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Acting

Buster Crabbe

Career: Active from 1931 to 2017, with a break from 1997 to 2016, busiest in 1944 with 9 main titles.

Leading roles: 88
top three billing

Average score: 53/100

Highest rated: Daughter of Shanghai
78/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 25 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Buster Crabbe Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
1.1, average 5.4
Psychological
2.6, average 5.5
Melancholy
2.3, average 4.7
Pathos
2.9, average 5.3

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Classic Western 13
Good vs Evil 8
Historical Setting 7
Classic Hollywood 6
Good vs. Evil 6
Pulp Adventure 6
Space Opera 5
Frontier Justice 5
Western 5
Nostalgic 4
Action-Packed 4
Vintage Cinema 4

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

121

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2010s

1 title

Tarzan: Lord of the Movies

as Tarzan (Archive Footage)

1990s

2 titles

The Boy from Mercury

as Flash Gordon (Archive Footage)

Tarzan at the Movies, Part 2: The Many Faces of Tarzan

as Tarzan (archive footage)

1980s

2 titles · average score 23

The Comeback Trail

as Duke Montana

The Alien Dead

23

as Sheriff Kowalski

1970s

6 titles · average score 50

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

54

TV show · as Brigadier Gordon

B. J. and the Bear

40

TV show

Swim Team

as Rock Sands

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls

as Brigadier Gordon

Buck Rogers

58

as Col. Buck Rogers

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

as (archive footage)

1960s

10 titles · average score 53

Peril from the Planet Mongo

as Flash Gordon

Deadly Ray From Mars

as Flash Gordon

Spaceship to the Unknown

as Flash Gordon (archive footage)

Purple Death from Outer Space

52

as Flash Gordon

Destination Saturn

as Buck Rogers

Flash Gordon: The Deadly Ray From Mars

as Flash Gordon

Arizona Raiders

48

as Capt. Tom Andrews

The Bounty Killer

59

as Mike Clayman

Tarzan the Fearless

as Tarzan

Gunfighters of Abilene

53

as Kip

1950s

8 titles · average score 51

Badman's Country

55

as Wyatt Earp

The Lawless Eighties

as Linc Prescott

Gun Brothers

58

as Chad Santee

Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion

TV show · as Capt. Michael Gallant

Planet Outlaws

43

as Col. Buck Rogers

King of the Congo

as Thunda / Roger Drum

Captive Girl

48

as Barton

Pirates of the High Seas

as Jeff Drake

1940s

49 titles · average score 50

Terrors on Horseback

as Billy Carson

Prairie Rustlers

as Billy Carson / Jim Slade / Billy The Kid

Stagecoach Outlaws

as Billy Carson

Border Badmen

as Billy Carson

Rustlers' Hideout

as Billy Carson

Gangster's Den

as Billy Carson

Frontier Outlaws

as Billy Carson

Nabonga

35

as Ray Gorman

Fuzzy Settles Down

as Billy Carson

Fugitive of the Plains

as Billy the Kid

Jungle Man

34

as Dr. Robert Hammond, aka Junga

Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe

73

as Flash Gordon

1930s

43 titles · average score 58

Buck Rogers

52

as Buck Rogers

Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars

66

as Flash Gordon

Mars Attacks the World

61

as Flash Gordon

Rocket Ship

64

as Flash Gordon

Daughter of Shanghai

78

as Andrew Sleete (as Larry Crabbe)

Flash Gordon

66

as Flash Gordon

Desert Gold

as Chief Moya

You're Telling Me!

73

as Bob Murchison (as Larry 'Buster' Crabbe)

She Had to Choose

as Bill Cutler

Buffalo Stampede

48

as Bill Hatch

Tarzan the Fearless

36

as Tarzan

King of the Jungle

60

as Kaspa