Ian Hall

When the war ended in 1945, Robert Newton__ film career took off. And then he landed the part of Disney__ Long John Silver. __hat accent do you want me to put on?_ he asked Walt, in his natural thick West-country, __ornwall/Devon/Dorset_ burr. Pointing at his face excitedly, __hy, that one._ Disney replied. And THE OFFICIAL PIRATE ACCENT was born. Newton went on to do another Long John Silver film, then a 26 part television series. He died early, aged 50, from chronic alcoholism, just the way a pirate would want to go. But he left the legacy of __he_ pirate accent __il the end of time. Every pirate ___ or __rrrgh_ joke you ever heard, owes its very life to the combination of Robert Newton, R. L. Stevenson, and Walt Disney. -- Renaissance Festival Survival Guide