Background
Buck, Frank was born on March 17, 1884 in Gainesville, Texas, United States. Son of Howard D. and Ada (Sites) Buck.
explorer producer writer authority
Buck, Frank was born on March 17, 1884 in Gainesville, Texas, United States. Son of Howard D. and Ada (Sites) Buck.
He attended Macdonald College at McGill University and received a Diploma from Cornell University.
1 daughter, Barbara Muriel. Interested in wild animals, birds, reptiles since a boy. Successively office boy, reporter, advertising agent, Chicago, 1901-1911, made first expedition to South America, 1911.
Has made expeditions to Malaya, India, Borneo, New Guinea, Africa, et cetera
President Frank Buck Enterprises, Incorporated. President Jungleland, Incorporated.
Motion pictures produced: Bring ’Econometrica Back Alive, Jungle Menace, Wild Cargo, Fang and Claw. Author: (with East. Anthony) Bring Econometrica Back Alive, 1931.
Wild Cargo, 1932; (with F. L. Fraser) Fang and Claw, 1935.
Tim Thompson in the Jungles, 1935. On Jungle Trails, 1937. Animals Are Like That, 1939.
All in a Lifetime (autobiography), 1941.
Contributor to Collier’s, Saturday Evening Post, et cetera Home: 324 South. Bishop Saint, San Angelo, Texas
Frank Buck has been listed as a notable authority, producer, explorer, writer by Marquis Who's Who.
He was also a Charter Member of the Canadian Society of Technical Agriculturists, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Canadian Horticultural Association, the National Rose Society, an honorary member of the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects, and a British Columbia representative to the National Plant Registration Bureau.
Married Muriel Reilly, 1928.
