Out of all the many versions of Friar Tuck in film and television, my favourite has always been the interpretation by James Hayter. James Ha...

James Hayter  as Friar Tuck on the set of Disney's Story of Robin Hood In last week's post I explained how Friar Tuck has bee...

James Hayter as Friar Tuck I recently received an email from Elina Lampart asking permission to use some stills and pages of informat...

Neil has discovered an interesting snippet from The Cinema magazine of April 1951. It backs-up the strong rumor that Robert Newton had ...

Richard Todd in his autobiography ‘Caught in the Act’ described Disney’s live-action film the Story of Robin Hood (1952) as a ‘happy’ mo...

Another publicity still kindly sent to me by Mike.

This colourful publicity still of James Hayter as Friar Tuck in Walt Disney’s Story of Robin Hood (1952) was sent to me by Neil. He said: “...

This fragment of a genuine medieval Robin Hood play is written on the upper half of a half sheet of paper (8’’x10’’) containing household a...

Shown above is the Broadside version of The Famous Battle between Robin Hood and the Curtal Fryer. To a new Northern Tune. This copy is he...

'Come sing low, come sing high; Come change thy name to mine And you shall eat my Capon pie And drink my Malmsey wine.’ I have used this...

James Hayter was personally chosen for the part of Friar Tuck by the director of Disney’s Story of Robin Hood , Ken Annakin. Hayter had just...

In this our spacious isle I think there is not one But he hath heard some talk of Hood and Little John; Of Tuck, the merry friar, which many...

Friar Tuck was the hermit of Alford Abbey, a plump faced cleric with a tonsured head burnt dark by the sun. He was dressed in a stained brow...