Buster Crabbe
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, actor (1908-1983)
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.
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Crabbe at age 20 at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam
Crabbe watches "Jack", one of the lions in King of the Jungle, eating lunch in a Hollywood restaurant in 1933. Crabbe became a lion tamer while working on that adventure film.
Buster Crabbe with real-life son Cullen on Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion, ca. 1955
Newspaper ad published September 1989Filmography 40
Flash Gordon
The Alien Dead
You're Telling Me!
Arizona Raiders
Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe
Tarzan the Fearless
To the Last Man
Gangster's Den
Jungle Man
Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars
Nabonga
Captive Girl
Daughter of Shanghai
Buck Rogers
Planet Outlaws
Buffalo Stampede
The Bounty Killer
Search for Beauty
Swamp Fire
Badman's Country
Western Cyclone
Starlit Days at the Lido
Wild Horse Phantom
Buck Rogers
Devil Riders
Gunfighters of Abilene
Sheriff of Sage Valley
Billy the Kid Trapped
Fugitive of the Plains
Purple Death from Outer Space
Last of the Redmen
Cattle Stampede
We're Rich Again
King of the Jungle
Fuzzy Settles Down
Shadows of Death
Desert Gold
Unmarried
Rustlers' Hideout
Badge of Honor131 credits on file
Television 7
The Mike Douglas Show
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
The Philco Television Playhouse
The Steve Allen Show
B. J. and the Bear
Science Fiction Film AwardsAwards 2
In their orbit 3
Connected to Buster 6
About this person
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.
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