<Li> Tobias Moretti played Silver in the 2007 German film adaptation of Treasure Island, entitled Die Schatzinsel . </Li> <Li> In the film Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), the character of Tobias Beckett (as played by Woody Harrelson) was inspired by Long John Silver . </Li> <Ul> <Li> Robert Newton followed up his two feature films with a 1955 Australian - produced TV series The Adventures of Long John Silver . </Li> <Li> Peter Wyngarde played Silver in the 1958 TV series The Adventures of Ben Gunn . </Li> <Li> BBC Television has presented the story in miniseries format four times, with the role of Silver being played by Bernard Miles in 1951 and again in 1957;, Peter Vaughan in 1968; and Alfred Burke in 1977 . Miles played the role one final time in a 1982 TV movie . </Li> <Li> In 1959, Ivo Garrani played Silver in an Italian TV miniseries . </Li> <Li> Ivor Dean played the character in an acclaimed European four - part mini-series in 1966 . He intended to reprise the role in another series with more adventures of Silver and began writing it with director Robert S. Baker, but his sudden death in 1974 stopped all further plans . In 1985, the Ivor Dean script was used as foundation for the Disney 10 - part TV series Return to Treasure Island, starring Brian Blessed as Long John Silver . </Li> <Li> In the 1978 anime series Takarajima directed by Osamu Dezaki the character is voiced by Genzō Wakayama . </Li> <Li> A 1982 Soviet miniseries had Silver portrayed by Oleg Borisov . </Li> <Li> Anthony Quinn played Silver in the 1987 TV miniseries Treasure Island in Outer Space . </Li> <Li> Charlton Heston portrayed a darker Long John Silver in the 1990 made - for - television movie, Treasure Island . </Li> <Li> Eddie Izzard played Long John Silver in the 2012 Sky mini-series . </Li> <Li> Luke Arnold played John Silver in the Starz TV series Black Sails (2014--2017), a prequel story set 20 years before Treasure Island . In this series, Silver as a young man begins as a scheming cook who rises to serve as quartermaster on the Walrus and on a captured Spanish Man O' War, later to lead the pirate and former - slave forces that attempt to re-take Nassau from the British . </Li> <Li> Costas Mandylor portrays "Captain Silver" in the 2016 episode "The Brothers Jones" on ABC's Once Upon a Time . </Li> </Ul> <Li> Robert Newton followed up his two feature films with a 1955 Australian - produced TV series The Adventures of Long John Silver . </Li>

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