Long John Silver is a fictional character in the novel Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson. Silver is also known by the nicknames "Barbecue" and "the Sea-Cook" (which is also an alternate title for Stevenson's novel). Long John Silver can refer to: Long John Silver, the fictional character from Robert Louis Stevensons novel Treasure Island. ... Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... This article is about the literary concept. ... For other uses, see Treasure Island (disambiguation). ... Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850–December 3, 1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. ...

Long John Silver finding the skeleton of Allardyce, illustration by Georges Roux, 1885

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In Treasure Island, Long John Silver is a pirate and was the ship's quartermaster under the notorious Captain John Flint. Silver was said to have been the only man whom Flint ever feared. Like many of Stevenson's characters, there is more than a modicum of duality in the character; ostensibly Silver is a hard-working and likeable seaman, and it is only as the plot unfurls that his villainous nature is gradually revealed. His relationship with Jim Hawkins, the novel's protagonist, is interesting, as he serves as a mentor and eventually father-figure to Jim, creating much shock and emotion when it is discovered that he is in charge of the mutiny, and especially when Jim must confront him and fight later on. When Silver escapes at the end of the novel, he takes "three or four hundred guineas" of the treasure with him, thus becoming one of only two former members of Captain Flint's crew to get his hands on a portion of the treasure. (The repentant maroonee Ben Gunn is the other, but he spends it all in nineteen days.) Jim's own ambivalence towards Silver is reflected in the last chapter, when he speculates that the old pirate must have settled down in comfortable retirement: "It is to be hoped so, I suppose, for his chances of comfort in another world are very small." Look up pirate and piracy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Quartermaster is a term usually referring to a military unit which specializes in supplying and provisioning troops, or to an individual who does the same. ... Captain J. Flint (sometimes also referenced as Josuah or John Flint) was the fictional (?)[1] notorious captain of a Pirate ship, the Walrus, in the novel Treasure Island of the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). ...

Stevenson's portrayal of Silver has greatly influenced the modern iconography of the pirate. Silver has a parrot, named Captain Flint in honor of his former captain, who generally perches on Silver's shoulder. Silver has lost one of his legs, and uses a crutch to help him get around. He is married to a woman of African descent. Systematics (but see below) Family Cacatuidae (cockatoos) Subfamily Microglossinae (Palm Cockatoo) Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae (dark cockatoos) Subfamily Cacatuinae (white cockatoos) Family Psittacidae (true parrots) Subfamily Loriinae (lories and lorikeets) Subfamily Psittacinae (typical parrots and allies) Tribe Arini (American psittacines) Tribe Cyclopsitticini (fig parrots) Tribe Micropsittini (pygmy parrots) Tribe Nestorini (kakas and...

According to Stevenson's letters, the idea for the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his real-life friend William Henley, a writer and editor. Stevenson's step-son, Lloyd Osbourne, described Henley as "..a great, glowing, massive-shouldered fellow with a big red beard and a crutch [Henley was crippled]; jovial, astoundingly clever, and with a laugh that rolled like music; he had an unimaginable fire and vitality; he swept one off one's feet". In a letter to Henley after the publication of Treasure Island Stevenson wrote "I will now make a confession. It was the sight of your maimed strength and masterfulness that begot Long John Silver...the idea of the maimed man, ruling and dreaded by the sound [voice alone], was entirely taken from you". William Ernest Henley (August 23, 1849 – July 11, 1903) was a British poet, critic and editor. ...

• William Dampier's cook on his privateer ship "Duke" was a one-legged, eye-patched individual called John Silver. It was this ship that rescued Alexander Selkirk, perhaps leading to the creation of the myth/legend.

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Modern portrayals

Actors who have portrayed Long John Silver in the various motion picture adaptations of Treasure Island include Wallace Beery, Orson Welles, Charlton Heston, Robert Newton, Anthony Quinn, Tim Curry, Jack Palance, Brian Murray, Oleg Borisov and British actor Ivor Dean in a televised version of the novel. Robert Newton followed up his two Long John Silver movies with an Australian produced TV series. This article is about motion pictures. ... Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 – April 15, 1949) was an American actor, best known for his many cinema appearances. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... This article contains a trivia section. ... Robert Newton as Long John Silver. ... Anthony Quinn (April 21, 1915 Chihuahua, Mexico – June 3, 2001 Boston, Massachusetts) was a two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican-American actor, as well as a painter and writer. ... Timothy James Curry (born April 19, 1946) is an English actor, singer and composer, perhaps best known for his role as mad scientist Dr. Frank-N-Furter in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). ... Jack Palance, (born Volodymyr Palanyuk (Ukr: Володимир Паланюк))on February 18, 1919, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA), is an Academy Award-winning American actor. ... This article should belong in one or more categories. ... Oleg Ivanovich Borisov (Russian: ); November 08, 1929 – April 28, 1994) was a well-known Russian film and theatre actor. ... Ivor Dean (1917 - 10 August 1974) was a British stage and television actor. ... Robert Newton as Long John Silver. ...

Ivor Dean played the character in an acclaimed European filmisation for television in 1966. After the end of that 4-part mini-series he intended to reprise the role in another series with more adventures of Silver. He began writing an exposee with director Robert S. Baker, but his sudden death in 1974 stopped all further plannings. In 1985 this script was used as foundation for a Disney 10-part TV-series called "Return to Treasure Island" starring Brian Blessed in the role of Long John Silver. There is also a book called "Long John Silver", which is a fictional biography written by Bjorn Larsson (ISBN 1-86046-538-2). Robert S. Baker (b. ... Disney may refer to: The Walt Disney Company and its divisions, including Walt Disney Pictures. ... Brian Blessed (pronounced //, or in the tradition of English poetry, Blessèd, born near Doncaster,October 9, 1937) is an English actor, who came to fame as PC Fancy Smith in the BBC TV police drama series Z Cars. ...

Trivia

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• Philip Jose Farmer has postulated that Silver is the father of Paladin from the 1950's series Have Gun - Will Travel. Farmer gives Paladin the name Lancelot Silver.
• The fast food restaurant chain Long John Silver's was named after this character.
• In J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan, it is said that Captain Hook is the only man "the Sea-Cook" ever feared. It later suggests that Silver/Barbecue was killed by Pan, though Pan himself, as usual, can't remember exactly.
• The song "Mother Goose" by Jethro Tull includes the line, "I don't believe they knew that I was Long John Silver".
• In the movie Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, there is a comical reference to Long John Silver and his parrot Captain Flint when Captain Barbossa explains to his own former captain, Jack Sparrow, that he and his crew named their pet monkey Jack.
• The 2002 Disney film Treasure Planet, an animated science fiction version of Treasure Island, depicts John Silver as a cyborg.

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External links

• A Ballad of John Silver, by John Masefield

• Info on the Australian Long John Silver TV series. http://www.classicaustraliantv.com/advljs.htm

• The Amazon.com link to Larsson's novel on the character: [1]