Buster Crabbe Overview:

Legendary actor, Buster Crabbe, was born Clarence Linden Crabbe on Feb 7, 1908 in Oakland, CA. Crabbe died at the age of 75 on Apr 23, 1983 in Scottsdale, AZ .

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Olympic swimming champion who won a bronze medal for America in 1928 and a gold in 1932, before becoming as famous playing intergalactic heroes Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers as another swimming champ, Johnny Weissmuller did playing Tarzan. Crabbe became a "B" western star of the 1940s before moving into business and becoming an executive in water sports. In 1971 he broke the world 400 metre freestyle record for over-sixties! Died from a heart attack.

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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television. Crabbe was never nominated for an Academy Award.

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Johnny Weissmuller wasn?t the only swimming Olympian to play Tarzan. There was also Clarence ?Buster? Crabbe. Crabbe and Weissmuller knew each other before their Hollywood days and were competitive. Crabbe developed as his swimming (and surfing) prowess while growing up on a pineapple plantation in ... Read full article


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Buster Crabbe Quotes:

Billy Carson: I'm going to go, Fuzz. When that lynching party gets ready to singe your whiskers, you can call for me.


Marie: Oh, wait! I'm afraid of that gorilla!
Ray Gorman: He won't hurt you - not after she's told him not to.
Marie: And suppose she tells him different... what then?
Ray Gorman: He'd tear you to pieces.


Shawnee Jack: You better stop spoilin' her. First thing you know, she'll be followin' you around like a shadow.
Chad Santee: Well, if we had done a little more Indian spoiling in the past, it'd save a heap of fightin' and a heap of dyin'.


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Was on the 1928 and 1932 US Olympic swimming teams. Won gold medal in the 400 Meter Swimming Freestyle at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Also won a bronze medal in the 1500 Meter Freestyle at Amsterdam.

Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume One, 1981-1985, pages 192-193. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1998.

In 1971, Crabbe broke the world swimming record for the over sixties in the 400 meters free style.

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