Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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

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