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Buster Crabbe
(1908—1983)
The ultimate B-movie body, Buster Crabbe was an Olympic hero who played not only "Tarzan" but "Buck Rogers" and "Flash Gordon" (his most famous role), too, in movies and serials of the '30s and '40s. When Richard Lamparski, he of the Whatever Became Of...? book series, approached Crabbe in the '60s about speaking of his movie career, the semi-retired star was flabbergasted that anyone would care. But how could his fans be expected to forget the guy who played the three biggest, larger-than-life heroes of the era? For good measure, he was also "Billy the Kid" and "Billy Carson" in a series of low-budget pictures. Pulp friction.
Sexy Sampler
King of the Jungle (1933), Tarzan the Fearless (1933), Man of the Forest (1933), Flash Gordon (1936), Buck Rogers (1939), "Billy the Kid" western movies (1941—1943), "Billy Carson" western movies (1943—1946)
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