Long John Silver

THE ORIGIN OF ARRR! We The Kids  "FAVORITE PIRATE" Master William Mayhem, aka Capt William The Pirate The archetypal pirate grunt "Arrr! (alternatively "Yarrr!" and "Arg!") is widely attributed to actor Robert Newton, who portrayed Long John Silver in Disney's Treasure Island (1950); the Australian film, Long John Silver (1954); and Blackbeard (1952), though the reference first appeared in fiction as early as 1934 in an earlier version of the film, Treasure Island, and in early pirate novels by English author Jeffery Farnol. However, actor Newton was born in Dorset and educated in Cornwall. His native West Country dialect was [...]