"Buster Keaton Joseph Frank Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), known professionally as Buster Keaton, was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression which earned him the nickname ""The Great Stone Face"". Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's ""extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929"" when he ""worked without interruption"" on a series of films that make him ""the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies"". His career declined afterward with a loss"
"The Buster Keaton Story The Buster Keaton Story is a 1957 American drama film directed by Sidney Sheldon and written by Sidney Sheldon and Robert Smith. The film stars Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Larry Keating and Jackie Coogan. It was released on April 21, 1957, by Paramount Pictures. The film was described by AllMovie as ""sublimely inaccurate"" regarding details of Keaton's life. It was produced by Paramount Pictures, which paid Keaton $50,000 for the rights to his life story, allowing Keaton to remain financially solvent for the remainder of his life. In the late 19th and"
"in those days, the word ""buster"" was used to refer to a spill or a fall that had the potential to produce injury. After this, Keaton's father began to use the nickname to refer to the youngster. Keaton retold the anecdote over the years, including a 1964 interview with the CBC's ""Telescope"". At the age of three, Keaton began performing with his parents in The Three Keatons. He first appeared on stage in 1899 in Wilmington, Delaware. The act was mainly a comedy sketch. Myra played the saxophone to one side, while Joe and Buster performed on center stage. The"
"Keatons. She raises three fingers to signal to him that they must be The Three Keatons, as she is expecting. The Buster Keaton Story The Buster Keaton Story is a 1957 American drama film directed by Sidney Sheldon and written by Sidney Sheldon and Robert Smith. The film stars Donald O'Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Larry Keating and Jackie Coogan. It was released on April 21, 1957, by Paramount Pictures. The film was described by AllMovie as ""sublimely inaccurate"" regarding details of Keaton's life. It was produced by Paramount Pictures, which paid Keaton $50,000 for the rights to"
"and they had two sons, Lawrence Samuel Breslow (born 1939) and Daniel Robert Breslow (1944–1998). Marion Byron Breslow is buried at Hillside Memorial Park, Culver City, California. Marion Byron Marion Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin; March 16, 1911, Dayton, Ohio – July 5, 1985, Santa Monica, California) was an American movie comedian. After following her sister into a short stage career as a singer/dancer, she was given her first movie role as Buster Keaton's leading lady in the film ""Steamboat Bill, Jr."" in 1928. From there she was hired by Hal Roach to co-star in short subjects with Max Davidson, Edgar"
"Buster Keaton's first film appearance, ""The Butcher Boy"" (1917). His tenure there was also short; he shot three films for Arbuckle (""Butcher Boy"", ""A Reckless Romeo"", and ""The Rough House"") before departing to start his own lab. His business did not get off the ground quickly, and he supplemented his income by continuing to work as a cameraman. He was director of photography at Sessue Hayakawa's Haworth Pictures Corporation and is credited with 15 pictures that came out of that studio between 1919 and 1921. While he was working as a cameraman at various studios, Williams worked on his idea"
"Buster Keaton, Boris Karloff, Mae West, and Shirley Temple. Appearing in ""The Red-Haired Alibi"" (1932) with Temple, he played the role of her first on-screen parent. Starring roles in major pictures later dwindled to supporting parts, mainly as villains in B-movies and serials. Notable exceptions included a 12-part ""Jungle Jim"" movie serial (1937), starring Withers and released by Universal Pictures and the recurring role of the brash police Captain Bill Street in the Monogram Pictures series Mr. Wong, starring Boris Karloff, beginning in 1938. He was under a Republic Pictures contract from February 1944 through April 1954. Withers' credits at"
"Marion Byron Marion Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin; March 16, 1911, Dayton, Ohio – July 5, 1985, Santa Monica, California) was an American movie comedian. After following her sister into a short stage career as a singer/dancer, she was given her first movie role as Buster Keaton's leading lady in the film ""Steamboat Bill, Jr."" in 1928. From there she was hired by Hal Roach to co-star in short subjects with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, and Charley Chase, but most significantly with Anita Garvin, where tiny (4'11"" in high heels) Marion was teamed with the 6' Anita for a brief three-film"
"early 20th centuries, child vaudevillian Buster Keaton (Larry White) stays in boarding houses, rides in train boxcars, and performs with his mother and father in a knock-about (physical comedy) act called The Three Keatons. As a young man Keaton (Donald O’Connor) travels on his own to Hollywood and tricks his way onto the grounds of silent-film studio Famous Studio as a workman carrying a board, as in one of his trademark comic bits. Sneaking onto a set, he attracts the attention of a young casting director, Gloria Brent (Ann Blyth). He demonstrates his type of physical comedy to a director"
"Joe Roberts Joseph Henry Roberts (February 2, 1871 – October 28, 1923) was an American comic actor, who appeared in 16 of Buster Keaton's 19 silent short films of the 1920s. ""Big Joe"" Roberts, as he was known in vaudeville, toured the country with his first wife, Lillian Stuart Roberts, as part of a rowdy act known as Roberts, Hays, and Roberts. Their signature routine was called ""The Cowboy, the Swell and the Lady."" At this time, in the first decade of the twentieth century, Buster Keaton's father, Joe Keaton, had started a summer Actors' Colony for vaudevillians between Lake"
"Paradise for Buster Paradise for Buster (1952) is a private industrial film made by John Deere and Company, Inc. showcasing Buster Keaton. Bookkeeper Buster Keaton works for a company in the big city when he inherits a rural farm from his uncle Burr McKeaton and is able to quit his job. The city job sight gags include sprayed ink, tray smashing and many doors breaking glass. Arriving at the rundown, debt-ridden farm, Buster finds a piggy bank under his uncle Burr McKeaton's portrait and while trying to break it open, winds up burning down the farm in the process. He"
"Louise Keaton. When Buster was only a few years old, he joined the act, which became the Three Keatons. The act was a rough-and-tumble one, with Buster being thrown around on stage most of the time. As the years went by, Joe Keaton became an alcoholic; when Buster was 21, Myra left him, taking Buster with her. However, after Buster found success in silent film, he supported Joe and gave him small parts in several movies. Myra and Joe reunited, but eventually split up again. He lived alone in a Hollywood hotel for many years. He stopped drinking with the"
"died on July 21, 1955, in Los Angeles, California, aged 78. She died while her son, Buster, was on tour in England. She was buried at Glen Haven Memorial Park in Sylmar, California. Myra Keaton Myra Edith Keaton (née Cutler, March 13, 1877 – July 21, 1955) was an American vaudeville performer and film actress. She was the mother of actor Buster Keaton. Myra Keaton was born in Modale, Iowa, the daughter of Frank Luke Cutler (1849–1935) and Sarah Elizabeth (née Shaffer; 1850–1887). She had an older brother, Burt Melvin Cutler, and a half-brother, Clinton M. Cutler. As teenagers, Myra"
"Unable to work in films under his own name, Arbuckle eventually became a director using the alias William Goodrich. According to author David Yallop in ""The Day the Laughter Stopped"" (a biography of Arbuckle with special attention to the scandal and its aftermath), Arbuckle's father's full name was William Goodrich Arbuckle. Another tale credited friend Buster Keaton, an inveterate punster, with suggesting that Arbuckle become a director under the pseudonym ""Will B. Good"". The pun being a bit too obvious, Arbuckle adopted the more formal alias ""William Goodrich"". Keaton himself told this story during a recorded interview with film historian"
"Hard Luck (1921 film) Hard Luck is a 1921 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. The runtime is 22 minutes. For sixty years it was Keaton's only major lost film until it was partially reconstructed in 1987, with the critical final scene (which Keaton called the greatest laugh-getting scene of his career) still missing. This scene was later discovered in a Russian archive print, and now the full film is available. Buster plays a down on his luck young man who decides to commit suicide after losing"
"film, Buster performs one of the most dangerous sight gags that he performed in vaudeville. In the words of Marie Dressler: Buster would ""stand on a table in back of his father twirling a basketball tied to the end of a rope, while his father was trying to shave himself with a straight razor. And that ball kept getting closer and closer, all the sudden, BANG!"" Convict 13 Convict 13 is a 1920 two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. Buster, a particularly untalented golfer plays golf one morning"
"Buster Keaton who became one of the family. ""Buster was the original man who came to dinner. He came home one night with Shirley and Bernie and stayed for three years,"" Viola told Kevin Brownlow. Durning was a top director of action-packed melodramas starring Dustin Farnum and Buck Jones when William Wellman became his assistant director in 1921. Wellman called his two years with Durning ""the greatest school a director ever had."" ""Wild Bill"" Wellman and ""Big Bernie"" Durning had wild adventures making movies, such as their film company's fight with lumberjacks up in Eureka, California, which William A. Wellman,"
"remained companions until his death in 1977 from complications resulting from treatment for lung cancer. Raymond Cannon (actor) Raymond Cannon (September 1, 1892 – June 7, 1977) was an American actor, film director, screenwriter, journalist, and author known for his work with D. W. Griffith and Buster Keaton. Ulises Tillman Cannon was born September 1, 1892 in Long Hollow, Tennessee to Newton Canon and Sarah Lincoln Bolinger. In 1910 he was working at a soda fountain in Knoxville, but after leaving divinity school, he moved west, performing in vaudeville and working as a journalist in Dallas and Fort Worth. In"
"and deserted pool followed by a Chinese wife and two young children. Hard Luck (1921 film) Hard Luck is a 1921 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton. It was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline. The runtime is 22 minutes. For sixty years it was Keaton's only major lost film until it was partially reconstructed in 1987, with the critical final scene (which Keaton called the greatest laugh-getting scene of his career) still missing. This scene was later discovered in a Russian archive print, and now the full film is available. Buster plays a down"
"Fred Gabourie Fred Gabourie (September 19, 1881 – March 1, 1951) was a technical director for silent films. Gabourie was born in Tweed, Ontario, Canada. He was a member of the Seneca Indian tribe. He served in the Spanish-American War. He worked primarily for Buster Keaton, figuring out how to make Keaton's innovative stunts work. As one author put it, ""Fred Gabourie had the most interesting job in the world: He solved problems for Buster Keaton."" As technical director, he was responsible for set design, construction, props management, and location scouting. During this time, he designed the electric house in"
"The Buster Keaton Show The Buster Keaton Show was a television series broadcast in 1950 starring Buster Keaton. It was broadcast over KTTV, which at the time was the Los Angeles affiliate of CBS (the network would start KNXT in 1951). Several episodes from the show were assembled into a feature length film that was released theatrically in the United Kingdom as ""The Misadventures of Buster Keaton"". An episode of ""The Buster Keaton Show"", and three episodes of ""Life with Buster Keaton"" can be viewed on the internet archive. The former is a kinescope of a live telecast, and includes"
"but the marriage was performed as a civil ceremony. Their marriage resulted in two sons, Joseph ""Jimmy"" Talmadge Keaton aka Buster Keaton Jr. (June 2, 1922 – February 14, 2007), and Robert ""Bob"" Talmadge Keaton (February 3, 1924 – July 19, 2009). Talmadge spent prodigious amounts on clothes and the Keatons lived in ever more elaborate Beverly Hills homes. After the birth of their second son Talmadge decided not to have any more children, resulting in the couple staying in separate rooms. Keaton was accepting of this, and the Talmadges agreed that he should keep any affairs discreet. Late in"
"House"" with the shooting of the fish reminiscent of 1923's ""The Love Nest"". The pacing of this short is quite wonderful and slow giving Buster plenty of time to work out his gags for the most part outdoors. Buster only says four words in this 39 minute production: ""Good morning"" and ""I quit."" Paradise for Buster Paradise for Buster (1952) is a private industrial film made by John Deere and Company, Inc. showcasing Buster Keaton. Bookkeeper Buster Keaton works for a company in the big city when he inherits a rural farm from his uncle Burr McKeaton and is able"
"told interviewer Patsy Southgate in 1990, ‘but looking back at it, the signs were there. Couldn’t speak — he was not so much difficult, he just wasn’t there.’ Keaton would in fact die 18 months after the shooting of Film.” From this one might think that Keaton jumped at the chance but this is not the case. James Karen remembers: Beckett had wanted to work with Keaton several years earlier, when he offered him the role of Lucky in the American stage premiere of ""Waiting for Godot,"" but Buster turned it down. It's said that Buster didn't understand ""Godot"" and"
"Myra Keaton Myra Edith Keaton (née Cutler, March 13, 1877 – July 21, 1955) was an American vaudeville performer and film actress. She was the mother of actor Buster Keaton. Myra Keaton was born in Modale, Iowa, the daughter of Frank Luke Cutler (1849–1935) and Sarah Elizabeth (née Shaffer; 1850–1887). She had an older brother, Burt Melvin Cutler, and a half-brother, Clinton M. Cutler. As teenagers, Myra and Burt traveled and performed with their father's medicine show. Joe Keaton joined the show while they traveled through Oklahoma Territory in 1893. Myra and Joe married on May 31, 1894, and began"
"York. Fisher's physical appearance, including the characteristic pageboy haircut, was copied by Outcault and given to Buster Brown. The name ""Buster"" came directly or indirectly from the popularity of Buster Keaton, then a child actor in vaudeville. Another boy, Roger Cushman Clark (1899-1995) of Deadwood, South Dakota, was also described as the ""original model"" for the Buster Brown character. The character of Mary Jane was also drawn from real life, as she was also Outcault's daughter of the same name. In Outcault's own words—and his daughter's—she was the only character drawn from life in the Buster Brown strip, although ""Mrs."
"Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931 film) Parlor, Bedroom and Bath is an American pre-Code comedy film starring Buster Keaton, released by Metro-Goldwyn Mayer in 1931. It was Keaton's third talking picture, after his successful silent career. The film was released in the United Kingdom as ""Romeo in Pyjamas"". Two foreign-language versions were made at the same time, ""Buster se marie,"" in French, and ""Casanova wider willen,"" in German. It is the remake of a 1920 film of the same name, based on the play by Charles William Bell and Mark Swan, which opened on Broadway in New York City on"
"to Follow"", directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, won two Emmy Awards. The International Buster Keaton Society was founded on October 4, 1992 – Buster's birthday. Dedicated to bringing greater public attention to Keaton's life and work, the membership includes many individuals from the television and film industry: actors, producers, authors, artists, graphic novelists, musicians, and designers, as well as those who simply admire the magic of Buster Keaton. The Society's nickname, the ""Damfinos,"" draws its name from a boat in Buster's 1921 comedy, ""The Boat."" In 1994, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld penned a series of silent film stars for"
"private funeral, Mack was buried in Pacific View Memorial Park in Corona del Mar, Newport Beach. Marion Mack Marion Mack (April 8, 1902May 1, 1989) was an American film actress, scriptwriter and real estate broker. Mack is best known for co-starring with Buster Keaton in the 1926 silent comedy film, ""The General"". Mack was born Joey Marion McCreery in Mammoth, Utah. After graduating from high school, she sent a letter and a photograph to director Mack Sennett expressing her desire to be an actress. Sennett's manager wrote back informing Mack that they would give her an interview if she ever"
"her life. This short is a reworking of Buster's 1930 feature ""Doughboys"". General Nuisance General Nuisance (1941) is the ninth short subject starring Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures. Aristocratic millionaire Peter Hedley Lamar Jr. (Buster Keaton) is entranced by army nurse Dorothy Appleby but her cohort Elsie Ames lets Lamar know that Dorothy is only interested in men in uniform. Lamar enlists to be near Dorothy, but Elsie tries to woo Lamar by singing a silly song to him (and Buster sings and dances!). Still interested in Dorothy, Lamar wounds himself to get under the care of Dorothy. Elsie"
"silent film comedian Buster Keaton. Rich in mimicry, doleful of expression, Nikulin was hailed as “a brainy clown” outside Russia. Nikulin, affectionately called ""Uncle Yura"" by Russian children, relied mainly upon his wits to earn his place in history as one of the best clowns of the 20th century. Nikulin first took up clowning in 1944 when a political officer in his battalion, impressed by his repertoire of jokes, ordered him to organize entertainment for the division, which he did with resounding success. Encouraged, once the war ended, Nikulin reportedly ""tried unsuccessfully to enter drama college before answering a newspaper"
"which was ""She's Oil Mine"". Like ""Pest from the West"", this borrowed content from an older Keaton feature, ""The Passionate Plumber"". Pest from the West Pest from the West is the first short subject starring American comedian Buster Keaton made for Columbia Pictures. Keaton made a total of ten films for the studio between 1939 and 1941. Keaton is a millionaire vacationing in Mexico traveler who falls in love with a ""señorita"" (Lorna Gray) and sets out to win her. This was the first film made by Columbia Pictures starring Keaton and was a condensed remake of his English-made feature"
"Michael Keaton Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), known professionally as Michael Keaton, is an American actor, producer, and director. He first rose to fame for his roles on the CBS sitcoms ""All's Fair"" and ""The Mary Tyler Moore Hour"" and his comedic film roles in ""Night Shift"" (1982), ""Mr. Mom"" (1983), ""Johnny Dangerously"" (1984), and ""Beetlejuice"" (1988). He earned further acclaim for his dramatic portrayal of the title character in Tim Burton's ""Batman"" (1989) and ""Batman Returns"" (1992). He is also known for playing The Vulture in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with """" (2017) and in the"