# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buster-crabbe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T21:29:22.299Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/buster-crabbe"
name: "Buster Crabbe"
slug: "buster-crabbe"
description: "Clarence Linden \"Buster\" Crabbe II was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-metre freestyle swimming event, which launched his career on the silver screen and later television. He starred in a variety of popular feature films and movie serials released between 1933 and the 1950s, portraying the top three syndicated comic-strip heroes of the 1930s: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers."
tagline: "American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, actor (1908-1983)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Buster_Crabbe_-_publicity-full.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1908-02-07"
deathDate: "1983-04-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.58
  momentum:             0.9776751347190147
  historical:           21.359352
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0185568/"
    handle:    "nm0185568"
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    title: "Buster Crabbe"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump