ACTOR

Robert Newton

1905 - 1956

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Robert Guy Newton (1 June 1905 – 25 March 1956) was an English actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the more popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for his hard-living life, he was cited as a role model by the actor Oliver Reed and the Who's drummer Keith Moon.Beginning his career in theatre in the 1920s, Newton appeared in numerous plays in the West End, including Bitter Sweet by Noël Coward. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Newton has received more than 1,458,695 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Newton is the 5,461st most popular actor (down from 5,255th in 2019), the 4,101st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,019th in 2019) and the 625th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Robert Newtons by language

Over the past year Robert Newton has had the most page views in the with 196,857 views, followed by German (8,162), and Spanish (7,541). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Southern Azerbaijani (207.49%), Finnish (61.64%), and Afrikaans (42.34%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Robert Newton ranks 5,461 out of 13,578. Before him are Dennis Christopher, Jeff Garlin, Corey Stoll, Juhi Chawla, Aida Turturro, and Géza von Bolváry. After him are Alka Yagnik, Henry Kolker, Rachael Harris, Peter Jason, Janet Suzman, and Carmen Machi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Robert Newton ranks 299. Before him are Frank Hussey, Zakaria Goneim, Arthur Crudup, Mahmoud Mokhtar El Tetsh, Erich Borchmeyer, and László Papp. After him are John Peters Humphrey, Ashley Montagu, Ernst Stueckelberg, Kay Francis, Fernand Rigaux, and Louis Armand. Among people deceased in 1956, Robert Newton ranks 177. Before him are Augustin Chantrel, Manilal Gandhi, Marie Juchacz, Jacques Moeschal, Pierre Allemane, and Lajos Asztalos. After him are Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Robert Julius Trumpler, Robert Yerkes, Jan Lechoń, Otto Scheff, and Henry Nicholas Ridley.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Robert Newton ranks 4,101 out of 8,785. Before him are Jesse Ramsden (1735), Marie Belloc Lowndes (1868), Henry Taylor (1932), Emily Blackwell (1826), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), and Walter Winterbottom (1913). After him are George Larner (1875), Ashley Montagu (1905), Duncan Jones (1971), David Pegg (1935), Stephen Graham (1973), and Olivia Manning (1908).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Robert Newton ranks 625. Before him are Greg Wise (1966), Jayne Atkinson (1959), Dan Stevens (1982), Peter Firth (1953), Tony Jay (1933), and James D'Arcy (1975). After him are Stephen Graham (1973), Nathalie Emmanuel (1989), Stephen Mangan (1968), Estelle Winwood (1883), Thomas Brodie-Sangster (1990), and Linus Roache (1964).

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Television and Movie Roles

Treasure Island
Long John Silver
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 of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
Jul 19o 19506.538 / 10
Oliver Twist
Bill Sykes
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Jun 28o 19487.5 / 10
Odd Man Out
Lukey
Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Jan 30o 19477.334 / 10