Buster Crabbe: Some say my acting rose to the level of incompetence and then leveled off. I was a lot better actor than people gave me credit for. I didn't have any training, but I feel if I had been given the chance, I could have become a really good, top-rate actor. I didn't make it like a Gable or Boyer. But I wonder what would have happened if things had been different.
Buster won the bronze medal for the Olympic 1500-meter freestyle swimming competition in 1928.
Buster's grandson Nick Holt is now head defensive football coach at the University Of Southern California, where he graduated in 1931.
Buster was Vice President of Sales for the Cascade Industries swimming pool company in the late 1960s.
Buster hosted showings of his movies in 1950 on Monday nights on WOR-TV in New York City.
Buster was the Guest of Honor at Multicon 70 science-fiction convention in Oklahoma City, OK on June 18-21, 1970.
Buster has a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Blvd.
Buster went on to play Tarzan after he broke the 100-meter swimming Olympic record of Johnny Weissmuller, who then played Tarzan after him.
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