Budd Buster

Budd Leland Buster (June 14, 1891 – December 22, 1965), and as George Selk in his later work.

B westerns Buster appeared in 132 B western films. 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.

Villains 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).

Personal life Buster's son, John L. Buster, acted in two mid-1940s Buster Crabbe westerns produced by PRC. He played henchman Steve in Fighting Bill Carson (1945), and sang and played guitar in Prairie Badmen (1946).

Death Buster died in Los Angeles from a heart attack at the age of 74 on December 22, 1965.

Partial filmography

Her Forgotten Past (1933) Western Racketeers (1934) Riddle Ranch (1935) Desert Guns (1936) Senor Jim (1936) Taming the Wild (1936) Desert Justice (1936) Cavalcade of the West (1936) Wild Horse Round-Up (1936) The Gambling Terror (1937) Raw Timber (1937) Under Strange Flags (1937) Roaring Six Guns (1937) Galloping Thunder (1937) The Fighting Texan (1937) The Feud Maker (1938) Frontier Scout (1938) Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939) Billy the Kid Outlawed (1940) West of Pinto Basin (1940) Covered Wagon Trails (1940) Gun Code (1940) The Lone Rider in Ghost Town (1941) The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury (1941) Secret Evidence (1941) Billy the Kid's Fighting Pals (1941) Billy the Kid Wanted (1941) Overland Stagecoach (1942) Thunder River Feud (1942) Boot Hill Bandits (1942) Texas to Bataan (1942) Billy the Kid Trapped (1942) Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns (1942) Wolves of the Range (1943) Young Ideas (1943) Haunted Ranch (1943) Cowboy Commandos (1943) Bullets and Saddles (1943) Cattle Stampede (1943) Call of the South Seas (1944) Saddle Leather Law (1944) Wild Horse Phantom (1944) Frontier Outlaws (1944) The White Gorilla (1945) Border Badmen (1945) Galloping Thunder (1946) Outlaws of the Plains (1946) West of the Alamo (1946) Terrors on Horseback (1946) Gentlemen with Guns (1946) Shadow Valley (1947) Rainbow Over the Rockies (1947) Valley of Fear (1947) The Wild Frontier (1947)