Paul Newman filmography
This is a complete filmography of Paul Newman:
Filmography
As actor
As director or producer
Video game credits
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Cars | Doc Hudson | Voice only |
Projects turned down or incomplete
| Year | Film | Role (If taken) | Actor(s) Take The Role | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Ben-Hur | Judah Ben-Hur | Charlton Heston | William Wyler | Turned it down because he said he didn't have the legs to wear a tunic. |
| 1966 | The Sand Pebbles | Jake Holman | Steve McQueen | Robert Wise | Was director Robert Wise's first pick for the lead. |
| 1971 | The French Connection | Jimmy Doyle | Gene Hackman | William Friedkin | Was director William Friedkin's first choice for the lead role of Jimmy Doyle, but he was deemed too expensive. |
| Dirty Harry | Harry Callahan | Clint Eastwood | Don Siegel | Newman thought the screenplay was too right-wing, and recommended Clint Eastwood for the part instead | |
| 1973 | Paper Moon | Moses Pray | Ryan O’Neal | Peter Bogdanovich | He and his daughter Nell Potts were supposed to be in Paper Moon (1973) in the leading roles, but this changed when original director John Huston bowed out the project. |
| 1975 | The Eiger Sanction | Jonathan Hemlock | Clint Eastwood | Clint Eastwood | After reading the script, he declined, believing the film was too violent. |
| Jaws | Quint | Robert Shaw | Steven Spielberg | ||
| 1977 | Sorcerer | Jackie Scanlon | Roy Scheider | William Friedkin | |
| 1982 | First Blood | John Rambo | Sylvester Stallone | Ted Kotcheff | Long before the film was released, Newman is one of contenders to play the titular character. |
| 1994 | The Paper | Bernie White | Robert Duvall | Ron Howard | |
| 1996 | A Time to Kill | Lucien Wilbanks | Donald Sutherland | Joel Schumacher | Newman found the film's justification of murder distasteful. |
| 1997 | A Thousand Acres | Larry Cook | Jason Robards | Jocelyn Moorhouse | Michelle Pfeiffer, who starred and produced the film, wanted Newman to play her father, patriarch Larry Cook, which he declined. |
| N/A | The Front Runner (incomplete) | In the 1970s, Paul Newman expressed his desire to star in the movie version of the best-selling novel "The Front Runner", which was published in 1974, it was not come to an end. | |||
| 2015 | A Walk in The Woods | Stephen Katz | Nick Nolte | Ken Kwapis | When the film was still in development, Redford, who co-produced and stars in the film, hope that Newman would team up with him to play the role of Katz. |
Select theater credits
- Phaedra by Jean Racine and Robert Collington Ackart – Yale, 1951
- Beethoven by Dorothy B. Bland – Yale, 1952
- Picnic by William Inge – New York, 1953–54[3]
- The Desperate Hours – New York, 1955[3]
- Sweet Bird of Youth by Tennessee Williams – New York, 1959–60[3]
- Baby Want a Kiss – New York, 1964[3]
- Love Letters – Westport, 2000
- The Constant Wife – Westport, 2000
- Our Town by Thornton Wilder – Westport, New York, 2002–3[3]
- Trumbo – New York, 2004
References
- ↑ "Berlinale: 1995 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved December 31, 2011.
- ↑ Bernstein, Adam (September 27, 2008). "Academy-Award Winning Actor Paul Newman Dies at 83". The Washington Post. The Washington Post Company. Retrieved September 27, 2008.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Paul Newman filmography at the Internet Broadway Database
External links
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