Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing. Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity.

Filmography

• 2020Jay Sebring… Cutting to the Truth — Self(archive footage)
• 2017Cars 3 — Doc Hudson (voice) (archive sound)
• 2010I'm Still Here — Thanks
• 2009Hollywood sul Tevere
• 2008The Meerkats — Narrator (voice)
• 2007Dale — Narrator (voice)
• 2007The Price of Sugar — Narrator (voice)
• 2006Cars — Doc Hudson (voice)
• 2006Geared-Up
• 2006Mater and the Ghostlight — Doc Hudson (voice)
• 2006Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time — Chance Wayne (archive footage)
• Empire Falls — Max Roby, Executive Producer
• 2005Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon — Dave Scott (voice)
• 2003Our Town — Stage Manager
• 2002Road to Perdition — John Rooney
• 2000Where the Money Is — Henry
• 1999Message in a Bottle — Dodge Blake
• 1998Twilight — Harry Ross
• 1997Super Speedway — Narrator (voice)
• E! True Hollywood Story
• Baseball — (voice)
• 1994Nobody's Fool — Sully Sullivan
• 1994Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage — Brick / Chance Wayne (archive footage)
• 1994The Hudsucker Proxy — Sidney J. Mussburger
• 1993La Classe américaine — Dave (archive footage)
• 1990Mr. & Mrs. Bridge — Walter Bridge
• 1989Ancient Forests: Rage Over Trees — Host
• 1989Blaze — Gov. Earl K. Long
• 1989Fat Man and Little Boy — Gen. Leslie R. Groves
• The Simpsons — Paul Newman (voice)
• 1988The Racing Experience — Host
• 1987The Glass Menagerie — Director
• 1986A Step Away from War — Host
• 1986The Color of Money — Eddie Felson
• 1984Harry & Son — Harry Keach, Director, Screenplay, Producer
• American Playhouse — Hughie (voice)
• 1982Come Along with Me — Hughie (voice)
• 1982The Verdict — Frank Galvin
• 1981Absence of Malice — Michael Colin Gallagher
• 1981Fort Apache, the Bronx — Murphy
• 1980The Shadow Box — Director
• 1980When Time Ran Out... — Hank Anderson
• 1979Angel Death — Narrator / Host
• 1979Quintet — Essex
• 1978War Without Winners — Host
• 1977Slap Shot — Reggie 'Reg' Dunlop
• 1976Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson — The Star (William F. Cody)
• 1976From the Prairie to the Palace
• 1976Silent Movie — Paul Newman
• 1975The Drowning Pool — Lew Harper
• 1974The Towering Inferno — Doug Roberts, Stunts
• 1973The MacKintosh Man — Joseph Rearden, Executive Producer
• 1973The Sting — Henry Gondorff
• 1972Pocket Money — Jim Kane
• 1972The Distant Drummer: Flowers of Darkness — Narrator
• 1972The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds — Producer, Director
• 1972The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean — Judge Roy Bean, Co-Executive Producer
• 1971Sometimes a Great Notion — Hank Stamper, Director, Co-Executive Producer
• 1971They Might Be Giants — Producer
• 1970A Long Way from Nowhere — Narrator
• 1970WUSA — Rheinhardt, Producer
• 1969Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid — Butch Cassidy, Executive Producer
• 1969Three Young Americans in Search of Survival — Host
• 1969Winning — Frank Capua, Co-Executive Producer
• 1968Rachel, Rachel — Director, Producer
• 1968The Secret War of Harry Frigg — Pvt. Harry Frigg
• 1967Cool Hand Luke — Luke Jackson
• 1967Hombre — John Russell
• 1966A Year Towards Tomorrow — Narrator
• 1966Harper — Lew Harper
• 1966Torn Curtain — Michael Armstrong
• 1965Lady L — Armand Denis
• 1964The Outrage — Juan Carrasco
• 1964What a Way to Go! — Larry Flint
• 1963A New Kind of Love — Steve Sherman
• 1963Hud — Hud Bannon
• 1963The Prize — Andrew Craig
• 1962Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man — The Battler
• Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine — Eddie Felson
• 1962Sweet Bird of Youth — Chance Wayne
• 1961Paris Blues — Ram Bowen
• 1961The Hustler — Eddie Felson
• 1960Exodus — Ari Ben Canaan
• 1960From the Terrace — David Alfred Eaton
• 1959The Young Philadelphians — Anthony Judson Lawrence
• 1958Cat on a Hot Tin Roof — Brick Pollitt
• 1958Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! — Harry Bannerman
• 1958The Left Handed Gun — Billy The Kid
• 1958The Long, Hot Summer — Ben Quick
• 1957The Helen Morgan Story — Larry Maddux
• 1957Until They Sail — Capt. Jack Harding
• 1956Bang the Drum Slowly — Henry "Author" Wiggen
• 1956Somebody Up There Likes Me — Rocky Graziano
• The Kaiser Aluminum Hour — Pvt. Danny Scott
• 1956The Rack — Capt. Edward W. Hall, Jr.
• Appointment with Adventure — Mack
• 1955Our Town — George Gibbs
• Playwrights '56 — Ad Francis
• 1955The Battler — Ad Francis
• Producers' Showcase — George Gibbs
• The Joe Palooka Story — Fight Spectator (uncredited)
• 1954The Silver Chalice — Basil
• The United States Steel Hour — Tom Corey
• Tales of Tomorrow — Sgt. Wilson
• Armstrong Circle Theatre — Jimmy Polo
• Danger — Jeff
• Suspense — Captain Radetski
• The Philco Television Playhouse — Billy the Kid
• Kraft Television Theatre
• On the Harmfulness of Tobacco — Director

Appearances as themselves (77)

• 2025Breakdown: 1975 — Self (The Towering Inferno-archive footage)
• 2025Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror — Self (archive footage)
• 2023Paul Newman: The Restless — Self (archive footage)
• Superpowered: The DC Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2022Prisoners of Our Own History: The First Four Films of Roland Joffé — Self (archive footage)
• The Last Movie Stars — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Morceaux de Cannes — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Paul Newman, Behind Blue Eyes — Self (archive footage)
• 2020Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2017Steve McQueen: American Icon — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Best of Enemies — Self (archival)
• Iconic Couples of Hollywood — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Tab Hunter Confidential — Self (archive)
• 2015The Emperor's New Clothes — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman — Self (archive footage)
• Talking Pictures — Self (archive footage)
• 2009Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)
• 2006All of What Follows Is True: The Making of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' — Self
• 2006Roving Mars — Self (Introduction)
• 2006The Wild Bunch: The True Tale of Butch and Sundance — Self
• 2006Who Needs Sleep? — Self
• Iconoclasts — Self
• 2005James Dean: Forever Young — Self (archive footage)
• 2005The Art of 'The Sting' — Self
• 2004Tell Them Who You Are — Self
• 2003The Education of Gore Vidal — Self
• 2002Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid: Outlaws Out of Time — Self
• 2002Christopher Plummer: A Man For All Stages — Self
• HypaSpace — Self
• 2002Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film — Self (archive footage)
• 2002The Hustler: The Inside Story — Self (archive footage)
• 2001The Story Behind "Absence of Malice" — Self
• 2000Altman on His Own Terms — Self
• 2000Black Light Dreams: The 25 Years of the Famous People Players — Self
• The Directors — Self
• Inside the Actors Studio — Self
• Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Audience Member
• 1993Mansell & Newman Haas 1993 — Himself
• The Tonight Show with Jay Leno — Self - Guest
• 1990Steve McQueen: Man on the Edge — Self (archive footage)
• 1990The Mastery of Motion — Himself
• 1989Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre — Self
• 1989Production Story: Fat Man and Little Boy — Self
• 1988Hello Actors Studio — Self
• 1988John Huston: The Man, the Movies, the Maverick — Self
• 1987Driven to Excellence — Himself
• 1985Circuit — Self
• 1982Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady — Self
• 1982Night of 100 Stars — Self
• 1980At The Wheel: A History of Driving and Driving Safety Film — Himself
• 1980Pole Position: i guerrieri della Formula 1 — Self
• 1980The Sensational Shocking Wonderful Wacky 70's — Self (archive footage)
• Ciné regards — Self
• The Kennedy Center Honors — Self
• Please Turn the Page — Self
• 1975Harper Days are Here Again — Self
• 1975McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter — Self - Host
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• 1973Paul Newman — Self
• 1972Hollywood: The Dream Factory — Self (archive footage)
• 1972What She's Doing Up There is Not Accidental — Himself
• Film '72 — Self
• Once Upon a Wheel — Self - Host / Narrator
• 1970A Private Decision — Self
• 1970King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis — Self (archive footage)
• 1970The Making Of 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Merv Griffin Show — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson — Self
• 1961Bennies and Goofballs — Himself
• The Mike Douglas Show — Self, Self (archive footage)
• The Bell Telephone Hour — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• The Oscars — Self
• What's My Line? — Self
• The Ed Sullivan Show — Self
• Golden Globe Awards — Self - Cecil B. DeMille Award Recipient, Self - Nominee