![]() The Invader ( The Intruder An Old Spanish Custom) (Brunel) (as Leander Proudfoot) Le Roi des Champs Elysées ( Champ of the Champs Elysées) (Nosseck) (as Buster Garnier/Jim Le Balafre) 1936 Butts) The Little King (not completed) 1934 The Passionate Plumber (Sedgwick) (as Elmer Tuttle) Speak Easily (Sedgwick) (as Professor Timoleon Zanders Post) What! No Beer? (Sedgwick) (as Elmer J. Parlor, Bedroom, and Bath (Sedgwick) (as Reginald Irving, + pr) The March of Time (Reichner-not completed) Sidewalks of New York (Jules White and Zion Myers) (as Homer Van Tine Harmon, + pr) 1932 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (Reisner) (as an oriental dancer) 1930įree and Easy ( Easy Go) (Sedgwick) (as Elmer Butts) Doughboys ( The Big Shot Forward March!) (Sedgwick) (as Elmer Stuyvesant, + pr) 1931 (1930s sound features with Keaton in minor and some major roles) 1929 Spite Marriage (Sedgwick) (as Elmer Edgemont) (Reisner) (as Willie Canfield) The Cameraman (Sedgwick) (as Luke Shannon, + pr) 1929 The Saphead (Blaché) (as Bertie "The Lamb" Van Alstyne) 1927 (silent features with Keaton as leading actor) 1920 The Garage ( Fire Chief) (as garage mechanic) Out West (as Bill Bullhum) The Bell Boy (as Arbuckle's assistant) Moonshine (as assistant revenue agent) Good Night, Nurse! (as the doctor/a visitor) The Cook (as the waiter and general helper) 1919Ī Desert Hero (as badman) Back Stage (as stagehand) The Hayseed (as store clerk) 1920 The Butcher Boy (as village pest) A Reckless Romeo (as a rival) The Rough House (as grocer's boy and cop) His Wedding Night (as delivery boy) Oh, Doctor! (as doctor's son) Coney Island ( Fatty at Coney Island) (as lifeguard) A Country Hero (as the dancer) 1918 (two-reelers with Roscue "Fatty" Arbuckle as director-actorscriptwriter) 1917 Died: Of lung cancer in Woodland Hills, California, 1 February 1966. Screening of Film, written by Samuel Beckett, at the Venice Film Festival, 1965. Awards: "George Award," at first annual George Eastman Festival of Film Arts in Rochester, New York, 1956 special Academy Award, "for his unique talents which brought immortal comedies to the screen," 1959 honored at the Army, entertained troops in France 1919-offered own production company with Metro Pictures by Joseph Schenk 1920–23-produced 19 two-reelers 1923–28-directed ten features for Metro, starting with The Three Ages 1929–31-plagued with marital problems and alcoholism, career faded during the transition from silent to sound films 1934–39-starred in 16 comedies for Educational Pictures 1935-became uncredited gag writer for the Marx Brothers and in the 1940s for Red Skelton's features 1939–41-appeared in ten two-reelers for Columbia from 1949-moved to TV to execute innovative commercials and become frequent guest in both comic and dramatic TV series 1949-in TV series The Buster Keaton Comedy Show 1951-appearance with Chaplin in Chaplin's Limelight revived Keaton's career. Career: 1898–1917-beginning at the age of four, appeared with his parents, Joe and Myra Keaton, in vaudeville act billed as The Three Keatons 1917-moved to California 1917–20-appeared in 15 two-reelers for Comique Film Corporation, with Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle as director-actorscriptwriter, starting with first film The Butcher Boy, 1917 1918-as member of U.S. Family: Married 1) Natalie Talmadge, 1921 (divorced 1933), sons: Joseph and Robert 2) Mae Scribbens, 1933 (divorced 1936) 3) Eleanor Norris, 1940. Born: Joseph Francis Keaton in Piqua, Kansas, 4 October 1895.
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