Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83

[MeDiCo_BrUjO]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_en_mo/obit_newman_7

WESTPORT, Conn. - Paul Newman, the Academy-Award winning superstar who personified cool as an activist, race car driver, popcorn impresario and the anti-hero of such films as "Hud," "Cool Hand Luke" and "The Color of Money," has died, a spokeswoman said Saturday. He was 83.

Newman died Friday of cancer, spokeswoman Marni Tomljanovic said. No other details were immediately available.

In May, Newman he had dropped plans to direct a fall production of "Of Mice and Men," citing unspecified health issues.

He got his start in theater and on television during the 1950s, and went on to become one of the world's most enduring and popular film stars, a legend held in awe by his peers. He was nominated for Oscars 10 times, winning one regular award and two honorary ones, and had major roles in more than 50 motion pictures, including "Exodus," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Verdict," "The Sting" and "Absence of Malice."

Newman worked with some of the greatest directors of the past half century, from Alfred Hitchcock and John Huston to Robert Altman, Martin Scorsese and the Coen brothers. His co-stars included Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks and, most famously, Robert Redford, his sidekick in "Butch Cassidy" and "The Sting."

He sometimes teamed with his wife and fellow Oscar winner, Joanne Woodward, with whom he had one of Hollywood's rare long-term marriages. "I have steak at home, why go out for hamburger?" Newman told Playboy magazine when asked if he was tempted to stray. They wed in 1958, around the same time they both appeared in "The Long Hot Summer," and Newman directed her in several films, including "Rachel, Rachel" and "The Glass Menagerie."

[thecoalman]

Dam, he didn't look 83


Edit:
The article says 93.

[guns1inger]

Actually, if you have seen any photos taken in the last year, he looked 83 and then some. Cancer is a bitch of a way to go.

I have been trying to broaden my wife's vintage cinema experiences beyond musicals and Greer Garson movies, so in the past year or so we have watched, amongst other things, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Cool-Hand Luke, The Hustler and The Verdict. Might have to get one of these out again . . . . .

[rallynavvie]

Don't forget Slapshot.

[vhelp]

Of all things, I found this out while searching info on "The Partridge Family" on imDB last night. It had flashed in a banner at the top, where you couldn't miss it. I was going to post it but I was really sick in bed with the bad case of the head-cold, and I didn't have the energy, and thought someone might catch it. Anyway. On another note, I just recently found out about Harlton Heston, too, though just posted about it in another topic -- in news section, here.

-vhelp 4903

[bugarin]

Ow its sad to hear that. He had contributed much in the wide screen industry. Condolences to his bereaved family.