Pirates, Painters and Professors: Robert Newton and His Distinguished Famiy
As we wrote here, most pirate movie aficionados acknowledge Robert Newton (1905-1956) to be the greatest pirate actor of all time. His performance as Long John Silver in Disney's 1950 version of Treasure Island set the pirate character template to this day. He later reprised the role in Long John Silver (1954), and in an Australian TV series […]