Apologise Later

The first ever Biography of Robert Newton. From an idyll Cornish childhood to a desperate death amidst the Hollywood elite. Cowboy beach-bum; loaded and flat broke. He survived the bloodiest naval arena in the second world war; married four times he failed as a husband and a father. He starred in dozens of films dozens of plays. Newton was more than an actor; yet he is the quintessential pirate Disney's 'Long John Silver' is the brutal Bill Sykes in Oliver Twist. Farmer tax exile he ran his own theatre and loved Rolls Royces. In America and Australia. Generous gregarious needful lost he swept through life and left people reeling in his wake. Olivier Burton Coward Wayne. Laughing infected with his joyous lust for life. He hid discretion under a coat of folly; but he was the man who would tell you tell everybody loudly that the King was naked...