Buster Crabbe
American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, actor (1908-1983) · United States · On the map · Athletes · Died at 75
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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- Ford Beebe Directed Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)
Sam Newfield Directed Nabonga and Valley of Vengeance
William LeBaron Produced You're Telling Me! (1934)
Spencer Gordon Bennet Directed King of the Congo and The Bounty Killer
Henry Hathaway Directed Man of the Forest and To the Last Man
Erle C. Kenton Directed Island of Lost Souls (1932)- Louis King Directed Hunted Men and Illegal Traffic
Henry MacRae Produced Flash Gordon (1936)
John Leipold Wrote To the Last Man and Search for Beauty
Zane Grey Wrote Buffalo Stampede and To the Last Man
Mary Carlisle Also in Hunted Men and Illegal Traffic
Barton MacLane Also in Man of the Forest and To the Last Man
Charles Middleton Also in Flash Gordon (1936)
Robert F. Hill Directed Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938)- Sigmund Neufeld Produced Terrors on Horseback and Jungle Siren
Johnny Weissmuller Duets: Tarzan
Charles King Also in Sheriff of Sage Valley and Devil Riders- Charles Barton Directed Nevada and Forlorn River
Robert Florey Directed Daughter of Shanghai (1937)- Frederick Stephani Directed Flash Gordon (1936)
Hal Price Also in Jungle Man and Sheriff of Sage Valley- Edward Small Produced Gun Brothers and Gunfighters of Abilene
George Magrill Also in Million Dollar Legs and King of Gamblers
Jack Cunningham Directed The Thundering Herd (1933)
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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 1989Awards
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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.
