A Hollywood Legend

Paul Newman (1925-2008)

Hollywood legend Paul Newman, whose career spanned more than fifty years, died on Friday, September 26. He was eighty-three.

Read obituaries from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC, CNN, the Guardian, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.

The New York Times’s Manohla Dargis considers him here and, in an audio-accompanied slideshow, here.

His biographer, Shawn Levy, remembers him here.

Film historian David Thomson discusses his career here.

Variety editor Peter Bart recounts his quarrel with Newman.

Jack Matthews, formerly film critic for the New York Daily News, reflects on him here.

Slate’s Dahlia Lithwick details his generosity here.

LA Weekly’s Nikki Finke pays tribute to him here.

The Guardian honours him here, here, here, here, here, here and here.

Tributes by Time’s Richard Corliss, the Chicago Sun-Times’s Roger Ebert, The Observer’s Philip French, CNN’s Larry King, Variety’s Anne Thompson, Ted Johnson, Cynthia Littleton and Army Archerd, Slate’s Dana Stevens and Stephen Metcalf, The Huffington Post’s Karen Ocamb, John Farr, Eve Ensler and Bryan Young, the Associated Press’s John Christoffersen, Politico’s Jeffrey Ressner and Kenneth P. Vogel and the BBC’s Neil Smith.

CNN’s Lenora Chu discusses the future of his company.

Reuters video obituary.

ABC News career retrospective.

Variety’s photo gallery.

His life in stills.

Magnum in Motion slideshow.

Entertainment Weekly on his best films.

A Youtube tribute to his career.

A short film about his philanthropic work.

A documentary about him and his wife of fifty years, Joanne Woodward: parts one, two and three.

Appearing on Inside the Actor’s Studio, with James Lipton (1994): parts one, two, three, four, five, six and seven.

His screen test for East of Eden, with James Dean.

A clip from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), with Elizabeth Taylor.

A clip from The Hustler (1961), with Jackie Gleason.

A clip from Harper (1966), with Janet Leigh.

Jamming with Louis Armtrong in Paris Blues (1961).

Playing the banjo and singing in Cool Hand Luke (1967).

Speaking at the Cannes Film Festival (1973).

Being nostalgic with Robert Redford, in an episode of the Sundance Channel’s Iconoclasts show (2005).

Desperate times with Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

A David Letterman interview about motor racing and marriage (2006).

ABC interview about his retirement from acting (2007).

Talking about the Actor’s Studio, on an episode of The Charlie Rose Show, alongside Norman Mailer, Ellen Burstyn, Arthur Penn and others (1994).