In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen ( later known as Jeff York ) as Li ' l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle.

Buster Keaton made his final film appearance in the role of Erronius.

In American film, the most prominent comic actors of the silent era were Charlie Chaplin ( although born in England, his success was principally in the U. S .), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd.

Red Skelton, Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, and Charlie Chaplin would all fit the definition of a character clown.

The comedies of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, the swashbuckling adventures of Douglas Fairbanks and the romances of Clara Bow, to cite just a few examples, made these performers ’ faces well-known on every continent.

The films made Langdon a recognized comedian in the caliber of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

It was in these early years that Remi developed a love of cinema, particularly favouring Windsor McCay's pioneering animated film Gertie the Dinosaur and the films featuring Charlie Chaplin, Harry Langdon and Buster Keaton ; his later work in the comic strip medium would display an obvious influence from these early films in style and content.

Many silent filmmakers such as Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton used improvisation in the making of their films, developing their gags while filming and altering the plot to fit.

Pei enjoyed playing billiards and watching Hollywood movies, especially those of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

* 2005: The Three Ages ( new soundtrack to the Buster Keaton film )

20th Century Fox's 1939 feature Hollywood Cavalcade had Buster Keaton in a Keystone chase scene.

His last work, in 1935, was as a producer-director for Educational Pictures ; he directed Buster Keaton in The Timid Young Man and Joan Davis in Way Up Thar.

* 1895 – Buster Keaton, American comedian ( d. 1966 )

Film, directed by Alan Schneider written by Samuel Beckett and starring Buster Keaton also uses POV extensively, switching between the main character's point of view and the view of the camera as a way to illustrate Berkeley's quote " to be is to be perceived and to perceive ".

Many critics believe that Gromit's silence makes him the perfect straight man with a pantomime expressiveness that drew favourable comparisons to Buster Keaton.

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* October 4 – Buster Keaton, American actor and film director ( d. 1966 )

** Buster Keaton, American actor and film director ( b. 1895 )

Columbia offered theater owners an entire program of two-reel comedies ( 15 to 25 titles annually ) featuring such stars as Buster Keaton, Andy Clyde, Charley Chase, and Hugh Herbert, but the Three Stooges shorts were the most popular of all.

Having grown up in Hollywood, the son of a studio production manager and grandson of a silent film director, Edwards had watched the films of the great silent clowns, including Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Laurel and Hardy.

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

Joseph Frank " Buster " Keaton ( October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966 ) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer.

Buster Keaton ( his lifelong stage name ) was recognized as the seventh-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

Buster Keaton was born in Piqua, Kansas, the small town where his mother, Myra Keaton ( née Myra Edith Cutler ), happened to go into labor.

Similarly, Esslin cites early film comedians and music hall artists such as Charlie Chaplin, The Keystone Cops and Buster Keaton as direct influences ( Keaton even starred in Beckett's Film in 1965 ).

In February 1965, when on a trip to West Berlin, “ in deference to his recent work with Buster Keaton, he went to see Keaton again in his 1927 film The General, finding it, however, disappointing .”

* Buster Harding ( 1917 – 1965 ), Canadian jazz pianist, composer and arranger

In 1965, west coast businessman Buster Peterson hooked up a pair of D9Gs to pushload the largest wheel tractor scrapers built.

From 1965 the strip instead featured Buster in two long-running series: as lead character in the extremely durable " Buster's Diary " ( 1960 – 68 and 1974 – 85 ) and in " Buster's Dream World " ( 1968 – 74 ).

* Buster Keaton guest starred in two episodes, " A Very Merry Christmas " ( 1958 ) as a hospital janitor who brings gifts to the children's ward and " Now You See It, Now You Don't " ( 1965 ).

The most famous speeder in a movie is, arguably, the Fairmont M19 / M19AA that Buster Keaton rode across Canada in his 1965 film, The Railrodder.

Following their stop at Buster, Young did a demonstration drive of the lunar rover while Duke filmed with a 16 mm movie camera.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

** Dr. John Buster and the research team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce history's first embryo transfer, from one woman to another resulting in a live birth.

According to a frequently-repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname " Buster " at about eighteen months of age.

* In the Buster Keaton film The Playhouse, a zouave drill routine is one of the acts at the theatre.

Dr. Lowell Stone (" Buster ") is quoted in interstitial material in The Cat Who Walks Through Walls and referenced as Chief Surgeon at Ceres General.

The actor appeared at a celebrity baseball game as the Monster in 1940, hitting a gag home run and making catcher Buster Keaton fall into an acrobatic dead faint as the Monster stomped into home plate.

O ' Neill began working for the publishing company IPC at the age of 16 as an office boy for Buster, which was a children's humour title.

A review at MommyPR concluded by saying " My boys were able to preview “ The Wheel Deal ”, “ The Buster Report ”, “ Falafelosophy ” and “ The Great Lint Rush ”.

Celebrities such as Buster Crabbe and Esther Williams were normal fare at the events in the 1940s and 1950s.

The book is targeted at Ronnie Biggs in the hope that he will contact Williams for a deal, similar to the one arranged by Buster Edwards.

Renamed Buster Crabbe's Meenahga Lodge the camp advertised itself as swim camp for youngsters age eight to 14, with at least one swim instructor from Hawaii.

* Buster Crabbe at Brian's Drive-In Theater

Buster Mathis went on to win his next 22 contests as well and qualified for a shot at the New York State Athletic Commission World Heavyweight Title, which had become vacant after Muhammad Ali was stripped of the title for refusing to be drafted into the United States army.

While never a superstar, she worked hard at her craft, headlining with the likes of Bing Crosby and Buster Crabbe.

He also fought at the Garden against Luther McMillen on March 8, 1946 which he won, and Buster Peppe on July 19, 1946, which he lost.

One of the most vocal protestors, the Neopagan and conservationist Buster Nolan, informed a reporter from the Eastern Daily Press that " Seahenge has more meaning and power on the beach here at Holme than it does anywhere else … This is 60 grand being spent by archaeologists who are patting each other on the back, telling each other they're doing the right thing.

Attempting to rid themselves of the problem of the protestors, English Heritage gained an interim injunction banning a series of the most prominent protestors from the vicinity of the site, including Des Crow, Geoff Needham, Buster Nolan and Rollo Maughfling, the self-declared " Archdruid of Stonehenge and Glastonbury ", who at one point and climbed on top of Seahenge to declare an eight-point proclamation.

To their surprise, Tati simply requested the opportunity to visit Stan Laurel, Mack Sennett and Buster Keaton at their nursing homes.

1927 ), have a scholarship named after them at the university, and Buster Olney ( B. A.

He met Jamaican artists Derrick Morgan and Prince Buster through his job as a bouncer at London nightclubs such as the Ram Jam in Brixton, and through another job as a bodyguard.

Some individuals, such as Buster Keaton, Harry Houdini, Jackie Chan, Akshay Kumar, Tony Jaa, and Jayan act as both stunt performers and daredevils at various parts of their career.

Mega Man ( character ) | Mega Man fires a Mega Buster blast at Toad Man.

He also started the Prince Buster Records label, at first as an attempt to keep the Melodisc label viable, but today is used to reissue his music.