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This article is the filmography of Paul Newman
Newman had an inauspicious debut in film with The Silver Chalice (1954), but his performance in Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) garnered praise and a positive career trajectory. Serious roles in films such as The Helen Morgan Story (1957), The Young Philadelphians (1959), and Exodus (1960) followed soon after. It was around this time he also met the love of his life, Joanne Woodward, whom he would marry and remain with for the rest of his life.
After their first pairing in The Long, Hot Summer (1958), Newman & Woodward became a frequent on-screen team. Their other on-screen collaborations were Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys! (1958), From the Terrace (1960), Paris Blues (1961), A New Kind of Love (1963), Winning (1969), WUSA (1970), The Drowning Pool (1975), Harry & Son (1984), and Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990). He remained behind the camera on three further pairings: Rachel, Rachel (1968), his directorial debut, earning him an Oscar nomination for Best Picture plus a Golden Globe win for Best Director; The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972); The Glass Menagerie (1987); and The Shadow Box (1980), which aired on TV. He also produced, but did not direct, her film, They Might Be Giants (1971). They united once on the small screen, for Empire Falls (2005) on HBO, which won Newman an Emmy and another Golden Globe. Finally, they both participated in the Martin Luther King Jr. documentary, King: A Filmed Record...Montgomery to Memphis (1970).
His career breakthrough occurred with his performance in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), which earned him his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. Subsequent nominations would follow via the films The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), and Cool Hand Luke (1967). In between those, he starred in several other notable titles, such as Sweet Bird of Youth (1962), Torn Curtain (1966), Hombre (1967); and in one of his signature roles, as the former titular character in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).
Newman next starred in such 1970s films as Sometimes a Great Notion (1971), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), The Sting (1973), The Towering Inferno (1974), and Slap Shot (1977). The 1980s brought two consecutive Oscar nominations along, from Absence of Malice (1981) and The Verdict , followed by an Academy Honorary Award presented in 1986. But it would be the sequel to Hustler featuring the return of "Fast Eddie" Felson, The Color of Money (1986), that would finally see Paul Newman voted the Best Actor Oscar winner at the 1987 awards ceremony.
Over the next two decades, Newman received one more honorary Oscar, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. In addition, he garnered two final nominations: one more in lead, for Nobody's Fool (1994); and his only one for Best Supporting Actor, for Road to Perdition (2002). He was featured in a few other occasional films, such as The Hudsucker Proxy (1994), and the only voice acting he ever did, in Pixar's Cars (2006). (Perhaps due to his being a noted auto racing enthusiast.)
And even though his stage career was brief, he had some noted success there as well. He made his Broadway stage debut in Picnic , and also did stints in the 1950s in The Desperate Hours and Sweet Bird of Youth , the latter of which led to him being cast in the film role. Finally, his last big stage role in Our Town earned him his only Tony Award nomination.
Here is a complete list of Paul Newman's known acting credentials.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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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 80 Yard Run | Christian Darling | |
The Long, Hot Summer | Ben Quick | ||
The Left Handed Gun | Billy the Kid | ||
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Brick Pollitt | ||
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 | |
Paris Blues | Ram Bowen | ||
1962 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Chance Wayne | |
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man | Ad Francis, "The Battler" | ||
1963 | Hud | Hud Bannon | |
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 | Directed by Alfred Hitchcock | |
1967 | Hombre | John Russell | |
Cool Hand Luke | Lucas "Luke" Jackson | ||
1968 | The Secret War of Harry Frigg | Pvt. Harry Frigg | |
1969 | Winning | Frank Capua | |
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | Butch Cassidy | ||
1970 | WUSA | Rheinhardt | |
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis | Himself | Documentary | |
1971 | Sometimes a Great Notion | Hank Stamper | Alternate title: Never Give A Inch |
1972 | Pocket Money | Jim Kane | |
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Judge Roy Bean | ||
1973 | The Mackintosh Man | Joseph Rearden | |
The Sting | Henry Gondorff | ||
1974 | The Towering Inferno | Doug Roberts | |
1975 | The Drowning Pool | Lew Harper | |
1976 | Silent Movie | Himself | Cameo |
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson | Buffalo Bill | ||
1977 | Slap Shot | Reggie "Reg" Dunlop | |
1979 | Quintet | Essex | |
1980 | When Time Ran Out... | Hank Anderson | |
1981 | Fort Apache, The Bronx | Murphy | |
Absence of Malice | Michael Colin Gallagher | ||
1982 | The Verdict | Frank Galvin | |
1984 | Harry & Son | Harry Keach | |
1986 | The Color of Money | Fast Eddie Felson | |
1989 | Fat Man and Little Boy | Gen. Leslie R. Groves | |
Blaze | Gov. Earl K. Long | ||
1990 | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | Walter Bridge | |
1994 | The Hudsucker Proxy | Sidney J. Mussburger | |
Nobody's Fool | Donald J. "Sully" Sullivan | ||
1998 | Twilight | Harry Ross | |
1999 | Message in a Bottle | Dodge Blake | |
2000 | Where the Money Is | Henry Manning | |
2002 | Road to Perdition | John Rooney | |
2005 | Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D | Dave Scott | Voice; Documentary short |
2006 | Cars | Doc Hudson | Voice |
Mater and the Ghostlight | Voice; Short film | ||
2007 | Dale | Narrator | Voice; Documentary |
2008 | The Meerkats | Narrator | Voice; Documentary |
2017 | Cars 3 | Doc Hudson | Voice (Archive Recordings); posthumous release |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1955 | Producers' Showcase | George Gibbs | Episode: "Our Town" |
1955 | Appointment with Adventure | Mack | Episode: "Five in Judgement" — When two brothers traveling across country stop in a small town diner to escape a storm, they are taken to be murderers by the locals. |
1956 | The United States Steel Hour | Henry Wiggen | Episode: "Bang the Drum Slowly" |
1971 | Once Upon a Wheel | Himself | ABC Television documentary |
1982 | Come Along with Me | Hughie | Voice; Television film |
2001 | The Simpsons | Himself | Voice; Episode: "The Blunder Years" |
2003 | Our Town | Stage Manager | Showtime / PBS Television film |
2005 | Empire Falls | Max Roby | HBO miniseries; 2 episodes |
2022 | The Last Movie Stars | Self | HBO Max docu-series; posthumous release |
Year | Title | Role | Playwright | Venue |
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1949 | Harvey | Elwood P. Dowd | Mary Chase | Belfry Players Theater, Williams Bay, Wisconsin |
1951 | Phaedra | Hippolytus of Athens | Jean-Baptiste Racine | Yale University Experimental Theatre |
1952 | Beethoven | Karl van Beethoven | Dorothy B. Bland | Yale University Theater, New Haven, CT |
1953 | Picnic | Alan Seymour | William Inge | Music Box Theatre, Broadway |
1955 | The Desperate Hours | Glenn Griffin | Joseph Hayes | Ethel Barrymore Theatre, Broadway |
1959 | Sweet Bird of Youth | Chance Wayne | Tennessee Williams | Martin Beck Theatre, Broadway |
1964 | Baby, Want a Kiss? | Emil | James Costigan | Little Theatre, Broadway |
2002 | Our Town | Stage Manager | Thornton Wilder | Booth Theatre, Broadway |
2004 | Trumbo | Dalton Trumbo | Christopher Trumbo | Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT |
Year | Title | Voice role |
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2006 | Cars | Doc Hudson |
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