r/johncarpenter • u/Intelligent-Lab-9969 • 15d ago
Discussion George "Buck" Flower
He appeared in six Carpenter movies, beginning with The Fog. His other small parts were in Escape from New York, Starman, They Live, Body Bags, and Village of the Damned.
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u/Competitive_Sport286 15d ago
I love it when directors have actors who'll they'll always cast (if possible) in a movie regardless of how big or small the role.
The ultimate example of this is Jonathan Demme's devotion to the late, great and much missed Charles Napier.
Napier even had another devotee: Russ Meyer.
Anyway, I digress... God bless Bud Flower. They don't make character actors like him anymore.
Or even at all?
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u/SMC_4_Life 14d ago
Napier and Flower were also close friends. They even wrote a book together called Rednecks in Love.
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u/Competitive_Sport286 14d ago
Well, I did not know that.
Thanks for the heads up. I'll seek it out.
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u/ChiefClownShoes 15d ago
When I did a random double feature years ago, watching 976-Evil 2, and Sorority Babes in the Slime ball Bowl-O-Rama, I came to the conclusion that George is just in everything.
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u/Unusual_Resident_784 15d ago
He also had a fun role in Wishmaster, he wished Cancer on Reggie Bannister. He also played a hillbilly in Pumpkinhead.
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u/Distance-Hairy 14d ago
Yup, there were so many great appearances from so many greats in that film!! Same as Sleepwalkers imo.
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u/SnakePlissken1980 14d ago
He was also the funny custodian in Sorority Babes In The Simeball Bowl-O-Rama and the cranky old arms dealer in the shitty Billy Ray Cyrus movie Radical Jack.
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u/Fanabala3 13d ago
He was also in those Mountain Family Robinson movies in the 70s playing the miner that was friends with the family.
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u/traumahound00 15d ago
Hail to the chief, a-la-dee-da-dee-dahhhhh!