Frederick Robert Buckley (1896â€"1976), better known as F. R. Buckley,
was an English writer. He wrote more than 200 short stories for pulp
magazines between 1918 and 1953. He was born on 20 December 1896 in
Colton, Staffordshire, England, died 1976. He was the son of Robert
John Buckley (1847â€"1938) and Mary (Wakelin) Buckley. His father was
music critic for the Birmingham Gazette from 1886â€"1926. Frederick
attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and Birmingham University,
studying journalism. While at King Edward's School, at age 14, he
performed in Aristophanes' Peace in the role of Theoria. Also in the
cast was schoolmate J. R. R. Tolkien playing Hermes. F. R. Buckley was
married in 1916 to actress Helen Curry and his brother-in-law was
fellow pulp fiction author Tom Curry.In 1915, Buckley emigrated to the
United States on the SS St. Louis 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. Between 1917 ands 1918 he wrote, co-wrote or
adapted 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.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 for $20.00.
was an English writer. He wrote more than 200 short stories for pulp
magazines between 1918 and 1953. He was born on 20 December 1896 in
Colton, Staffordshire, England, died 1976. He was the son of Robert
John Buckley (1847â€"1938) and Mary (Wakelin) Buckley. His father was
music critic for the Birmingham Gazette from 1886â€"1926. Frederick
attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and Birmingham University,
studying journalism. While at King Edward's School, at age 14, he
performed in Aristophanes' Peace in the role of Theoria. Also in the
cast was schoolmate J. R. R. Tolkien playing Hermes. F. R. Buckley was
married in 1916 to actress Helen Curry and his brother-in-law was
fellow pulp fiction author Tom Curry.In 1915, Buckley emigrated to the
United States on the SS St. Louis 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. Between 1917 ands 1918 he wrote, co-wrote or
adapted 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.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 for $20.00.
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