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:

[Chad stares off vacantly into the distance]
Yellowstone Kelly: What's the matter?
Chad Santee: In the army, we used to say somebody just slipped a shell in the chamber... with my name on it.


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.


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


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

First cousin four times removed of Confederate General James Longstreet (1821-1904).

Graduated from Punahou School in Honolulu, Hawaii.

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