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How will the late Paul Newman be remembered?

Answer:
Actor. Auto racer. Philanthropist. Paul Newman

will be remembered in many ways. To most people he will be best remembered as a charismatic actor who starred in such films as "The Hustler," Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting," "The Towering Inferno" and "The Color of Money," for which he won an Academy Award in 1986.

Paul Newman won numerous awards in his lifetime. Aside from his Academy Award he won three Golden Globe Awards, a
BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Cannes Film Festival Award, an Emmy award, and many honorary awards.

Newman was also an auto racing enthusiast whose team won several Indycar championships. For many years he was a
driver in the Sports Car Club of America.

Paul Newman's face appears on food labels nationwide because of Newman's Own, the food company he founded in
1982. Initially selling organic salad dressing, the company has since branched out to include sauces, popcorn and wine. Newman insisted the company's after-tax proceeds benefit charities, which to date have received in excess of $220 million in proceeds.

As a philanthropist, Paul Newman is also remembered for the creation of ‘Hole in The Wall Association' - a group of 11 summer camps across the globe for impoverished children suffering from life-threatening diseases.

To his family and friends, Newman is remembered for his devotion to loved ones. The actor lived a quiet life with wife Joanne Woodward, an actress whom he married in 1958. The couple have three children, and Newman had three children by a previous marriage.

The Newman family lived far from the glare of Hollywood at their residence in fashionable Westport, Connecticut. It was there that Newman died on Sept. 26, 2008, after completing chemotherapy treatments for terminal lung cancer.