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Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver, auto racing team owner, 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.
Newman was born in Shaker Heights (a suburb of Cleveland). He was the son of Theresa (née Fetzer or Fetsko; Slovak: Terézia Fecková) 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 Humenné, Ptičie (formerly Pticsie) in the former Kingdom of Hungary, Austria–Hungary (now Humenné 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.
Actors: Tom Sizemore (actor), Rachel Hunter (actress), Joanna Pacula (actress), Zack Zublena (actor), Tom Druilhet (actor), Beau Nelson (actor), Kristina Korsholm (actress), Adam Haracz (editor), Vince Tuomey (actor), Nick Wall (actor), Simona Brhlikova (actress), Roger Groh (actor), Rod L Harrell (actor), Edmund Druilhet (actor), Edmund Druilhet (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jürgen Heinrich (actor), Marion Klann (miscellaneous crew), Anna Loos (actress), Judy Winter (actress), Sophie Rois (actress), Wolfgang Hantke (producer), Martin Umbach (actor), Andrea Eckert (actress), Markus Rosenmüller (director), Hannes Wegener (actor), Oliver Bootz (actor), Michael von Au (actor), Daniel Morgenroth (actor), Wolfgang Häntsch (actor), Bettina Weiß (costume designer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Jeremy Davies (actor), Douglas Matejka (producer), Jared Trimble (writer), Jared Trimble (director), Ravi Anne (producer), Daniel Janoff (writer),
Plot: Paul Newman Meets Doctor Comfort is a slow-burn mystery set in rural Texas revolving around Paul Newman, a famously named obituary writer of some local celebrity, who in order to redeem his tarnished reputation must delve deep into a dead man's past. During the course of his investigation, Paul encounters Doctor Comfort, a small-town coroner who serves as a tour guide of sorts, exposing Paul to a world he never knew existed, while at the same time awakening him to truths about himself.
Genres: Mystery,Actors: Pim de la Parra (writer), Pim de la Parra (actor), Pim de la Parra (director), Henny Alma (actress), Hetty Krapels (actress), Dorna van Rouveroy (actress), Otakar Votocek (actor), Natasa Hanusová (actress), Pierre Triboulet (actor), Elmar Schiphorst (actor), Pimm Jal de la Parra (actor), Barbara Barendrecht (actress), William Del Visco (actor), Renee van Egmond (actress), Liëla Koguchi (actress),
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