Budd Buster
| Budd Buster | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Leland Buster June 14, 1891 Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States |
| Died | December 22, 1965 (aged 74) Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Occupation | Film actor |
| Years active | 1935-1960 |
Budd Leland Buster (14 June 1891 – 22 December 1965), usually credited as Budd Buster (and sometimes Bud Buster), was an American actor known for B western films.
Buster was born either Budd Leland Buster or Leland Buster near Colorado Springs, Colorado on June 14, 1891. His parents were John M. Buster and Anna (Annie) Moore Buster, both from Missouri. According to the 1900 census, the family resided in Colorado Springs, and included Buster’s one year younger sister, Demple, and his paternal grandmother. By 1920, Buster was part-owner with his father of Colorado Springs Auto and Carriage Livery Company, lived in Ivywild, Colorado, and had two children, Mary Jane (4 years) and John (1 year) with his wife, Mary.
Buster began acting in films in 1933 after experience in vaudeville. Vaudeville provided experience with makeup, enabling Buster to appear as a wide variety of characters.
Lean and energetic, Budd Buster was one of the most prolific character actors in B westerns, appearing as a wide variety of . Each year from 1935 to 1946, he was in 20 or more movies, with a peak of 32 movies in 1937. He appeared in 304 films in a career spanning from 1933 to 1960, excluding a hiatus from 1949 to 1952 coinciding with the decline of Poverty Row.
His final film appearance was a bit part in the major movie Guns of the Timberland in 1960.
Buster played the villain in Colorado Kid (1937) with Bob Steele, and a bank robber in Desert Justice (1936) with Jack Perrin. He was a rustler in Silent Valley (1935) with Tom Tyler, The Texas Marshal (1941) with Tim McCoy, Billy the Kid Trapped (1942) with Buster Crabbe, Man’s Country (1938) with Jack Randall, and Overland Stagecoach (1942) with Bob Livingston. He was Nazi saboteur "Wilheim Werner" in the Range Busters episode Cowboy Commandos (1943), an underhanded foreman in Brand of the Devil (1944) with Dave O'Brien and James Newill, a crooked postmaster in Border Badmen (1945) with Buster Crabbe, and a crazy old miner with a haunted mine in Wild Horse Phantom (1944).
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