Robert Newton, (n. Shaftesbury, 1 de junio de 1905 – f. Beverly Hills, 25 de marzo de 1956) fue un actor británico de cine y teatro.
Junto a Errol Flynn, Newton fue el más popular de los actores entre la audiencia juvenil de la década de los 1940 y principio de los 1950, principalmente entre los británicos. Su interpretación más conocida fue la de John Silver en La isla del tesoro, aunque también destacó en películas como Oliver Twist y El Pirata Barbanegra.
Su vida personal se vio marcada por su adicción al alcohol. Murió de un infarto de corazón a los 50 años.
He was an English stage and film actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for his hard drinking lifestyle, he was cited as a role model by the actor Oliver Reed and the Who's drummer Keith Moon.
Newton is best remembered for his portrayal of the feverish-eyed Long John Silver in the 1950 film adaptation of Treasure Island, the film that became the standard for screen portrayals of historical pirates. He would continue to portray Blackbeard in 1952 and Long John Silver again in the 1954 film of the same name, which spawned a miniseries in the mid '50s. Hailing from Dorset in the West Country of Southern England, his exaggeration of his West Country accent is credited with popularising the stereotypical "pirate voice". Newton has become the "patron saint" of the annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Robert Guy Newton was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, a son of the landscape painter Algernon Newton, R.A. He was educated in Lamorna near Penzance, Cornwall, then at Exeter School and St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, Berkshire.[6] His acting career began at the age of 16 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1921 and he followed this by performing in many plays in the West End of London, including Bitter Sweet by Noël Coward. He also appeared in Private Lives on Broadway, taking over the role from his friend Laurence Olivier. From 1932 to 1934, he was the manager of the Shilling Theatre in Fulham, London. In 1939, he played Horatio to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at the Old Vic, in a production that also included Alec Guinness and Michael Redgrave. During the war, he starred in the West End in No Orchids for Miss Blandish. His final performance on stage was in the 1950 production of Gaslight with Rosamund John at the Vaudeville Theatre.
During the Second World War, Newton served in the Royal Navy on board HMS Britomart, which served as an escort ship on several Russian convoys. He also starred in a number of notable films. His film roles included various ruffians and villains, such as Bill Walker in George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (1941), Long John Silver in Walt Disney's Treasure Island (1950), Bill Sikes in David Lean's 1948 film version of Oliver Twist, and the acid bath murderer Dr. Clive Riordan in Obsession (1949). There were also roles that displayed his versatility. In Alfred Hitchcock's film Jamaica Inn, he played a virtuous law officer. He also portrayed disciplinarians such as Inspector Javert in the 1952 Les Misérables, Dr. Arnold in the 1951 film version of Tom Brown's Schooldays, and Inspector Fix in his last film, Around the World in 80 Days (1956).
Newton appeared in major roles in two films based on the novella The Vessel of Wrath by W. Somerset Maugham. He played the Dutchcontrôleur in the 1938 version (released in the United States as The Beachcomber), and the lead role of Edward "Ginger Ted" Wilson in The Beachcomber (1954). He starred as the Scottish hatter, James Brodie, in Hatter's Castle, a 1941 film based on the novel by A.J. Cronin. He also played Ancient Pistol in Laurence Olivier's 1944 film of Henry V and Lukey in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out; this performance was later immortalised in Harold Pinter's play Old Times. A good example of Newton playing a sympathetic lead role is Noël Coward's This Happy Breed directed by David Lean in 1944.
He again played Long John Silver in a 1954 Australian-made film, Long John Silver. It was shot at Pagewood Studios, Sydney and directed by Byron Haskin, who had directed Treasure Island. The company went on to make a 26-episode 1955 TV series, The Adventures of Long John Silver, in which Newton also starred.
While filming in Australia in 1954, Newton was declared bankrupt with debts in the UK of £47,000.
With his strong West Country accent, Newton portrayed Bristol's other famous pirate Blackbeard in the 1952 film Blackbeard the Piratedirected by Raoul Walsh.
Death[edit]
Newton suffered from chronic alcoholism and died in 1956, aged 50, following a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California. He had married four times and had three children: Sally Newton (born 1930), Nicholas Newton (born 1950),[7] and Kim Newton (born 1953). After some court battles, Newton's elder son was placed in the custody of his aunt and uncle.
He was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Years later, his son Nicholas Newton scattered his father's ashes in the sea in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, near Lamorna in the south western tip of England, where he had spent his childhood.
Junto a Errol Flynn, Newton fue el más popular de los actores entre la audiencia juvenil de la década de los 1940 y principio de los 1950, principalmente entre los británicos. Su interpretación más conocida fue la de John Silver en La isla del tesoro, aunque también destacó en películas como Oliver Twist y El Pirata Barbanegra.
Su vida personal se vio marcada por su adicción al alcohol. Murió de un infarto de corazón a los 50 años.
He was an English stage and film actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the most popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for his hard drinking lifestyle, he was cited as a role model by the actor Oliver Reed and the Who's drummer Keith Moon.
Newton is best remembered for his portrayal of the feverish-eyed Long John Silver in the 1950 film adaptation of Treasure Island, the film that became the standard for screen portrayals of historical pirates. He would continue to portray Blackbeard in 1952 and Long John Silver again in the 1954 film of the same name, which spawned a miniseries in the mid '50s. Hailing from Dorset in the West Country of Southern England, his exaggeration of his West Country accent is credited with popularising the stereotypical "pirate voice". Newton has become the "patron saint" of the annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
Robert Guy Newton was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, a son of the landscape painter Algernon Newton, R.A. He was educated in Lamorna near Penzance, Cornwall, then at Exeter School and St Bartholomew's School in Newbury, Berkshire.[6] His acting career began at the age of 16 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1921 and he followed this by performing in many plays in the West End of London, including Bitter Sweet by Noël Coward. He also appeared in Private Lives on Broadway, taking over the role from his friend Laurence Olivier. From 1932 to 1934, he was the manager of the Shilling Theatre in Fulham, London. In 1939, he played Horatio to Laurence Olivier's Hamlet at the Old Vic, in a production that also included Alec Guinness and Michael Redgrave. During the war, he starred in the West End in No Orchids for Miss Blandish. His final performance on stage was in the 1950 production of Gaslight with Rosamund John at the Vaudeville Theatre.
During the Second World War, Newton served in the Royal Navy on board HMS Britomart, which served as an escort ship on several Russian convoys. He also starred in a number of notable films. His film roles included various ruffians and villains, such as Bill Walker in George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara (1941), Long John Silver in Walt Disney's Treasure Island (1950), Bill Sikes in David Lean's 1948 film version of Oliver Twist, and the acid bath murderer Dr. Clive Riordan in Obsession (1949). There were also roles that displayed his versatility. In Alfred Hitchcock's film Jamaica Inn, he played a virtuous law officer. He also portrayed disciplinarians such as Inspector Javert in the 1952 Les Misérables, Dr. Arnold in the 1951 film version of Tom Brown's Schooldays, and Inspector Fix in his last film, Around the World in 80 Days (1956).
Newton appeared in major roles in two films based on the novella The Vessel of Wrath by W. Somerset Maugham. He played the Dutchcontrôleur in the 1938 version (released in the United States as The Beachcomber), and the lead role of Edward "Ginger Ted" Wilson in The Beachcomber (1954). He starred as the Scottish hatter, James Brodie, in Hatter's Castle, a 1941 film based on the novel by A.J. Cronin. He also played Ancient Pistol in Laurence Olivier's 1944 film of Henry V and Lukey in Carol Reed's Odd Man Out; this performance was later immortalised in Harold Pinter's play Old Times. A good example of Newton playing a sympathetic lead role is Noël Coward's This Happy Breed directed by David Lean in 1944.
He again played Long John Silver in a 1954 Australian-made film, Long John Silver. It was shot at Pagewood Studios, Sydney and directed by Byron Haskin, who had directed Treasure Island. The company went on to make a 26-episode 1955 TV series, The Adventures of Long John Silver, in which Newton also starred.
While filming in Australia in 1954, Newton was declared bankrupt with debts in the UK of £47,000.
With his strong West Country accent, Newton portrayed Bristol's other famous pirate Blackbeard in the 1952 film Blackbeard the Piratedirected by Raoul Walsh.
Death[edit]
Newton suffered from chronic alcoholism and died in 1956, aged 50, following a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California. He had married four times and had three children: Sally Newton (born 1930), Nicholas Newton (born 1950),[7] and Kim Newton (born 1953). After some court battles, Newton's elder son was placed in the custody of his aunt and uncle.
He was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. Years later, his son Nicholas Newton scattered his father's ashes in the sea in Mount's Bay, Cornwall, near Lamorna in the south western tip of England, where he had spent his childhood.
FILMOGRAFÍA
The Tremarne Case (1924)
Reunion (1932)
Fire Over England (1937) as Don Pedro
Dark Journey (1937) as Officer of U-Boat
Farewell Again (1937) as Jim Carter
The Squeaker (1937) as Larry Graeme
The Green Cockatoo (1937) as Dave Connor
I, Claudius (1937) as Cassius, Capt. of Caligula's Guard
Vessel of Wrath (1938) as the Controleur
Yellow Sands (1938) as Joe Varwell
Dead Men are Dangerous (1939) as Aylmer Franklyn
Jamaica Inn / Posada Jamaica (1939) as Jem Trehearne - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Poison Pen (1939) as Sam Hurrin
Hell's Cargo (1939) as Cmdr. Tomasou
21 days together / días juntos (1940) as Tolley
Gaslight (1940) as Ullswater
Busman's Honeymoon (1940) as Frank Crutchley
Bulldog Sees It Through (1940) as Watkins
Channel Incident (1940, short) as Tanner
El Pirata Barbanegra (1941), como Bill Walker.
Hatter's Castle (1942) as James Brodie
They Flew Alone (1942) as Jim Mollison
A Battle for a Bottle (1942, short)
This Happy Breed (1944) as Frank Gibbons
Henry V (1944) as Ancient Pistol
La vida manda (1944)
Night Boat to Dublin (1946) as Capt. David Grant
Larga es la noche (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947) as Lukey
Temptation Harbour (1947)[8] as Bert Mallison
Snowbound (1948) as Derek Engles
Oliver Twist (1948) as Bill Sikes
Kiss the Blood off My Hands (1948) as Harry Carter
Obsession (1949) as Dr. Clive Riordan
Treasure Island / La Isla del Tesoro (1950) as Long John Silver
Waterfront (1950) as Peter McCabe
Soldiers Three (1951) as Pvt. Bill Sykes
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) as Dr. Thomas Arnold
Les Misérables (1952) as Etienne Javert
Androcles and the Lion (1952) as Ferrovius
Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) as Edward Teach / Blackbeard
The Desert Rats / Las ratas del desierto (1953) as Tom Bartlett
The High and the Mighty (1954) / Escrito en el cielo - como Gustave Pardee
The Beachcomber (1954) as Edward 'Honorable Ted' Wilson
Long John Silver (1954) as Long John Silver
The Adventures of Long John Silver – 26 episodes (1954) as Long John Silver
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) / La vuelta al mundo en 80 días - como detective Mr. Fix.
The Tremarne Case (1924)
Reunion (1932)
Fire Over England (1937) as Don Pedro
Dark Journey (1937) as Officer of U-Boat
Farewell Again (1937) as Jim Carter
The Squeaker (1937) as Larry Graeme
The Green Cockatoo (1937) as Dave Connor
I, Claudius (1937) as Cassius, Capt. of Caligula's Guard
Vessel of Wrath (1938) as the Controleur
Yellow Sands (1938) as Joe Varwell
Dead Men are Dangerous (1939) as Aylmer Franklyn
Jamaica Inn / Posada Jamaica (1939) as Jem Trehearne - Sir Humphrey's Gang
Poison Pen (1939) as Sam Hurrin
Hell's Cargo (1939) as Cmdr. Tomasou
21 days together / días juntos (1940) as Tolley
Gaslight (1940) as Ullswater
Busman's Honeymoon (1940) as Frank Crutchley
Bulldog Sees It Through (1940) as Watkins
Channel Incident (1940, short) as Tanner
El Pirata Barbanegra (1941), como Bill Walker.
Hatter's Castle (1942) as James Brodie
They Flew Alone (1942) as Jim Mollison
A Battle for a Bottle (1942, short)
This Happy Breed (1944) as Frank Gibbons
Henry V (1944) as Ancient Pistol
La vida manda (1944)
Night Boat to Dublin (1946) as Capt. David Grant
Larga es la noche (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947) as Lukey
Temptation Harbour (1947)[8] as Bert Mallison
Snowbound (1948) as Derek Engles
Oliver Twist (1948) as Bill Sikes
Kiss the Blood off My Hands (1948) as Harry Carter
Obsession (1949) as Dr. Clive Riordan
Treasure Island / La Isla del Tesoro (1950) as Long John Silver
Waterfront (1950) as Peter McCabe
Soldiers Three (1951) as Pvt. Bill Sykes
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951) as Dr. Thomas Arnold
Les Misérables (1952) as Etienne Javert
Androcles and the Lion (1952) as Ferrovius
Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) as Edward Teach / Blackbeard
The Desert Rats / Las ratas del desierto (1953) as Tom Bartlett
The High and the Mighty (1954) / Escrito en el cielo - como Gustave Pardee
The Beachcomber (1954) as Edward 'Honorable Ted' Wilson
Long John Silver (1954) as Long John Silver
The Adventures of Long John Silver – 26 episodes (1954) as Long John Silver
Around the World in 80 Days (1956) / La vuelta al mundo en 80 días - como detective Mr. Fix.