A Western (film) about two bank robbers…
Paul Newman teams up with Robert Redford in “Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid.”
Born to a Jewish father and Christian Scientist mother in Shaker Heights, IL, Newman said he considers himself Jewish: “It’s more challenging.”
Britannica –
“A charismatic American film actor, who was an enduring screen presence in the second half of the 20th century.
Newman served as a navy radio operator during World War II and upon his discharge enrolled at Ohio’s Kenyon College (B.A. 1949). He completed one year of graduate studies in theatre at Yale University but gained his most important experience at New York’s Actor Studio…
In 1960 Newman led an international cast in Otto Preminger’s epic film Exodus, based on the novel by Leon Uris about the founding of Israel.
In 1961 he essayed the role which perhaps best defined his screen persona, that of pool shark “Fast” Eddie Felson in The Hustler…
Two enormously popular films teamed Newman with costar Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill.
The comic western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) received seven Oscar nominations and was among the top–grossing films of the year. In 1973 the pair portrayed Depression–era con men in The Sting, a widely seem work that won the Academy Award for best picture.”
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/413027/Paul–Newman (accessed May 10, 2009)
Newman died of cancer – September 26, 2008 in Westport, CT.