Robert Newton
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 16.45 |
| Birthday | 1905-06-01 |
| Place of Birth | Shaftesbury, Dorset, England |
| Also Known As |
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.6/491
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1948
Oliver Twist
7.5/214
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Esc...
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Oliver Twist
1948
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
6.5/25
Bill Saunders, a former prisoner of war living in England, whose experiences have left him unstable and violent, gets into a bar fight in which he in...
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
1937
Fire Over England
6/33
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the ti...
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Fire Over England
1954
Long John Silver
5.382/17
In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure.
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Long John Silver
1950
Treasure Island
6.56/192
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribb...
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Treasure Island
1939
Jamaica Inn
6.1/204
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeep...
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Jamaica Inn
1937
The Green Cockatoo
5.9/11
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks invol...
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The Green Cockatoo
1939
Dead Men Are Dangerous
4/3
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the m...
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Dead Men Are Dangerous
1946
Night Boat to Dublin
5.8/7
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
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Night Boat to Dublin
1949
Obsession
6.7/45
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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Obsession
1953
The Desert Rats
6.202/84
In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important p...
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The Desert Rats
1951
Tom Brown's Schooldays
7/7
When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plu...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
1947
Odd Man Out
7.343/182
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
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Odd Man Out
1941
Major Barbara
6.4/18
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat...
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Major Barbara
1954
The High and the Mighty
5.9/68
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-t...
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The High and the Mighty
1952
Androcles and the Lion
5.8/15
George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion’s paw and is spared...
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Androcles and the Lion
1944
This Happy Breed
7.11/50
In 1919, Frank Gibbons returns home from army duty and moves into a middle-class row house, bringing with him wife Ethel, carping mother-in-law Mrs. F...
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This Happy Breed
1942
Hatter's Castle
6.3/6
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embra...
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Hatter's Castle
1947
Temptation Harbour
4.8/7
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself...
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Temptation Harbour
1942
They Flew Alone
6/3
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights aro...
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They Flew Alone
1952
Blackbeard, the Pirate
5.8/45
Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.
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Blackbeard, the Pirate
1950
Waterfront
6.5/10
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after...
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Waterfront
1948
Snowbound
5.889/9
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
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Snowbound
1952
Les Miserables
5.4/15
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his pu...
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Les Miserables
1940
Busman's Honeymoon
5.4/9
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the ol...
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Busman's Honeymoon
1937
The Squeaker
5.2/5
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires...
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The Squeaker
1951
Soldiers Three
4.4/5
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
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Soldiers Three
1969
The Epic That Never Was
6.2/4
The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
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The Epic That Never Was
1954
The Beachcomber
5.7/6
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the...
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The Beachcomber
1939
Poison Pen
6.4/5
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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Poison Pen
1938
Vessel of Wrath
6.8/9
Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Gin...
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Vessel of Wrath
1940
21 Days Together
6.1/26
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wa...
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21 Days Together
1940
Gaslight
7.1/88
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the...
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Gaslight
1939
Hell's Cargo
0/0
Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.
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Hell's Cargo
1937
Farewell Again
5/1
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty...
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Farewell Again
1944
Henry V
6.615/104
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
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Henry V
1940
Channel Incident
0/0
During the evacuation of British troops from Dunkirk in 1940, a young woman takes her motorboat to join the flotilla to rescue soldiers and also to se...
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Channel Incident
1937
Dark Journey
6.4/29
Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espi...
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