Paul Newman (1925-01-26 to 2008-09-26) left us, but his charming blue eyes were always in the minds of audiences who liked him. Let's use the picture to recall again the great characters that this character actor, known as a Legend of Hollywood, has played.
Paul Newman is an Oscar winner, filmmaker, racing driver, philanthropist and political activist. "I'm an eternal character actor," he once explained. "I just look a bit like Little Red Riding Hood."
His debut novel, The Holy Grail The Silver Chalice/1954, was unsuccessful, a flashy historical drama. The film was called "the worst film of the 1950s" by Newman. Later, when the film was released on American TV, Newman created an ad specifically for Variety, apologizing for his performance and begging fans not to watch it.
Newman began starring in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), based on a Tennessee Williams screenplay, when elvis Presley (i.e., Elvis Presley), the author's favorite, broke the contract. In the film, Newman plays an alcoholic football star who is plagued by a childless marriage with Elizabeth Taylor. The film was a huge hit and brought Newman his first Oscar nomination.
How could he fail? In The Prodigal Son The Hustler (1961), Newman played almost the greatest role of his life— the tenacious but character-flawed beginner billiards "Fastball Eddie" Ferson. Robert Rossen's classic screenplay was immediately transformed into a dazzling sports blockbuster and a tragic account of human weakness. Critic Roger Albert Ebert described the film as "one of the few films in America where heroes have won through compromise."
In The Wild Iron Man Hud (1963), a fiery Texas heroic saga, Newman portrays a brazen, bohemian figure, and his father is a principled, wealthy old farmer (Melvin Douglas). Newman despised the character so much that he was shocked when the film was hailed as an anti-hero classic by the young people of the sixties.
In 1958, Newman divorced his first wife, Jackie Witte, and instead married Joanna Woodward. This created a rare Hollywood tale of a happy, faithful marriage. Newman once said, "If you have a steak at home, why go out and find a burger?" ”
Cool Hand Luke (1967) is a prison saga in which Newman's character transforms from a noisy criminal to a martyr. Forty years later, this is still one of his favorite characters, but did he really eat that many eggs (supposedly fifty)?
All of Hollywood's Westerns were vulnerable to Scratch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1968). George Hill George Roy Hill's humorous, unruly and lawless gangster image resonated with '60s audiences and created the star duo of Newman and Robert Redford. In 1972, the two stars collaborated again in The Sting (1972), and the director was still Hill.
Eugene McCarthy, a supporter of Eugene McCarthy who lost his presidential campaign, Newman and playwright Arthur Miller attended the 1968 Democratic National Convention, pictured as the two whispering at the convention. Because of his radical political activities, he was later included in Richard Nixon's infamous "enemy list"—an achievement of which he was clearly the most proud.
The Towering Inferno (1974), considered the greatest (and undoubtedly the most intense) disaster film of the 1970s, was a star-studded, perilous blockbuster that quickly became popular throughout the United States. Thanks to the persistence of co-star Steve McQueen, he has exactly the same number of lines as Newman in the film.
Winning (1969) in 1969 ignited Newman's enduring love of motorsport. "It's the most beautiful thing I can do," he once said. In 1979, Newman drove his turbo-boosted Porsche to finish runner-up in the Le Mans Rally.
After the age of sixty, Newman continued to excel in the film The Verdict (1982), directed by Sidney Lumet. He starred in the film as an alcoholic lawyer whose protagonist delivers a belated blow in a medical dispute case. Notice that young Jerry Seinfeld appears in the courtroom scene at the end of the film.
A quarter-century after starring in "The Prodigal Son," Newman reinvented an older, smarter "fastball Eddie" Fulson in The Colour of Money (1986). Martin Scorsese's cheesy billiards screenplay may not have been enough to make Newman's greatest film, but it won him something that other screenplays didn't bring — the Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 1958, Paul Newman broke up with his first wife and married actor Joanna Woodward. The couple co-starred in Merchant-Ivory's Mr. and Mrs Bridge (1990), playing a conservative gentleman couple in Kansas City in the 20s. Newman later admitted that the uneasy, conservative Mr. Brigitte in the film was the character closest to his character.
The Road to Perdition (2002) is a cold, unruly gangster film directed by Sam Mendes and starring Tom Hanks Tom Hanks, Jude Lo Jude Law, and Daniel Craig Daniel Craig. But the most brilliant performance came from Paul Newman, who plays the Irish gang boss, a kind but intimidating person.
Since 1982, Paul Newman has been running his own food company, Newman's Own... If he hadn't donated his profits (estimated at $220 million) to philanthropy, it would have been at least a pretty good side hustle for him. This image was taken on his last visit to the UK in 2004 to entertain three hundred sick children dressed up as circus clowns.
In 2007, Paul Newman officially announced that "for me, the book is closed," he said. In early 2008, he was diagnosed with lung cancer and died on 26 September 2008.
Paul Newman and Marlon Brando' ultra-friendship lasted less than a few years, and they had no contact until the late 1960s. So far, Paul Newman has not been intimate with any male celebrities in public.