Paul Newman on screen and stage

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.

As actor

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1954	The Silver Chalice	Basil
1956	Somebody Up There Likes Me	Rocky Graziano
1956	The Rack	Capt. Edward W. Hall Jr.
1957	The Helen Morgan Story	Larry Maddux
1957	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
	Rally Round the Flag, Boys!	Harry Bannerman
1959	The Young Philadelphians	Anthony Judson Lawrence
1960	From the Terrace	David Alfred Eaton
1960	Exodus	Ari Ben Canaan
1961	The Hustler	Eddie Felson
1961	Paris Blues	Ram Bowen
1962	Sweet Bird of Youth	Chance Wayne
1962	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
1964	The Outrage	Juan Carrasco
1965	Lady L	Armand Denis
1966	Harper	Lew Harper	Alternate title: The Moving Target
1966	Torn Curtain	Prof. Michael Armstrong	Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
1967	Hombre	John Russell
1967	Cool Hand Luke	Lucas "Luke" Jackson
1968	The Secret War of Harry Frigg	Pvt. Harry Frigg
1969	Winning	Frank Capua
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Butch Cassidy
1970	WUSA	Rheinhardt
1970	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
1972	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	Judge Roy Bean
1973	The Mackintosh Man	Joseph Rearden
1973	The Sting	Henry Gondorff
1974	The Towering Inferno	Doug Roberts
1975	The Drowning Pool	Lew Harper
1976	Silent Movie	Himself	Cameo
1976	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
1981	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
1989	Blaze	Gov. Earl K. Long
1990	Mr. & Mrs. Bridge	Walter Bridge
1994	The Hudsucker Proxy	Sidney J. Mussburger
1994	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; final film role
2006	Mater and the Ghostlight	Doc Hudson	Voice; Short film
2007	Dale	Narrator	Voice; Documentary
2008	The Meerkats	Narrator	Voice; Documentary
2017	Cars 3	Doc Hudson	Voice (archival footage);^[1] posthumous release

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
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"
1958	Playhouse 90	Christian Darling	Episode: "The 80 Yard Run"
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

Theatre

Year	Title	Role	Playwright	Venue
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

Video games

Year	Title	Voice role
2006	Cars	Doc Hudson

As director or producer

Year	Film	Notes
1962	On the Harmful Effects of Tobacco	Director and producer (name removed from sole 16mm print)
1968	Rachel, Rachel	Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion Picture New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director^[2] Nominated – Academy Award for Best Picture Nominated – Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Feature Film
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Co-executive producer (uncredited)
1969	Winning	Co-executive producer (uncredited)
1970	WUSA	Co-producer
1970	Sometimes a Great Notion	Director and co-executive producer
1971	They Might Be Giants	Producer
1972	The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds	Director and producer Nominated – Palme d'Or for Best Director
1972	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	Co-executive producer (uncredited)
1980	The Shadow Box	Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special
1984	Harry & Son	Director and producer
1987	The Glass Menagerie	Director Nominated – Palme d'Or for Best Director
2005	Empire Falls	Executive producer Nominated – Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries Nominated – Producers Guild of America Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television

References

^ Snetiker, Marc (2017-06-19). Goldblatt, Henry (ed.). "Pixar head explains how Cars 3 brought back Paul Newman". Movies. Entertainment Weekly. ISSN 1049-0434. OCLC 21114137. Retrieved 2024-08-11. Although Doc has passed away in the story, Lightning hears the Fabulous Hudson Hornet's voice in flashbacks and visions, which required some old dialogue from Newman—and some, completely new vocalizations.
^ Bernstein, Adam (September 27, 2008). "Academy-Award Winning Actor Paul Newman Dies at 83". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 27, 2008.

External links

Paul Newman at IMDb
Paul Newman at the Internet Broadway Database
Paul Newman at the TCM Movie Database

[cars3-1] Snetiker, Marc (2017-06-19). Goldblatt, Henry (ed.). "Pixar head explains how Cars 3 brought back Paul Newman". Movies. Entertainment Weekly. ISSN 1049-0434. OCLC 21114137. Retrieved 2024-08-11. Although Doc has passed away in the story, Lightning hears the Fabulous Hudson Hornet's voice in flashbacks and visions, which required some old dialogue from Newman—and some, completely new vocalizations.

[Bernstein-2] Bernstein, Adam (September 27, 2008). "Academy-Award Winning Actor Paul Newman Dies at 83". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 27, 2008.

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