Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Multi-talented, Paul Newman is one of the greatest American actors of all time. With his silhouette of a Greek statue and his unreal blue eyes, he embodied the quintessential Hollywood star. But he never seemed satisfied. The son of a Jewish sporting goods retailer who despises him and a Catholic mother who adores him, driven by self-doubt and an inherited need for approval from his childhood, he has worked throughout his fifty-year career to break the image of the pretty boy. He made his first experiences in the famous Actors Studio. The breakthrough as a screen star came in 1958 with "The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". From then on he preferred characters on the edge of the American dream. With archive images and film excerpts, the documentary paints a portrait of a socio-politically committed man with many facets and also pays tribute to the role of his wife Joanne Woodward.

Rita Moreno
Self(archive footage)
Paul McCartney, John Lennon, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and The Beatles
The Beatles
Self(archive footage)
Joanne Woodward
Joanne Woodward
Self(archive footage)
Robert Redford
Robert Redford
Self(archive footage)
George Roy Hill
Self(archive footage)
Robert Altman
Self(archive footage)
Susan Kendall Newman
Self(archive footage)
Scott Newman
Self(archive footage)
Sidney Lumet
Self(archive footage)
Martin Scorsese
Self(archive footage)