Paul Newman
the SCCA Hall of Fame at the national convention in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 21, 2009.
Illness and death
Newman was scheduled to make his professional stage directing debut with the Westport Country Playhouse’s 2008 production of John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, but he stepped down on May 23, 2008, citing health issues.
In June 2008 it was widely reported that Newman, a former chain smoker, had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was receiving treatment at Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York City. Photographs taken of Newman in May and June showed him looking gaunt. Writer A.E. Hotchner, who partnered with Newman to start the Newman’s Own company in the 1980s, told the Associated Press that Newman told him about the disease about eighteen months prior to the interview. Newman’s spokesman told the press that the star was “doing nicely,” but neither confirmed nor denied that he had cancer. In August, after reportedly finishing chemotherapy, Newman told his family he wished to die at home. He died on September 26, 2008, aged 83, surrounded by his family and close friends. His remains were subsequently cremated after a private funeral service near his home in Westport.
Filmography, awards, and nominations
As actor
Year
Film
Role
Notes
1954
The Silver Chalice
Basil
1956
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Rocky Graziano
The Rack
Capt. Edward W. Hall Jr.
1957
The Helen Morgan Story
Larry Maddux
Until They Sail
Capt. Jack Harding
1958
The Long, Hot Summer
Ben Quick
The Left Handed Gun
Billy the Kid
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Brick Pollitt
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Rally ‘Round the Flag, Boys!
Harry Bannerman
1959
The Young Philadelphians
Anthony Judson Lawrence
1960
From the Terrace
David Alfred Eaton
Exodus
Ari Ben Canaan
1961
The Hustler
Eddie Felson
BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Paris Blues
Ram Bowen
1962
Sweet Bird of Youth
Chance Wayne
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man
Ad Francis, ‘The Battler’
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture
1963
Hud
Hud Bannon
Nominated – Academy Award for Best Actor
Nominated – BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Nominated – Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama
A New Kind of Love
Steve Sherman
The Prize
Andrew Craig
1964
What a Way to Go!
Larry Flint
The Outrage
Juan Carrasco
1965
Lady L
Armand Denis
1966
Harper
Lew Harper
Torn Curtain
Prof. Michael Armstrong
1967
Hombre
John Russell
Cool Hand Luke
Luke Jackson