F. R. Buckley

He was born Frederick Robert Buckley on 20 December 1896 in Colton, Staffordshire, England and died in 1976. He was the son of R. J. Buckley (1847–1938) and Mary Wakelin. His father was music critic for the Birmingham Gazette from 1886 to 1926. Frederick attended King Edward's School, Birmingham and Birmingham University, studying journalism. In 1916, Buckley married American actress Helen Curry, sister of fellow pulp fiction author Tom Curry. He returned to England in 1932 after his first wife's suicide. His second marriage to Ruth Tennant ended in divorce. He remarried once again in 1959, to Marie Victoria Lindsay. ==Silent film era==

, Frederick Buckley and Guy Empey in a still from the 1919 silent film The Undercurrent In 1915, Buckley went to the United States on the SS St Louis and worked as Chief reviewer and later Editor for the Motion Picture Mail, a Saturday magazine supplement of the New York Evening Mail. Buckley then moved to become New York Managing Editor of the Exhibitors Herald. 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 and 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'', {{cite book ==Writer==

'', a Western now lost from 1922, crediting the writer F.R. Buckley 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. O. Henry Award In 1922, Buckley won the O. Henry Award for his short story Gold-Mounted Guns published in Red Book Magazine, March 1922. His story Habit, honorably mentioned in the O'Henry Memorial Volume for 1923. and published in the 30 April 1923 issue of Adventure was adapted for the 18 July 1948 episode of the CBS radio program Escape. Pulps, Slicks and Novels Buckley's fiction also appeared in ''Collier's, Liberty, McClure's, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and The Saturday Evening Post. He was also extensively published in many pulp magazines including Adventure'', Hutchinson's Adventure-story Magazine, Argosy, The Blue Book Magazine, Short Stories , The Story-Teller and Western Story Magazine. The Luigi Caradosso stories were enormously popular with ''Adventure's readers. When Adventure published a new Caradosso story in the May 1940 issue (after a six-year hiatus), the editor Howard Bloomfield noted that many readers had written in to request that the magazine "Bring back Captain Caradosso." Buckley also wrote a novel, The Way of Sinners'', set in sixteenth-century Italy, in which Caradosso is mentioned. Buckley also published Western, mystery and sea stories as well as historical fiction. Later, some of Buckley's 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. Return to journalism In the 1930s, Buckley returned to England and wrote film criticism again, now for the Birmingham Evening Despatch. ==Broadcaster==

in London in 1949 Back in England, Buckley was a writer and on-air radio presenter on the BBC from 1934 to 1970. In the mid 1950s, Buckley worked as a portrait painter in Paris. ==Historic Homes==

Connecticut State Register Buckley's former home (1920-1932) in Norwalk, Connecticut is listed in both the Norwalk Historic Resource Inventory and with the Connecticut State Historic Preservation Office on the Connecticut State Register of Historic Places. National Heritage List for England From the 1960s to the time of his death in 1976, Buckley lived in a reportedly haunted (though not very enthusiastically, according to Buckley) listed building on the National Heritage List for England in King's Lynn, Norfolk, England, which is known as The Exorcist's house. == References ==