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Paul Leonard Newman (born January 26, 1925) is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, Cannes Award, and Emmy Award-winning American actor and film director. He is the founder of Newman’s Own, a food company of which all profits and royalties are donated to charity.[1] As of May 2007, these donations have exceeded $220 million USD.
He was born Paul Leonard Newman on the 26th of January, 1925, in Shaker Heights, an affluent suburb of Cleveland. His father, Arthur, was Jewish and ran a profitable sports goods store. His mother, Theresa (nee Fetzer), was Catholic and helped out in the shop, while raising Paul and his brother Arthur (later a producer and production manager). Young Paul was bright and good at sports. He also showed an early interest in theatre, something that Theresa encouraged. He made his acting debut at 7, as the court jester in a school production of Robin Hood. Paul graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1943.Newman served in the Navy during World War II in the Pacific theater. He flew from aircraft carriers as a tailgunner in the Avenger. He had hoped to be accepted for pilot training, but did not qualify because of being color blind.

Prior to entering the US Navy, Newman attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, where he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity. He completed his degree at Kenyon College after the war and later studied acting at Yale University and under Lee Strasberg at the Actors’ Studio in New York City.

Oscar Levant writes that Newman was initially hesitant to leave New York for Hollywood: “Too close to the cake,” he reports him saying, “Also no place to study.”
Newman also played the role of player-coach Reggie Dunlop in the 1977 hockey movie Slap Shot!