1. "The Hustler"
   "The Prize"
2. "What a Way to Go!"
   "Lady L"

In one of his best-known roles, Paul Newman stars as small time pool hustler "Fast" Eddie Felson in "The Hustler." After being soundly beaten by "Minnesota Fats," masterfully portrayed by Jackie Gleason, Eddie learns a series of lessons about life, loyalty and ego.

1. "Hard Times"
   "Paper Moon"
2. "The Sting"
   "Thieves Like Us"

Paul Newman once again joined forces with his "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" cohorts Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill for 1973's "The Sting." The film swept the 1974 Oscars, earning seven awards, including "Best Picture" and "Best Director."

1. "The Outrage"
   "Pocket Money"
2. "Little Big Man"
   "Hombre"

In his sixth film with director Martin Ritt, Newman plays John Russell, a caucasian raised by the Apache, who faces intolerance when he returns to white society. Considered a revisionist western, "Hombre" breaks with the genre and presents a positive portrayal of Native Americans.

1. "Blue Collar"
   "Breaking Away"
2. "Where the Money Is"
   "Harry & Son"

Paul Newman not only stars in, but he also wrote and directed this blue-collar drama from 1984. Newman plays Harry Keach, a widowed crane operator who's constantly at odds with his slacker son (Robby Benson) who aspires to be a writer. Unfortunately, "Harry & Son" was met with mostly negative reviews.

1. "Pocket Money"
   "Pat Garret and Billy the Kid"
2. "Jeremiah Johnson"
   "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean"

Based on the life of the West's infamous hanging judge, "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean" was directed by John Huston in the first of two cinematic outings with Paul Newman. Screenwriter John Milius was unhappy with the casting of Newman whom he deemed too goodlooking for the gritty role.

1. "Brubaker"
   "The Great Escape"
2. "Cool Hand Luke"
   "Escape from Alcatraz"

"Cool Hand Luke" stars Paul Newman in his signature role as convict Luke Jackson. Jackson, facing a stint on a prison farm for "cutting the heads off parking meters," clashes with a sadistic warden (Strother Martin) in a struggle of wills. With his unbeatable spirit, Luke becomes a prison legend.

1. "A Streetcar Named Desire"
   "Baby Doll"
2. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
   "Suddenly, Last Summer"

Newman stars as alcoholic former athlete Brick Pollitt in this adaptation of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." Co-starring Elizabeth Taylor as Brick's fiery wife Maggie, and Burl Ives as overbearing family patriarch Big Daddy, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" is a tense drama of passion and dysfunction.

1. "The Verdict"
   "The Accused"
2. "Suspect"
   "Witness for the Prosecution"

Based on the novel by Barry Reed, 1982's "The Verdict" stars Paul Newman as Frank Galvin, a disgraced attorney who was framed for jury tampering. An alcoholic, Frank takes on a medical malpractice suit for for some easy money, but soon realizes that the case is his shot at redemption.

1. "Prince of the City"
   "Nighthawks"
2. "Eyewitness"
   "Fort Apache, the Bronx"

Paul Newman stars as cop John Murphy in 1981's "Fort Apache, the Bronx." Assigned to a crime-infested South Bronx precinct. Murphy and his new partner, Corelli (Ken Wahl), are up against both the crooks and their fellow officers while trying to maintain their honor in the face of a corrupt system.

1. "The Towering Inferno"
   "The Poseidon Adventure"
2. "Airport '77"
   "Earthquake"

Irwin Allen's "The Towering Inferno" finds Paul Newman heading up an all-star cast in one of the greatest disaster movies of all time. Newman plays the architect of a San Francisco skyscraper whose worst nightmare becomes a reality when a fire breaks out during its opening ceremony.

1. "Catch 22"
   "M*A*S*H*"
2. "1941"
   "The Secret War of Harry Frigg"

1968's "The Secret War of Harry Frigg" stars Paul Newman in the title role as a troublemaking army private with a knack for busting out of the stockade. When a group of generals are captured, the top brass sends Frigg to break them out of a cushy Italian villa.

1. "Coach"
   "The Bad News Bears"
2. "North Dallas Forty"
   "Slap Shot"

Although it was met with mixed reviews and poor box office, 1978's "Slap Shot" has become a bonafide cult hit in the years since its release. Paul Newman stars as the coach of a losing minor league hockey team whose fortunes change when he recruits a trio of hyper-violent brothers.

1. "Three Days of the Condor"
   "The Sting"
2. "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid"
   "All the President's Men"

Paul Newman and Robert Redford teamed up for the first time in 1969's "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid." Starring as the Old West's best-looking outlaw duo, Newman and Redford's onscreen chemistry is electrifying.

1. "Rally Round the Flag Boys!"
   "From the Terrace"
2. "The Long, Hot Summer"
   "Paris Blues"

Paul Newman plays a charismatic drifter who wins the favor of a domineering plantation owner in "The Long Hot Summer." Released in April of 1958, Newman and co-star Joanne Woodward were married just after the film was completed. They were together until Newman's passing in 2008.

1. "Cool Hand Luke"
   "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"
2. "The Color of Money"
   "Nobody's Fool"

As hard to believe as it may be, Paul Newman only won one Oscar for "Best Actor" despite having been nominated nine times. He finally nabbed the coveted honor with 1986's "The Color of Money" in which he reprised his 1961 role as "Fast" Eddie Felson from "The Hustler."

1. "Sin City"
   "Gangs of New York"
2. "The Road to Perdition"
   "The Untouchables"

"The Road to Perdition," based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins, was Paul Newman's final on-screen appearance in a theatrical film. A complex tale of fathers and sons set in the world of 1930s organized crime, the film earned Newman an Oscar nomination for his role as crime boss John Rooney.

1. "Norma Ray"
   "Broadcast News"
2. "The Parallax View"
   "Absence of Malice"

Miami liquor wholesaler Mike Gallagher (Paul Newman) finds himself the subject of a libelous plot to implicate him in a murder in 1981's "Absence of Malice." Sally Field co-stars as an eager reporter who tries to make amends for writing the story that nearly wrecks Gallagher's life.

1. "Giant"
   "Cattle King"
2. "Drylanders"
   "Hud"

Paul Newman earned near-universal acclaim and an Academy Award nomination for his role as Hud Bannon in 1963's "Hud." Based on Larry McMurtry's 1961 novel, "Horseman, Pass By," "Hud" features Newman in one of his best performances as the callous, hard-drinking title character.

1. "Somebody Up There Likes Me"
   "The Ring"
2. "The Harder They Fall"
   "The Square Ring"

"Somebody Up There Like Me" from 1956 stars Paul Newman as real-life middleweight boxing champ Rocky Graziano. One of Newman's earliest starring roles, he replaced James Dean who was originally slated to play the part before his untimely death in an auto accident in 1955.

1. "The Silver Chalice"
   "Quo Vadis"
2. "The Robe"
   "Barrabas"

1954's "The Silver Chalice" marked Paul Newman's film debut. Based on a 1952 novel by the same name, the film casts Newman as an artisan tasked with creating a silver chalice to house the holy grail. Paul Newman was not a fan of this film and hated his performance in it.

1. "Nothing to Lose"
   "The Hudsucker Proxy"
2. "The Player"
   "Bob Roberts"

Paul Newman's a scheming executive who meets his match in "The Hudsucker Proxy." Directed by the Coen Brothers, the film focuses on a scam hatched by a greedy businessman (Newman) to seize control of a manufacturing company. When he installs a dupe (Tim Robbins) as president, his plot unravels.

1. "Harry and Son"
   "From the Terrace"
2. "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge"
   "A New Kind of Love"

Paul Newman frequently co-starred with Joanne Woodward whom he married in 1958. Their most poignant performance, however, may be 1990's "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" from Merchant Ivory Productions. Portraying an aging couple struggling with changing times, the onscreen duo's chemistry is perfection.

1. "Frenzy"
   "Family Plot"
2. "Topaz"
   "Torn Curtain"

In "Torn Curtain," his only outing with master of suspense Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Newman is an American nuclear physicist who seemingly defects to East Germany. However, his traitorous ways are a ruse to steal Soviet secrets. Taking issue with the actor's approach, Hitchcock frequently clashed with Newman.

1. "From the Terrace"
   "The Prize"
2. "A New Kind of Love"
   "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man"

"The Prize" is a 1963 Cold War espionage thriller based on a novel by Irving Wallace. In the film, Paul Newman plays a hard-drinking author who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. While in Stockholm for the award ceremony, he becomes entangled in a plot to kidnap a noted physicist.

1. "Judith"
   "Exodus"
2. "Operation Thunderbolt"
   "Cast a Giant Shadow"

Based on Leon Uris' 1958 novel by the same name, 1960's "Exodus" directed by Otto Preminger is a dramatized account of the events leading to the founding of the State of Israel. Paul Newman, who stars as a rebel who helps smuggle Jews into Mandate Palestine, famously clashed with director Preminger.

1. "The Young Philadelphians"
   "Witness for the Prosecution"
2. "Libel"
   "The Defender"

Directed by Vincent Sherman, "The Young Philadelphians" showcases Paul Newman's skills as a lawyer who faces a series of conflicts that test his morals. After finally establishing himself a successful tax lawyer, he faces a test of character when a friend is accused of murder.

1. "Message in a Bottle"
   "Twilight"
2. "When Time Ran Out ..."
   "Where the Money Is"

Paul Newman plays an elderly convict who finds a novel way to get out of prison in "Where the Money Is." After faking a stroke, career criminal Henry Manning (played by Newman) is released from prison to a nursing home. However, a shrewd nurse (Linda Fiorentino) is on to him, and he's soon back to his larcenous old ways.

1. "Grumpy Old Men"
   "Nobody's Fool"
2. "Dad"
   "About Schmidt"

1994's "Nobody's Fool" found a 69-year-old Paul Newman still at the top of his game playing a character nine years his junior. In the film. Newman plays Donald "Sully" Sullivan, a man who has led a life devoid of responsibility. His life is changed, however, when his estranged son returns.

1. "Harper"
   "The Drowning Pool"
2. "Klute"
   "The Black Bird"

A pastiche of film noir style, "Harper" stars Newman as P.I. Lew Harper. Harper is contracted to find the wealthy husband of Elaine Sampson (Lauren Bacall), but the case becomes more complex as he uncovers layer after layer of deceit. Newman would reprise this role in 1975's "The Drowning Pool."

1. "Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson"
   "McCabe and Mrs. Miller"
2. "The Hired Hand"
   "The Missouri Breaks"

"Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson" turns the Western genre on its ear with its myth-busting plot. Paul Newman stars as showman Buffalo Bill Cody who's insistence at pushing the legend of Custer's Last Stand puts him at odds with his star, Chief Sitting Bull.

1. "The Glass Menagerie"
   "Baby Doll"
2. "Summer and Smoke"
   "Sweet Bird of Youth"

Four years after his acclaimed turn in 1958's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," Paul Newman returned to the works of Tennessee Williams with 1962's "Sweet Bird of Youth." In the film, Newman stars as Chance Wayne, a failed actor who returns to his hometown with an aging movie star (Geraldine Page) in tow.

1. "The Mackintosh Man"
   "Telefon"
2. "Three Days of the Condor"
   "Hopscotch"

"The Mackintosh Man" is an espionage thriller directed by John Huston from a script co-written by Walter Hill. Starring Paul Newman as a spy posing as a jewel thief, this 1973 film is a fast-moving tale of international intrigue. James Mason co-stars in a typically villainous role as a double agent.

1. "Paris Blues"
   "Jazz on a Summer's Day"
2. "Young Man With a Horn"
   "The Cotton Club"

Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier co-star as expatriate jazz musicians torn between love and music in "Paris Blues." Finding both artistic freedom and racial acceptance in the French jazz scene, Poitier and Newman face a dilemma when they each fall in love with women intent on returning to the States.

1. "Quintet"
   "Rollerball"
2. "A Boy and His Dog"
   "No Blade of Grass"

Paul Newman stars as a nomadic seal hunter struggling to survive during a new ice age in 1979's "Quintet," a rare critical and box office bomb from celebrated filmmaker Robert Altman. When his pregnant wife (Brigitte Fossey) is killed, Newman is drawn into a literal game of life and death.

1. "The Manhattan Project"
   "The Day After Trinity"
2. "Day One"
   "Fat Man and Little Boy"

1989's "Fat Man and Little Boy" stars Paul Newman as Colonel Leslie Groves, the head of the Manhattan Project. Selecting Robert Oppenheimer (Dwight Schultz) as his lead scientist, Groves must surmount both technical and personal obstacles to beat Germany to the bomb in this tense drama.

1. "The Apartment"
   "Gambit"
2. "What a Way to Go!"
   "Sweet Charity"

A bearded Paul Newman has a small but memorable role as the bohemian husband of Shirley MacLaine in "What a Way to Go!" MacLaine is unlucky in love as each of her husbands is killed just as they become successful. Comically killed by a painting machine he invented, Newman goes out with a bang.

1. "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid"
   "The Left Handed Gun"
2. "The Kid from Texas"
   "The Outlaw"

"The Left Handed Gun" directed by Arthur Penn stars Paul Newman as the infamous Billy the Kid. It marked the second time Newman took on a role that was originally intended for James Dean. Breaking with genre conventions, the film bombed in the United States, but was praised by French critics.

1. "High Anxiety"
   "The Producers"
2. "Silent Movie"
   "Blazing Saddles"

In 1976's "Silent Movie," comedy legend Mel Brooks, hoping to revive silent movies, is on a slapstick quest to secure big stars for his new film. Hoping to nab Paul Newman, Mel and company engage the injured star on a wheelchair in a hilarious chase that parodies Newman's love of auto racing.

1. "Striptease"
   "Gypsy"
2. "Blaze"
   "Bullworth"

Loosely based on a true story, 1989's "Blaze" stars Paul Newman as the legendarily eccentric Louisiana Governor Earl Long and his relationship with burlesque dancer Blaze Starr (Lolita Davidovich). Despite his opponents' attempts to use the affair against him, the feisty politician refuses to back down.

1. "WUSA"
   "FM"
2. "The Next Voice You Hear"
   "Talk Radio"

Paul Newman stars as Rheinhardt, a hard-drinking cynic who takes a job as an announcer at a far right radio station in 1970's "WUSA." Politically ambivalent, Rheinhardt is content to spout the station's rhetoric and collect his pay until he becomes aware of sinister machinations behind the scenes.