Death of Paul Newman

Paul Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, entrepreneur and 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, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. He was 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 served in the United States Navy during 1943–46 and spent time in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

He appeared in leading roles in mh:greatestmovies:The Sting, mh:greatestmovies:The Towering Inferno, mh:greatestmovies:Slap Shot, mh:greatestmovies:The Verdict, and voice role of Doc Hudson in the first installment of Disney-Pixar's mh:greatestmovies:Cars as his final acting performance before passing away in 2008 from lung cancer, with his archival voice recordings being used again in mh:greatestmovies:Cars 3 (2017), nine years after his death.

This page is dedicated to Paul Newman.