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In Keaton's retelling, he was six months old when the incident occurred, and Harry Houdini gave him the nickname (though the family did not get to know Houdini until later). Keaton retold the anecdote over the years, including in a 1964 interview with the CBC's Telescope.

After the child fell down a long flight of stairs without injury, an actor friend named George Pardey remarked, 'Gee whiz, he's a regular buster!' : 17 After this, Keaton's father began to use the nickname to refer to the youngster. According to a frequently repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname Buster at the age of 18 months. His father was Joseph Hallie 'Joe' Keaton who had a traveling show called the Mohawk Indian Medicine Company, which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side.

He was named Joseph to continue a tradition on his father's side (he was sixth in a line bearing the name Joseph Keaton) and Frank for his maternal grandfather, who disapproved of his parents' union. Keaton was born into a vaudeville family in Piqua, Kansas, the small town which his mother, Myra Keaton (née Cutler), was visiting at the time. 1897) Six-year-old Keaton and his parents Myra and Joe Keaton, in a publicity photo for their vaudeville act, The Three Keatons Buster Keaton's draft card 'motion picture performer' employed by Roscoe Arbuckle He is the first action hero to be precise, he is a small, pale-faced American who is startled, tripped, drenched and inspired into becoming a hero.' Career Early life in vaudeville Keaton as a child in vaudeville ( c. Anyone who thinks that the movie-within-a-movie is a recent conceit, the province of The Purple Rose of Cairo and Last Action Hero, should check out Sherlock Jr., a film in which Keaton dreams himself into another film. No action thriller of the last, blood-streaked decade has matched the kinetic violence at the end of Steamboat Bill, Jr., in which a storm pulls Keaton through one random catastrophe after another. Keaton is often described as having been ahead of his time Anthony Lane wrote 'He was just too good, in too many ways, too soon. Late in his career, Keaton made cameos in Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, Chaplin's Limelight, Samuel Beckett's Film and the Twilight Zone episode ' Once Upon a Time'. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award in 1959. His wife divorced him, he lost his home, and he descended into alcoholism. His career declined when he signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and lost his artistic independence.

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Keaton's art has inspired full academic study. In 2018, Peter Bogdanovich released The Great Buster: A Celebration, a tribute to Keaton featuring Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Werner Herzog and Quentin Tarantino, among others. The General is viewed as his masterpiece: Orson Welles considered it 'the greatest comedy ever made.and perhaps the greatest film ever made'. (1928), and The Cameraman (1928), remain highly regarded. He then moved to feature-length films several of them, such as Sherlock Jr.

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Cline, Keaton made a series of successful two-reel comedies in the early 1920s, including One Week (1920), The Playhouse (1921), Cops (1922), and The Electric House (1922). Working with independent producer Joseph M. A vaudeville child star, Keaton grew up to be a tinkerer, an athlete, a visual mathematician his films offer belly laughs of mind-boggling physical invention and a spacey determination that nears philosophical grandeur.' In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him as the 21st-greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema. In 1996, Entertainment Weekly recognized Keaton as the seventh-greatest film director, writing that 'More than Chaplin, Keaton understood movies: He knew they consisted of a four-sided frame in which resided a malleable reality off which his persona could bounce. Ĭritic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's 'extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929' when he 'worked without interruption' as having made him 'the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies'. He is best known for his silent film work, in which his trademark was physical comedy accompanied by a stoic, deadpan expression that earned him the nickname 'The Great Stone Face'. Joseph Frank ' Buster' Keaton (Octo– February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and director.