Wednesday, May 17, 2006

Friar Tuck gallery

Top: from Robin Hood Prince of Thieves. Above: Kenneth Gilbert as Friar Tuck in Wolfshead.
Above: Eugene Pallette as Friar Tuck in The Adventures of Robin Hood.
Middle and below: The great James Hayter as Friar Tuck in the Disney production The Story of Robin Hood .

The story of Robin Hood would not be quite the same without the greedy cantankerous Friar Tuck among Robin's outlaws, the Merry Men. In recent times he has been viewed as a politically incorrect figure, when in 2006 the BBC failed to include him in their cast for "Robin Hood". To see where the real Friar Tuck lived as a hermit by a wWell, click here. To see two other locations often associated with the real Friar Tuck click here and here.

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