"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"
"upcoming """" (2019). Since then, he has appeared in a variety of films ranging from dramas and romantic comedies to thriller and action films, such as ""Clean and Sober"" (1988), ""The Dream Team"" (1989), ""Pacific Heights"" (1990), ""Much Ado About Nothing"" (1993), ""My Life"" (1993), ""The Paper"" (1994), ""Multiplicity"" (1996), ""Jackie Brown"" (1997), """" (2005), ""The Other Guys"" (2010), ""Robocop"" (2014), ""Need for Speed"" (2014), ""Spotlight"" (2015), ""The Founder"" (2016), and has also provided voices for characters in animated films such as ""Cars"" (2006), ""Toy Story 3"" (2010), and ""Minions"" (2015). Keaton's lead performance in ""Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue"
"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"
"action movie of all time"") and ""The Cable Guy"", before his final string of movies could become blockbusters. Described at the time as both ""known for enthusiasm, rapid-fire talk, a sleek Italian wardrobe and a youthful style"" and ""a braggart who was lucky to have become chairman of a studio in the first place"", Canton was in those years ""one of the most powerful executives in Hollywood"". In 1998, Canton became an independent film producer, with ""Jack Frost"" starring Michael Keaton as his first major production. Backed by the German company Senator Entertainment from August 2000 onwards, he struck a"
"and starring Michael Keaton as the title character. The film was a huge success; not only was it the top-grossing film of the year, but at the time was the fifth highest-grossing film in history. The film also won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. The film's success spawned three sequels: ""Batman Returns"" (1992), ""Batman Forever"" (1995) and ""Batman & Robin"" (1997); the latter two of which were directed by Joel Schumacher instead of Burton, and replaced Keaton as Batman with Val Kilmer and George Clooney, respectively. The second Schumacher film failed to outgross any of its predecessors and"
"film debut in ""Lovers and Other Strangers"" (1970). She followed with guest roles on the television series ""Love, American Style"" and ""Night Gallery"", and ""Mannix"". Between films, Keaton appeared in a series of deodorant commercials. Keaton's breakthrough role came two years later when she was cast as Kay Adams, the girlfriend and eventual wife of Michael Corleone (played by Al Pacino) in Francis Ford Coppola's 1972 film ""The Godfather"". Coppola noted that he first noticed Keaton in ""Lovers and Other Strangers"", and cast her because of her reputation for eccentricity that he wanted her to bring to the role (Keaton"
"the worst-reviewed films of the year. The following year, Keaton received her first and only Golden Raspberry Award nomination to date, for the film. In ""Mama's Boy"", director Tim Hamilton's feature film debut, Keaton starred as the mother of a self-absorbed 29-year-old (played by Jon Heder) whose world turns upside down when his widowed mother starts dating and considers booting him out of the house. Distributed for a limited release to certain parts of the United States only, the independent comedy garnered largely negative reviews. In 2008, Keaton starred alongside Dax Shepard and Liv Tyler in Vince Di Meglio's dramedy"
"in which Michael Keaton's character does not lose his job or face criminal charges for his illegal actions: The movie in its first week debuted at No.2, making only $3.3 million. One Good Cop One Good Cop is a 1991 American crime drama film written and directed by Heywood Gould and starring Michael Keaton, Rene Russo, Anthony LaPaglia and Benjamin Bratt. Keaton portrays New York City Police Department Detective Artie Lewis, who, with his wife Rita (Russo), adopts his late partner's (LaPaglia) children and loves them as their own. He also targets one of the criminals responsible for his partner's"
"clothing business, in the 1977 miniseries ""Seventh Avenue"". He also portrayed Thomas Edison on the brink of inventing the electric light bulb in the science fiction TV series ""Voyagers!"". His film career included roles in ""The Friends of Eddie Coyle"" (1973), ""Death Wish"" (1974), ""The Gambler"" (1974), ""The Gumball Rally"" (1976), ""The Last Dinosaur"" (1977), ""Black Sunday"" (1977), ""The Ivory Ape"" (1980), ""Hangar 18"" (1980), ""Silent Rage"" (1982), ""Turk 182"" (1985), ""Badge of the Assassin"" (1985), and the 1982 TV-movie of the Norman Mailer book ""The Executioner's Song"". Keats' appeared in the 1975 film ""Hester Street"". Set on New York"
"open window. The stunt required precision, because the prop house weighed two tons, and the window only offered a few inches of clearance around Keaton's body. The sequence furnished one of the most memorable images of his career. Aside from ""Steamboat Bill, Jr."" (1928), Keaton's most enduring feature-length films include ""Our Hospitality"" (1923), ""The Navigator"" (1924), ""Sherlock Jr."" (1924), ""Seven Chances"" (1925), ""The Cameraman"" (1928), and ""The General"" (1926). ""The General"", set during the American Civil War, combined physical comedy with Keaton's love of trains, including an epic locomotive chase. Employing picturesque locations, the film's storyline reenacted an actual wartime"
"1988 horror-comedy ""Beetlejuice"", earning Keaton widespread acclaim and boosting him to Hollywood's A list. He originally turned down the role, then reconsidered like most of the cast. He now considers ""Beetlejuice"" his favorite of his own films. That same year, he also gave an acclaimed dramatic performance as a drug-addicted realtor in ""Clean and Sober"". Keaton's career was given another major boost when he was again cast by Tim Burton, this time as the title comic book superhero of 1989's ""Batman"". Warner Bros. received thousands of letters of complaint by fans who believed Keaton was the wrong choice to portray"
"Week"", a Buster Keaton work, has more fun in it than most slap-stick, trick-property comedies."" One Week (1920 film) One Week is a 1920 American two-reel silent comedy film starring Buster Keaton, the first film to be released made by Keaton on his own; Keaton had worked with Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle for a number of years. The film was written and directed by Keaton and Edward F. Cline, and runs for 19 minutes. Sybil Seely co-stars. ""The High Sign"" had been filmed prior to ""One Week,"" but Keaton considered it an inferior effort to debut with, and released it the"
"in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. She attended middle school in Eudora, Arkansas until 1960 when her family moved to Atlanta, Georgia. In 1969, she was involved in a major car accident that left her with facial scarring. Keaton once worked as a hostess for Amtrak. Keaton relocated to Italy in 1971, where she had signed with a talent agent, and appeared in several commercials. Her debut role was in 1972 playing the role of Solange, a missing woman, in Massimo Dallamano's movie of the giallo genre entitled ""What Have You Done to Solange?"" Though a small role, her delicate and fragile"
"most disciplined person I know. He works very hard,"" Keaton has stated. In 1981, his play ""The Floating Light Bulb"" premiered on Broadway and ran for 65 performances. While receiving mixed reviews, it gave an autobiographical insight into Allen's childhood, specifically his fascination with magic tricks. He has written several one-act plays, including ""Riverside Drive"" and ""Old Saybrook"" exploring well-known Allen themes. On October 20, 2011, Allen's one-act play ""Honeymoon Motel"" opened as part of a larger piece entitled ""Relatively Speaking"" on Broadway, with two other one-act plays, one by Ethan Coen and one by Elaine May. His first movie"
"film premiered on Columbus day 1924 at the Capitol theater in New York, at that time the largest movie theater in the world. At the Capitol ""The Navigator"" was a huge hit and ran for a rare second week at the theater. Overall ""The Navigator"" was Keaton's biggest hit, grossing $680,406 on a $385,000 budget. Keaton said that it was his best film. When the film was released, ""Variety"" said, ""Buster Keaton's comedy is spotty. That is to say it's both commonplace and novel, with the latter sufficient to make the picture a laugh getter..."" ""Variety"" also noted the novelty"
"a sound film and after the studio converted, he was obliged to adhere to dialogue-laden scripts. However, MGM did allow Keaton some creative participation on his last originally developed/written silent film ""The Cameraman"", 1928, which was his first project under contract with them, but hired Edward Sedgwick as the official director. Keaton was forced to use a stunt double during some of the more dangerous scenes, something he had never done in his heyday, as MGM wanted badly to protect its investment. ""Stuntmen don't get laughs,"" Keaton had said. Some of his most financially successful films for the studio were"
"of artistic independence when he was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his wife divorced him, and he descended into alcoholism. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career to a degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award. Many of Keaton's films from the 1920s remain highly regarded, such as ""Sherlock Jr."" (1924), ""The General"" (1926), and ""The Cameraman"" (1928), with ""The General"" widely viewed as his masterpiece. Among its strongest admirers was Orson Welles, who stated that ""The General"" was cinema's highest achievement in comedy, and perhaps the greatest film"
"his independent setup for employment at Hollywood's biggest studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Keaton's loss of independence as a filmmaker coincided with the coming of sound films (although he was interested in making the transition) and mounting personal problems, and his career in the early sound era was hurt as a result. Keaton signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1928, a business decision that he would later call the worst of his life. He realized too late that the studio system MGM represented would severely limit his creative input. For instance, the studio refused his request to make his early project, ""Spite Marriage"", as"
"reads Dr. Seuss's ""Green Eggs and Ham"" to him. The film received mixed reviews from critics. It holds a rating of 43% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 23 reviews. ""My Life"" opened at #3 behind ""The Three Musketeers"" and ""Carlito's Way"". My Life (film) My Life is a 1993 American film starring Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman and directed by Bruce Joel Rubin. With a PG-13 rating, this film's North American box office gross was $28 million. Detroit, Michigan, 1963: Bob Ivanovich, a young son of Ukrainian-American parents, prays one night for a circus in his backyard the next day"
"because his middle initial sounded too much like the Canadian ""eh?"" He also didn't like the sound of ""Andrew"" or ""Andy,"" so he decided to adopt a new middle initial and settled on ""J,"" as a tribute to actor Michael J. Pollard. Fox's first feature film roles were ""Midnight Madness"" (1980) and ""Class of 1984"" (1982), credited in both as Michael Fox. Shortly afterward, he began playing ""Young Republican"" Alex P. Keaton in the show ""Family Ties"", which aired on NBC for seven seasons from 1982–89. In an interview with Jimmy Fallon in April 2014, Fox stated he negotiated the"
"of feature films. Throughout the 1940s, Keaton played character roles in both ""A"" and ""B"" features. He made his last starring feature ""El Moderno Barba Azul"" (1946) in Mexico; the film was a low budget production, and it may not have been seen in the United States until its release on VHS in the 1980s, under the title ""Boom in the Moon"". Critics rediscovered Keaton in 1949 and producers occasionally hired him for bigger ""prestige"" pictures. He had cameos in such films as ""In the Good Old Summertime"" (1949), ""Sunset Boulevard"" (1950), and ""Around the World in 80 Days"" (1956)."
"to the movie in 1995 on his album ""The High Sign/One Week"". In 2008, ""One Week"" was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"". The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in ""one week"". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new ""arrangement"". The end result is depicted in the picture. As if this were not enough,"
"tribute to the comedian and friend of Keaton who had died earlier that year. Keaton starred in four films for American International Pictures: 1964's ""Pajama Party"" and 1965's ""Beach Blanket Bingo"", ""How to Stuff a Wild Bikini"", and ""Sergeant Deadhead"". Director William Asher recalled: In 1965, Keaton starred in the short film ""The Railrodder"" for the National Film Board of Canada. He travelled from one end of Canada to the other on a motorized handcar, wearing his traditional pork pie hat and performing gags similar to those in films that he made 50 years before. The film is also notable"
"actors would phonetically memorize the foreign-language scripts a few lines at a time and shoot immediately after. This is discussed in the TCM documentary ""Buster Keaton: So Funny it Hurt"", with Keaton complaining about having to shoot lousy films not just once, but three times. Keaton was so demoralized during the production of 1933's ""What! No Beer?"" that MGM fired him after the filming was complete, despite the film being a resounding hit. In 1934, Keaton accepted an offer to make an independent film in Paris, ""Le Roi des Champs-Élysées"". During this period, he made another film, in England, ""The"
"The Other Sister (1999). In 1999, Keaton narrated the one-hour public-radio documentary ""If I Get Out Alive"", the first to focus on the conditions and brutality faced by young people in the adult correctional system. The program, produced by Lichtenstein Creative Media, aired on public radio stations across the country, and was honored with a First Place National Headliner Award and a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. Keaton's first film of 2000 was ""Hanging Up"" with Meg Ryan and Lisa Kudrow. Keaton also directed the film, despite claiming in a 1996 interview that she would never direct herself in a"
"of Rick in the Pittsburgh premiere of David Rabe's ""Sticks and Bones"" with the Pittsburgh Poor Players. He also performed stand-up comedy during his early years in order to supplement his income. Keaton left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for various TV parts. He popped up in various popular TV shows including ""Maude"" and ""The Mary Tyler Moore Hour"". He decided to use a stage name to satisfy SAG rules, as there was already an actor (Michael Douglas) and daytime host (Mike Douglas) with the same or similar names. The claim that Keaton selected his new"
"approval. Keaton later reprised the role for the sequel ""Batman Returns"" (1992), which was another critically acclaimed success. He was initially set to reprise the role again for a third Batman film, even going as far as to show up for costume fitting. However, when Burton was dropped as director of the film, Keaton left the franchise as well. He was reportedly dissatisfied with the screenplay approved by the new director, Joel Schumacher. According to the A&E ""Biography"" episode on Keaton, after he had refused the first time (after meetings with Schumacher), Warner Bros. offered him $15 million, but Keaton"
"My Life (film) My Life is a 1993 American film starring Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman and directed by Bruce Joel Rubin. With a PG-13 rating, this film's North American box office gross was $28 million. Detroit, Michigan, 1963: Bob Ivanovich, a young son of Ukrainian-American parents, prays one night for a circus in his backyard the next day after school. After school the next day, he runs home eagerly, followed by his friends. To his disappointment, no circus awaits. Angrily, Bob retreats to the closet in his room, his personal retreat space. Bob has shunned his Ukrainian-born parents for"
"featuring Michael Keaton as the obnoxious bio-exorcist Beetlejuice, the film grossed $80 million on a relatively low budget and won an Academy Award for Best Makeup. It would be converted into a cartoon of the same name, with Burton playing a role as executive producer, that ran on ABC and later Fox. Burton's ability to produce hits with low budgets impressed studio executives, and he received his first big budget film, ""Batman"". The production was plagued with problems. Burton repeatedly clashed with the film's producers, Jon Peters and Peter Guber, but the most notable debacle involved casting. For the title"
"for some scenes. His final appearance on film was a 1965 safety film produced in Toronto by the Construction Safety Associations of Ontario, and he died shortly after completing it. Keaton started experimenting with parody during his vaudeville years, where most frequently his performances involved impressions and burlesques of other performers' acts. Most of these parodies targeted acts with which Keaton had shared the bill. When Keaton transposed his experience in vaudeville to film, in many works he parodied melodramas. Other favorite targets were cinematic plots, structures and devices. One of his most biting parodies is ""The Frozen North"" (1922),"
"second child during filming, and late in the production she had to be filmed to hide her growing size. The film premiered on November 3, 1923 and was released on November 19, 1923. Keaton's previous film ""Three Ages"" was released while ""Our Hospitality"" was in post-production and was a big hit in both the US and Europe, breaking box office records in some individual cities. Originally titled ""Hospitality"", it was another hit film for Keaton, selling out many theaters and grossing $537,844, almost $100,000 more than ""Three Ages"". Critics at the time were generally positive. ""Variety wrote"": ""This is an"
"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"
"presence on screen. For instance, ""Variety"" noted ""His quiet work in this picture is a revelation."" As such, Keaton's work on such a prestigious film gained him credibility as an actor. The Saphead The Saphead is a 1920 American comedy film featuring Buster Keaton. It was the actor's first starring role, on the recommendation of Douglas Fairbanks, in a full-length feature and the film that launched his career. The plot was a merging of two stories, Bronson Howard's play ""The Henrietta"" and the novel ""The New Henrietta"" by Victor Mapes and Winchell Smith, which was meant to be an adaption"