Bud, Not Buddy has 78,894 ratings and 4,210 reviews. It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Times may be hard, and ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on th...
Norman Bates Played by Freddie Highmore. A smart, quietly funny, handsome and sometimes shy seventeen-year-old boy with an intensely close bond to his mother. Norman is resistant to starting over in a new town, but begins to change his mind as he spread his wings a little. Freddie Highmore.
He died of respiratory and heart failure in 1984. By then, however, Gein had already achieved pop immortality, thanks to horror writer Robert Bloch, who had the inspired idea of creating a fictional character based on Gein-a deranged mama's boy named Norman Bates. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock transformed Bloch's pulp chiller, Psycho, into a cinematic masterpiece.