Paul Newman has announced his retirement from screen acting, saying it is becoming too hard for him, at the age of 82, to remember lines and act confidently. But the man whose piercing blue eyes and flawless technique made him one of Hollywood's top leading men from the 1950s into the late 1970s, intends to keep busy. He has a new organic restaurant to run in Connecticut as well as a network of camps for critically ill children.
He told an interviewer on American breakfast television that his screen career - which includes the films Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and The Sting - was over.
"I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough," he said. " I'm not able to work any more as an actor at the level I would want to. You start to lose your memory, your confidence, your invention. So that's pretty much a closed book for me." Paul Newman was last heard in the movies doing a voice part for last year's Pixar film Cars. His last role of any substance was in the Depression-era tale The Road to Perdition in 2002. Since the early 1990s, when he appeared in Mr and Mrs Bridge, his acting career has slowed drastically.
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Report from The Irish Independent, Dublin, Ireland
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