Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas -- Buster Crabbe

'Reel Cowboys of the Santa Susanas' is a continuing series about "six-gun heroes that performed on the old Iverson Movie Location Ranch in Chatsworth, California.  For more information about the Iverson Movie Ranch see: http://a-drifting-cowboy.blogspot.com/2011/10/iverson-movie-location-ranch-chatsworth.html

Buster Crabbe (1908-1983) was an American actor and Olympic athlete.  In 1928 Olympics he won the bronze medal for the 1,500 meters freestyle, and 1932 Olympic he won the gold medal for the 400 meters freestyle.

In 1933, he won a role in the serial Tarzan the Fearless.  Playing the part of Tarzan launched a successful film career, and he went on to star in over one hundred movies.

Working for PRC (in the 1940s) he starred in 36 films playing the Western character Billy the Kid.  His comical sidekick was Al St. John.  In the PRC Westerns he rode a beautiful palomino horse named Falcon (photo above).

Buster Crabbe's Santa Susana locations filmography:

Badman's Country (1958) starring George Montgomery, Neville Brand and Buster Crabbe - Warner Bros.

Billy the Kid Trapped (1942) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (Iverson) PRC 

Billy the Kid Wanted (1941) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (Iverson) PRC

Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns (1942) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

Blazing Frontier (1943) starring Buster Crabbe (photo above) PRC

Border Badmen (1945) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (Silvertown, Corriganville) (photo above) PRC

Cattle Stampede (1943) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

Desert Gold (1936) starring Buster Crabbe - Paramount

Devil Riders (1943) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (photo above) (Iverson Ranch) PRC

The Drifter (1944) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

Fighting Bill Carson (1945) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (Corriganville) PRC

Frontier Outlaws (1944) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (Corriganville) PRC

Fugitive of the Plains (1943) starring Buster Crabbe (Corriganville) PRC

Fuzzy Settles Down (1944) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (Corriganville) PRC

The Gangster's Den (1945) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

Gentlemen with Guns (1946) starring Buster Crabbe (Corriganville) PRC

Ghost of Hidden Valley (1946) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (photo above) PRC

Gun Brothers (1956) starring Buster Crabbe (Corriganville) United Artists

Gunfighters of Abilene (1960) starring Buster Crabbe (Iverson Ranch) (photo above) United Artists

His Brother's Ghost (1945) starring Buster Crabbe, Falcon and Al St. John - PRC

The Kid Rides Again (1943) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

King of the Congo (1952) starring Buster Crabbe, Gloria Dea and Leonard Penn (Iverson) Columbia [Serial]

Law and Order (1942) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

The Lawless Eighties (1957) starring Buster Crabbe (Iverson Ranch) Republic

Lightning Raiders (1945) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (Corriganville) PRC

The Mysterious Rider (1942) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

Oath of Vengeance (1944) starring Buster Crabbe (Corriganville) PRC

Outlaws of the Plains (1946) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (Corriganville) (photo above) PRC

Overland Riders (1946) starring Buster Crabbe (Corriganville) Republic

Pirates of the High Seas (1950) starring Buster Crabbe, Lois Hall, Tommy Farrell (Iverson) Columbia [Serial]

Prairie Badmen (1946) starring Buster Crabbe (Iverson Ranch) (photo above) PRC

Prairie Rustlers (1945) starring Buster Crabbe (Corriganville) PRC

Rustler’s Hideout (1945) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

Shadows of Death (1945) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

Stagecoach Outlaws (1945) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (Corriganville) PRC

Tarzan the Fearless (1933) starring Buster Crabbe, Julie Bishop and E. Alyn Warren (Iverson) Sol Lesser Prod. [Serial]

Terrors on Horseback (1946) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John (photo above) PRC

Thundering Gun Slingers (1944) starring Buster Crabbe - PRC

Western Cyclone (1943) starring Buster Crabbe and Al St. John - PRC

Wild Horse Phantom (1944) starring Buster Crabbe, Falcon and Al St. John - PRC