Buster Crabbe
Also known as Clarence Linden Crabbe II
American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, actor (1908-1983)
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- Born
- 1908
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- 6
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Acting · Oakland, California, USA
Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe was an American athlete and actor, who starred in a number of popular screen serials in the 1930s and 1940s.
Known for
- Tarzan: Lord of the Movies — Tarzan (Archive Footage)2017
- Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan — Tarzan (archive footage)1996
- The Boy from Mercury — Flash Gordon (Archive Footage)1996
- Batman and Robin and Other Super Heroes1989
- The Comeback Trail — Duke Montana1982
- The Alien Dead — Sheriff Kowalski1980
- Swim Team — Rock Sands1979
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Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II (/ˈkræb/; February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) 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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1908 births1939 New York World's Fair1983 deaths20th-century American businesspeople20th-century American male actors20th-century American sportsmen20th-century people from Arizona20th-century people from California20th-century people from Hawaii20th-century people from New York (state)American children's television presentersAmerican male film actors