Autographs of Robert Newton
Robert Guy Newton (1 June 1905 – 25 March 1956) was an English actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the more popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for his hard-living life, he was cited as a role model by the actor Oliver Reed and the Who's drummer Keith Moon.
Beginning his career in theatre in the 1920s, Newton appeared in numerous plays in the West End, including Bitter Sweet by Noël Coward. In 1939 he was Horatio in Hamlet at the Old Vic theatre opposite Laurence Olivier's Prince Hamlet. After serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, he had his major break on screen playing the lead in This Happy Breed (1944) and starring in Olivier's version of Henry V (1944). These appearances saw British exhibitors vote him the 10th most popular British film star of 1944.
Newton is best remembered for his portrayal of the feverish-eyed Long John Silver in the 1950 RKO-Disney British adaptation of Treasure Island, the film that became the standard for screen portrayals of historical pirates. He starred as Edward Teach (Blackbeard) in Blackbeard the Pirate in 1952 and Long John Silver again in the 1954 film of the same title, which spawned a miniseries in the mid-1950s. Born in Dorset in the West Country of England and growing up in Cornwall near Land's End, his exaggeration of his West Country accent is credited with popularising the stereotypical "pirate speech". Newton has become the "patron saint" of the annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day.
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The most expensive item with a signature of Robert Newton (ROBERT NEWTON 'TREASURE ISLAND' HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPHED 8x10 PHOTO) was sold in October 2016 for £168.00 while the cheapest item (BETTY PAUL d@89 - Oliver Twist w Robert Newton signed album page- West End Stage) found a new owner for £3.00 in June 2021. The month with the most items sold (7) was May 2025 with an average selling price of £31.11 for an autographed item of Robert Newton. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2020 with £69.50 and the month that saw the lowest prices with £3.00 was June 2021. In average, an autographed item from Robert Newton is worth £24.63.
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