List Of Actors Who Turned Down Robin Hood

Sir George Alexander
Sir Richard Attenborough
Sir Felix Aylmer

Sir Stanley Baker
Sir Squire Bancroft
Sir Alan Bates
Sir Frank Benson
Sir Dirk Bogarde
Sir Kenneth Branagh

Sir Derwent Hall Caine
Sir Michael Caine
Sir Lewis Casson
Sir Charlie Chaplin
Sir John Clements
Sir Sean Connery
Sir Tom Courtenay
Sir Noël Coward

Sir Daniel Day-Lewis
Sir Gerald du Maurier

Sir Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson
Sir Bruce Forsyth

Sir Michael Gambon
Sir John Gielgud
Sir Alec Guinness

Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Sir John Hare
Sir Augustus Harris
Sir Rex Harrison
Sir Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Charles Hawtrey
Sir Robert Helpmann
Sir Lenny Henry
Sir Seymour Hicks
Sir Ian Holm
Sir Bob Hope
Sir Anthony Hopkins
Sir Michael Hordern
Sir John Hurt

Sir Henry Irving

Sir Derek Jacobi
Sir David Jason

Sir Ben Kingsley

Sir Christopher Lee
Sir Henry Lytton

Sir John Martin-Harvey
Sir Ian McKellen
Sir Bernard Miles
Sir Spike Milligan
Sir John Mills
Sir Roger Moore

Sir Laurence Olivier

Sir Nigel Playfair
Sir Sidney Poitier

Sir Anthony Quayle

Sir Michael Redgrave
Sir Ralph Richardson
Sir Brian Rix
Sir George Robey
Sir Tony Robinson

Sir Harry Secombe
Sir Antony Sher
Sir Donald Sinden
Sir C. Aubrey Smith
Sir Robert Stephens
Sir Patrick Stewart

Sir Godfrey Tearle
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

Sir Peter Ustinov

Sir Norman Wisdom
Sir Donald Wolfit
Sir Charles Wyndham


All of these illustrious actors turned down the opportunity to portray Robin Hood on the silver screen.

Remarkably, all had very similar justifications for rejecting the role, stating that "It simply wouldn't be appropriate for an actor of my status to play such an anti-establishment villain, my reputation would be ruined