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...

Clement McCalin and Joan Rice My last two posts have featured the actors Clement McCallin (1913-1977) and Joan Rice (1930-1997), who bo...

Above is a newspaper advertisement for Walt Disney's live action movie The Story of Robin Hood  at the Regent in Portsmouth and G...

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 ...

Above is another of the well illustrated Italian lobby cards produced  to promote Walt Disney's Story of Robin Hood and his Merri...

This fascinating interview with James Hayter and his young family was kindly sent to me a while ago by Geoff Waite. It was published in th...

This was a small article I found in the Super Cinema Annual 1954. It featured a piece on Mickey Wood (1897-1963), the self-defence and phy...

Above is very good still from Walt Disney’s Story of Robin Hood (1952) showing Friar Tuck (James Hayter) demanding two hundred shillings ...

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: “...

Two Friars. James Hayter was later picked by Ken Annakin to become the celebrated Friar Tuck in Walt Disney's Story of Robin Hood (195...

I recently found this post on the excellent Robin Hood 2007 blog and obtained permission from its owner Robin Hood, to show it on here. I a...

The classic TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood had many strong links with Walt Disney’s live-action motion picture the Story of Robin ...

My dad enjoyed reading the novels by Charles Dickens, particularly The Pickwick Papers . So there is a nice tie-in with James Hayter, pictu...

Above is a publicity poster for Noel Langley’s film adaption of Charles Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers , released in London on 26th November...