name	Inger Stevens
birth name	Inger Stensland
birth date	October 18, 1934
birth place	Stockholm, Sweden
death date	April 30, 1970
death place	Hollywood, California USA
years active	1954-1970
spouse	Ike Jones (November 18, 1961–April 30, 1970)(her death)Anthony Soglio (1955–1958)(divorced)
goldenglobeawards	Best TV Star - Female1964 ''The Farmer's Daughter'' }}

Inger Stevens (October 18, 1934April 30, 1970 ) was a Swedish-American movie and TV actress.

Early life

Inger Stevens was born Inger Stensland in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an insecure child and was often ill. When she was nine, her parents divorced and she moved with her father to New York City. At age 13 she and her father moved to Manhattan, Kansas, where she attended Manhattan High School. At 16 she worked in burlesque shows in Kansas City. At 18 she left Kansas for New York City where she worked as a chorus girl, and in the Garment District while taking classes at the Actors Studio.

Career

Stevens appeared on television series, commercials and in plays, until she got her big break in the movie ''Man on Fire'' starring Bing Crosby.

Roles in major films followed, but she achieved her greatest success in the ABC television series ''The Farmer's Daughter'', with William Windom. Previously, Stevens appeared in episodes of ''Bonanza'', ''Route 66'', ''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'', ''The Eleventh Hour'', ''Sam Benedict'' and ''The Twilight Zone''.

Following the cancellation of ''The Farmer's Daughter'' in 1966, Stevens appeared in several movies: ''A Guide for the Married Man'' (1967) with Walter Matthau, ''Hang 'Em High'' with Clint Eastwood, ''5 Card Stud'' with Dean Martin, and ''Madigan'' with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark, all in 1968. Stevens was attempting to make a comeback on television with the detective drama series, ''The Most Deadly Game'', when she died.

Personal life

Her first husband was her agent, Anthony Soglio, to whom she was married from 1955 to 1957. From 1961 until her death she secretly was married to Ike Jones, an African-American actor. In addition to these marriages she also had been romantically linked with Bing Crosby, Anthony Quinn, Dean Martin, Clint Eastwood, Harry Belafonte, Mario Lanza, and Burt Reynolds.

Death

On the morning of April 30, 1970, Stevens' sometime roommate and companion, Lola McNally, found Stevens on the kitchen floor of her Hollywood Hills home. According to McNally, when she called Stevens' name, Stevens opened her eyes, lifted her head and tried to speak, but was unable to make any sound. McNally told police that she had spoken to Stevens the previous night, without any sign that anything was wrong. Stevens died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. On arrival, medics removed a small bandage from her chin that revealed a small amount of what appeared to be fresh blood oozing from a cut, which appeared to have been a few hours old. Los Angeles County Coroner Dr. Thomas Noguchi attributed Stevens' death to "acute barbiturate poisoning".

Filmography

''Man on Fire'' (1957)

''Cry Terror!'' (1958)

''The Buccaneer'' (1958)

''The World, the Flesh and the Devil'' (1959)

''The New Interns'' (1964)

''The Borgia Stick'' (1967, TV)

''A Guide for the Married Man'' (1967)

''A Time for Killing'' (1967)

''Firecreek'' (1968)

''Madigan'' (1968)

''5 Card Stud'' (1968)

''Hang 'Em High'' (1968)

''House of Cards'' (1968)

''A Dream of Kings'' (1969)

Television

''Kraft Television Theatre'' (1 episode, 1954)

''Robert Montgomery Presents'' (1 episode, 1955)

''Studio One'' (3 episodes, 1954–55)

''Crunch and Des'' (1 episode, 1956)

''Matinee Theatre'' (1 episode, 1956)

''Crusader'' as Alicia in "The Girl Across the Hall" (CBS, 1956)

''Conflict'' (1 episode, 1956)

''The Joseph Cotten Show'', or ''On Trial'' (1 episode, "Law Is for the Lovers", 1956)

''The Millionaire'' (1 episode, 1956)

''Alfred Hitchcock Presents'' (1 episode, 1957)

''Climax!'' (1 episode, 1957)

''Playhouse 90'' (2 episodes, 1956–59)

''Bonanza'' (1 episode, 1959)

''Sunday Showcase'' (1 episode, 1959)

''Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater'' (1 episode, 1960)

''Moment of Fear'' (1 episode, 1960)

''Checkmate'' (1 episode, 1960)

''Hong Kong'' (1 episode, 1960)

''The Twilight Zone'' (2 episodes, 1960)

''The DuPont Show of the Month'' (1 episode, 1961)

''Adventures in Paradise'' (1 episode, 1961)

''The Aquanauts'' (1 episode, 1961)

''The Detectives'' (1 episode, 1961)

''Route 66'' (2 episodes, 1960–61)

''Follow the Sun'' (2 episodes, 1961)

''The Eleventh Hour'' (1 episode, 1962)

''Sam Benedict'' (1 episode, 1962)

''Your First Impression'' (As herself, 1963)

''The Alfred Hitchcock Hour'' (1 episode, 1963)

''The Nurses'' (1 episode, 1963)

''The Dick Powell Show'' (2 episodes, 1962–63)

''Empire'' (1 episode, 1963)

''The Farmer's Daughter'' (101 episodes, 1963–66)

''The Most Deadly Game'' (1 episode, 1970)

''The Mask of Sheba'' (1970)

''Run, Simon, Run'' (1970)

Theatre

''Debut'' (1956)

''Roman Candle'' (1960)

''Mary, Mary'' (1962)

Awards and nominations

! Year	! Result	! Award	! Category	! Series
1958	Nominated		Top New Female Personality	—
1968	Nominated	Best Family Comedy Series	''A Guide for the Married Man''
1964	Won	Golden Globes	Best TV Star — Female	''The Farmer's Daughter''
1962	Nominated		Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role	''The Dick Powell Show''
1964	Nominated	Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Series (Lead)	''The Farmer's Daughter''

References

External links

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Name	George Peppard
Birth name	George Peppard, Jr.
Birth date	October 01, 1928
Birth place	Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Death date	May 08, 1994
Death place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Death cause	Pneumonia
Spouse
Occupation	Actor
Yearsactive	1951-1994}}

George Peppard, Jr. (; October 1, 1928May 8, 1994) was an American film and television actor.

Peppard secured a major role when he starred alongside Audrey Hepburn in ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' (1961), portrayed a character based on Howard Hughes in ''The Carpetbaggers'' (1964), and played the title role of the millionaire sleuth Thomas Banacek in the early-1970s television series ''Banacek''.

He is probably best known to younger audiences for his role as Col. John "Hannibal" Smith, the cigar-chomping leader of a renegade commando squad, in the 1980s television show ''The A-Team''.

Early life

George Peppard, Jr. was born in Detroit, Michigan, the son of building contractor George Peppard, Sr. and opera singer Vernelle Rohrer. He graduated from Dearborn High School in Dearborn, Michigan.

Peppard enlisted in the United States Marine Corps at age 17 on July 8, 1946 and rose to rank of Corporal in the 10th Marines, leaving the Marines at the end of his enlistment in January 1948.

From 1948 to 1949, he studied Civil Engineering at Purdue University where he was a member of the Purdue Playmakers theatre troupe and Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He then transferred to Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1955. He also trained at the Pittsburgh Playhouse.

Acting

Peppard made his stage debut in 1949 at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. After moving to New York City, Peppard enrolled in The Actors Studio, where he studied the Method with Lee Strasberg. His first work on Broadway led to his first television appearance, with a young Paul Newman, in ''The United States Steel Hour'' (1956), as the singing, guitar-playing baseball player Piney Woods in ''Bang the Drum Slowly''.

Peppard’s Broadway appearance in ''The Pleasure of His Company'' (1958) led to an MGM contract. Following to a strong film debut in ''The Strange One'' (1957), he played the illegitimate son of Robert Mitchum's character in the popular melodrama ''Home from the Hill'' (1960).

His good looks, elegant manner and superior acting skills landed Peppard his most famous film role as Paul Varjak in ''Breakfast at Tiffany's'' with Audrey Hepburn. This 1961 role boosted him briefly to a major film star. His leading roles in that film's wake included ''How the West Was Won'' in 1962 (his character spanned two sections of the episodic Cinerama extravaganza), ''The Victors'' in 1963, ''The Carpetbaggers'' in 1964, and ''The Blue Max'' in 1966.

''The Carpetbaggers'' was based on an epic Harold Robbins novel which used the life of Howard Hughes as inspiration and featured Alan Ladd in his final screen role as Nevada Smith, also played by Steve McQueen in a smash hit prequel the following year.

Peppard started choosing tough guy roles in big, ambitious pictures where he was somewhat overshadowed by ensemble casts; for example, his role as German pilot Bruno Stachel, an obsessively competitive officer from humble beginnings who challenges the Prussian aristocracy during World War I in ''The Blue Max'' (1966). For this role, Peppard earned a private pilot's license and did much of his own stunt flying, although stunt pilot Derek Piggott was at the controls for the famous under-the-bridge scene.

Due to Peppard's alcoholism, and notoriously difficult personality on the set, his career devolved into a string of B-movies through the late sixties and early seventies. He then had a notable success with the TV series ''Banacek'' (1972–74), (part of the ''NBC Mystery Movie'' series), and one of his most critically acclaimed, though rarely seen, performances in the TV movie ''Guilty or Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case'' (1975), as Sam Sheppard.

Among the disappointing films was the 1970 Western ''Cannon for Cordoba'', in which Peppard played the steely Captain Rod Douglas, who has been put in charge of gathering a group of soldiers on a dangerous mission into Mexico, and 1967's ''Rough Night in Jericho'' in which he was billed over crooner Dean Martin and Jean Simmons, a reflection of his status at that point in his career. Peppard appeared in the short-lived (half a season) ''Doctors' Hospital'' (1975) and several other television films. He was in the cult science-fiction film ''Damnation Alley'' in 1977. With fewer interesting film roles coming his way, he acted in, directed and produced the drama ''Five Days from Home'' in 1979.

In a rare game show appearance, Peppard did a week of shows on ''Password Plus'' in 1979. Out of five shows, one was never broadcast on NBC (but aired much later on GSN) due to a rant where he expressed dissatisfaction with NBC executives watching "as if you're some sort of crook." Host Allen Ludden was visibly perturbed and Peppard was never asked to return to the show after his outburst.

''Dynasty''

In 1981, Peppard was offered, and accepted, the role of Blake Carrington in the TV series ''Dynasty''. During the filming of the pilot episode, which also featured Linda Evans and Bo Hopkins, Peppard repeatedly clashed with the show's producers, Richard and Esther Shapiro; among other things, he felt that his role was too similar to that of J.R. Ewing in the series ''Dallas''. Three weeks later, before filming was to begin on additional episodes, Peppard was fired and the part was offered to John Forsythe; the scenes with Peppard were re-shot and Forsythe became the permanent star of the show.

''The A-Team''

In 1982, George Peppard auditioned for and won the role of Colonel John "Hannibal" Smith in the TV action adventure series ''The A-Team'', acting alongside Mr. T, Dirk Benedict and Dwight Schultz. In the series, the A-Team was a crack squad of renegade commandos on the run from the military for a crime they did not commit while serving in the Vietnam war. The A-Team members made their collective living as soldiers of fortune, but they helped only people who came to them with just grievances.

In the series, Peppard played "Hannibal" Smith. He was the leader of the A-Team, distinguished by his cigar smoking, confident smirk, black leather gloves, disguises and catch phrase, ''"I love it when a plan comes together."'' The show ran five seasons on NBC from 1983–1987. It made Peppard known to a whole new generation and is arguably his most well-known role. The role was reportedly written with James Coburn in mind, but Coburn declined and thus the role went to Peppard. Peppard was reportedly annoyed by Mr. T upstaging him in his public image, and at one point in their relationship refused to speak directly to Mr. T. Instead, he sent messages through intermediaries and for this Peppard was occasionally portrayed by the press as not a team player.

''Man Against the Mob''

Peppard's last series was an intended occasional series of television movie features entitled ''Man Against the Mob'' set in the 1940s. In these TV detective films, Peppard played Los Angeles Police Detective Sgt. Frank Doakey. The second film ''Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders'' was broadcast in December 1989. A third film in this series was planned, but Peppard died before it was filmed.

Personal life

Peppard was married five times, and was the father of three children.

Helen Davies (1954–1964): two children, Bradford and Julie

Elizabeth Ashley (1966–1972), his co-star in ''The Carpetbaggers'': one son, Christian

Sherry Boucher-Lytle (1975–1979), originally from Springhill in norther Webster Parish, Louisiana

Alexis Adams (1984–1986)

Laura Taylor (1992–1994)

Death

Peppard overcame a serious alcohol problem in 1978, and subsequently became heavily involved in helping other alcoholics. He had smoked two packs of cigarettes a day for most of his life until he quit after being diagnosed with lung cancer in 1992. His illness never forced his retirement from acting, and Peppard completed a pilot for a new series in 1994 (a ''Matlock'' spin-off) shortly before his death. Peppard died on May 8, 1994, in Los Angeles, California. Although he was still being treated for lung cancer, the direct cause of death was pneumonia. He is buried in Northview Cemetery in Dearborn, Michigan.

Awards

1960 NBR Award (National Board of Review of Motion Pictures) for ''Home from the Hill'' as Best Supporting Actor

1961 BAFTA Award Nomination (British Academy Award) for ''Home From The Hill''

1961 Promising newcomer to leading film roles

Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (Category Motion Pictures, 6675 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles)

Filmography

! Year	! Title	! Role	! Notes
1956	''The United States Steel Hour''	Piney Woods	TV: ''Bang the Drum Slowly''
1956 - 57	''Kraft Television Theatre''		TV: ''The Long Flight''''Flying Object at Three O'Clock High''
1957	''The Kaiser Aluminium Hour''	Lynch	TV: ''A Real Fine Cutting Edge''
1957			TV: ''A Walk in the Forest''
1957	''The Alcoa Hour''	Eddie Pierce	TV: ''The Big Build-Up''
1957	''The Strange One''	Cadet Robert Marquales
1957	''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''	Evan Wallace	TV: ''The Diplomatic Corpse''
1957 - 58	''Matinee Theatre''		TV: ''End of the Rope, Part 1''''End of the Rope, Part 2''''Aftermath''
1958		Lee	TV: ''The Eye of Truth''
1958	''Hallmark Hall of Fame''	Dennis Walsh	TV: ''Little Moon of Alban''
1959	''Pork Chop Hill''	Cpl. Chuck Fedderson
1960		Raphael "Rafe" Copley
1960	''Startime''	Pat Lawrence	TV: ''Incident at a Corner''
1960	''The Subterraneans''	Leo Percepied
1961		Paul Varjak
1962		Zeb Rawlings
1963	''The Victors''	Cpl. Chase
1964	''The Carpetbaggers''	Jonas Cord
1964	''Theatre of Stars''	Buddy Wren	TV: ''The Game with Glass Pieces''
1965		Lt. John Curtis
1965	''The Third Day''	Steve Mallory
1966	''The Blue Max''	Lt. Bruno Stachel
1967		Capt. Kurt Bergman
1967		Dolan
1968	''New Face in Hell''	P.T. Detweiler
1968	''What's So Bad About Feeling Good?''	Pete
1968		Reno Davis
1969		Capt. Frank Matthews
1970		John Shay
1970	''Cannon for Cordoba''	Capt. Red Douglas
1971	''One More Train to Rob''	Harker Fleet
1972	''The Bravos''	Major John David Harkness	TV movie
1972	''The Groundstar Conspiracy''	Tuxan
1972 - 74	''Banacek''	Thomas Banacek
1974	''Newman's Law''	Vince Newman
1975	''The Week of Fear''	Dr. Jake Goodwin	TV movie
1975	''Guilty of Innocent: The Sam Sheppard Murder Case''	Dr. Samuel Sheppard	TV movie
1975 - 76	''Doctors' Hospital''	Dr. Jake Goodwin
1977		Maj. Eugene Denton
1979	''Five Days from Home''	T.M. Pryor
1979	''Crisis in Mid-air''	Nick Culver	TV movie
1979	''From Hell to Victory''	Brett Rosson
1979	''Torn Between Two Lovers''	Paul Rasmussen	TV movie
1980	''Battle Beyond the Stars''	Cowboy
1981	''Race for the Yankee Zephyr''	Theo Brown
1981	''Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid''	Jim Daley
1982	''Twilight Theatre''		TV movie
1982	''Jugando con la muerte''	McFadden
1983 - 87	''The A-Team''	John "Hannibal" Smith
1984		Sgt. Guedo	TV: ''The Dirty Detail''
1988	''Man Against the Mob''	Frank Doakey	TV movie
1989	''Zwei Frauen''	Mr. Martin
1989	''Man Against the Mob: The Chinatown Murders''	Frank Doakey	TV movie
1990	''Night of the Fox''	Col. Harry Martineau/Max Vogel	TV movie
1992		Sid Slaughter
1994		Max Morgan	TV: ''The P.I.''

References

External links

George Peppard at Find A Grave

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:''For other people named Anthony Quinn see Anthony Quinn (disambiguation)''.

Name	Anthony Quinn
Birth name	Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca
Birth date	April 21, 1915
Birth place	Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico
Death date	June 03, 2001
Death place	Boston, Massachusetts,United States
Occupation	Actor, painter, writer, film director
Years active	1936–2001
Spouse	Katherine DeMille (1937–65; 5 children)Jolanda Addolori (1966–97; 3 Children)Kathy Benvin (1997–2001; 2 children)
Partner	Friedel Dunbar(2 children) }}

Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), more commonly known as Anthony Quinn, was a Mexican-born American actor, as well as a painter and writer. He starred in numerous critically acclaimed and commercially successful films, including ''Zorba the Greek'', ''Lawrence of Arabia'', ''The Guns of Navarone'', ''The Message'', ''Guns for San Sebastian'', ''Lion of the Desert'' and Federico Fellini's ''La strada''. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice; for ''Viva Zapata!'' in 1952 and ''Lust for Life'' in 1956.

Early life

Quinn was born Antonio Rodolfo Quinn-Oaxaca in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, during the Mexican Revolution. His mother, Manuela "Nellie" Oaxaca, was of Aztec Indian ancestry. His father, Francisco Quinn, was also born in Mexico, to an Irish immigrant father from County Cork and a Mexican mother. Frank Quinn rode with Pancho Villa, then later moved to Los Angeles and became an assistant cameraman at a movie studio. In Quinn's autobiography ''The Original Sin: A Self-Portrait by Anthony Quinn'' he denied being the son of an "Irish adventurer" and attributed that tale to Hollywood publicists.

When he was six years old, Quinn attended a Catholic church (even thinking he wanted to become a priest). At age eleven, however, he joined the Pentecostals in the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel (the Pentecostal followers of Aimee Semple McPherson).

Quinn grew up first in El Paso, Texas, and later the Boyle Heights and the Echo Park areas of Los Angeles, California. He attended Hammel Street Elementary School, Belvedere Junior High School, Polytechnic High School and finally Belmont High School with future baseball player and ''General Hospital'' star, John Beradino, but left before graduating. Tucson High School in Arizona, many years later, awarded him an honorary high school diploma.

As a young man Quinn boxed professionally to earn money, then studied art and architecture under Frank Lloyd Wright, both at Wright's Arizona residence and his Wisconsin studio, Taliesin. The two very different men became friends. When Quinn mentioned he was drawn to acting, Wright encouraged him. Quinn said he had been offered $800 a week by a film studio and didn't know what to do. Wright replied, "Take it, you'll never make that much with me."

In a rerun of an interview done with Anthony Quinn in 1999 for Turner Classic Movies' "Private Screenings with Robert Osborne" (repeated 21 April 2009), Mr. Quinn said that the contract was for $300 a week.

Career

After a short time performing on the stage, Quinn launched his film career performing character roles in the 1936 films ''Parole'' (his debut) and ''The Milky Way''. He played "ethnic" villains in Paramount films such as ''Dangerous to Know'' (1938) and ''Road to Morocco'', and played a more sympathetic Crazy Horse in ''They Died with Their Boots On'' with Errol Flynn. By 1947, he had appeared in over 50 films and had played Indians, Mafia dons, Hawaiian chiefs, Filipino freedom-fighters, Chinese guerrillas, and Arab sheiks, but was still not a major star. He returned to the theater, playing Stanley Kowalski in ''A Streetcar Named Desire'' on Broadway. In 1947, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.

He came back to Hollywood in the early 1950s, specializing in tough roles. He was cast in a series of B-adventures such as ''Mask of the Avenger'' (1951). His big break came from playing opposite Marlon Brando in Elia Kazan's ''Viva Zapata!'' (1952). Quinn wanted to play the lead role of Zapata but Brando coming off his recent success in the film ''Streetcar Named Desire'' was Kazan's first choice. However his supporting role as Zapata's brother won Quinn an Oscar while Brando lost the Oscar for Best Actor to Gary Cooper in ''High Noon''. He was the first Mexican-American to win any Academy Award. He appeared in several Italian films starting in 1953, turning in one of his best performances as a dim-witted, thuggish and volatile strongman in Federico Fellini's ''La strada'' (1954) opposite Giulietta Masina. Quinn won his second Oscar for Best Supporting Actor by portraying the painter Paul Gauguin in Vincente Minnelli's van Gogh biopic, ''Lust for Life'' (1956). The award was remarkable as he was on screen for only 8 minutes. The following year, he received an Oscar nomination for his part in George Cukor's ''Wild Is the Wind''. In ''The River's Edge'' (1957), he played the husband of the former girlfriend (played by Debra Paget) of a killer (Ray Milland), who turns up with a stolen fortune and forces Quinn and Paget at gunpoint to guide him safely to Mexico. Quinn starred in ''The Savage Innocents'' 1959 (film) as Inuk, an Eskimo who finds himself caught between two clashing cultures.

As the decade ended, Quinn allowed his age to show and began his transformation into a major character actor. His physique filled out, his hair grayed, and his once smooth, swarthy face weathered and became more rugged. He played a Greek resistance fighter in ''The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), an ideal ex-boxer in ''Requiem for a Heavyweight'', and a natural for the role of Auda abu Tayi in ''Lawrence of Arabia'' (both 1962). That year he also played the title role in ''Barabbas'', based on a novel by Pär Lagerkvist. The success of ''Zorba the Greek'' in 1964 was the high water mark of his career and resulted in another Oscar nomination for Best Actor. Other films include ''The 25th Hour'' (1967), with Virna Lisi; ''The Magus'' (1968), with Michael Caine and Candice Bergen, and based on the novel by John Fowles; La Bataille de San Sebastian (''Guns for San Sebastian'') with Charles Bronson; and ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'', where he played a Ukrainian pope. In 1969, he starred in ''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'' with Anna Magnani.

He appeared on Broadway to great acclaim in ''Becket'', as King Henry II to Laurence Olivier's Thomas Becket in 1960. An erroneous story arose in later years that during the run, Quinn and Olivier switched roles and Quinn played Becket to Olivier's King. In fact, Quinn left the production for a film, never having played Becket, and director Peter Glenville suggested a road tour with Olivier as Henry. Olivier happily agreed and Arthur Kennedy took on the role of Becket for the tour and brief return to Broadway.

In 1971, after the success of a TV movie named ''The City'', where Quinn played Mayor Thomas Jefferson Alcala, he starred in the single-season ABC television series entitled ''The Man and the City''. Though the program was filmed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the name of the city is not disclosed on the program. His subsequent television appearances were sporadic, among them ''Jesus of Nazareth''.

In 1977, he starred in the movie ''Mohammad, Messenger of God'' (also known as ''The Message''), about the origin of Islam, as Hamzah, a highly revered warrior instrumental in the early stages of Islam. In 1982, he starred in the ''Lion of the Desert'', together with Irene Papas, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, and John Gielgud. Quinn played the real-life Bedouin leader Omar Mukhtar who fought Benito Mussolini's Italian troops in the deserts of Libya. The film, produced and directed by Moustapha Akkad, is now critically acclaimed, but performed poorly at the box office because of negative publicity in the West at the time of its release, stemming from its having been partially funded by Libya's Muammar Gaddafi. In 1983, he reprised his most famous role, playing Zorba the Greek for 362 performances in a successful revival of the Kander and Ebb musical ''Zorba''. Quinn performed in this musical both on Broadway in New York City and at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C,

Quinn's film career slowed during the 1990s, but he nonetheless continued to work steadily, appearing in ''Revenge'' (1990), ''Jungle Fever'' (1991), ''Last Action Hero'' (1993), ''A Walk in the Clouds'' (1995) and ''Seven Servants'' (1996). In 1994, he played Zeus in the five TV movies that led to the syndicated series ''Hercules: The Legendary Journeys''. (However, he did not continue in the actual series, and the role was eventually filled by several other actors).

Quinn made an appearance at the John Gotti trial, according to John H. Davis, author of ''Mafia Dynasty: The Rise and Fall of the Gambino Crime Family''. He told reporters he wanted to play Paul Castellano, the boss of the Gambino family after Carlo Gambino. Gotti had Castellano murdered, becoming the boss of the Gambino family thereafter. Gotti was on trial concerning a variety of felony charges when Quinn visited the court room. Although he tried to shake hands with Gotti, federal marshals prevented him from doing so, Davis says. The actor interpreted the testimony of Sammy ("The Bull") Gravano, Gotti's underboss, against Gotti as "a friend who betrays a friend." He hadn't come to "judge" Gotti, Quinn insisted, but because he wanted to portray Castellano, who inspired the actor because he had had a "thirty-year-old" mistress, which Quinn believed was "a beautiful thing." He would later portray Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce in the 1996 HBO film ''Gotti''. Armand Assante portrayed John Gotti and Richard C. Sarafian portrayed Paul Castellano. Quinn was nominated for a Golden Globe for his performance as Dellacroce.

Painting and writing

Art critic Donald Kuspit, explains, "examining Quinn's many expressions of creativity together—his art and acting—we can see that he was a creative genius..."

Early in life Quinn had interest in painting and drawing. Throughout his teenage years he won various art competitions in California and focused his studies at Polytechnic High School in Los Angeles on drafting. Later, Quinn studied briefly under Frank Lloyd Wright through the Taliesin Fellowship—an opportunity created by winning first prize in an architectural design contest. Through Wright's recommendation, Quinn took acting lessons as a form of post-operative speech therapy, which led to an acting career that spanned over six decades.

Apart from art classes taken in Chicago during the 1950s, Quinn never attended art school; nonetheless, taking advantage of books, museums, and amassing a sizable collection, he managed to give himself an effective education in the language of modern art. Although Quinn remained mostly self-taught, intuitively seeking out and exploring new ideas, there is observable history in his work because he had assiduously studied the modernist masterpieces on view in the galleries of New York, Mexico City, Paris, and London. When filming on location around the world, Quinn was exposed to regional contemporary art styles exhibited at local galleries and studied art history in each area.

In an endless search for inspiration, he was influenced by his Mexican ancestry, decades of residency in Europe, and lengthy stays in Africa and the Middle East while filming in the 1970s and 1980s.

By the early 1980s, his work had caught the eyes of various gallery owners and was exhibited internationally, in New York, Los Angeles, Paris, and Mexico City. His work is now represented in both public and private collections throughout the world.

He wrote two memoirs, ''The Original Sin'' (1972) and ''One Man Tango'' (1997), a number of scripts, and a series of unpublished stories currently in the collection of his archive.

Personal life

Quinn's personal life was as volatile and passionate as the characters he played in films. His first wife was the adopted daughter of Cecil B. DeMille, the actress Katherine DeMille, whom he married in 1937. The couple had five children: Christopher (born 1939), Christina (born December 1, 1941), Catalina (born November 21, 1942), Duncan (born August 4, 1945), and Valentina (born December 26, 1952). Their first child, Christopher, aged 2, drowned in the swimming pool of next-door neighbor W.C. Fields. Quinn and DeMille were divorced in 1965.

The following year, he married Italian film costume designer Jolanda Addolori. They had three children: Francesco (March 22, 1963 – August 5, 2011), Danny (born April 16, 1964), and Lorenzo (born May 7, 1966). The union ended in 1997, after Quinn fathered a child with his secretary, Katherine Benvin. He then married Benvin, with whom he had two children, Antonia (born July 23, 1993) and Ryan Nicholas (born July 5, 1996). Quinn and Benvin remained together until his death.

Quinn also fathered two other children with Friedel Dunbar: Sean Quinn (born February 7, 1973), a New Jersey real estate agent, and Alexander Anthony Quinn (born December 30, 1976), an event producer in Los Angeles, CA.

Death

Quinn spent his last years in Bristol, Rhode Island. He died aged 86 in Boston, Massachusetts from pneumonia and respiratory failure while suffering from throat cancer shortly after completing his role in his last film, ''Avenging Angelo'' (2002).

His funeral was held in the First Baptist Church in America in the College Hill section of Providence, Rhode Island; late in life, he had joined the Foursquare evangelical Christian community. He is buried in a family plot in Bristol, Rhode Island.

Tributes

There is a statue of Anthony Quinn (a native son of Chihuahua) doing his famous "Zorba the Greek" dance In Chihuahua Mexico

On January 5, 1982, the Belvedere County Public Library in East Los Angeles was renamed in honor of Anthony Quinn. The present library sits on the site of his family's former home.

There is an Anthony Quinn Bay and Beach in Rhodes, Dodecanese, Greece, just 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south of the village of Faliraki (aka Falirakion or Falirákion). The land was bought by Quinn during the filming of ''The Guns of Navarone'' in Rhodes; however, it was reclaimed by the Greek government in 1984 due to a change in property law.

The National Council of La Raza gives the Anthony Quinn Award for excellence in motion pictures as an ALMA Award.

Filmography

''Night Waitress'' (1936)

''The Milky Way'' (1936)

''Parole'' (1936)

''Sworn Enemy'' (1936)

''The Plainsman'' (1936)

''Swing High, Swing Low'' (1937)

''Waikiki Wedding'' (1937)

''Under Strange Flags'' (1937)

''The Last Train from Madrid'' (1937)

''Partners in Crime'' (1937)

''Daughter of Shanghai'' (1937)

''The Buccaneer'' (1938)

''Dangerous to Know'' (1938)

''Tip-Off Girls'' (1938)

''Hunted Men'' (1938)

''Bulldog Drummond in Africa'' (1938)

''King of Alcatraz'' (1938)

''King of Chinatown'' (1939)

''Union Pacific'' (1939)

''Island of Lost Men'' (1939)

''Television Spy'' (1939)

''Emergency Squad'' (1940)

''Parole Fixer'' (1940)

''Road to Singapore'' (1940)

''The Ghost Breakers'' (1940)

''City for Conquest'' (1940)

''The Texas Rangers Ride Again'' (1940)

''Knockout'' (1941)

''Thieves Fall Out'' (1941)

''Blood and Sand'' (1941)

''Bullets for O'Hara'' (1941)

''They Died with Their Boots On'' (1941)

''The Perfect Snob'' (1941)

''Larceny, Inc.'' (1942)

''Road to Morocco'' (1942)

''The Black Swan'' (1942)

''The Ox-Bow Incident'' (1943)

''Guadalcanal Diary'' (1943)

''Buffalo Bill'' (1944)

''Ladies of Washington'' (1944)

''Roger Touhy, Gangster'' (1944)

''Irish Eyes Are Smiling'' (1944)

''China Sky'' (1945)

''Where Do We Go from Here?'' (1945)

''Back to Bataan'' (1945)

''California'' (1946)

''Sinbad the Sailor'' (1947)

''The Imperfect Lady'' (1947)

''Black Gold'' (1947)

''Tycoon'' (1947)

''The Brave Bulls'' (1951)

''Mask of the Avenger'' (1951)

''Viva Zapata!'' (1952)

''The Brigand'' (1952)

''The World in His Arms'' (1952)

''Against All Flags'' (1952)

''Funniest Show on Earth'' (1953)

''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1953)

''City Beneath the Sea'' (1953)

''Seminole'' (1953)

''Ride, Vaquero!'' (1953)

''East of Sumatra'' (1953)

''Blowing Wild'' (1953)

''Angels of Darkness'' (1954)

''The Long Wait'' (1954)

''La strada'' (1954)

''Ulysses'' (1954)

''Attila'' (1954)

''The Magnificent Matador'' (1955)

''The Naked Street'' (1955)

''Seven Cities Of Gold'' (1955)

''Lust for Life'' (1956)

''Man from Del Rio'' (1956)

''The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' (1956)

''The Wild Party'' (1956)

''The River's Edge'' (1957)

''The Ride Back'' (1957)

''Wild Is the Wind'' (1957)

''Hot Spell'' (1958)

''The Black Orchid'' (1958)

''Warlock'' (1959)

''Last Train from Gun Hill'' (1959)

''Heller in Pink Tights'' (1960)

''The Savage Innocents'' (1960)

''Portrait in Black'' (1960)

''The Guns of Navarone'' (1961)

''Barabbas'' (1961)

''Requiem for a Heavyweight'' (1962)

''Lawrence of Arabia'' (1962)

''The Visit'' (1964)

''Behold a Pale Horse'' (1964)

''Zorba the Greek'' (1964)

''A High Wind in Jamaica'' (1965)

''Marco the Magnificent'' (1965)

''Lost Command'' (1966)

''The Rover'' (1967)

''The Happening" ([1967 in film [1967]])

''The 25th Hour'' (1967)

''Guns for San Sebastian'' (1967)

''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (1968)

''The Magus'' (1968)

''The Secret of Santa Vittoria'' (1969)

''A Dream of Kings'' (1969)

''A Walk in the Spring Rain'' (1970)

''R. P. M.'' (1970)

''Flap'' (1970)

''Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears'' (1972)

''Arruza'' (1972) (documentary) (narrator)

''Across 110th Street'' (1972)

''The Don Is Dead'' (1973)

''The Marseille Contract'' (1974)

''Target of an Assassin'' (1976)

''The Con Artists'' (1976)

''The Inheritance'' (1976)

''Bluff'' (1976)

''The Message'' (1976)

''Jesus of Nazareth'' (1977 television)

''The Greek Tycoon'' (1978)

''Caravans'' (1978)

''The Children of Sanchez'' (1978)

''The Passage'' (1979)

''The Salamander'' (1981)

''Crosscurrent'' (1981)

''Lion of the Desert'' (1981)

''High Risk'' (1981)

''Regina Roma'' (1982)

''Valentina'' (1982)

''L'isola del tesoro (Treasure Island in space)'' (1987)

''Onassis: The Richest Man in the World'' (1988)

''Stradivari'' (1989)

''A Man of Passion'' (1989)

''The Old Man and the Sea'' (1990)

''Ghosts Can't Do It'' (1990)

''Revenge'' (1990)

''A Star for Two'' (1991)

''Only the Lonely'' (1991)

''Jungle Fever'' (1991)

''Mobsters'' (1991)

''Last Action Hero'' (1993)

''Somebody to Love'' (1994)

''A Walk in the Clouds'' (1995)

''Gotti'' (1995)

''The Mayor'' (1996)

''Seven Servants'' (1996)

''Land Guns'' (1999)

''Oriundi'' (1999)

''From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff'' (2002) (documentary)

''Avenging Angelo'' (2001)

Short subjects

''Van Gogh: Darkness Into Light'' (1956)

''San Sebastian 1746 in 1968'' (1968)

''The Voice of La Raza'' (1972) (narrator)

''The Assassination of Julius Caesar'' (1972)

Awards

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References

External links

The Estate of Anthony Quinn

Anthony Quinn's artwork

Becker, Josh. "Directing Anthony Quinn"

The Making of ''Lawrence of Arabia'', ''BAFTA Journal'', Winter 1962-3

"Unquelled Persona: encountering the artwork of Anthony Quinn", ''ArtsEditor.com'', 2008

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name	Paul Newman
birth name	Paul Leonard Newman
birth date	January 26, 1925
birth place	Shaker Heights, Ohio, U.S.
death date	September 26, 2008
death place	Westport, Connecticut, U.S.
death cause	Lung cancer
nationality	American
occupation	Actor, director, entrepreneur
education	Shaker Heights High School
alma mater	Ohio University
party	Democrat
years active	1952–2008
spouse	(divorced) (his death)
children	Scott (1950-78) (deceased)Susan (1953)StephanieNell (1959)Melissa (1961)Claire (1965)
parents	Theresa (nee Fetzer or Fetsko),Arthur Samuel Newman }}

Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film ''The Color of Money'' and eight other nominations, three Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards. He also won several national championships as a driver in Sports Car Club of America road racing, and his race teams won several championships in open wheel IndyCar racing.

Newman was a co-founder of Newman's Own, a food company from which Newman donated all post-tax profits and royalties to charity. As of July 2011, these donations exceeded $300 million.

Early life

Newman was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio (a suburb of Cleveland). He was the son of Theresa (née Fetzer or Fetsko; ) and Arthur Sigmund Newman, who ran a profitable sporting goods store. His father was Jewish (Paul's paternal grandparents, Simon Newman and Hannah Cohn, were immigrants from Hungary and Poland). His mother, who practiced Christian Science, was born to a Slovak Roman Catholic family at Homonna, Ptičie (formerly Pticsie) in the former Kingdom of Hungary, Austria–Hungary (now in Slovakia). Newman had no religion as an adult, but described himself as a Jew, stating that "it's more of a challenge". Newman's mother worked in his father's store, while raising Paul and his brother, Arthur, who later became a producer and production manager.

Newman showed an early interest in the theater, which his mother encouraged. At the age of seven, he made his acting debut, playing the court jester in a school production of ''Robin Hood''. 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.

Military service

Newman served in the United States Navy in World War II in the Pacific theater. Newman enrolled in the Navy V-12 program at Ohio University, hoping to be accepted for pilot training, but was dropped when it was discovered he was color blind. He was sent instead to boot camp and then received further training as a radioman and gunner. Qualifying as a rear-seat radioman and gunner in torpedo bombers, in 1944, Aviation Radioman Third Class Newman was sent to Barber's Point, Hawaii. He was subsequently assigned to Pacific-based replacement torpedo squadrons (VT-98, VT-99, and VT-100). These torpedo squadrons were responsible primarily for training replacement pilots and combat air crewmen, placing particular importance on carrier landings.

He later flew from aircraft carriers as a turret gunner in an Avenger torpedo bomber. As a radioman-gunner, he served aboard the ''USS Bunker Hill'' during the Battle of Okinawa in the spring of 1945. He was ordered to the ship with a draft of replacements shortly before the Okinawa campaign, but his life was spared because he was held back after his pilot developed an ear infection. The men who remained in his detail were killed in action.

After the war, he completed his degree in English and Speech (which encompassed the drama department) at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, graduating in 1949. Newman later studied Drama at Yale University, graduating in 1954, and later studying under Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio in New York City.

Oscar Levant wrote that Newman initially was hesitant to leave New York for Hollywood: "Too close to the cake," he reported him saying, "Also, no place to study."

Career

Early work and mainstream success

Newman arrived in New York City in 1951 with his first wife Jackie Witte, taking up residence in the St. George section of Staten Island. He made his Broadway theater debut in the original production of William Inge's ''Picnic'' with Kim Stanley in 1953 and appeared in the original Broadway production of ''The Desperate Hours'' in 1955. In 1959, he was in the original Broadway production of ''Sweet Bird of Youth'' with Geraldine Page and three years later starred with Page in the film version.

During this time Newman started acting in television. He had his first credited TV or film appearance with a small but notable part in a 1952 episode of the science fiction TV series ''Tales of Tomorrow'' entitled "Ice from Space". In the mid-1950s, he appeared twice on CBS's ''Appointment with Adventure'' anthology series.

In February 1954, Newman appeared in a screen test with James Dean, directed by Gjon Mili, for ''East of Eden'' (1955). Newman was testing for the role of Aron Trask, Dean for the role of Aron's fraternal twin brother Cal. Dean won his part, but Newman lost out to Richard Davalos. In the same year, Newman co-starred with Eva Marie Saint and Frank Sinatra in a live —and color —television broadcast of ''Our Town'', a musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's stage play. Newman was a last-minute replacement for James Dean. In 2003, Newman acted in a remake of ''Our Town'', this time in the role of the stage manager.

His first movie for Hollywood was ''The Silver Chalice'' (1954). The film was a box office failure and the actor would later acknowledge his disdain for it. In 1956, Newman garnered much attention and acclaim with ''Somebody Up There Likes Me'' as boxer Rocky Graziano. By 1958, he was one of the hottest new stars in Hollywood. Later that year, he starred in ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1958), opposite Elizabeth Taylor. The film was a box office smash and Newman garnered his first Academy Award nomination. Also in 1958, Newman starred in ''The Long, Hot Summer'' with Joanne Woodward, whom he met on the set. He won best actor at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival for this film.

Major films

Newman was one of the few actors who successfully made the transition from 1950s cinema to that of the 1960s and 1970s. His rebellious persona translated well to a subsequent generation. Newman starred in ''Exodus'' (1960), ''The Hustler'' (1961), ''Hud'' (1963), ''Harper'' (1966), ''Hombre'' (1967), ''Cool Hand Luke'' (1967), ''The Towering Inferno'' (1974), ''Slap Shot'' (1977), and ''The Verdict'' (1982). He teamed with fellow actor Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill for ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969) and ''The Sting'' (1973).

He appeared with his wife, Joanne Woodward, in the feature films ''The Long, Hot Summer'' (1958), ''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. and Mrs. Bridge'' (1990). They both also starred in the HBO miniseries ''Empire Falls'', but did not have any scenes together.

In addition to starring in and directing ''Harry & Son'', Newman also directed four feature films (in which he did not act) starring Woodward. They were ''Rachel, Rachel'' (1968), based on Margaret Laurence's ''A Jest of God'', the screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play ''The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds'' (1972), the television screen version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play ''The Shadow Box'' (1980), and a screen version of Tennessee Williams' ''The Glass Menagerie'' (1987).

Twenty-five years after ''The Hustler'', Newman reprised his role of "Fast" Eddie Felson in the Martin Scorsese-directed ''The Color of Money'' (1986), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He told a television interviewer that winning an Oscar at the age of 62 deprived him of his fantasy of formally being presented with it in extreme old age.

Last works

In 2003, he appeared in a Broadway revival of Wilder's ''Our Town'', receiving his first Tony Award nomination for his performance. PBS and the cable network Showtime aired a taping of the production, and Newman was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie.

His last screen appearance was as a conflicted mob boss in the 2002 film ''Road to Perdition'' opposite Tom Hanks, although he continued to provide voice work for films.

In 2005 at age 80, Newman was profiled alongside Robert Redford as part of the Sundance Channel's TV series ''Iconoclasts''.

In keeping with his strong interest in car racing, he provided the voice of Doc Hudson, a retired race car in Disney/Pixar's ''Cars''. Similarly, he served as narrator for the 2007 film ''Dale'', about the life of the legendary NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, which turned out to be Newman's final film performance in any form. Newman also provided the narration for the film documentary ''The Meerkats'', which was released in 2008.

Retirement from acting

Newman announced that he would entirely retire from acting on May 25, 2007. He stated that he did not feel he could continue acting at the level he wanted to. "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."

Philanthropy

With writer A.E. Hotchner, Newman founded Newman's Own, a line of food products, in 1982. The brand started with salad dressing, and has expanded to include pasta sauce, lemonade, popcorn, salsa, and wine, among other things. Newman established a policy that all proceeds, after taxes, would be donated to charity. As of 2010, the franchise has donated in excess of $300 million. He co-wrote a memoir about the subject with Hotchner, ''Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good''. Among other awards, Newman's Own co-sponsors the PEN/Newman's Own First Amendment Award, a $25,000 reward designed to recognize those who protect the First Amendment as it applies to the written word.

One beneficiary of his philanthropy is the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a residential summer camp for seriously ill children, which is located in Ashford, Connecticut. Newman co-founded the camp in 1988; it was named after the gang in his film ''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'' (1969). Newman's college fraternity, Phi Kappa Tau, adopted Hole in the Wall as their "national philanthropy" in 1995. One camp has expanded to become several Hole in the Wall Camps in the U.S., Ireland, France, and Israel. The camps serve 13,000 children every year, free of charge.

In June 1999, Newman donated $250,000 to Catholic Relief Services to aid refugees in Kosovo.

On June 1, 2007, Kenyon College announced that Newman had donated $10 million to the school to establish a scholarship fund as part of the college's current $230 million fund-raising campaign. Newman and Woodward were honorary co-chairs of a previous campaign.

Newman was one of the founders of the Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy (CECP), a membership organization of CEOs and corporate chairpersons committed to raising the level and quality of global corporate philanthropy. Founded in 1999 by Newman and a few leading CEOs, CECP has grown to include more than 175 members and, through annual executive convenings, extensive benchmarking research, and best practice publications, leads the business community in developing sustainable and strategic community partnerships through philanthropy.

Newman was named the Most Generous Celebrity of 2008 by Givingback.org. He contributed $20,857,000 for the year of 2008 to the Newman's Own Foundation, which distributes funds to a variety of charities.

Upon Newman's death, the Italian newspaper (a "semi-official" paper of the Holy See) ''L'Osservatore Romano'' published a notice lauding Newman's philanthropy. It also commented that "Newman was a generous heart, an actor of a dignity and style rare in Hollywood quarters."

Marriages and family

Newman was married to Jackie Witte from 1949 to 1958. They had a son, Scott (1950–1978), and two daughters, Susan Kendall (1953) and Stephanie . Scott, who died in November 1978 from a drug overdose, appeared in the films ''Breakheart Pass'', ''The Towering Inferno'', and the 1977 film ''Fraternity Row''. Paul Newman started the Scott Newman Center for drug abuse prevention in memory of his son. Susan is a documentary filmmaker and philanthropist and has Broadway and screen credits, including a starring role as one of four Beatles fans in ''I Wanna Hold Your Hand'' (1978), and also a small role opposite her father in ''Slap Shot''. She also received an Emmy nomination as co-producer of his telefilm, ''The Shadow Box''.

Newman met actress Joanne Woodward in 1953, shortly after filming ''The Long, Hot Summer'' in 1957. He divorced Witte and married Woodward early in 1958. They remained married for fifty years until his death in 2008. They had three daughters: Elinor "Nell" Teresa (b. 1959), Melissa "Lissy" Stewart (b. 1961), and Claire "Clea" Olivia (b. 1965). Newman directed Nell (using the stage name Nell Potts) alongside her mother in the films ''Rachel Rachel'' and ''The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds''.

The Newmans lived away from the Hollywood environment, making their home in Westport, Connecticut. Newman was well known for his devotion to his wife and family. When asked once about infidelity, he famously quipped, "Why go out for a hamburger when you have steak at home?"

Political activism

For his support of Eugene McCarthy in 1968 (and effective use of television commercials in California) and his opposition to the War in Vietnam, Newman was placed nineteenth on Richard Nixon's enemies list, which he claimed was his greatest accomplishment.

Consistent with his work for liberal causes, Newman publicly supported Ned Lamont's candidacy in the 2006 Connecticut Democratic Primary against Senator Joe Lieberman, and was even rumored as a candidate himself, until Lamont emerged as a credible alternative. He donated to Chris Dodd's presidential campaign.

He attended the first Earth Day event in Manhattan on April 22, 1970. Newman was also a vocal supporter of gay rights, including same-sex marriage.

Newman was concerned over global warming and supported nuclear energy development as a solution.

Auto racing

Newman was an avid auto racing enthusiast, and first became interested in motorsports ("the first thing that I ever found I had any grace in") while training at the Watkins Glen Racing School for the filming of ''Winning'', a 1969 film. Because of his love and passion for racing, Newman agreed in 1971 to star in and to host his first television special, ''Once Upon a Wheel,'' on the history of auto racing. It was produced and directed by David Winters, who co-owned a number of racing cars with Newman. Newman's first professional event as a racer was in 1972, in Thompson, Connecticut, and he was a frequent competitor in Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) events for the rest of the decade, eventually winning four national championships. He later drove in the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans in Dick Barbour's Porsche 935 and finished in second place. Newman reunited with Barbour in 2000 to compete in the Petit Le Mans.

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From the mid-1970s to the early 1990s, he drove for the Bob Sharp Racing team, racing mainly Datsuns (later rebranded as Nissans) in the Trans-Am Series. He became closely associated with the brand during the 1980s, even appearing in commercials for them. At the age of 70 years and 8 days, he became the oldest driver to be part of a winning team in a major sanctioned race, winning in his class at the 1995 24 Hours of Daytona. Among his last races were the Baja 1000 in 2004 and the 24 Hours of Daytona once again in 2005.

Newman initially owned his own racing team, which competed in the Can-Am series, but later co-founded Newman/Haas Racing with Carl Haas, a Champ Car team, in 1983. The 1996 racing season was chronicled in the IMAX film ''Super Speedway'', which Newman narrated. He was also a partner in the Atlantic Championship team Newman Wachs Racing. Newman owned a NASCAR Winston Cup car, before selling it to Penske Racing, where it now serves as the #12 car.

Newman was posthumously inducted into the SCCA Hall of Fame at the national convention in Las Vegas, Nevada on February 21, 2009.

Illness and death

Newman was scheduled to make his professional stage directing debut with the Westport Country Playhouse's 2008 production of John Steinbeck's ''Of Mice and Men'', but he stepped down on May 23, 2008, citing health issues.

In June 2008, it was widely reported that Newman, a former chain smoker, had been diagnosed with lung cancer and was receiving treatment at Sloan-Kettering hospital in New York City. Photographs taken of Newman in May and June showed him looking gaunt. Writer A.E. Hotchner, who partnered with Newman to start the Newman's Own company in the 1980s, told the Associated Press that Newman told him about the disease about eighteen months prior to the interview. Newman's spokesman told the press that the star was "doing nicely," but neither confirmed nor denied that he had cancer. In August, after reportedly finishing chemotherapy, Newman told his family he wished to die at home.

Newman died on September 26, 2008, aged 83, surrounded by his family and close friends. His remains were cremated after a private funeral service near his home in Westport.

Filmography, awards, and nominations

As actor

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1954		Basil
1955		George Gibbs
		Rocky Graziano
	Capt. Edward W. Hall Jr.
	''The Helen Morgan Story''	Larry Maddux
''Until They Sail''	Capt. Jack Harding
	''The Long, Hot Summer''	Ben Quick	Best Actor Award (Cannes Film Festival)
''The Left Handed Gun''	Billy the Kid
	Brick Pollitt	Nominated — Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
	Harry Bannerman
1959	''The Young Philadelphians''	Anthony Judson Lawrence
	''From the Terrace''	David Alfred Eaton
	Ari Ben Canaan
		Eddie Felson
''Paris Blues''	Ram Bowen
	''Sweet Bird of Youth''	Chance Wayne	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
''Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man''	Ad Francis, 'The Battler'	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
		Hud Bannon	Nominated — Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading RoleNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
''A New Kind of Love''	Steve Sherman
	Andrew Craig
	''What a Way to Go!''	Larry Flint
''The Outrage''	Juan Carrasco
1965	''Lady L''	Armand Denis
		Lew Harper
''Torn Curtain''	Prof. Michael Armstrong	directed by Alfred Hitchcock
		John Russell
''Cool Hand Luke''	Luke Jackson	Nominated — Academy Award for Best ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
1968	''The Secret War of Harry Frigg''	Pvt. Harry Frigg
	''Winning''	Frank Capua
''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''	Butch Cassidy	Nominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
1970		Rheinhardt
		Hank Stamper
''Once Upon a Wheel (1971 TV program)''	Himself	Winner: World Television Festival Award,	Winner: Best International Sports Documentary
	''Pocket Money''	Jim Kane
''The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean''
	''The Mackintosh Man''	Joseph Rearden
''The Sting''	Henry Gondorff
1974	''The Towering Inferno''	Doug Roberts
1975		Lew Harper
	''Silent Movie''	Himself
''Buffalo Bill and the Indians''
1977		Reggie "Reg" Dunlop
1979		Essex
1980	''When Time Ran Out...''	Hank Anderson
	''Fort Apache, The Bronx''	Murphy
''Absence of Malice''	Michael Colin Gallagher	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Actor
	''Come Along with Me''		TV
''The Verdict''	Frank Galvin
1984	''Harry & Son''	Harry Keach
1986	''The Color of Money''	Fast Eddie Felson	Academy Award for Best ActorNational Board of Review Award for Best ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Drama
	''Fat Man and Little Boy''
1990	''Mr. and Mrs. Bridge''	Walter Bridge
1993	''La Classe américaine''	Dave	in redubbed archive footage only
	''The Hudsucker Proxy''	Sidney J. Mussburger
	Donald J. "Sully" Sullivan
1998		Harry Ross
1999		Dodge Blake
2000	''Where the Money Is''	Henry Manning
2001	''The Blunder Years'' (''The Simpsons'' episode)	Himself	voice
2002	''Road to Perdition''	John Rooney	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting RoleNominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion PictureNominated — Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Supporting ActorNominated — Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture
2003		Stage Manager	Nominated — Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor - Miniseries or a MovieNominated — Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
		Max Roby	Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries or a MovieGolden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
''Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D''	Dave Scott	voice
2006		Doc Hudson/Hudson Hornet	voice
2007		Narrator	voice
2008	''The Meerkats''	Narrator	voice

As director or producer

Year	Film	Notes
1968	''Rachel, Rachel''	Golden Globe Award for Best Director - Motion PictureNominated – Academy Award for Best PictureNew York Film Critics Circle Award (best director)
	''Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid''	Co-executive producer (uncredited)
''Winning''	Co-executive producer (uncredited)
1970		Co-producer
		Director and co-executive producer
	producer
		Director and producer
''The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean''	Co-executive producer (uncredited)
1980	''The Shadow Box''
1984	''Harry & Son''	Director and producer
1987
2005		Producer, Nominated: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Miniseries

Additional awards and honors

In addition to the awards Newman won for specific roles, he received an honorary Academy Award in 1986 for his "many and memorable and compelling screen performances" and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for his charity work in 1994.

He received the Golden Globe ''New Star of the Year — Actor'' award for ''The Silver Chalice (1957), the Henrietta Award World Film Favorite — Male in 1964 and 1966 and the Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1984.

Newman won Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for ''The Long, Hot Summer'' and the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival for ''Nobody's Fool''.

In 1968, Newman was named "Man of the Year" by Harvard University's performance group, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

Newman Day has been celebrated at Kenyon College, Bates College, Princeton University, and other American colleges since the 1970s. In 2004, Newman requested that Princeton University disassociate the event from his name, due to the fact that he did not endorse the behaviors, citing his creation of the Scott Newman Centre in 1980, which is "dedicated to the prevention of substance abuse through education".

Posthumously, Newman was inducted into the Connecticut Hall of Fame, and was honored with a nature preserve in Westport named in his honor. He was also honored by the United States House of Representatives following his death.

Published work

Newman, Paul; Hotchner, A.E. ''Newman's Own Cookbook''. Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0684848325.

Newman, Paul; Hotchner, A.E. ''Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Common Good''. Doubleday Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0385508026.

See also

List of select Jewish racing drivers

Notes

References

Demers, Jenifer. ''Paul Newman: the Dream has Ended!''. Createspace, 2008. ISBN 1440433232

Lax, Eric. ''Paul Newman: a Biography''. Turner Publishing, Incorporated, 1999. ISBN 1-57036-286-6.

Morella, Joe; Epstein, Edward Z. ''Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward''. Delacorte Press, 1988. ISBN 0440500044.

O'Brien, Daniel. ''Paul Newman''. Faber & Faber, Limited, 2005. ISBN 057121987X.

Oumano, Elena. ''Paul Newman''. St. Martin's Press, 1990. ISBN 0-517-05934-7.

Quirk, Lawrence J. ''The Films of Paul Newman''. Taylor Pub., 1986. ISBN 0-8065-0385-8.

Thomson, Kenneth. ''The Films of Paul Newman''. 1978. ISBN 0-912616-87-3.

Further reading

External links

Newman's Own

Newman's Own Foundation

Paul Newman bio at h2g2

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name	James Drury
birth name	James Child Drury
birth date	April 18, 1934
birth place	New York, New York
occupation	Former actor; oil and natural gas businessman
yearsactive	1955–2005
spouse	Carl Ann Head Drury (1979-present)Phyllis Mitchell (1968-1979) (divorced)Cristall Orton (1957-1964) (divorced) 2 sons
website	http://www.thevirginian.net/ }}

James Child Drury, Jr. (born April 18, 1934) is an American actor probably best known for his success in playing the title role in the 90-minute weekly Western television series ''The Virginian'', broadcast on NBC from 1962-1971. With 12-14 hour workdays, the series had perhaps the most demanding production schedules in the history of network television.

Biography

Drury was born in New York, New York, where his father James Sr. was a New York University professor of marketing. He grew up in both New York and Oregon.

After a series of bit parts and playing second-lead for Walt Disney, in 1962 Drury got a substantial role as a lascivious gold prospector in the early Sam Peckinpah western Ride the High Country. In the same year, he also landed the top-billed leading role of the ranch foreman on ''The Virginian'', a lavish series which ran for nine seasons. The show was based on Owen Wister's classic novel, and the various screen versions that had been filmed since. It has been rumored that Drury was possibly cast because of a vague resemblance to Gary Cooper, who had played the part in an early movie version. In the series, as the novel, the actual name of "The Virginian" is never revealed. Other Drury costars on ''The Virginian'' included Lee J. Cobb, Randy Boone, Roberta Shore, Gary Clarke, Clu Gulager, Diane Roter and toward the end of the run, Tim Matheson. Drury also had a cameo role in the 2000 TV movie of ''The Virginian'' starring Bill Pullman. The film followed Wister's novel more closely than had the television series. Drury appeared in a number of films and other television programs, including the TV cowboy reunion movie ''The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw'' with Doug McClure, who played the fun-loving cowhand, Trampas for the entire run of ''The Virginian''.

In 1991 Drury was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. In 1997 and 2003, he was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina. At the 2003 show, he was reunited with his ''Virginian'' co-stars Gary Clarke, Randy Boone, and Roberta Shore.

Drury was in the oil and natural gas business in Houston at the turn of the 21st century. His son, Timothy Drury, is a keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist who has played with The Eagles and currently with Whitesnake. Drury was a close friend of the Houston marksman Joe Bowman, who trained numerous actors on how to use weapons.

Filmography

''Blackboard Jungle'' (1955) uncredited

''Love Me or Leave Me'' (1955)

''The Tender Trap'' (1955)

''Diane'' (1956) uncredited

''The Last Wagon'' (1956)

''Forbidden Planet'' (1956)

''Love Me Tender'' (1956)

''Bernardine'' (1957)

''Good Day for a Hanging'' (1959)

''Toby Tyler'' (1960) as Jim Weaver

''Pollyanna'' (1960)

''Ten Who Dared'' (1960)

''Third of a Man'' (1962)

''Ride the High Country'' (1962)

''The Young Warriors'' aka ''Eagle Warriors'' (1967)

''Breakout'' (1968) TV movie

''The Devil and Miss Sarah'' (1971) TV movie

''The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw'' (1991)

''The Virginian'' (2000) TV movie

''Hell to Pay'' (2005)

Television series

''Steve Canyon'' - Twice as Lieutenant Richard Muller

''Gunsmoke'' - Four times

''The Rifleman'' - Twice Episode 4 "The Marshal" (1958) and Episode 109 "Death Trap" (1960)

''Cheyenne (TV series)'' - Episode "The Impostor" as Bill Magruder (1960)

''Rawhide (TV series)'' - Episode "Incident of the Night on the Town" as Rance (1961)

''The Virginian'' (1962–1971)

''Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In'' - Twice

''Firehouse (TV series)'' (1974)

''Walker, Texas Ranger'' - Three episodes as Captain Tom Price

''The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.'' - Twice as Ethan Emerson

''Alias Smith and Jones'' - Sheriff Lawm Trevors

References

External links

James Drury The Virginian Official Website

The Virginian Website

Info at Official Myspace page

Picture of Drury in Oregon

Interview with Kirby Jonas and James Drury

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