Cast: Robert Newton

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Robert Newton. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Oliver Twist

1948 · Movie · 105 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Alec Guinness · Robert Newton · Francis L. Sullivan · John Howard Davies

Plot Based on the Charles Dickens novel Oliver Twist is about an orphan boy who runs away from a workhouse and meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. Oliver is...

7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

Gaslight

1940 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Thorold Dickinson

Cast Diana Wynyard · Anton Walbrook · Frank Pettingell · Cathleen Cordell

Plot The first and in some ways superior version of Patrick Hamilton's stage play "Angel Street," this British production is set in London where a beautiful heiress is menaced into madness...

7.3

939 votes

7.3

939 votes

Odd Man Out

1947 · Movie · 116 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast James Mason · Robert Newton · Cyril Cusack · F.J. McCormick

Plot Johnny McQueen, leader of a clandestine Irish organization, has been hiding in the house of Kathleen and her mother, planning a hold-up that will provide his group with the funds...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Robert Newton · Leslie Banks · Felix Aylmer

Plot In the inspired Olivier concept, Shakespeare's play begins as a performance in the Globe Theatre, shifting in broad cinematic terms to an epic narrative of Henry V, who had developed...

7.0

798 votes

7.0

798 votes

Obsession (The Hidden Room)

1949 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Robert Newton · Phil Brown · Sally Gray · Naunton Wayne

Plot Dr. Clive Riordan's beautiful-but-flirty wife, Storm, comes home one night in the company of an American diplomat, Bill Kronin. Riordan, obsessed with jealousy, determines to murder his most recent rival...

6.9

170 votes

6.9

170 votes

This Happy Breed

1944 · Movie · 106 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Robert Newton · Celia Johnson · Stanley Holloway · John Mills

Plot Noel Coward's attempt to show how the ordinary people lived between the wars. Just after WWI the Gibbons family moves to a nice house in the suburbs. An ordinary sort...

6.9

639 votes

6.9

639 votes

The Epic That Never Was (TV)

1967 · Documentary · 74 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Bill Duncalf

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Josef von Sternberg · Charles Laughton · Robert Graves

Plot This British television documentary, hosted by Dirk Bogarde, is about the aborted 1937 film I Claudius. The film, directed by Josef Von Sternberg and produced by Alexander Korda with an...

6.8

28 votes

6.8

28 votes

Les Miserables

1952 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Michael Rennie · Debra Paget · Robert Newton · Edmund Gwenn

Plot After stealing a loaf a bread to feed a starving family, Jean Valjean is sentenced to ten years as a galley slave. There he meets Javert, an obsessive policeman who...

6.7

94 votes

6.7

94 votes

Around the World in 80 Days

1956 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast David Niven · Mario Moreno "Cantinflas" · Charles Boyer · Robert Newton

Plot English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel...

6.5

8K votes

6.5

8K votes

The Desert Rats

1953 · Movie · 88 min. · United States

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Richard Burton · James Mason · Robert Newton · Robert Douglas

Plot Rommel has the British in retreat on his way to the Suez Canal. All that stands in his way is Tobruk, held by a vastly out numbered force of Australian...

6.3

796 votes

6.3

796 votes

Kiss the Blood Off My Hands

1948 · Movie · 79 min. · United States

Direction Norman Foster

Cast Joan Fontaine · Burt Lancaster · Robert Newton · Lewis L. Russell

Plot Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton. Later, despite misgivings about his...

6.2

281 votes

6.2

281 votes

Blackbeard the Pirate

1952 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Robert Newton · Linda Darnell · Keith Andes · William Bendix

Plot Set in 1674 reformed pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a government official in Jamaica. A man posing as a ship's surgeon is out to prove that Morgan is still a...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Derelicts (TV)

1956 · Movie · 30 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Robert Newton · Phillip Reed · Peggy Knudsen · Johnny Silver

Plot Inventor Ralph Cowell murders his silent partner Alfred, only to be blackmailed by vagrant Peter Goodfellow, who witnessed the crime.

6.1

80 votes

6.1

80 votes

Treasure Island

1950 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Byron Haskin

Cast Bobby Driscoll · Robert Newton · Basil Sydney · Walter Fitzgerald

Plot Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number...

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

Major Barbara

1941 · Movie · 131 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Gabriel Pascal · David Lean · Harold French

Cast Wendy Hiller · Rex Harrison · Robert Morley · Robert Newton

Plot Filmed in London in 1941, during the Blitz, Major Barbara emerged from a troubled production to become a major success for George Bernard Shaw and producer-director Gabriel Pascal. Pygmalion’s Wendy...

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6.0

85 votes

6.0

85 votes

21 Days

1940 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom

5.9

151 votes

5.9

151 votes

The High and the Mighty

1954 · Movie · 147 min. · United States

Direction William A. Wellman

Cast John Wayne · Claire Trevor · Laraine Day · Robert Stack

Plot John Wayne personally produced many of his '50s films, which is why some of them have languished in corporate limbo following his death. The High and the Mighty was one...

5.8

509 votes

5.8

509 votes

Soldiers Three

1951 · Movie · 92 min. · United States

5.7

54 votes

5.7

54 votes

Androcles and the Lion

1952 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Chester Erskine

Cast Alan Young · Jean Simmons · Victor Mature · Robert Newton

Plot Androcles is a Christian who follows that religion's teachings even as they apply to the treatment of animals. Seeing a lion in pain, he removes a huge thorn from the...

5.4

190 votes

5.4

190 votes

Busman's Honeymoon

1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Arthur B. Woods · Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Montgomery · Constance Cummings · Leslie Banks · Seymour Hicks

Plot Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Harriet has little charms made so...

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