ACTOR

Buster Crabbe

1908 - 1983

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Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II (; February 7, 1908 – April 23, 1983) was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-meter freestyle swimming event, which launched his career on the silver screen and later television. He starred in a variety of popular feature films and movie serials released between 1933 and the 1950s, portraying the top three syndicated comic-strip heroes of the 1930s: Tarzan, Flash Gordon, and Buck Rogers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Buster Crabbe has received more than 1,433,622 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Buster Crabbe is the 5,244th most popular actor (down from 4,793rd in 2019), the 7,642nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,141st in 2019) and the 2,366th most popular American Actor.

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    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.92

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.26

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Buster Crabbe ranks 5,244 out of 13,578. Before him are Lidiya Vertinskaya, Jason Gray-Stanford, Jack Thompson, Julie Gayet, Kikuko Inoue, and Jonathan Brandis. After him are Louis Tomlinson, Zach McGowan, Celia Weston, Nina Ruslanova, Ina Balin, and Jason Schwartzman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Buster Crabbe ranks 316. Before him are Natalya Baranskaya, Inga Gentzel, Ugo Pignotti, Erik Almgren, Yvette Cauchois, and Pierre Graber. After him are Morris Kline, Karl Warner, Miguel Otero Silva, Olaf Hoffsbakken, Pietro Pastore, and Tsendiin Damdinsüren. Among people deceased in 1983, Buster Crabbe ranks 203. Before him are Johan Richthoff, Marjorie Cox Crawford, Pat O'Brien, Miquel Crusafont i Pairó, George Bruns, and Franco Giorgetti. After him are Armand Lanoux, Jacqueline Logan, Sabin Carr, Claude Papi, Constantino Urbieta Sosa, and Richard Llewellyn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Buster Crabbe ranks 7,642 out of 20,380. Before him are Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey (1863), Chester Himes (1909), Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820), Holly Black (1971), Jonathan Brandis (1976), and Evelyn Lear (1926). After him are Charles Jenkins Sr. (1934), Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950), Zach McGowan (1980), Celia Weston (1951), Ina Balin (1937), and Jason Schwartzman (1980).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Buster Crabbe ranks 2,366. Before him are Roxanne Hart (1952), General Tom Thumb (1838), Betty Bronson (1906), Bill Smitrovich (1947), Michael Rapaport (1970), and Jonathan Brandis (1976). After him are Zach McGowan (1980), Celia Weston (1951), Ina Balin (1937), Jason Schwartzman (1980), Richard Masur (1948), and Leland Orser (1960).

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