Oh yes - Robert Newton's the name I was looking for.
He played Long John Silver in Disney's Treasure Island (1950), which I suppose a whole generation grew up on. I prefer to remember him as someone like Bill Walker in Major Barbara (1941)—I just rewatched it last night (finally on DVD from Criterion, not scratchy library VHS) and he's terrific. I wish William Wyler had been able to get him for Wuthering Heights (1939).
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Date: 2010-03-17 04:18 pm (UTC)He played Long John Silver in Disney's Treasure Island (1950), which I suppose a whole generation grew up on. I prefer to remember him as someone like Bill Walker in Major Barbara (1941)—I just rewatched it last night (finally on DVD from Criterion, not scratchy library VHS) and he's terrific. I wish William Wyler had been able to get him for Wuthering Heights (1939).