George Clooney voiced Newman.

Jewish identity

Even though Newman followed the Unitarian Universalist religion as an adult, he called himself a Jew, "because it's more of a challenge".^[][] When he applied to Kenyon College after the Navy he gave his religion as "Christian Scientist", but apart from that he did not deny that he was Jewish.

He recounted in his posthumous memoirs having a "strong sense of otherness" as a youth because he was half-Jewish. His heritage "got in the way of my sitting at the 'A' table, which was important to me," but he received no instruction on his Jewish heritage. He only knew that "if you were Jewish, some avenues were shut to you," and that "hurt me and my brother a great deal." Newman deflected the pain with humor, sometimes doing Yiddish voices "for laughs." He was excluded from a high school fraternity because he was Jewish, and got into a "bloody fight" in the Navy because a sailor used an anti-Semitic slur.

A family friend recounted that the "stigma" of being Jewish was strong in Shaker Heights at the time. "Paul didn't seem Jewish at all, but he paid a price, he had a rough time."

After he began appearing in films, Newman made a point of not changing his name. When he was being considered for the role of Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront, producer Sam Spiegel asked him to "get rid of 'Paul Newman'".

Newman's response to Spiegel, who sometimes was credited as "S.P. Eagle", was "What do you want me to change it to, 'S.P. Ewman'?"

Illness and death

Newman was scheduled to make his professional stage directing debut with the Westport Country Playhouse's production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, but he stepped down on May 23, , citing his health concerns.^[]

In June , it was widely reported in the press that he had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was receiving treatment for the condition at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.^[]A.

E. Hotchner, who partnered in the s with Newman to start Newman's Own, told the Associated Press in an interview in mid that Newman had told him about being afflicted with the disease about 18 months earlier.^[] Newman's spokesman told the press that the star was "doing nicely", but neither confirmed nor denied that he had cancer.^[] Newman was a heavy cigarette smoker for most of his life until he quit in ^[]

Newman died at his home in Westport, Connecticut on the morning of September 26, , at the age of ^[][] He was cremated after a private funeral service.^[]

Philanthropy

With writer A.

E. Hotchner, Newman founded Newman's Own, a line of food products, in The brand started with salad dressing and has expanded to include pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn, salsa, and wine, among other things. Newman established a policy that all proceeds, after taxes, would be donated to charity. He co-wrote a memoir about the subject with Hotchner, Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good.

Among other awards, Newman's Own co-sponsors the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, a $25, reward designed to recognize those who protect the First Amendment as it applies to the written word.^[]

One beneficiary of his philanthropy is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a residential summer camp for seriously ill children located in Ashford, Connecticut, which Newman co-founded in It is named after the gang in his film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (), and the real-life, historic Hole-in-the-Wall outlaw hangout in the mountains of northern Wyoming.

Newman's college fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau, adopted his Connecticut Hole in the Wall camp as their "national philanthropy" in The original camp has expanded to become several Hole in the Wall Camps in the U.S., Ireland, France, and Israel.^[2] In , Newman founded the SeriousFun Children's Network, a global family of summer camps and programs for children with serious illnesses.^[] In , Newman also co-founded Safe Water Network with John Whitehead, former chairman of Goldman Sachs, and Josh Weston, former chairman of ADP, to improve access to safe water to underserved communities around the world.^[]

In , Newman became a major donor for The Mirror Theater Ltd, alongside Dustin Hoffman and Al Pacino, matching a grant from Laurance Rockefeller.^[] Newman was inspired to invest by his connection with Lee Strasberg, as Lee's then daughter-in-law Sabra Jones was the founder and producing artistic director of The Mirror.

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On June 1, , Kenyon College announced that Newman had donated $10&#;million to the school to establish a scholarship fund as part of the college's $&#;million fund-raising campaign.

Newman and Woodward were honorary co-chairs of a previous campaign.^[]

Newman was one of the founders of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP).^[] Newman was named the Most Generous Celebrity of by He contributed $20,, for the year of to the Newman's Own Foundation, which distributes funds to a variety of charities.^[]

Upon Newman's death, the Italian newspaper (a "semi-official" paper of the Holy See) L'Osservatore Romano published a notice lauding Newman's philanthropy.

It also commented that "Newman was a generous heart, an actor of a dignity and style rare in Hollywood quarters."^[]

Newman was responsible for preserving lands around Westport, Connecticut. He lobbied the state's governor for funds for the Aspetuck Land Trust in Easton.^[] In , Paul Newman's estate gifted land to Westport to be managed by the Aspetuck Land Trust.^[]

Political activism

Newman was a lifelong Democrat, although he endorsed and voted for Independent candidate John B.

Anderson in ,^[] who was a liberal Republican, instead of the incumbent Democratic president, Jimmy Carter. For Newman's support of Eugene McCarthy in (and effective use of television commercials in California) and his opposition to the Vietnam War, Newman was placed nineteenth on Richard Nixon's enemies list,^[] which Newman claimed was his greatest accomplishment.

In , he and his wife, Joanne Woodward, supported Lyndon B. Johnson for president.^[] During the general election, Newman supported Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey and appeared in a pre-election night telethon for him. He was also described as a "vocal supporter" of gay rights and same-sex marriage.^[][]

Newman linked with the so-called Malibu Mafia to promote progressive issues in politics.^[] This was a group of wealthy men in the Greater Los Angeles area who met to discuss politics.

Backed by them, Newman and his wife went to Washington in to speak in favor of breaking up Big Oil into separate components.^[] Newman supported their s effort to establish a bilateral Nuclear Freeze to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons in the US and the Soviet Union. He said he would stand up for Walter Mondale in the presidential election as long as there was cold Budweiser and Nuclear Freeze involved.^[][]

In January , Newman was the chief investor of a group, including the writer E.L.

Doctorow and the editor Victor Navasky, that bought the progressive-left wing periodical The Nation.^[] Newman was an occasional writer for the publication.^[] He endorsed Green Party candidate Ralph Nader in the presidential election.^[]

Consistent with his work for liberal causes, Newman publicly supported Ned Lamont's candidacy in the Connecticut Democratic Primary against Senator Joe Lieberman, and was even rumored as a candidate himself, until Lamont emerged as a credible alternative.

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He donated to Chris Dodd's presidential campaign.^[] Newman earlier donated money to Bill Richardson's campaign for president in

Newman attended the March on Washington on August 28, ,^[] and was also present at the first Earth Day event in Manhattan on April 22, ^[]

Newman was concerned about global warming and supported nuclear energy development as a solution.^[]

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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 film.^{[citation needed]} According to his instructor Bob Bondurant, his love and passion for racing, Newman agreed in to star in and to host television special Once Upon a Wheel, on the history of auto racing.^[65] Newman's first professional event as a racer was in at Thompson International Speedway, quietly entered as "P.

L. Newman", by which he continued to be known in the racing community.^[]

He was a frequent competitor in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) events for the rest of the decade, eventually winning four national championships. He later drove in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in Dick Barbour's Porsche , finishing in second place.^[] Newman reunited with Barbour in to compete in the Petit Le Mans.^[]

From the mids to the early s, he drove for the Bob Sharp Racing team, racing mainly Datsuns (later rebranded as Nissans) in the Trans-Am Series.

He became closely associated with the brand during the s, even appearing in commercials for the brand in Japan and having a special edition of the Nissan Skyline named after him. At the age of 70 years and eight days, Newman became the oldest driver to date to be part of a winning team in a major sanctioned race,^[] winning in his class at the 24 Hours of Daytona.^[] Among his last major races were the Baja in and the 24 Hours of Daytona once again in ^[]

During the auto racing season, Newman became interested in forming a professional auto racing team and contacted Bill Freeman, who introduced Newman to professional auto racing management, and their company specialized in Can-Am, Indy Cars, and other high-performance racing automobiles.

The team was based in Santa Barbara, California, and commuted to Willow Springs International Motorsports Park for many of its testing sessions.

Their Newman Freeman Racing team was very competitive in the North American Can-Am series in its Budweiser-sponsored, Chevrolet-powered Spyder NFs. Newman and Freeman began a long and successful partnership with the Newman Freeman Racing team in the Can-Am series, which culminated in the Can-Am Team Championship trophy in Newman was associated with Freeman's established Porsche racing team, which enabled both Newman and Freeman to compete in SCCA and IMSA racing events together, including the Sebring hour endurance sports car race.

This car was sponsored by Beverly Porsche/Audi. Freeman was Sports Car Club of America's Southern Pacific National Champion during the Newman Freeman period. Later, Newman co-founded Newman/Haas Racing with Carl Haas, a Champ Car team, in , going on to win eight drivers' championships under his ownership.

Newman was also briefly an owner in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series when he co-founded a research and development #18 team with Hendrick Motorsports' Greg Sacks behind the wheel; the team shut down after two seasons after losing its primary sponsor.

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The racing season was chronicled in the IMAX film Super Speedway (), which Newman narrated. He was a partner in the Atlantic Championship team Newman Wachs Racing.^[] Newman voiced Doc Hudson in Cars ().

Having said he would quit "when I embarrass myself", Newman competed into his 80s, winning at Lime Rock in what former co-driver Sam Posey called a "brutish Corvette", which displayed his age as its number: ^[] He took the pole in his last professional race, in at Watkins Glen International, and in a run at Lime Rock, arranged by friends, he reportedly still did 9/10 of his best time.^[]

Newman was posthumously inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame at the national convention in Las Vegas, Nevada, on February 21, ^[]Lime Rock Park's No Name Straight was renamed Paul Newman Straight in ^[]

Newman's racing life was chronicled in the documentary Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman ().

Motorsports career results

SCCA National Championship Runoffs

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results (key)

NASCAR

(key) (Bold&#;– Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics&#;– Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. *&#;– Most laps led.)

Winston Cup Series

Acting credits

Main article: Paul Newman on screen and stage

Selected film credits:

Awards and honors

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Paul Newman

Newman was nominated for an Academy Award in five different decades.^[] In addition to awards Newman won for specific roles, he received an honorary Academy Award in for his "many and memorable and compelling screen performances" and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award