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George
Buck Flower: that old, well-known tramp
Terror Universal Interview, 12/9/2003
If you have lived in the 20th. century, have seen films and you've not passed away before 1970, you perhaps have seen at least one film involving George "Buck" Flower. A real curio is the way which I could make contact with this actor. The thing is that one night I received an e-mail from a person who informed me that, in addition to his work as a player, George "Buck" Flower had also written a fiction with that well-known player, Charles Napier. It made clear reference to "Red Necks in Love", ", a book which had already been published and is available through Barnes & Noble. So, I responded to this mysterious person asking him whether he had by chance images or stills of this "slippery" player. The matter is that for almost 40 years, Flower has been playing all kind of roles in films, specializing in playing older men or the drunkard type (or as ol' drunkards). Since in most films (the most known ones) he shows up just a little time in the screen, it was really hard to obtain any snapshot of him. I remember that I've spent a long while searching the whole net in order to get any kind picture of him to put it in my website, Cinefania.com. So, when this unknown person responded, the amazing fact was that HE was the real George "Buck" Flower! The rest of our conversation is developed below, for the delight of all those cinephiles interested in learning something else on...
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