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Dec 16, 2017 · BMX star John Buultjens was taken into care when he was just seven after attacking his abusive father with a kitchen knife to protect his mother. Now he is playing his own violent dad in a...
Jan 30, 2018 · The film is called Ride – the name Buultjens gave his autobiography – and Buultjens is playing the role of his biological father. He had dabbled in acting before, starring in Neighbours while...
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Mar 12, 2019 · His dad Thomas, who John plays in the movie, worked in the shipyards before he became unemployed. He was always angry and often turned on John or his wife Margaret. On one occasion, John was...
May 7, 2018 · He lives in Los Angeles now, the home of Hollywood, and actually ended up playing his own abusive father in a film about his life. Image: John Buultjens doing a stunt on his BMX.
Jan 12, 2023 · Language. English. 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : 22 cm. "Ride lays bare the harrowing beginnings and the tough life lessons learned by superstar John Buultjens on his rise to BMX glory. Raised by his poor family in Glasgow, he slept rough to escape his father's beatings.
Sep 13, 2017 · "That was the turning point in my life." After seeing a showing of 80s classic ET, Mr Buultjens became hooked on BMXs. Advertisement. In 1986, his adoptive dad - a biological scientist - got a...
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Nov 16, 2017 · It will star John as his own father and is set in the Californian town Petaluma, rather than Glasgow. But most importantly for John, Ride has been made to inspire a mass audience that anything in possible. In reality, John's life is in the book, written after the film with fellow Glaswegian Chris Sweeney.
