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Billy Bunter. William George Bunter is a fictional schoolboy created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards. He features in stories set at Greyfriars School, a fictional English public school in Kent, originally published in the boys' weekly story paper The Magnet from 1908 to 1940. The character has appeared in novels, on ...
Billy Bunter, fictional character, a fat English schoolboy at Greyfriars School who, though an antihero, is the best-known character in a much-loved series of stories by Frank Richards (Charles Hamilton), published in the English boys’ weekly paper the Magnet (1908–40) and in hardbound books (from after World War II until 1961). After the author’s death in 1961, other writers ...
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Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School is a BBC Television show broadcast from 1952 to 1961. [ 1 ] It was based on the Greyfriars School stories, written by author Charles Hamilton under the pen name Frank Richards. Hamilton wrote all of the scripts for the television show. Bunter was portrayed by actor Gerald Campion, [ 2 ] who was aged 29 when he ...
Billy Bunter of Greyfriars School: With Gerald Campion, Jack Melford, Julian Yardley, Kynaston Reeves. Bunter is up to his usual pranks; falling asleep in class, stealing jam and cakes from other boys' lockers, chalking rude things on the blackboard, failing to turn up for cricket, and even being threatened with expulsion.
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Greyfriars School is in the county of Kent, southeast England. The school lies on the fictional river Sark, upstream of the nearby village of Friardale and downstream of the market town of Courtfield. It is near the coast: the fishing village of Pegg is described as being within a mile (1.6 km). There are two other public schools nearby, Cliff Hous...
The school consists of seven forms, loosely based on age groups. Each form has its own Form Master, who takes the majority of the lessons. Specialist masters are used for French, sports and mathematics. The Headmaster appoints a Head Prefect, who is responsible for leading the other Prefects and supporting the Headmaster in matters of school discip...
While the masters naturally emphasise scholastic matters, for the pupils (and readership) it is physical activities that are at the heart of the school's ethos. Prowess at sports is the best route to popularity and respect, while over-attainment at study is something of lesser, if not negative, importance. Disputes are often settled by fights, with...
Hamilton's writing style has been compared with that of his contemporary P G Wodehouse. A light and distinctive prose style combines with a strong comedic element and a large ensemble of strongly-drawn characters. The exceptional volume of material produced by Hamilton over his writing career allowed both characters and locations to be developed in...
Although the full ensemble of recurring characters in the Greyfriars world is in the hundreds, a smaller group of fewer than 20 recurring characters, along with guest characters, drive the majority of the stories. Each of the following characters appears in more than 800 Magnet stories (approximately half of the total of 1,683).
The extraordinary volume of output of Greyfriars stories inevitably meant that plotlines and themes were repeated, though usually involving different characters and novel twists. In the early years, this often meant stories that were resolved across 1–2 issues; but by the early 1930s a series would typically take 8–12 weekly issues to play out.
Greyfriars, and some of its (by then) former pupils, appeared in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier. George Harbinger is a fictional civil servant in The Secret Servant by Gavin Lyall. He refers to the intelligence services of Warsaw Pact member states using language in the style of Charles Hamilton, such as "cads and rotters"...
Beal, George, ed. (1977), The Magnet Companion, London: Howard Baker.Cadogan, Mary (1988), Frank Richards – The Chap Behind The Chums, Middlesex: Viking.Fayne, Eric; Jenkins, Roger (1972), A History of The Magnet and The Gem, Kent: Museum Press.Hamilton Wright, Una; McCall, Peter (2006), The Far Side of Billy Bunter: the Biography of Charles Hamilton, London: Friars Library.William George Bunter (a.k.a. Billy Bunter, the "Fat Owl of the Remove"), is a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton using the pen name Frank Richards.He featured originally in stories set at Greyfriars School in the boys weekly story paper The Magnet first published in 1908, and has since appeared in novels, on television, in stage plays, and in comic strips.
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William George Bunter is the best known character in the Greyfriars stories. He is a member of the Remove and is best known for his love of food and his fictional postal orders. Bunter was a part of the Greyfriars cast right from the beginning, starting out as Harry Wharton's and Frank Nugent's study mate. He was initially conceived as a minor character, but developed into one of the principal ...
