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Paul Newman
Newman in 1958
Born	Paul Leonard Newman January 26, 1925 Cleveland Heights, Ohio, U.S.
Died	September 26, 2008 (aged 83) Westport, Connecticut, US
Cause of death	Lung cancer
Nationality	American
Education	Kenyon College (BA) Yale University
Occupations	Actor movie director race car driver philanthropist entrepreneur
Years active	1949–2007
Spouses	Jackie Witte ​ ​ (m. 1949; div. 1958)​ Joanne Woodward ​ (m. 1958)​
Children	6
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Navy
Years of service	1943–1946
Rank	Petty Officer Third Class
Battles/wars	World War II Asiatic-Pacific Theater
Awards	Navy Good Conduct Medal

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, movie director, race car driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. His mother was a Slovak; his father was a Jew who had one parent from Hungary and the other from Poland. He considered himself Jewish and would have been accepted as one by other Jewish movements.^[1]

He was known especially for the 1969 movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He played Butch Cassidy in the movie. He was married to actress Joanne Woodward. He died of lung cancer in 2008.

Newman retired from acting in May 2007. He said "You start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So I think that's pretty much a closed book for me."^[2]

He came out of retirement to narrate the 2007 documentary movie Dale, about the life of NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt. He also narrated the 2008 BBC documentary Meerkats: The Movie. It was recorded at a studio near his home shortly before his death. The Meerkats was the last movie credit of Newman's long career.^[3]

• Paul Newman on IMDb
• Newman/Haas Racing
• Newman's Own
• The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp