Crabbe, Buster (1908-85)
 Actor, aka Larry Crabbe.
Usually remembered as an Olympic swimming champion and/or from the Flash
Gordon and Buck Rogers serials, he was also the star of over fifty
Westerns. He started out playing bit
roles in Randolph
Scott Westerns at Paramount in 1933, and even?tually got the title role
in Nevada. He starred in several more Paramount Westerns before moving
to pro, where, between
1941 and 1946, he played the
title role in the Billy the Lid Billy Carson series thirty-six times.
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