Frank Buck
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Frank Howard Buck was an American hunter, animal collector, and author, as well as a film actor, director, and producer.
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A 1915 map of the San Francisco fairgrounds, including the Zone
Frank Buck's passport photo, 1918
A plaque at the San Diego Zoo beneath a bronze statue of King Tut, the zoo's longtime greeter, indicates that the cockatoo was brought to the United States by Buck.
Buck's first book, Bring 'Em Back Alive (1930), became a bestseller.
Frank Buck punches out a mature male orangutan, one of a series of 1938 trading cards
Buck (left) with Ferrin Fraser, who co-authored five of his eight books
Buck (right) with Duncan Renaldo in Tiger Fangs (1943)Filmography 9
Africa Screams
Jacaré
Bring 'Em Back Alive
Jungle Menace
Tiger Fangs
Wild Cargo
Jungle Terror13 credits on file
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About this person
Frank Howard Buck was an American hunter, animal collector, and author, as well as a film actor, director, and producer. Beginning in the 1910s he made many expeditions into Asia for the purpose of hunting and collecting exotic animals, bringing over 100,000 live specimens back to the United States and elsewhere for zoos and circuses and earning a reputation as an adventurer. He co-authored seven books chronicling or based on his expeditions, beginning with 1930's Bring 'Em Back Alive, which became a bestseller.
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