#Band of brothers buck compton actor movie
Growing up in Los Angeles, he also became a movie fan and a young extra in several films, even appearing in a few scenes with up-and-coming child actor Mickey Rooney. That was OK by them––nobody wanted a friend who had a sissy’s name.” This portrait of the young Buck Compton was taken in the village of Aldbourne, England, just before Christmas 1943. I informed all my friends that Buck was the only name I’d answer to. It was settled––Buck Compton was my new name. How about Buck? That was close enough for jazz. Sounded tough, but I also sounded like a copycat. Compton, at an early age, thought: “If he could have a nickname, why couldn’t I? One day in grammar school, I rolled around in my head the name-Truck Compton. The team had a player named Truck Hannah, whose real name was James Harrison Hannah. Angels, a minor-league team in south Los Angeles. Always a baseball fan, his favorite team was the L.A. But to me, Lynn was a girl’s name and always will be.” “My mother’s father was from Lynn, Massachusetts,” he said, “and named Lyndley in honor of the town, so that’s where my name came from. As might be expected, the young man hated his first name. To begin at the beginning, Compton was born in Los Angeles, California, on New Year’s Eve 1921. It has made for a great recently released book, Call of Duty: My Life Before, During, and After the Band of Brothers, written with Marcus Brotherton and including a foreword by John McCain. His life story would make a great film or TV series in its own right. Thanks to the late historian Stephen Ambrose, his book Band of Brothers, and the HBO series of the same title, the legendary, extraordinary exploits of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR), 101st Airborne Division, have become well known to a whole new generation.Īnd one of the most extraordinary men who served with that outfit is Lynn “Buck” Compton.
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