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.
Norman Bates. For the Medal of Honor recipient, see Norman F. Bates. Norman Bates is a main character created by Robert Bloch as the main antagonist in his 1959 novel Psycho, and portrayed by Anthony Perkins in the 1960 film of the same name directed by Alfred Hitchcock and its sequels, and by Freddie Highmore in the television series Bates Motel. The character was inspired by Wisconsin murderer Ed Gein.