Actor robert newton biography

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obert Newton was born June 1, 1905, in Shaftesbury, Dorset, England.

Robert newton death

The arts were in his blood: His mother was a writer, and his father, Algernon Newton (1880-1968), was a respected painter and member of the Royal Academy. His great-grandfather, artist Henry Charles Newton, had co-founded the Winsor & Newton art-supply company.

His brother and a sister were also painters (and his sisters did some acting as well). His daughter Sally, who died in November 2001, followed in her father's footsteps, becoming an actress. His eldest son, Nicholas, is a theatre producer in London's West End.

And his youngest son, Kim, is a photojournalist. Robert himself worked at various times as a scene painter in the theatre and later portrayed an obsessed artist in the 1947 classic film Odd Man Out.

After attending school in Lamorna, near Penzance in Cornwall, and then Newbury Grammar school, Newton was tak