Arghhh Matey, Who Be Your Favorite Pirate?

[cinemalover]

There have been lots of exciting pirate films made over the years, recently topped off by the inexplicably popular series based on a ride at Disneyland.

Who was you favorite actor to put on the old eye-patch, so to speak?

Errol Flynn will probaly get my vote, but there are plenty of other interesting candidates out there.

[ChiO]

Can't quarrel with Errol Flynn, but I'll also nominate Wallace Beery and Robert Newton for portraying Long John Silver, probably the first pirate I was aware of.

[knitwit45]

Robert Shaw in Swashbuckler
Errol Flynn in any of his Pirate epics
Robert Morley as Long John Silver

[cinemalover]

ChiO,

Wallace Beery is wonderful and has the perfect body for my mind's eye version of Long John Silver. He has that over-the-top personality that I would think a pirate captain would have to have to survive.

[charliechaplinfan]

Douglas Fairbanks in The Black Pirate

Errol Flynn in Captain Blood

And fondly Gene Kelly in The Pirate

[vallo]

While I agree with the others listed. I'll add Robert Newton (again) as Blackbeard, the Pirate and of course Burt Lancaster as Capt. Vallo (The Crimson Pirate)



Bill (vallo)

[klondike]

Errol Flynn, far and away, but for me, it's his twilight role as buccaneer/freedom fighter Jamie Durrisdeer from Master of Ballantrae.
'Course, Roger Livesey as rascally tag-along Francis Burke, and all those great Scottish settings, don't hurt this mini-epic neither!