AP Photo/Jim CooperButch Cassidy, Hud Bannon, icon. Paul Newman excelled in all those roles, and more.
Newman, the Academy Award-winning leading man who specialized in iconoclasts and outsiders, but whose aqua-blue eyes and box-office prowess made him one of Hollywood's biggest stars, and whose eclectic interests saw him pursue car racing and salad dressing with equal vigor, died Friday of cancer. He was 83.
Newman succumbed to the disease at his farmhouse near Westport, Conn., publicist Jeff Sanderson said. He was surrounded by his family and dear friends.
Survivors include actress Joanne Woodward, his wife of 50 years, and his professional collaborator for nearly as many.
In a 52-year screen year, Newman earned the 1986 Best Actor Academy Award for The Color of Money, and pulled in 10 overall nominations—nine for acting, and one for producing 1968 Best Picture contender Rachel, Rachel, which starred Woodward, and which he directed.
Additionally, he received two honorary Oscars, in 1986 and 1994, won one Emmy, for 2005's Empire Falls, and rated one Tony nomination, for a 2002-03 Broadway revival of Our Town.