Paul Newman (1925-2008)
88.8 TOPICAL actor score · #38 of 1,977 actors
Paul Newman (1925-2008) has a TOPICAL actor score of 88.8 - one of the 100 best actors of all time by TOPICAL's score. Their strongest parts are career standing and acting honours. They've won 3 acting honours from 5 nominations, including the Academy Award for Best Actor. Their best ten-year run was 1966-1975. Best films: The Sting (1973), Cool Hand Luke (1967), The Hustler (1961).
Why this score
Each bar: better than this % of the 1,977 actors we rank. How the score works.
Acting honours96
Prime96
Their movies86
Credits69
Career standing98
- Acting honours3 wins, 5 nominations - incl. Academy Award for Best Actor; Academy Honorary Award; Kennedy Center Honors
- Prime1966-1975
- Credits69 films and shows · billed in the top 8 of 27 scored films (25 as a lead)
- Known inWikipedia articles in 109 languages
“He has been described as "one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars".”
Wikipedia · read the article - AI legacy read: 10/10
Paul Newman's scored films
| TOPICAL rank | Film | Year | Billed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 60 | The Sting | 1973 | 1 |
| 189 | The Hustler | 1961 | 1 |
| 209 | Cool Hand Luke | 1967 | 1 |
| 232 | Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid | 1969 | 1 |
| 387 | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | 1958 | 2 |
| 652 | Hud | 1963 | 1 |
| 666 | The Verdict | 1982 | 1 |
| 704 | Road to Perdition | 2002 | 2 |
| 764 | The Towering Inferno | 1974 | 2 |
| 1,181 | Cars | 2006 | 2 |
| 1,209 | The Color of Money | 1986 | 1 |
| 1,664 | Nobody's Fool | 1994 | 1 |
| 2,468 | Sometimes a Great Notion | 1971 | 1 |
| 2,513 | Somebody Up There Likes Me | 1956 | 1 |
| 2,607 | The Hudsucker Proxy | 1994 | 3 |
| 2,632 | Absence of Malice | 1981 | 2 |
| 2,942 | Exodus | 1960 | 1 |
| 3,312 | Sweet Bird of Youth | 1962 | 1 |
| 3,623 | Torn Curtain | 1966 | 1 |
| 3,921 | Mr. & Mrs. Bridge | 1990 | 1 |
| 4,357 | Paris Blues | 1961 | 1 |
| 4,365 | The Young Philadelphians | 1959 | 1 |
| 4,610 | Blaze | 1989 | 1 |
| 4,824 | What a Way to Go! | 1964 | 2 |
| 6,094 | The Silver Chalice | 1954 | 4 |
| 6,244 | A New Kind of Love | 1963 | 1 |
| 6,347 | When Time Ran Out... | 1980 | 1 |