Robert Newton

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.

  • Title: Robert Newton
  • Popularity: 6.012
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1905-06-01
  • Place of Birth: Shaftesbury, Dorset, England
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Robert Newton Movies

  • 1956
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    Around the World in Eighty Days
    Around the World in Eighty Days

    6.638 1956 HD

    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...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: David Niven

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  • 1948
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    Oliver Twist
    Oliver Twist

    7.5 1948 HD

    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....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Howard Davies

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  • 1948
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    Kiss the Blood Off My Hands
    Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

    6.5 1948 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Joan Fontaine

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  • 1937
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    Fire Over England
    Fire Over England

    6 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Flora Robson

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  • 1954
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    Long John Silver
    Long John Silver

    5.382 1954 HD

    In this sequel to Treasure Island, Long John hopes to rescue his friend Jim from a rival pirate and return for more treasure.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1950
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    Treasure Island
    Treasure Island

    6.558 1950 HD

    Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Bobby Driscoll

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  • 1939
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    Jamaica Inn
    Jamaica Inn

    6.054 1939 HD

    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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Charles Laughton

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  • 1937
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    The Green Cockatoo
    The Green Cockatoo

    5.9 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: John Mills

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  • 1939
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    Dead Men Are Dangerous
    Dead Men Are Dangerous

    4 1939 HD

    Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1946
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    Night Boat to Dublin
    Night Boat to Dublin

    5.8 1946 HD

    British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1949
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    Obsession
    Obsession

    6.6 1949 HD

    A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1953
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    The Desert Rats
    The Desert Rats

    6.202 1953 HD

    In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important...

    Genre: War

    Cast: Richard Burton

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  • 1951
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    Tom Brown's Schooldays
    Tom Brown's Schooldays

    7 1951 HD

    When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: John Howard Davies

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  • 1947
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    Odd Man Out
    Odd Man Out

    7.34 1947 HD

    Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: James Mason

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  • 1941
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    Major Barbara
    Major Barbara

    6.4 1941 HD

    Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Wendy Hiller

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  • 1954
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    The High and the Mighty
    The High and the Mighty

    5.881 1954 HD

    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...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: John Wayne

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  • 1952
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    Androcles and the Lion
    Androcles and the Lion

    5.8 1952 HD

    George Bernard Shaw’s breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Victor Mature

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  • 1944
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    This Happy Breed
    This Happy Breed

    7.11 1944 HD

    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....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1942
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    Hatter's Castle
    Hatter's Castle

    6.3 1942 HD

    The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1947
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    Temptation Harbour
    Temptation Harbour

    4.8 1947 HD

    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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1942
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    They Flew Alone
    They Flew Alone

    6 1942 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Anna Neagle

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  • 1952
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    Blackbeard, the Pirate
    Blackbeard, the Pirate

    5.8 1952 HD

    Honest Robert Maynard finds himself serving as ship's surgeon under the infamous pirate Blackbeard.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1950
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    Waterfront
    Waterfront

    6.5 1950 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1948
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    Snowbound
    Snowbound

    5.889 1948 HD

    Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Dennis Price

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  • 1952
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    Les Miserables
    Les Miserables

    5.4 1952 HD

    Jean Valjean, a Frenchman of good character, has nevertheless been convicted for the minor crime of stealing bread. A minor infraction leads to his...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Michael Rennie

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  • 1940
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    Busman's Honeymoon
    Busman's Honeymoon

    5.4 1940 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Robert Montgomery

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  • 1937
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    The Squeaker
    The Squeaker

    5.2 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Edmund Lowe

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  • 1951
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    Soldiers Three
    Soldiers Three

    4.4 1951 HD

    Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Stewart Granger

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  • 1969
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    The Epic That Never Was
    The Epic That Never Was

    6.2 1969 HD

    The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Dirk Bogarde

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  • 1954
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    The Beachcomber
    The Beachcomber

    5.7 1954 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Glynis Johns

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  • 1939
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    Poison Pen
    Poison Pen

    6.4 1939 HD

    The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Flora Robson

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  • 1938
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    Vessel of Wrath
    Vessel of Wrath

    6.8 1938 HD

    Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic,...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Charles Laughton

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  • 1940
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    21 Days Together
    21 Days Together

    6.1 1940 HD

    After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Vivien Leigh

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  • 1940
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    Gaslight
    Gaslight

    7.1 1940 HD

    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...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Adolf Wohlbrück

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  • 1939
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    Hell's Cargo
    Hell's Cargo

    1 1939 HD

    Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Robert Newton

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  • 1937
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    Farewell Again
    Farewell Again

    5 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Leslie Banks

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  • 1944
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    Henry V
    Henry V

    6.615 1944 HD

    In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

    Genre: History

    Cast: Laurence Olivier

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  • 1940
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    Channel Incident
    Channel Incident

    1 1940 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Peggy Ashcroft

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  • 1937
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    Dark Journey
    Dark Journey

    6.4 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Vivien Leigh

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  • 1990
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    Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
    Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

    7.5 1990 HD

    Walt Disney Productions has produced an anthology television series under several different titles since 1954. The original version of the series...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast:

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  • 1963
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6 1963 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

    Genre: Drama

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  • 1957
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    Lux Video Theatre
    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1957 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

    Genre: Drama

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  • 1957
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    The Adventures Of Long John Silver
    The Adventures Of Long John Silver

    7 1957 HD

    A TV series about the Long John Silver character from Treasure Island. It was made in 1954 in colour in Australia for the American and British...

    Genre: Action & Adventure

    Cast: Grant Taylor

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  • 1962
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    General Electric Theater
    General Electric Theater

    5.5 1962 HD

    General Electric Theater is an American anthology series hosted by Ronald Reagan that was broadcast on CBS radio and television. The series was...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ronald Reagan

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  • 1962
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    Alfred Hitchcock Presents
    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    7.704 1962 HD

    A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Alfred Hitchcock

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  • 1958
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    Climax!
    Climax!

    2.7 1958 HD

    Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: William Lundigan

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  • 1963
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    6 1963 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1957
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    Lux Video Theatre
    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1957 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1957
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    Jingle All the Way! Christmas Stories Vol. 2
    Jingle All the Way! Christmas Stories Vol. 2

    1 1957 HD

    A collection of three classic TV episodes; Date with the Angels, Adventures of Long John Silvers and Crossroads

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