Buster Crabbe
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Clarence Linden "Buster" Crabbe II was an American two-time Olympic swimmer and film and television actor. He won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for 400-metre freestyle swimming event, which launched his
Crabbe at age 20 at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam
Crabbe watches "Jack", one of the lions in King of the Jungle, eating lunch in a Hollywood restaurant in 1933. Crabbe became a lion tamer while working on that adventure film.
Buster Crabbe with real-life son Cullen on Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion, ca. 1955
Newspaper ad published September 1989
Jean Taris
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Jean Charles Émile Taris was a French swimmer who competed at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics.
Taris in 1929
Jean Taris after his 1000 m at Piscine des Tourelles, June 8, 1930