![]() He later flew as a turret gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. He was assigned to Pacific-based replacement torpedo squadrons VT-98, VT-99, and VT-100, responsible primarily for training replacement combat pilots and aircrewmen, with special emphasis on carrier landings. ![]() Qualifying in torpedo bombers in 1944, Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barbers Point, Hawaii. He performed poorly as a gunner, and a friend from the service recounted in Newman's posthumous memoir that his friends lied to Navy trainers so he could pass. Boot camp followed, with training as a radioman and rear gunner. He also "couldn't do the mathematical things that being a pilot requires." A subsequent test found that he was not colorblind. He later recounted that it was "a bit more complicated" than colorblindness. Initially, he enrolled in the Navy V-12 pilot training program at Yale University, but was dropped when his colorblindness was discovered. Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II, in the Pacific theater. Navy service United States Navy photograph of Paul Newman Graduating from Shaker Heights High School in 1943, he briefly attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. At age 10, Newman performed at the Cleveland Play House in a production of Saint George and the Dragon, and was a notable actor and alumnus of their Curtain Pullers children's theater program. Newman showed an early interest in the theater his first role was at the age of seven, playing the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. Newman's mother worked in his father's store, while raising Paul and his elder brother, Arthur. She was born to a Roman Catholic family in Peticse, Zemplén county, in the Kingdom of Hungary, Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Ptičie, Slovakia). Paul's mother was a practitioner of Christian Science. His father was Jewish, the son of Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, Hungarian Jewish and Polish Jewish emigrants, from Hungary and Congress Poland, respectively. ![]() (1893–1950), who ran a sporting goods store. Newman was born on January 26, 1925, in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, and raised in nearby Shaker Heights, the second son of Theresa Garth ( née Fetzer, Fetzko, or Fetsko Slovak: Terézia Fecková 1894–1982) and Arthur Sigmund Newman, Sr. He was the husband of the actress Joanne Woodward. Newman was married twice and fathered six children. Newman continued to found such charitable organizations such as the SeriousFun Children's Network in 1988 and the Safe Water Network in 2006. As of May 2021, these donations have totaled over US$570 million. ![]() He was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which he donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. Newman won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing. He also voiced of Doc Hudson in Cars (2006). He also starred in such films as Harper (1966), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), The Sting (1973), The Towering Inferno (1974), Slap Shot (1977), and Fort Apache, The Bronx (1981). His Oscar-nominated performances were inĬat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963), Cool Hand Luke (1967), Absence of Malice (1981), The Verdict (1982), Nobody's Fool (1994), and Road to Perdition (2002). Newman won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in The Color of Money (1986). His first starring Broadway role was in William Inge's Picnic in 1953. After touring with several summer stock companies including the Belfry Players, Newman attended the Yale School of Drama for a year before studying at the Actors Studio under Lee Strasberg. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in drama and economics from Kenyon College in 1949. īorn in Shaker Heights, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Newman showed an interest in theater as a child and at age 10 performed in a stage production of Saint George and the Dragon at the Cleveland Play House. He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Paul Leonard Newman (Janu– September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur.
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