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Paul Newman, 1956.
In the 1994 film Nobody’s Fool, directed by Robert Benton, Paul Newman portrayed the character Sully. Sully is depicted as an irresponsible yet humorous construction worker, a role for which Newman received an Academy Award nomination at age 70. Newman once noted that this character was the closest to himself that he had ever played.1