The first ever Biography of Robert Newton...
He hid discretion under a coat of folly, but he was the man who would tell you, tell everybody, loudly, that the Emperor was naked....
Laughing, infected with his joyous lust for life.
Generous, gregarious, needful, lost, he swept through life and left people reeling in his wake
Olivier, Burton, Coward, Wayne.
In America and Australia.
Farmer, tax exile, he ran his own theatre and loved Rolls Royces.
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.
He starred in dozens of films, dozens of plays.
He survived the bloodiest naval arena in the second world war; married four times he failed as a husband and a father.
Cowboy, beach-bum, loaded and flat broke.
From an idyll Cornish childhood to a desperate death amidst the Hollywood elite.
Lamorna, Cornwall, June 2005. "He was never an actor, he was always like that, a little devil...!" The man laughs; laughter in his voice and in his eyes, glad at the rich memory.
The first ever Biography of Robert Newton..
