Peck's Bad Boy
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Henry "Hennery" Peck, popularly known as Peck's Bad Boy, is a fictional character created by
The inspiration for Hennery—the Bad Boy—came from Edward James Watson, who was a telegraph messenger boy that Peck met in the early 1880s. Apparently Watson thought up many of the stories used by Peck. Mr Watson had in his possession a letter from Peck "To my friend E. J. Watson, who, as a boy, gave me the first idea that culminated in the Peck's Bad Boy Series".Books
- Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa (1883)
- The Grocery Man and Peck's Bad Boy (1883)
- Peck's Bad Boy Abroad (1905)
- The Adventures of Peck's Bad Boy (1906)
- Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1906)
- Peck's Bad Boy with the Cowboys (1908)
- Peck's Bad Boy in an Airship (1908)
Films
- The Bad Boy and the Groceryman (1905)
- Peck's Bad Boy (1908)[7]
- Peck's Bad Boy (1921)
- Peck's Bad Boy (1934)
- Peck's Bad Boy with the Circus (1938)
- A scene from the stage version of Peck's Bad Boy is featured in the 1942 film Yankee Doodle Dandy showing Douglas Croft as a teenage George M. Cohan in the title role.
Stage
- Peck's Bad Boy (1884) by Charles Felton Pidgin
See also
- Peck's Bad Girl, 1918 film, written by Tex Charwate
- Peck's Bad Girl (TV series), 1959 television show, unrelated to the movie
References
- ISBN 978-1-878569-85-1.
- ISBN 978-0-87779-628-2.
- JSTOR 1488396.
- ISBN 0-8223-1493-2.
- ISBN 0-253-10841-1.
- ISBN 0-618-16821-4.
- ^ "Peck's Bad Boy movies- lesser known". georgewpeck.com. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
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