He was loved by every person he came in contact with.
Newman was a wonderful person who cared about people and life.
He did not live in Hollywood or anywhere near it.
Newman said the Hollywood lifestyle was "rubbish", and lived instead, in Connecticut.
Newman became a star in the 1950s and his fame kept getting bigger and he went on to become a legend.
He starred in such classic films as "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Exodus," "The Hustler," "Cool Hand Luke," "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," "The Sting" and "The Verdict."
He won an Oscar in 1986 for "The Color of Money".
Among his many other awards was the Motion Picture Academy's Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
CNN (cnn.com) said that in 1982, Newman and his friend A.E. Hotchner founded Newman's Own , a food company that produced food ranging from pasta sauces to salad dressing to chocolate chip cookies.
"The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films," Newman once wryly noted.
To date, the company -- which donates all profits to charities such as Newman's Hole in the Wall camps -- has given away more than $200 million.
Newman established the camp to benefit gravely ill children. (CNN)
That was the kind of person Paul Newman was.
He made the world a better place.
We will miss him.
George Vreeland Hill
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I've seen all of his movies, but The Sting is definitely my favorite.