![Robert Newton](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w185/aYheeZTHxMuvQJ9542LT3VyPhuP.jpg)
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 |
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Most Rating | 8.808 |
Birthday | 1905-06-01 |
Place of Birth | Shaftesbury, Dorset, England |
Also Known As |
![Around the World in Eighty Days](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kk6Rrwh0toMz9tjuUHdS4O3v2Rk.jpg)
1956
![Around the World in Eighty Days](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kk6Rrwh0toMz9tjuUHdS4O3v2Rk.jpg)
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.652/495
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
![Oliver Twist](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/rm1YFiE2ocs8UjnxgdGDIA02c5d.jpg)
1948
![Oliver Twist](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/rm1YFiE2ocs8UjnxgdGDIA02c5d.jpg)
Oliver Twist
7.493/216
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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![Kiss the Blood Off My Hands](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aOH1t76EnvuVmMigHbVeOVwrYQt.jpg)
1948
![Kiss the Blood Off My Hands](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aOH1t76EnvuVmMigHbVeOVwrYQt.jpg)
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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![Fire Over England](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/t3d9E8MrV9HJE2gT6t31As3q4oL.jpg)
1937
![Fire Over England](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/t3d9E8MrV9HJE2gT6t31As3q4oL.jpg)
Fire Over England
6.015/34
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
![Treasure Island](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/zPzBsQZ2EhSmO9FLvQQtWVkJqRu.jpg)
1950
![Treasure Island](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/zPzBsQZ2EhSmO9FLvQQtWVkJqRu.jpg)
Treasure Island
6.562/193
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
![Long John Silver](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/44qwycmcl2antIBXerQAr4dPBv5.jpg)
1954
![Long John Silver](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/44qwycmcl2antIBXerQAr4dPBv5.jpg)
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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![Jamaica Inn](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/newmJXlio31tkAXysakFdMlCBhK.jpg)
1939
![Jamaica Inn](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/newmJXlio31tkAXysakFdMlCBhK.jpg)
Jamaica Inn
6.1/205
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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![The Green Cockatoo](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ODhXgtyzkOerBbryNMDZmbR4Kz.jpg)
1937
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The Green Cockatoo
5.9/11
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![Dead Men Are Dangerous](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mHyq24CQqbK0zHZs8WtHxNEuf5v.jpg)
1939
![Dead Men Are Dangerous](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mHyq24CQqbK0zHZs8WtHxNEuf5v.jpg)
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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![Night Boat to Dublin](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/8sBekz14lHZ9cOkWr7rIo67UzNO.jpg)
1946
![Night Boat to Dublin](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/8sBekz14lHZ9cOkWr7rIo67UzNO.jpg)
Night Boat to Dublin
5.8/7
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
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![Obsession](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7BlzTHGLBxxCiqY0fTvPqaE2hcX.jpg)
1949
![Obsession](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7BlzTHGLBxxCiqY0fTvPqaE2hcX.jpg)
Obsession
6.7/46
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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![The Desert Rats](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/upCaOY9mkgF9tJoiPU8LFbLCkK8.jpg)
1953
![The Desert Rats](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/upCaOY9mkgF9tJoiPU8LFbLCkK8.jpg)
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
![Tom Brown's Schooldays](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/w8CFVZLlcGsDjyJHkXxFssvyn48.jpg)
1951
![Tom Brown's Schooldays](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/w8CFVZLlcGsDjyJHkXxFssvyn48.jpg)
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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![Odd Man Out](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1xZkTIATlTtyd7Ybphev8ZTmJA0.jpg)
1947
![Odd Man Out](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/1xZkTIATlTtyd7Ybphev8ZTmJA0.jpg)
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
![Major Barbara](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/pGn2yUY23pDkjw1OcfXfwYvkApA.jpg)
1941
![Major Barbara](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/pGn2yUY23pDkjw1OcfXfwYvkApA.jpg)
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
![The High and the Mighty](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/eCJyHq9CdqB9GLlKuNGLKHFVYKt.jpg)
1954
![The High and the Mighty](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/eCJyHq9CdqB9GLlKuNGLKHFVYKt.jpg)
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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![Androcles and the Lion](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/16XZFR47rhHcyh8Jh4FYpmQ7dYc.jpg)
1952
![Androcles and the Lion](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/16XZFR47rhHcyh8Jh4FYpmQ7dYc.jpg)
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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![This Happy Breed](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/3E4BiVMUAHJqT0VEZ6LUFD0P9J9.jpg)
1944
![This Happy Breed](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/3E4BiVMUAHJqT0VEZ6LUFD0P9J9.jpg)
This Happy Breed
7.1/50
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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![Hatter's Castle](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mBqM7c3B4zgCEa0Dr5T2WGbYz4n.jpg)
1942
![Hatter's Castle](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mBqM7c3B4zgCEa0Dr5T2WGbYz4n.jpg)
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
![Temptation Harbour](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/e22xeDxxldwcyp13QCzGZOUvu8y.jpg)
1947
![Temptation Harbour](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/e22xeDxxldwcyp13QCzGZOUvu8y.jpg)
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
![They Flew Alone](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/imujOcZ1nqkosB1jIkundGZmqy6.jpg)
1942
![They Flew Alone](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/imujOcZ1nqkosB1jIkundGZmqy6.jpg)
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
![Blackbeard, the Pirate](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2puF7JXLl21I8cguY3ix70b6oQP.jpg)
1952
![Blackbeard, the Pirate](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2puF7JXLl21I8cguY3ix70b6oQP.jpg)
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
![Waterfront](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/u0BdSmWk65NxLVzKE7JtB2YTxrG.jpg)
1950
![Waterfront](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/u0BdSmWk65NxLVzKE7JtB2YTxrG.jpg)
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
![Snowbound](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qKH0l85PJnDD0RruMOmbzyOsLsX.jpg)
1948
![Snowbound](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qKH0l85PJnDD0RruMOmbzyOsLsX.jpg)
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
![Les Miserables](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qAFmvH0T2zJFA2Btg0cRTccsLTL.jpg)
1952
![Les Miserables](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/qAFmvH0T2zJFA2Btg0cRTccsLTL.jpg)
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
![Busman's Honeymoon](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/tp2UdO5iirf7JOIED982zEAT8EH.jpg)
1940
![Busman's Honeymoon](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/tp2UdO5iirf7JOIED982zEAT8EH.jpg)
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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![The Squeaker](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ePfrKm2GkZMrQZ6engBEcdIJnqS.jpg)
1937
![The Squeaker](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/ePfrKm2GkZMrQZ6engBEcdIJnqS.jpg)
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
![Soldiers Three](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7yc6Whr2p6hfYfmqJebkdNPHpRA.jpg)
1951
![Soldiers Three](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7yc6Whr2p6hfYfmqJebkdNPHpRA.jpg)
Soldiers Three
4.4/5
Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.
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![The Epic That Never Was](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2VVbBbtmh6sj944AeDtChc2NM06.jpg)
1969
![The Epic That Never Was](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/2VVbBbtmh6sj944AeDtChc2NM06.jpg)
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 Beachcomber](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/pQNFbrSh3EMCpKeuR6F50nQ5rgC.jpg)
1954
![The Beachcomber](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/pQNFbrSh3EMCpKeuR6F50nQ5rgC.jpg)
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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![Poison Pen](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aYEd1KGdm4Bq8dAQlNwuByxNnki.jpg)
1939
![Poison Pen](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/aYEd1KGdm4Bq8dAQlNwuByxNnki.jpg)
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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![Vessel of Wrath](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/4MMiOGVPUDkEEKbIiXz9mFtvyCW.jpg)
1938
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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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![21 Days Together](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/oFM4H2S4UqlbWSK0GDd6lWEw1Fa.jpg)
1940
![21 Days Together](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/oFM4H2S4UqlbWSK0GDd6lWEw1Fa.jpg)
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
![Gaslight](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/h3xaVryGKjvXjomHaqmqjjbasUC.jpg)
1940
![Gaslight](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/h3xaVryGKjvXjomHaqmqjjbasUC.jpg)
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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![Hell's Cargo](https://movieunlimited.net/assets/no-poster.png)
1939
![Hell's Cargo](https://movieunlimited.net/assets/no-poster.png)
Hell's Cargo
0/0
Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.
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Hell's Cargo
![Farewell Again](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/9MzMiOwurXO99G6FbN4aXYZjPp4.jpg)
1937
![Farewell Again](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/9MzMiOwurXO99G6FbN4aXYZjPp4.jpg)
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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![Henry V](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/eAisr20DvaKJeHvjDN0oHSx0l7u.jpg)
1944
![Henry V](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/eAisr20DvaKJeHvjDN0oHSx0l7u.jpg)
Henry V
6.585/106
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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![Channel Incident](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/hXbtvCTugpcK7MeVtViCg2jbxMt.jpg)
1940
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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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![Dark Journey](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/i1ac0OKN7ApGfN7KX55dtUWGiBL.jpg)
1937
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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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