Buster Crabbe and Al St. John in The Kid Rides Again (1943)
Caption: Buster Crabbe and Al St. John in The Kid Rides Again (1943)
Actor, Stunts
Born: February 7, 1908
Star sign: Aquarius
Height: 6' 1" (1.85 m)
Known for: Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (1955), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940), Flash Gordon (1936), Tarzan the Fearless (1933)
Source: IMDB
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 ...