Paul Newman played youthful rebels, charming rogues, golden-hearted drunks and amoral opportunists in a career that encompassed more than 50 movies.

He was one of the most popular and consistently bankable Hollywood stars in the second half of the 20th century.

Newman was also a philanthropist, a health food mogul — he once quipped that his salad dressing was making more money than his movies — a race car enthusiast and a leftist political activist.

Newman won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1987, late in his career, for his role as a pool shark named "Fast Eddie" in Martin Scorsese's 'The Color of Money', co-starring Tom Cruise. Many critics at the time said he was really being awarded the Oscar belatedly for his original performance of the same smarmy character in the 1961 movie 'The Hustler'.

On news of Newman's death, Robert Redford, his friend and co-star in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' and 'The Sting', said: "There is a point where feelings go beyond words. I have lost a real friend. My life — and this country — is better for his being in it."

Relive some of the actor's greatest moments:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

Cool Hand Luke

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Hustler

Hud

The Sting

The Towering Inferno

The Verdict

Color Of Money

The Hudsucker Proxy

Nobody's Fool

Where The Money Is

Road To Perdition