Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 - September 26, 2008) [1] [2] commonly known as Paul Newman is an actor, film director of the United States, he also is an experienced business and charitable activities. Paul Newman is one of the most famous actor of the 1960s and 1970s Hollywood, he won an Oscar, two Golden Globe awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, an Emmy and other awards. In business, Newman served as the owner of a motorcycle racing team has won many championships in the system of Indy Car. He is also the founder of food company Newman's Own with the purpose for all profits to charity. [3] He died September 26, 2008 in Connecticut, the United States after a period term treatment of lung cancer.

Biography

Newman was born in 1925 in Shaker Heights, Ohio, United States of the family of Arthur S. Newman, a Jewish businessman and Ms. Theresa, a woman Original Pticie, Slovakia. [4] [5] From an early age showed Newman favorite cinematic art, he participated in plays Shaker Heights High School and Ohio University.
During World War II, Newman join the U.S. Navy gunner's position as a newscaster cum. After the war, he went to college and graduated from Kenyon College in 1949 before joining the acting course at Yale University and The Actors Studio Assembly.
Career

Paul Newman started his acting career with roles on the Broadway stage. The role of his first film in The Silver Chalice is (1954). Two years later he began to get attention for her role as boxer Rocky Graziano in Somebody Up There Likes Me movie (1956), he was the star costar Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot News Roof (1958 ) and Barbara Rush in The Young Philadelphians (1959).
Newman is one of the few famous actors continue after a transitional period of late 1950s Hollywood, the early 1960s. Other memorable films as he can to join Exodus (1960), The Hustler (1961), HUD (1963), Harper (1966), Hombre (1967), Cool Hand Luke (1967), The Towering Inferno (1974 ), Slap Shot (1977) and The Verdict (1982). The two most prominent character of this period is Paul Newman Butch Cassidy in the film and the Sundance Kid (1969) and The Sting (1973). After many failures at the Oscars, he finally won the male lead category in 1986 for her role in The Color of Money, a film directed by Martin Scorsese. The role of Newman's final film role as gang boss in Road to perdition (2002) (starring Tom Hanks), he also provides the voice for the animated Disney and Pixar's Cars (2007).
Besides as an actor, Newman also directed a number of participating films like Rachel, Rachel (1968), The Shadow Box (1980) The Glass Menagerie or (1987). Since June 2008, Newman, a former heavy smoker, began to treat lung cancer at Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City. [6] He died September 26, 2008 in age 83 at his home of Westport, Connecticut