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Paul Newman
Born 26 Jan 1925, in Shaker Heights, Ohio
<b>Wise words:</b> "Why fool around with hamburger when you have steak at home?"
Another quote from the man "Be like a duck, calm and cool on the outside but paddling like hell underneath."
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Redford's car prank on motor-mad Newman -
20 June 2009
-Robert Redford once grew so fed up of pal Paul Newman's obsession with car racing, he had a smashed up vehicle delivered to the late star's home as a practical joke.-
-The actor admits he would often be "bored to tears" with his Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid co
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Newman given posthumous honour -
25 February 2009
-Hollywood legend Paul Newman was given a posthumous honour on Tuesday night (24Feb09) as the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution honouring the life, achievements and contributions of the late actor.-
-Rep. Steve Cohen, a Democrat from Tenne
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Paul Newman 1925-2008 -
29 September 2008
-One of Hollywood’s most popular and admired stars for 50 years, Paul Newman died Friday from cancer. He was 83.-
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-Newman was the kind of actor who gave celebrity a good name. An activist who worked to support environmental causes and sick and disad
Paul Newman - what members say
Paul Newman - filmography
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Meerkats - The Movie
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Paul Newman
Director: James Honeyborne
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Heroes So Small They Have To Be Seen On The Big Screen! A FAMILY REMARKABLY LIKE YOUR OWN... An inspiring look at how one family’s connection to each other and their surroundings is a model of resilience and fortitude for us all. The story features the coming of age of a young meerkat pup, ..read more »
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65%
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Cars
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Bob Costas, Ray Magliozzi, Owen Wilson
Director: John Lasseter
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Talking cars rediscover the quirky originality of middle America in this inventive animated film from the folks at Pixar (TOY STORY, FINDING NEMO). Owen Wilson does the voice of arrogant rookie racecar Lightning McQueen, who winds up stranded in the small desert town of Radiator Springs on his way ..read more »
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71%
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Cars - BLU-RAY Version
(2006)
Starring: Ray Magliozzi, Tom Magliozzi, Owen Wilson
Director: John Lasseter
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Talking cars rediscover the quirky originality of middle America in this inventive animated film from the folks at Pixar (TOY STORY, FINDING NEMO). Owen Wilson does the voice of arrogant rookie racecar Lightning McQueen, who winds up stranded in the small desert town of Radiator Springs on his way ..read more »
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73%
from 3,126 members
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Road To Perdition
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman
Director: Sam Mendes
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Directed by Sam Mendes and based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, the Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John Rooney (Paul Newman). The mobster's close bond with Sullivan,..read more »
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Where the Money Is
(2000)
Starring: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney
Director: Marek Kanievska
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Legendary bank robber Henry Manning pushes his luck too far and ends up in prison, where he suffers a massive stroke. He is transferred to a nursing home, in the care of Carol Ann McKay, a high school prom queen who married her boyfriend Wayne, the star of her school's football team, and whose ..read more »
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61%
from 17 members
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Message In A Bottle
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kevin Costner, Robin Wright Penn, Paul Newman
Director: Luis Mandoki
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The story of a long distance love connection that is made when Penn, a Chicago journalist, discovers a love letter that Costner, a widowed sailboat repairer, let drift into the ocean. She quickly tracks him down and an honest bond forms between the two. When he discovers that she hasn't been ..read more »
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64%
from 3,389 members
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Twilight
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman
Director: Robert Benton
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Paul Newman plays Harry Ross, a burned-out private eye who's plunged into a murder mystery tied to a long-unsolved case of Hollywood dreams, schemes and cover-ups. Susan Sarandon and Gene Hackman are among the locals who inhabit a Tinseltown world of privilege and sleaze, sexuality and desperation, ..read more »
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52%
from 889 members
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Super Speedway
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Paul Newman
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Originally filmed in the IMAX format and exhibited in IMAX theatres throughout the world, this is a hang-on-to-your-seat thrill ride, letting you truly experience what it feels like to be behind the wheel of an Indy race car. Movie star and race car aficionado Paul Newman narrates this adrenaline-..read more »
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50%
from 16 members
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Nobody's Fool
(1994)
Starring: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith
Director: Robert Benton
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Paul Newman earned an Oscar nomination plus Best Actor honors from the National Society of Film Critics and New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Sully, a likeable working stiff who's made a lifetime of bad decisions. But he unexpectedly has a chance to make right on some of them when ..read more »
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72%
from 89 members
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Mr And Mrs Bridge
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Kyra Sedgwick
Director: James Ivory
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Set in Kansas City in the late 1930s, MR & MRS BRIDGE tells the story of an upper class couple from the mid-west whose marriage is strained when their three grown-up children leave home. The Bridges are an affluent, conservative family whose lily-white lives revolve around the local country club. ..read more »
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59%
from 121 members
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Blaze
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Paul Newman, Lolita Davidovich, Jerry Hardin
Director: Ron Shelton
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An eccentric governor falls head over heels for an innocent New Orleans stripper. He is then forced to choose between his career and the woman he loves...
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49%
from 139 members
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Shadowmakers
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Paul Newman, Dwight Schultz, Bonnie Bedelia
Director: Roland Joffe
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Director Roland Joffe's SHADOW MAKERS is a historical drama about the lives of the participants in the Manhattan Project--the making and perfecting of the atomic bomb that took place in New Mexico during World War II. Paul Newman stars as General Leslie Groves, a hardened and cynical soldier who ..read more »
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59%
from 324 members
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The Color Of Money
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Paul Newman, Tom Cruise, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's THE COLOR OF MONEY picks up where Robert Rossen's 1961 film THE HUSTLER left off. Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman), now middle-aged, finds the image of his youthful self in a pool hustler named Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise). Trying to relive his past days of glory through the cocky ..read more »
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63%
from 6,075 members
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Absence Of Malice
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs Paul Newman as Michael Gallagher, the innocent son of a long-dead Mafia boss who suddenly finds that he is the subject of a criminal investigation. Eventually he discovers that the press's source is intentionally pressuring him and hoping that he'll leak insider information ..read more »
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62%
from 458 members
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Slap Shot
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Paul Newman, Strother Martin, Jennifer Warren
Director: George Roy Hill
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A rougher version of George Roy Hill's pet theme of men as overaged adolescents, SLAP SHOT stars Paul Newman as Reggie Dunlop, the venerable player-coach of the Charlestown Chiefs, a fifth-rate minor league hockey team. When their blue-collar town falls prey to Rust Belt ills of the 1970s, ..read more »
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66%
from 1,692 member
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Silent Movie
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Marty Feldman, Marcel Marceau, Paul Newman
Director: Mel Brooks
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The film 'Silent Movie' is director Mel Brooks's comic tribute to the golden days of the silent screen. A movie within a movie, 'Silent Movie' stars Brooks as Mel Funn, a filmmaker who has seen better days for one thing, he's just come out of a bout with the bottle. When his best friends (Marty ..read more »
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62%
from 637 members
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The Towering Inferno
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden
Director: John Guillermin, Irwin Allen
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THE TOWERING INFERNO follows the rescue efforts of fire fighters as they battle to contain a raging fire that has engulfed the world's tallest skyscraper. As the flames reach ever higher, it's a race against time to save a group of people trapped on the top floor. Special effects-laden thriller ..read more »
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63%
from 4,645 members
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The Sting
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw
Director: George Roy Hill
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Hoping that box-office lighting might strike twice, George Roy Hill again joined forces with Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who star as con men Henry Gondorff and Johnny Hooker in THE STING. In the Chicago of the 1930s, Johnny's partner, Luther (Robert Earl Jones), is fatally wounded by a victim ..read more »
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The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
(1972)
Starring: Paul Newman, Roy Jenson, Gary Combs
Director: John Huston
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A comic take on the legendary hanging judge, Roy Bean. Told through a series of vignettes, the story covers different stages of Bean's life, from his arrival in the town of Vinegaroon where he sets himself up as judge, through his romance with a local Mexican girl, to the destruction of the town in ..read more »
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59%
from 52 members
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Sometimes A Great Notion
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Richard Jaeckel, Lee Remick, Cliff Potts
Director: Paul Newman
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Featuring an all-star cast including Henry Fonda, Paul Newman, Lee Remick and Michael Sarrazin, Sometimes a Great Notion is based on the novel by Ken Kesey [One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest].
A family of Oregonian loggers, led by patriarch Henry [Fonda], live and work by the family motto &#..read more »
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68%
from 39 members
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Hombre
(1967)
Starring: Val Avery, Paul Newman
Director: Martin Ritt
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An Indian policeman travels by stagecoach and encounters more than his share of trouble. Filled with hard looks, calmly delivered threats and lots of gun play.
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67%
from 76 members
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Cool Hand Luke - BLU-RAY Version
(1967)
Starring: Paul Newman, Ralph Waite, Clifton James
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
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In this classic Southern prison drama, social misfit Lucas Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is incarcerated for a petty crime and sentenced to a chain gang. Luke is a sullen and laconic young man whose cool defiance of the sadistic warden and bullying inmates earns him the title Cool Hand Luke. But as ..read more »
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from 643 members
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Cool Hand Luke
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Dennis Hopper
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
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In this classic Southern prison drama, social misfit Lucas Luke Jackson (Paul Newman) is incarcerated for a petty crime and sentenced to a chain gang. Luke is a sullen and laconic young man whose cool defiance of the sadistic warden and bullying inmates earns him the title Cool Hand Luke. But as ..read more »
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Torn Curtain
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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TORN CURTAIN was Alfred Hitchcock's 50th film and signals a return to the espionage-romance theme the director showcased in such films as SECRET AGENT and THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH. Hitchcock created a distinct look for the film, subduing lighting and gauzing the lens to give a more natural, less ..read more »
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61%
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A New Kind Of Love
(1963)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Maurice Chevalier
Director: Melville Shavelson
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A fashion designer and a newspaperman meet on their way to Paris and fall under the fabled city's spell. Paris. The perfect romantic setting for a funny, charming "opposites attract" comedy romp. Especially when the attracting opposites are Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. The Oscar-winning stars (..read more »
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Hud
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Paul Newman, Patricia Neal, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Martin Ritt
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Martin Ritt's HUD is an adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel HORSEMAN, PASS BY, successfully transformed into an entertaining and ambitious contemporary Western. Set on a Texas ranch where Cadillacs, cattle, and transistor radios coexist uneasily, the film stars Paul Newman as the hedonistic, ..read more »
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The Hustler
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Paul Newman, Jackie Gleason, Piper Laurie
Director: Robert Rossen
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Paul Newman shines as cocky poolroom hustler "Fast" Eddie Felson in Robert Rossen's atmospheric adaptation of the Walter Tevis novel. Newman's Felson is a swaggering pool shark punk who takes on the king of the poolroom, Minnesota Fats (a cool, assured Jackie Gleason in his most understated ..read more »
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Exodus
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Paul Newman, Eva Marie Saint, Ralph Richardson
Director: Otto Preminger
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Based on Leon Uris' sweeping novel, "Exodus" is the epic saga of the founding of Israel in the days following World War II. Paul Newman stars as an Israeli resistance fighter, a member of the Hagannah, involved in the effort to bring a group of 600 European Jews from British-blockaded Cyprus into ..read more »
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The Long Hot Summer
(1958)
Starring: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa
Director: Martin Ritt
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When suspected barnburner Ben Quick (Newman) drifts into a town dominated by Will Varner (Welles), he is recruited to husband Varner's spinster daughter (Woodward) so that Varner can keep an eye on him. But the two men soon lock horns, and ultimately a chain of events leaves them all changed forever...
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Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, Burl Ives
Director: Richard Brooks
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This is the classic cinematic version of Tennessee Williams's breathtaking play about a crazed southern family torn apart by greed. Larger-than-life patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives) lays dying, and the members of his brood clamor for the inheritance. Paul Newman is Brick, the alcoholic son ..read more »
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What A Way To Go
on DVD
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Paul Newman, Robert Mitchum
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A classic of 60's film decadence, WHAT A WAY TO GO stars Shirley MacLaine as Louisa, a widow four times over who is left with more money than she knows what to do with. When she signs an unsolicited, multimillion-dollar check over to the IRS, however, officials in high places begin to doubt her ..read more »
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Paul Newman facts
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Medium Paced Eddie 11 May 2005
...ion of Christ.
Still, the trademark whiplash direction is present and correct, Paul Newman is fantastic in it (won an oscar for it, I think) and the dialogue is snappy, i...
Very good Romantic Movie 23 April 2004
