Robert Newton
Birthday: 1905-06-01
Place of Birth: Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, UK
Biography: Robert Newton was one of the great character actors -- and great characters -- of the British cinema, best remembered today for playing Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1950) and its sequel in 1954. His portrayal of Long John Silver and of Blackbeard, the Pirate (1952) created a persona that was so indelible that his vocal intonations created the paradigm for scores of people who want to "Talk Like a Pirate." The performance overshadows Newton's legacy, which is based on many first-rate performances in such movies as This Happy Breed (1944), Odd Man Out (1947) and Oliver Twist (1948), where his Bill Sykes is truly chilling. Oliver Reed, who played Sykes in the Oscar-winning movie musical Oliver! (1968) was influenced by Newton.
Movies
Around the World in 80 Days
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...
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Oliver Twist
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable ...
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Fire Over England
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the E...
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Long John Silver
In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and ...
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Treasure Island
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey an...
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Jamaica Inn
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the rem...
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The Green Cockatoo
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has ...
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Dead Men Are Dangerous
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corps...
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Night Boat to Dublin
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist....
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Obsession
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover....
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The Desert Rats
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British for...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bul...
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Odd Man Out
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery....
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Major Barbara
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels ...
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The High and the Mighty
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit as...
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Androcles and the Lion
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave...
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This Happy Breed
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to...
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Hatter's Castle
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a ...
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Temptation Harbour
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fa...
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They Flew Alone
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in t...
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Waterfront
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, w...
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Blackbeard, the Pirate
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard....
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Snowbound
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps....
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Les Miserables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
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Busman's Honeymoon
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The Squeaker
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief w...
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Vessel of Wrath
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The Epic That Never Was
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its s...
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The Beachcomber
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are f...
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Poison Pen
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with ma...
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Gaslight
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul an...
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21 Days Together
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested fo...
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Farewell Again
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've...
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Henry V
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...
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Channel Incident
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to j...
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Dark Journey
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl...
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