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.
By Matt Fowler. Following the news from a few weeks ago that actress Vera Farmiga (The Departed) had been cast as Norman Bates' controlling mother, Norma, for A&E's Bates Motel - a Psycho prequel series focusing on the formative years of future killer Norman Bates - comes cool news of the casting of Norman himself! - via TVGuide.com.