Actor. He was a British-born American stage, film and television actor of the 1930s through the 1950s. As a character actor, his impressions of certain characters remain memorable today. Starring in the 1948 film "Oliver Twist," he excelled in the chilling role of Bill Sykes. When in 1968, the film was remade as the Academy Award Best Musical, "Oliver!", the actor playing the character of Sykes leaned heavily on Newton's classic impression of Sykes. In an adaption by Walt Disney of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1881 novel, "Treasure Island," he is remembered for playing the role of Long John Silver in the 1950 film "Treasure Island" and the sequel in 1954. Undertaking the role of a pirate once more, he had the lead role in the 1952 film "Blackbeard, the Pirate." Born Robert Guy Newton, one of four children in an artistic family, his father, Algernon Newton, was a Royal Academy landscape painter, and his mother Marjorie Emilia Balfour Rider was the author of "Mr. Duveen: An Allegory." His grandfather was one of the founders of Winsor & Newton, the celebrated firm of artists' materials, which was established in the early 19th century. He remembers fondly his childhood in Cornwall. At age 16 he had his first onstage appearance in ""Henry IV, Part 1 at the Birmingham Repertory Company. During World War II, he served in the Royal Navy until 1943 when he was medically discharged. His film breakthrough was with his role in the 1944 British film "This Happy Breed." Prior to 1951, he was voted a place in the ten "Most Popular British Actors." His final performance on stage was in the 1950 production of "Gaslight." He made at least 10 Hollywood films starting in 1948 with "Kiss the Blood Off My Hands." He traveled between England and Hollywood, making films. Filmed in Australia in 1954, he made the television mini-series "The Adventures of Long John Silver," which was distributed in the United States and Britain. His last film was the Academy Award Best Picture, "Around the World in 80 Days" in 1956. Excessive alcohol abuse led to him not being dependable with chronic health problems. By the end of his career, he had to sign a sobriety clause in his film contracts. Known as a "ladies' man," he married four times, divorced three times, and had a child with his first, third, and fourth wife. With his first wife, Petronella Walton, his only daughter, Sally Newton, became an actress. His second wife, Ann Isobel Noel McLean, remarried, had two sons and lived to see her 100th birthday, whereas Walton and the 3rd wife, Natalie Newhouse, died young, predeceasing him. His oldest son, Nicholas Newton, became a theatre producer. Several years after his death, his cremated ashes were scattered in the English Channel off the coast of Cornwall by his youngest son, Kim. As a cenotaph, his name is included on the marker of his last wife, Vera Budnick, who died in 2000. In 2020 he received posthumously the Disney Legends Award, for his extraordinary and integral contribution to Walt Disney Company.