| 词条 | Frederick Robert Buckley |
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|name = Frederick Robert Buckley |image = |caption = |birth_date = 20 December 1896 |birth_place = Colton, Staffordshire, England |death_date = June 1976 |death_place = |death_cause = |years_active = 1917–1972 |resting_place = |spouse = {{marriage|Helen Curry|1916|1931}} |children = |occupation = Writer screenwriter radio presenter film critic actor }}Frederick Robert Buckley (1896–1976) was an English writer. He wrote more than 200 short stories for pulp magazines between 1918 and 1953.[1] He was born on 20 December 1896 in Colton, Staffordshire, England, died 1976.[2] He was the son of Robert John Buckley (1847–1938) and Mary (Wakelin) Buckley. His father was music critic for the Birmingham Gazette from 1886–1926.[3] Frederick attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and Birmingham University for journalism.[4] While at King Edward's School, at age 14, he performed in Aristophanes' Peace in the role of Theori. Also in the cast was schoolmate J. R. R. Tolkien playing Hermes.[5] F. R. Buckley was married in 1916 to actress Helen Curry and his brother-in-law was fellow pulp fiction author Tom Curry.[4] Silent film eraIn 1915, Buckley emigrated to the United States on the SS St. Louis[6] and worked as a film critic for the Motion Picture Mail, a Saturday magazine supplement of The New York Evening Mail. Starting in 1917, he worked in silent film in Brooklyn for the Vitagraph Studios where he was primarily a screenwriter and occasionally an actor.[4] Between 1917 ands 1918 he wrote or co-wrote the scenarios for The Cambric Mask, By the World Forgot, A Gentleman's Agreement, The Purple Dress, Lost on Dress Parade, The Song of the Soul, The Other Man, The Hiding of Black Bill, A Night in New Arabia, The Last of the Troubadours and The Lovers' Knot. He appeared in principal roles in The Undercurrent and The Unknown Quantity.[2] Writer{{external media| float = right | width = 500px | image1 = The Red Book Magazine cover, March 1922 | image3 = Adventure magazine cover, v106 #4, February 1942 | image2 = Adventure magazine cover, v105 #5, September 1941 }} Buckley left Vitagraph after selling Getting It, his first short story to The Black Cat, an American magazine specializing in original short stories of an unusual nature[7] for $20.00.[8] In 1922 he won the O' Henry Prize for his short story Gold-Mounted Guns published in Red Book Magazine, March 1922.[9] His fiction also appeared in Collier's, Liberty, McClure's and The Saturday Evening Post, and was extensively published in many pulp magazines including Adventure, Hutchinson's Adventure-story Magazine, Argosy, The Blue Book Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Short Stories , The Story-Teller and Western Story Magazine.[1] Later some of his short stories would be adapted for film or radio by others. The Bearcat, a 1922 Universal Film Manufacturing Company picture,Peg Leg and the Kidnapper, originally published in Western Story Magazine was used for the 1926 Fox Film Corporation film The Gentle Cyclone and RKO Radio Pictures Stung 1931.[2] His story Habit, honorably mentioned in the O'Henry Memorial Volume for 1923.[10] and published in the April 30, 1923 issue of Adventure was adapted for the July 18, 1948 episode of the CBS radio program Escape.[11] In the 1930s he returned to England writing film criticism again, now for the Birmingham Evening Despatch. BroadcasterHe was a writer and on air radio presenter on the BBC from 1934–1970.[12] Some time between 1947 and 1951 Buckley is credited with bringing actor and comedian Stanley Unwin to the attention of BBC producers Peter Cairns and David Martin who premiered Unwins first broadcast on the radio program Pat Dixon's Mirror of the Month[13] From 1959 to 1962 Buckley was heard as a regular panelist on the weekly BBC radio program The Guilty Party where a crime play was dramatized, then the panelists would cross-examine the characters in an effort to figure out who was guilty of the crime.[14] Later LifeFrom the 1950s to the time of his death in 1976, Buckley lived in a reportedly haunted historical house in King's Lynn, Norfolk, which is known as The Exorcist's house.[15] Books by F. R. Buckley
References1. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/s/s1390.htm#A25820|title=F. R. Buckley|publisher=The FictionMags Index}} 2. ^1 2 *{{IMDB name|0118603}} 3. ^Edward Winter, Who Was R.J. Buckley Chess Story 2004 4. ^1 2 F. R. Buckley, Swashbuckling Author PulpFlakes 5. ^The Tolkien Gallery, Library of Birmingham 6. ^Passenger List, American Line, SS St. Louis, 29 May 1915 Gjenvick-Gjonvik Archives 7. ^Frank Luther Mott. A History of American Magazines: 1885-1905. Harvard University Press, 1957 (pp.429-31) 8. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=KRNTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA100&dq=%22F.R.+Buckley%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIopLlxozPAhUBgj4KHT-MCUI4RhDoAQgfMAE#v=onepage&q=%22F.R.%20Buckley%22&f=false The Editor] The Journal of Information for Literary Workers, vol. 56, no. 13, April, 1922, p.101 9. ^O. Henry Prize Stories Past Winners List Random House 10. ^Wireless Age: The Radio Magazine, October 1924, p. 30 11. ^CBS Radio's Escape July 18, 1948 Escape and Suspense! Vintage Radio, a website devoted to the enjoyment of the long-running CBS radio show Suspense and its sister show Escape. 12. ^F. R. Buckley BBC Genome Radio Times 13. ^Actyup in spotlighty The World of Stanley Unwin 14. ^BBC Radio's 'The Guilty Party' Times Past Old Time Radio 15. ^Alison Gifford, KL Magazine, October 2016 [https://issuu.com/klmagazine/docs/klmagazine_october2016_online The Perfect Local Ghost Story For Halloween] pg 22-24 16. ^Geoffrey D. Smith ed. [https://books.google.com/books?id=HPYP-a0hjLsC&pg=PA93&dq=%22F.R.+Buckley%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix2vasxYzPAhXDcz4KHdpyD_EQ6AEINTAE#v=onepage&q=%22F.R.%20Buckley%22&f=false American Fiction, 1901-1925: A Bibliography] (Cambridge University Press) 1997, p. 93 External links
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