Robert Newton
Date of birth: 1905-06-01
Place of birth: Shaftesbury, Dorset, England, UK
Known for: Acting
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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.
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1956-10-17
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor
Oliver Twist
1948-06-28
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
1948-10-30
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable
Fire Over England
1937-03-05
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the E
Long John Silver
1954-12-16
In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and
Treasure Island
1950-07-19
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey an
Jamaica Inn
1939-05-11
In early 19th-century Cornwall, young Mary Yellan travels to live with her aunt and uncle at the rem
The Green Cockatoo
1937-12-01
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has
Dead Men Are Dangerous
1939-02-01
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corps
Night Boat to Dublin
1946-01-08
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Obsession
1949-08-03
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
The Desert Rats
1953-05-20
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British for
Tom Brown's Schooldays
1951-04-17
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bul
Odd Man Out
1947-01-30
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Major Barbara
1941-05-14
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels
The High and the Mighty
1954-07-03
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit as
Androcles and the Lion
1952-12-01
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave
This Happy Breed
1944-05-28
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house in the su
Hatter's Castle
1942-02-02
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a
Temptation Harbour
1947-02-27
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fa
They Flew Alone
1942-06-29
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in t
Waterfront
1950-07-26
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, w
Blackbeard, the Pirate
1952-12-24
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
Snowbound
1948-03-23
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
Les Miserables
1952-08-14
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po
Busman's Honeymoon
1940-07-22
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for
The Squeaker
1937-11-11
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief w
Vessel of Wrath
1938-03-04
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live i
Soldiers Three
1951-04-01
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
The Epic That Never Was
1969-09-19
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its s
The Beachcomber
1954-08-10
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are f
Poison Pen
1939-07-03
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with ma
21 Days Together
1940-01-07
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested fo
Gaslight
1940-08-31
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul an
Hell's Cargo
1939-12-16
Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.
Farewell Again
1937-01-05
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've
Henry V
1944-11-24
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of
Channel Incident
1940-04-28
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to j
Dark Journey
1937-07-02
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl