Buster Edwards in the Great Train Robbery, was made in 1988, with Edwards played by Phil Collins. Buster Edwards can be seen making a cameo appearance in the film "Buster" alongside Phil Collins' wife Jill in the scene in which Buster and June land in Mexico, he and Jill walk out of the airport in front of Buster and June Edwards. In 1991, Edwards was the victim of a theft, albeit of a more mundane nature. On 15 June, at about 3pm, British actor Dexter Fletcher ran along Mepham Street and scooped up two bunches of nasturtiums valued at £5 from Edwards'
Budd Buster 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,