{"id":485308,"date":"2025-10-09T09:32:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485308\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T09:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T09:32:15","slug":"paul-newmans-daughter-susan-kendall-dead-at-72-tributes-flood-in-for-the-beatles-actress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/485308\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Newman&#8217;s daughter Susan Kendall dead at 72: Tributes flood in for the Beatles actress"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Have YOU got a story? Email tips@dailymail.com\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-163\/charlotte-dean.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CHARLOTTE DEAN, ASSOCIATE SHOWBUSINESS EDITOR<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  04:38 EDT, 9 October 2025   |  Updated:  05:24 EDT, 9 October 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Susan Kendall Newman has passed away age 72.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The daughter of\u00a0American actor and film director Paul Newman died of complications from chronic health conditions on August 2, her family have announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The Emmy-nominated producer was best recognised for featuring in the 1978 <a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/the-beatles\/index.html\" id=\"mol-47cbf710-a4e9-11f0-8558-adac15cb2d7b\" rel=\"noopener\">Beatles<\/a> tribute film I Wanna Hold Your Hand as Janis Goldman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Susan played one of the teens trying to wrangle their way into The Beatles&#8217; first performance on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She also had smaller roles in Slap Shot (1977), where she showed up as a pharmacist in the hockey film that starred her father, and Robert Altman&#8217;s A Wedding (1978).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Susan was the daughter of Paul and his first wife Jackie Witte. Jackie died in 1994 at age 64.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Her father, who was also a racing driver, starred in numerous blockbuster films including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Paul died aged 83 in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f5cca594ca787e0b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/102836243-15176573-image-a-1_1759998727197.jpg\" height=\"417\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Susan Kendall Newman has passed away age 72 (pictured in I Wanna Hold Your Hand as Janis Goldman)\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Susan Kendall Newman has passed away age 72 (pictured in I Wanna Hold Your Hand as Janis Goldman)<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-d6822822b3f58688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/102836385-15176573-image-a-10_1760000065485.jpg\" height=\"953\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The daughter of American actor and film director Paul Newman (pictured in 1983) died of complications from chronic health conditions on August 2, her family have announced\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The daughter of American actor and film director Paul Newman (pictured in 1983) died of complications from chronic health conditions on August 2, her family have announced<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Tributes have been pouring in for Susan online, with one colleague posting: &#8216;I&#8217;m sure a lot of people were stunned this morning to see an obit for Susan Kendall Newman. Susan&#8217;s number is in my phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;She was a huge help to me when I reported stories about trouble at the Newman Foundation, which runs Newmans Own, the philanthropic food company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;She was so bright and articulate, and knew the inner workings of a troubled but important organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;I&#8217;m sending condolences to her family including her sisters, and Woodward, who is 95 and has suffered from Alzheimer&#8217;s for more than a decade.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Another said: &#8216;No! We&#8217;ve lost two stars of Robert Zemeckis&#8217; brilliant Beatles fans comedy I Wanna Hold Your Hand less than one year apart.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;First, Christian Juttner last November, and now Susan Kendall Newman. I don&#8217;t want to cry while watching one of my fave movies designed for laughs.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-bb1a822d5f8dacc6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/102836389-15176573-image-a-11_1760000908565.jpg\" height=\"954\" width=\"634\" alt=\"The Emmy-nominated producer was best recognised for featuring in the 1978 Beatles tribute film I Wanna Hold Your Hand as Janis Goldman\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">The Emmy-nominated producer was best recognised for featuring in the 1978 Beatles tribute film I Wanna Hold Your Hand as Janis Goldman<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f958bd05cd5da6d1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/102836383-15176573-image-a-12_1760001537266.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Susan was the daughter of Paul and his first wife Jackie Witte\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Susan was the daughter of Paul and his first wife Jackie Witte<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In 1975, Susan appeared on Broadway in 1975 in We Interrupt This Program directed by Jerry Adler, but the play only lasted seven outings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Five years later she produced The Shadow Box, which was an ABC Theatre presentation of Michael Cristofer\u2019s Pulitzer Prize-winning play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The adaptation was directed by her father Paul and starred her stepmother, Oscar winner Joanne Woodward.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">She later\u00a0produced a family-friendly audiobook series of classical literature for Simon &amp; Schuster, earning her a Grammy nomination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Paul and Jackie married in Cleveland on December 27 1949 and welcomed three children together. Scott, born 1950, Stephanie, born 1954 and Susan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">They divorced on January 28, 1958, after nine years of marriage.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Paul Newman&#8217;s daughter Susan Kendall dead at 72: Tributes flood in for the Beatles actress<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Have YOU got a story? 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