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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. [1] He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-meter freestyle swimming event, which launched his career on the silver screen and later television. He starred in a variety of popular ...
Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II (February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American Olympic swimmer, and a movie and television actor. He won a gold medal in the 400-meter freestyle at the 1932 Summer Olympics and for playing science fiction hero Flash Gordon in three movie serials.
Apr 24, 1983 · Buster Crabbe, a top swimmer of his day who went on to become a popular movie actor and successful businessman, died of a heart attack yesterday morning at his home in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 75 ...
Jul 17, 2024 · Buster Crabbe (born February 7, 1908, Oakland, California, U.S.—died April 23, 1983, Scottsdale, Arizona) was a swimmer from the United States whose Olympic gold medal led to a long and successful acting career. Crabbe, who grew up in Hawaii and swam for the University of Southern California, competed at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam ...
Buster Crabbe. Actor: Nabonga. Buster Crabbe graduated from the University of Southern California. In 1931, while working on That's My Boy (1932) for Columbia Pictures, he was tested by MGM for Tarzan and rejected. Paramount Pictures put him in King of the Jungle (1933) as Kaspa, the Lion Man (after a book of that title but clearly a copy of the Tarzan stories). Publicity for this film emphasized his having...
Buster Crabbe. Actor: Nabonga. Buster Crabbe graduated from the University of Southern California. In 1931, while working on That's My Boy (1932) for Columbia Pictures, he was tested by MGM for Tarzan and rejected. Paramount Pictures put him in King of the Jungle (1933) as Kaspa, the Lion Man (after a book of that title but clearly a copy of the Tarzan stories). Publicity for this film emphasized his having...
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-meter 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.
CRABBE, Clarence Linden ("Buster") (b. 7 February 1908 in Oakland, California; d. 23 April 1983 in Scottsdale, Arizona), champion Olympic swimmer who broke five world records and earned more than fifty world and national championships; movie actor; and promoter of physical fitness and nutrition via the lecture circuit, television, and publications.Financial circumstances compelled Crabbe's parents, Edward Clinton Simmons Crabbe, Jr., a real estate agent, and Agnes Lucy McNamara Crabbe, a ...
Crabbe was a life-long advocate of physical fitness, conducted televised physical fitness programs and in 1971, aged 63, he set a world age group record for the 400m freestyle. He had extensive business interests, including Buster Crabbe Swim Pools.
Crabbe was a life-long advocate of physical fitness, conducted televised physical fitness programs and in 1971, aged 63, he set a world age group record for the 400m freestyle. He had extensive business interests, including Buster Crabbe Swim Pools.
