Paul Newman
Actor, director and philanthropist
Paul Newman was an American actor and filmmaker who also raced cars and co-founded the charitable food company Newman's Own.
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American Born 1925 in Shaker Heights, United States Died 2008
About Paul Newman
Paul Newman was born in 1925 and died in 2008. He was an American actor and filmmaker who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for The Color of Money. He was also nominated for his work in films including Cool Hand Luke, The Verdict and Road to Perdition, and he starred in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting. Away from the screen, he took several national titles as a road racing driver with the Sports Car Club of America. He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food business that gives its profits after tax, along with royalties, to charity. He later started the SeriousFun Children's Network and the Safe Water Network. His book in our catalog is The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man.