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{{Short description|American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, actor (1908–1983)}}
{{For|the British frogman and diver nicknamed "Buster"|Lionel Crabb}}
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{{Infobox person
| name          = Buster Crabbe
| image         = Buster Crabbe - publicity.GIF 
| caption       = Crabbe, {{Circa}} early 1940s
| birth_name    = Clarence Linden Crabbe II
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|1908|2|7}}
| birth_place   = [[Oakland, California]], U.S. 
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|1983|4|23|1908|2|7|mf=y}}
| death_place   = [[Scottsdale, Arizona]], U.S. 
| burial_place  = Green Acres Memorial Park, Scottsdale, Arizona
| alma_mater    = {{nobr|[[University of Southern California]]}}
| known_for     = {{hlist|[[Flash Gordon (serial)|''Flash Gordon'']]|[[Buck Rogers (serial)|''Buck Rogers'']]|''[[Tarzan the Fearless]]''|<br/>''[[Daughter of Shanghai]]''}}
| occupation    = {{hlist|Actor|stuntman|<br/>swimmer|stockbroker}}
| years_active  = 1930–1983
| spouse        = {{marriage|Adah Virginia Held|1933}}
| children      = 3
| relatives     = [[Nick Holt]] (grandson)
}}

'''Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|k|r|æ|b}}; February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor.<ref>As with many Hollywood stars there is a conflict between the birth date given in his official documents, and the one used in his Hollywood publicity biographies. His birth certificate and his Social Security application both use the birthdate of February 7, 1908. See [[Age fabrication]].</ref> 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 film]]s and [[Serial film|movie serials]] released between 1933 and the 1950s,<ref name=obit/> portraying the top three syndicated comic-strip heroes of the 1930s: [[Tarzan]], [[Flash Gordon]], and [[Buck Rogers]].
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==Early life==
Crabbe was born February 7, 1908,<ref>{{cite book |last=Vemilye |first=Jerry |title=Buster Crabbe: A Biofilmography |location=Jefferson, N.C. |publisher=McFarland & Co. |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-7864-3605-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5bG9VEp62gC |page=3}}</ref> to Edward Clinton Simmons Crabbe, a real estate broker, and Lucy Agnes (née McNamara) Crabbe, in [[Oakland, California]]. He had a brother, Edward Clinton Simmons Crabbe Jr. (1909–1972). Crabbe grew up in [[Hawaii]] and graduated from [[Punahou School]] in [[Honolulu]]. He then attended the [[University of Southern California]], where he was the school's first [[All-American]] swimmer (1931) and a 1931 NCAA freestyle titlist. He also became a member of the [[Sigma Chi]] fraternity before graduating from USC in 1931.

==Olympic Games==
[[File:Buster Crabbe 1928.jpg|thumb|left|Crabbe at age 20 at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam]] 
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{{MedalCountry | the [[United States]] }}
{{MedalSport | Men's [[Swimming at the Summer Olympics|swimming]]}}
{{MedalGold | [[1932 Summer Olympics|1932 Los Angeles]] | [[Swimming at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle|400 m freestyle]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1928 Summer Olympics|1928 Amsterdam]] | [[Swimming at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metre freestyle|1500 m freestyle]]}}
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Crabbe competed in two [[Olympic Games]] as a [[swimmer]]. At the [[1928 Summer Olympics]] in [[Amsterdam]], he won the [[bronze medal]] for the 1,500 metres [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]], and at the [[1932 Summer Olympics]] in [[Los Angeles]], he won the [[gold medal]] for the 400 metres freestyle when he beat [[Jean Taris]] of France by a tenth of a second.<ref>{{cite news |title=Buster Crabbe Wins 400 metre Olympic Swim |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/440141662.html?dids=440141662:440141662&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+11,+1932&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=BUSTER+CRABBE+WINS+400+METER+OLYMPIC+SWIM&pqatl=google |newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=August 11, 1932 |access-date=April 20, 2010 |archive-date=October 26, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026113345/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/access/440141662.html?dids=440141662:440141662&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Aug+11,+1932&author=&pub=Chicago+Tribune&desc=BUSTER+CRABBE+WINS+400+METER+OLYMPIC+SWIM&pqatl=google |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Who Won |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743535,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051129122611/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,743535,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 29, 2005 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=April 11, 1932 |access-date=April 20, 2010 }}</ref>

==Acting career==
===Hollywood===
[[File:Buster Crabbe 1933b.jpg|thumb|Crabbe watches "Jack", one of the lions in ''[[King of the Jungle (1933 film)|King of the Jungle]]'', eating lunch in a Hollywood restaurant in 1933. Crabbe became a lion tamer while working on that adventure film.]]
He is credited in some films as "Larry Crabbe" or "Larry (Buster) Crabbe". His role in the ''Tarzan'' serial ''[[Tarzan the Fearless]]'' (1933) began a career in which Crabbe starred in more than a hundred films. In ''[[King of the Jungle (1933 film)|King of the Jungle]]'' (1933), ''[[Jungle Man (film)|Jungle Man]]'' (1941), and the serial ''[[King of the Congo]]'' (1952), he played typical "jungle man" roles. He starred in several popular films at this time, including ''[[The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi (film)|The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi]]'' (1933), alongside [[Betty Grable]], ''[[Search for Beauty]]'' (1934), and ''[[Daughter of Shanghai]]'' (1937) credited as Larry Crabbe.

In 1936, he was selected over several stars to play [[Flash Gordon]] in the first, very successful [[Universal Pictures]] [[Flash Gordon (serial)|''Flash Gordon'' serial]], which was followed by two sequels released in 1938 and 1940. The series was later edited and shown extensively on American television during the 1950s and 1960s, then fully restored for home video release. He also starred as [[Buck Rogers]] for Universal, playing the role with dark hair, unlike his blonde hair for Flash Gordon. In 1939 Crabbe reunited with Grable for a lead role in the mainstream comedy ''[[Million Dollar Legs (1939 film)|Million Dollar Legs]]''.

Crabbe starred at the ''[[Billy Rose's Aquacade]]'' at the [[1939 New York World's Fair|New York World's Fair]] during its second year (1940), replacing fellow Olympic swimmer and Tarzan actor [[Johnny Weissmuller]].{{citation needed|date=September 2025}} In 1943, [[Al Sheehan]] recruited Crabbe to perform as part of the ''[[Aqua Follies]]'', a [[Synchronized swimming|water ballet]] show including diving acts.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Al Sheehan To Produce Minn. Aqua Follies: Gloria Callen Tops Water Show's Line-Up|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|location=New York City|page=36|date=July 3, 1943|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT36|access-date=June 3, 2025|via=Google Books}}</ref>

During World War II, Crabbe was put under contract by [[Producers Releasing Corporation]] for lead roles from 1942 to 1946. He portrayed a [[Western (genre)|Western]] folk-hero version of [[Billy the Kid (film series)|Billy the Kid]] in 13 films, and Billy Carson in 23, along with [[Al St. John]] as his [[sidekick]]. As a 34-year-old married man, Crabbe had a draft deferment, but made Army [[training film]]s for the [[field artillery]] at [[Ft. Sill, Oklahoma]], along with St. John.<ref>{{cite book| pages=31-32| last=Vermilye| first=Jerry| title=Buster Crabbe: A Biofilmography| url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Buster_Crabbe/Q5bG9VEp62gC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=fort%20sill| publisher=McFarland| date=January 10, 2014| access-date=August 25, 2025| isbn=978-0-7864-5180-7}}</ref> Crabbe also played some jungle roles for the studio.

Following the war, Crabbe appeared opposite Weissmuller as a rival in two jungle films, ''[[Swamp Fire]]'' (1946) and ''[[Captive Girl]]'' (1950). For his final multi-chapter movie serial, Crabbe returned to the jungle playing the role of [[Thun'da]] in ''[[King of the Congo]]'' (1952).

===Television===
[[File:Captain gallant full.JPG|thumb|Buster Crabbe with real-life son Cullen on ''[[Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion]]'', ca. 1955]]
Crabbe was frequently featured in archival footage in the children's television program, ''[[The Gabby Hayes Show]]''. Prior to his playing "Captain Gallant", Crabbe had hosted the local New York City-based children's film wraparound television series, ''The Buster Crabbe Show''. It was set against the backdrop of a ranch foreman's bunk house and featured Crabbe engaging his viewers with games, stories, craftmaking, hobbies, informational segments, and interviews with guest performers and personalities. This was in-between the reruns of old movie serials, westerns, and comedies. ''The Buster Crabbe Show'' was seen weekday evenings on WOR-TV (Channel 9) in New York City from Monday, March 12, 1951, to Friday, October 3, 1952. The series name was changed to ''Buster's Buddies!'' and returned to the NYC airways on WJZ-TV (Channel 7) (now [[WABC-TV|WABC]]) on Monday, September 21, 1953. The WJZ TV version of the series included a studio audience of kids, becoming more of a kids' variety show. Despite the addition of the studio audience and Crabbe's personality, ''Buster's Buddies!'' was not a hit, and it was canceled on Friday, March 26, 1954.<ref>{{cite book| chapter=The NYC Kids Shows Round Up| title=Children's Television: The First Thirty Five Years: Live, Taped And Filmed Shows — Part II| url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Children_s_Television_the_First_Thirty_f/koqFAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=crabbe| first=George| last=Woolery| pages=96-97| publisher=Scarecrow Press| isbn=978-0-8108-1651-0}}</ref>

On September 28, 1952, ''Sports Final with Buster Crabbe'' debuted on [[WNBC|WNBT-TV]] in New York City. Crabbe gave updates sports news from 11:15 to 11:20&nbsp;p.m. Eastern Time on Sundays.<ref>{{cite news| title=Local Station Activity| url=https://archive.org/details/rossreportstele24ross/page/n142/mode/1up?view=theater| access-date=May 15, 2022| work=Ross Reports on Television including The Television Index| date=September 21, 1952| page=3}}</ref>

Crabbe starred in the syndicated television series, ''[[Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion]]'' (1955 to 1957) as Captain Michael Gallant; the adventure series aired on NBC. His real-life son, Cullen Crabbe, appeared in the series as the character "Cuffy Sanders".

Crabbe made regular television appearances, including an episode of the 1979 series ''[[Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (TV series)|Buck Rogers in the 25th Century]]'', in which he played a retired fighter pilot named "Brigadier Gordon", in honor of Flash Gordon. When Rogers ([[Gil Gerard]]) praises his flying, Gordon replies "I've been doing that sort of thing since before you were born", not realizing Buck was actually born over 500 years earlier. (Indeed, Crabbe first played Buck Rogers in 1939, six years before Gerard's birth.) Rogers responds "You think so?" to which Gordon replies "Young man, I ''know'' so!"

He was also in a TV spot for [[Continental Airlines]], where Crabbe spies himself in an old Flash Gordon short being shown on board: "I think I know that guy. He used to be my idol."

==Later years==
Crabbe's Hollywood career waned somewhat in the 1950s and 1960s, and he became a stockbroker and businessman during this period. According to David Ragan's ''Movie Stars of the '30s'', Crabbe owned a [[Southern California]] swimming pool-building company in later years. In the mid-1950s, Crabbe purchased the [[Adirondack Mountains|Adirondack]] campus of the Adirondack-Florida School,<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.adirondackmuseum.net/adirondackmuseum.net-asp//paradise/detail.asp?id=170| title=A Paradise for Boys and Girls| website=Adirondack Museum| access-date=August 25, 2025| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070403181952/http://www.adirondackmuseum.net/adirondackmuseum.net-asp/paradise/detail.asp?id=170| archive-date=April 3, 2007| url-status=usurped| df=mdy-all}}</ref> which advertised itself as a swim camp, called Camp Meenahga, for boys aged eight to fourteen, with most of the campers coming from Montreal.<ref>{{cite news| title=Muhammad Ali Fights Mike Goldbas of Utica at Camp Meenahaga| url=https://wiki.historicsaranaclake.org/index.php/Meenahga_Lodge| date=July 24, 1970| newspaper=[[Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]| via=Historic Saranac Lake Wiki| access-date=August 25, 2025}}</ref> He was also the aquatics director at the [[Concord Resort Hotel]] in New York State's [[Catskill Mountains]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1962/07/02/the-sour-cream-sierras-of-new-york| title=The Sour Cream Sierras of New York| magazine=[[Sports Illustrated]]| first=Roy| last=McKie| date=July 2, 1962| via=Sports Illustrated Vault}}</ref>

[[File:Buster Krabbe Pools.jpg|thumb|Newspaper ad published September 1989]]During this period, Buster joined the swimming pool company Cascade Industries in [[Edison, New Jersey]]. In his capacity as Vice President of Sales, promoter, and spokesman for Cascade, "the world's first 'package pool' company", he attended shopping mall openings and [[fair]]grounds, combining the promotion of his swim camps and Cascade's vinyl liner for in-ground swimming pools. A pool line was named after him, and swimming pools were sold by "Buster Crabbe Dealers" throughout the eastern seaboard and southern states from 1952 until 1990.

Though he followed other pursuits, he never stopped acting. But his career in the 1950s, and later, was limited to low-budget films, including westerns such as ''[[Gunfighters of Abilene]]'' (1960) co-starring Barton MacLane, ''[[Arizona Raiders]]'' (1965) co-starring Audie Murphy, and ''[[The Bounty Killer (film)|The Bounty Killer]]'' (1965) co-starring Dan Duryea and Rod Cameron. Crabbe appeared as the father of a young swimmer in the comedy ''Swim Team'' (1979), and as a sheriff in the low-budget horror film ''[[Alien Dead]]'' (1980), followed by ''[[The Comeback Trail (1982 film)|The Comeback Trail]]'' (1982), one year before his death. Crabbe also appeared in television commercials<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/974/Flash+Gordon+Conquers+The+Universe+(VCI)| title=Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe| website=Fulvue Drive-in| date=March 20, 2006 |access-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref> for [[Hormel]] Chili, [[Icy Hot]], and the Magic Mold Bodyshirt, an early version of male [[Foundation garment|shapewear]], which purportedly helped in weight loss. Through Icy Hot, he was actively involved in arthritis education. Despite his numerous film and television appearances, he is best remembered today as one of the original cinema action heroes of the 1930s and 1940s.

In the 1950s, two published comic book series were named after him. [[Eastern Color]] published 12 issues of ''Buster Crabbe Comics'' from 1951 to 1953, followed by [[Lev Gleason]]'s four issues of ''The Amazing Adventures of Buster Crabbe'' in 1954.

In 1965, he was inducted into the [[International Swimming Hall of Fame]]. During his senior swimming career, Crabbe set 16 world and 35 national records.<ref name=ishof/> He continued swimming through his sixties and in 1971 set a world record in his age group.<ref name=sr/>

==Personal life==
In 1933, he married Adah Virginia Held (1912–2004) and gave himself a year to make it as an actor. If he did not find employment as an actor in that period, he planned to start law school at the University of Southern California.{{Citation needed |date=June 2024}}

Crabbe and his wife had two daughters, Caren Lynn ("Sande") and Susan, and a son, Cullen. In 1957, Sande died of [[anorexia nervosa]] aged 20.<ref name=strange>{{cite news| title=Buster Crabbe Daughter Dies of Strange Illness. Doctor Refuses to Sign Death Certificate for Girl, 20, Who Weighed Only 60 Pounds| url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/437568452.html?dids=437568452:437568452&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+12,+1957&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Buster+Crabbe+Daughter+Dies+of+Strange+Illness&pqatl=google| newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]| date=April 12, 1957| access-date=April 20, 2010| archive-date=October 26, 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121026113325/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/437568452.html?dids=437568452:437568452&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&type=historic&date=Apr+12,+1957&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Buster+Crabbe+Daughter+Dies+of+Strange+Illness&pqatl=google| url-status=usurped}}</ref>

He is the maternal grandfather of the college football coach [[Nick Holt]].<ref>{{cite news| url=http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/huskies/2008593456_uwfb06.html| newspaper=[[Seattle Times]]| last=Condotta| first=Bob| title=UW football hires USC's Nick Holt as defensive coordinator| date=January 6, 2009| access-date=August 16, 2012}}</ref>

==Death==
In 1983, at age 75, Crabbe died of a heart attack at his home in [[Scottsdale, Arizona]].<ref name=obit>{{cite news| title=Buster Crabbe profile| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2953DF9F9C6E2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM| newspaper=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]]| date=April 24, 1983| access-date=April 20, 2010| archive-date=July 27, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200727060003/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=PI&s_site=philly&p_multi=PI&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB2953DF9F9C6E2&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM| url-status=usurped}}</ref> He is interred at Green Acres Memorial Park in Scottsdale.<ref>{{cite book| last=Wilson| first=Scott| title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 7,000 Famous Persons| url=https://archive.org/details/restingplacesbur0000wils/page/78/mode/2up?q=crabbe| page=78| year=2001| isbn=978-0-7864-1014-9| publisher=McFarland & Company}}</ref>

==Selected filmography==
{| class="wikitable sortable" width=80%
|+
! width=3%|Year
! width=27%|Title
! width=25%|Role
|-
|1933 ||''[[King of the Jungle (1933 film)|King Of The Jungle]]'' || [[Kaspa]]
|-
|1933 ||''[[Tarzan the Fearless]]'' || [[Tarzan]]
|-
|rowspan=2|1934 || ''[[Badge of Honor (film)|Badge of Honor]]'' || Bob Gordon
|-
|''[[You're Telling Me!]]'' || Bob Murchison
|-
|rowspan=2|1936 ||''[[Flash Gordon (serial)|Flash Gordon]]'' || [[Flash Gordon]]
|-
|''[[The Arizona Raiders]]'' || "Laramie" Nelson 
|-
|rowspan=2|1938 ||''[[Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars]]'' || Flash Gordon
|-
|''[[Red Barry (serial)|Red Barry]]'' || Red Barry
|-
|1939 ||''[[Buck Rogers (serial)|Buck Rogers]]'' || [[Buck Rogers]]
|-
|1940 ||''[[Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe]]'' || Flash Gordon
|-
|1941–46 ||''[[Billy the Kid (film series)]]''|| [[Billy the Kid]] / Billy Carson
|-
|1946 || ''[[Swamp Fire]]'' || Mike Kalavich 
|-
|rowspan=2|1947 ||''[[Last of the Redmen]]'' || Magua
|-
|''[[The Sea Hound (serial)|The Sea Hound]]'' || Captain Silver
|-
|1950 ||''[[Pirates of the High Seas]]'' || Jeff Drake
|-
|1952 ||''[[King of the Congo]]'' || Captain Roger Drum and "[[Thun'da]]"
|-
|1956 ||''[[Gun Brothers]]'' || Chad Santee
|-
|1957 || ''[[The Lawless Eighties]]'' || Linc Prescott
|-
|1958 ||''[[Badman's Country]]'' || Wyatt Earp
|-
|1960 ||''[[Gunfighters of Abilene]]'' || Kip Tanner 
|-
|rowspan=2|1965 ||''[[Arizona Raiders]]'' || Captain Andrews
|-
|''[[The Bounty Killer (film)|The Bounty Killer]]'' || Mike Clayman
|-
|1978 ||''Swim Team'' || Rock Sands
|-
|1980 ||''[[Alien Dead]]'' || Sheriff Kowalski
|-
|1982 ||''[[The Comeback Trail (1982 film)|The Comeback Trail]]'' || Duke Montana
|}

==References and notes==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name=ishof>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ishof.org/clarence-buster-crabbe.html |title=Buster Crabbe (USA) – Honor Swimmer profile at International Swimming Hall of Fame |access-date=March 16, 2015 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402092559/http://www.ishof.org/clarence-buster-crabbe.html |url-status=usurped }}</ref>
<ref name=sr>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cr/buster-crabbe-1.html |title=Buster Crabbe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417165247/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/cr/buster-crabbe-1.html |archive-date=2020-04-17 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>
}}

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography}}
* [[List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men)]]
* [[List of University of Southern California people]]

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0185568}}
* {{Tcmdb name}}
* {{Olympics.com profile |id=buster-crabbe |name=Buster Crabb
  |org_id=clarence-crabbe |org_name=Clarence Crabbe
  |oc_archive=20200926051747 |org_archive=20200814122837
  }}
* {{Olympedia|51303}}
* [http://www.briansdriveintheater.com/bustercrabbe.html Buster Crabbe at Brian's Drive-In Theater]
* [http://www.b-westerns.com/crabbe.htm Buster Crabbe] biography by Chuck Anderson

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