Nickname
The origin of the "Crash" nickname is from his football playing days. This was verified by Corrigan himself when he was a contestant on the June 11th, 1959 episode of You Bet Your Life starring Groucho Marx. When asked how he got the name "Crash", Corrigan tells Groucho "When I would go to tackle somebody or instead of fighting them with my fists, I would just take off and dive at them head first and that's how I acquired the name "Crash". His first starring role using the name professionally was in the serial Undersea Kingdom, in which his character was also named "Crash Corrigan." The serial was created to capitalize on the popularity of the Flash Gordon serials and the name may have been created by the Republic publicity department to create similarly named hero.
After his August 10, 1976 death from a heart attack in Brookings Harbor, Oregon, Crash Corrigan was interred at Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood, California. Sadly, three decades later, his grave remains unmarked.
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“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)