Paul Newman's first professional screen credit was for playing a worried soldier in the sci-fi anthology series "Tales of Tomorrow." Paul Newman didn't do much in the episode, but every career has to start somewhere. Indeed, Newman's handsome visage and talents were evident enough to land him his first major film role only two years later. "The Silver Chalice," based on the historical novel by Thomas B. Costain, was about a wealthy Greek aristocrat named Ignatius (E.G. Paul Newman hates "The Silver Chalice" and even once, in a 1963 interview (reprinted by The Film Stage), called it "the worst film ever made in America."