Larry 'Buster' Crabbe (February 7, probably in 1908, Oakland, California - April 23, 1983, Scottsdale, Arizona) was an American athlete turned actor, who starred in a number of popular serials in the 1930s and 1940s. According to the Internet Movie Database he was born February 17, 1907, and his birth name was Clarence Linden Crabbe.

Raised in Hawaii, he excelled as a swimmer and participated in two Olympic Games: 1928, where he won the bronze medal for the 1,500 meter freestyle, and 1932, where he won the gold medal for the 400 meter freestyle. Ironically, at that Olympics, he broke the record held by Johnny Weissmuller, whose role as Tarzan he would later assume.

Crabbe's role in a 1933 Tarzan serial, also issued as a full length movie Tarzan the Fearless , launched a successful career in which he starred in over one hundred movies. Other than a 1964 remake of the same movie, it would be the only movie in which he starred as Tarzan. In the 1933 movie, King of the Jungle the 1941's Jungle Man , and the 1952 serial, King of the Congo he played similar roles...but that's not Tarzan. His next major role was as Flash Gordon in the popular Flash Gordon serial (a role he reprised in two sequels). Other characters he portrayed included Western hero Billy the Kid and Buck Rogers.

Crabbe starred in the television series, Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion (1955 to 1957) as Captain Michael Gallant; the adventure series aired on NBC.

Crabbe's career waned somewhat in the 1950s, though he did make regular television appearances including one on an episode of the 1979 series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century where he plays a retired warrior named "Brigadier Gordon" in honor of Flash Gordon. Nevertheless, he is best remembered today as one of the original action heroes of the cinema.