![]() Of its infamous egg-eating scene (50 of them!), he quipped to Gene Shalit in 1982, “I don’t think I ever swallowed one of them. ![]() Cool Hand Luke (1967) George Kennedy (left) and Paul Newman (right) in Cool Hand Luke, 1967 Warner Bros./GettyĪs Lucas “Luke” Jackson in 1967’s Cool Hand Luke, he played a bullied prisoner who defiantly tries to stand up to the system (and some insanely cruel guards). Newman then played the tortured titled role of alcoholic Hud Bannon, who accidentally kills his brother in a car wreck, in 1963’s Hud. But the casting is correct,” Roger Ebert noted about The Hustler, adding, “ He doesn’t look like a hustler, but then the best ones never do.” Hud (1963) Paul Newman and nd Brandon De Wilde In Hud, 1963 Archive Photos / Stringer/Getty “Among the male faces in the movie, most of them old, weathered, cold or cruel, Paul Newman’s open and handsome looks are a contrast. Newman then scored big with 1961’s The Hustler, in which he originated the Felson role that he’d return to in The Color of Money. The Hustler (1961) Paul Newman in The Hustler, 1961 Silver Screen Collection/Getty “I was cast as Brick, Elizabeth Taylor’s hard-drinking husband, and it was my job to make my character’s refusal to have sex with Elizabeth seem believable,” he once wrote, as documented in The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man, a posthumous memoir released in 2022. He earned his first Oscar nomination for 1958’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, which was well deserved. Though Newman’s big-screen debut in 1954’s The Silver Chalice was, even according to the 28-year-old star, nothing to write home about, it wouldn’t be too long before he starred in a string of memorable, well-received films. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, 1958 FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images Here we take a look at the Paul Newman movies that won over the hearts of millions of viewers and still continue to establish him as one of the best actors of all time. “His powerful eloquence, his consummate sense of craft, so consummate that you didn’t see any sense of effort up there on the screen, set a new standard.” Our favorite Paul Newman movies “ The history of movies without Paul Newman? It’s unthinkable,” Martin Scorsese, who directed Newman in his 1986 Oscar-winning role as “Fast” Eddie Felson in The Color of Money, said in a statement after the star’s 2008 death at the age of 83. ![]() Sadly, however, his father died in 1950, four years before he’d appear in his first film role. So Newman, after serving three years in the Navy - and a brief stint in jail after a bar fight in college - studied drama at Yale for a short period and became a Method actor, one who went on to be considered a top talent in the field, along the likes of James Dean and Marlon Brando. “I desperately wanted to show him that somehow, somewhere along the line, I could cut the mustard,” Newman told Time in 1982 of the drive that came from wanting to please his dad. Persistence more than paid off for the son of an emotionally distant, hard-drinking sporting-goods store owner. Paul Newman, 1960s Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images
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