PAUL NEWMAN - AUTOGRAPHED SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH - HFSID 157952

PAUL NEWMAN
Black and white publicity still from the film Fort Apache, the Bronx.
Photograph signed: "Paul Newman". B/w, 10x8 overall, image 9¼x6¼ (one surface). Publicity still from the 1981 film, Fort Apache, the Bronx, in which Newman starred as Murphy and Rachel Ticotin (also pictured) co-starred as Isabella. ©1980, Time-Life Productions. Captioned at lower margin: "PAUL NEWMAN plays a compassionate cop involved in a bittersweet romance with nurse RACHEL TICOTIN in a powerful account of an embattled police precinct in a devastated, violent neighborhood." In the year this film was released, Newman also starred in Absence of Malice, which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Nominated for eight Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Leading Role, Paul Newman (1925-2008) is considered one of greatest of performers of all time.. He won the Best Actor Oscar for his work portraying Fast Eddie Felson in The Color of Money (1986); he earned a nomination for portraying that same character 25 years earlier in The Hustler. Other Oscar-nominated performances include Brick Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Luke Jackson in Cool Hand Luke (1967), and John Rooney in Road to Perdition (2002). Newman is also known for his philanthropic endeavors, including the food product line Newman's Own, which donates all post-tax proceeds to charity. Lightly creased at blank corners and margins. Minor surface creases (not evident head-on). Black marks at lower left and right edges. Fine condition.