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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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Paul Newman - news / articles


  • 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.- - -Newman was the kind of actor who gave celebrity a good name. An activist who worked to support environmental causes and sick and disad


  • Newman plans "last hurrah" - 16 June 2006
    Film legend Paul Newman has said he intends to make one more film before retiring from Hollywood completely. - -The 81-year-old US actor told the Associated Press that he had one more project in mind before withdrawing from the limelight for good. - -"I will pro

Paul Newman - what members say


  • The Color Of Money
  • The Color Of Money review by Ewen Robertson from London, England
    Rated - 3 stars 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...  
  • Message In A Bottle
  • Message In A Bottle review by A customer from England
    Rated - 5 stars Very good Romantic Movie 23 April 2004
    ...First of all, you know it is going to be a good movie if they get someone like Paul Newman onboard. I believe that this was a well thought out movie. The story line is...  
  • The Sting
  • The Sting review by Nat#2 from PRESTON
    Rated - 5 stars 17 May 2004
    ...ut only serve to humour and mislead the audience. A reunion of Robert Redford, Paul Newman and director George Roy Hill (all Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), all thre...  

Paul Newman - filmography


  • Road To Perdition on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Tom Hanks,  Tyler Hoechlin,  Paul Newman
    Director: Sam Mendes
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 6,966 members
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  • Where the Money Is (2000)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Linda Fiorentino,  Dermot Mulroney
    Director: Marek Kanievska
    Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 60% from 12 members
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  • Super Speedway on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Paul Newman
    Certificate: Ex
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 49% from 15 members
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  • Twilight on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Susan Sarandon,  Gene Hackman
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: 15
    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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 57% from 161 members
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  • Nobody's Fool (1994)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Jessica Tandy,  Melanie Griffith
    Director: Robert Benton
    Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 71% from 82 members
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  • Mr And Mrs Bridge on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Joanne Woodward,  Kyra Sedgwick
    Director: James Ivory
    Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 55% from 71 members
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  • Shadowmakers on DVD (1989)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Dwight Schultz,  Bonnie Bedelia
    Director: Roland Joffe
    Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 58% from 280 members
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  • Absence Of Malice on DVD (1981)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Sally Field,  Bob Balaban
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: PG
    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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  • Silent Movie on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Marty Feldman,  Marcel Marceau,  Mel Brooks
    Director: Mel Brooks
    Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 3.0 63% from 174 members
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  • The Sting on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Robert Redford,  Robert Shaw
    Director: George Roy Hill
    Certificate: PG
    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 »
    Rate this: 4.0 79% from 2,118 members
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  • The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Roy Jenson,  Gary Combs
    Director: John Huston
    Certificate: TBC
    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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  • Cool Hand Luke on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  George Kennedy,  Dennis Hopper
    Director: Stuart Rosenberg
    Certificate: 15
    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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  • Hombre (1967)
    Starring: Val Avery,  Paul Newman
    Director: Martin Ritt
    Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 3.5 63% from 66 members
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