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.

* Buster Keaton

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

Myra played the saxophone to one side, while Joe and Buster performed on center stage.

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.

McCoy also portrayed, in one-man shows on the stage, two famous movie comedians: Stan Laurel and Buster Keaton.

When Prince Buster had a big underground hit in 1969 with " Big 5 ", Hughes capitalized on it with the recording of his own " Big Six ", based on Verne & Son's " Little Boy Blue ", which was picked up by Trojan boss Lee Gopthal, and released on Trojan's ' Big Shot ' record label under the stage name Judge Dread, the name taken from another of Prince Buster's songs.

During the last day of the 2008 Notting Hill Carnival, Prince Buster made an appearance on the Gaz's Rockin ' Blues stage, alongside the Trojans.

A stage production of Buster was produced between 2000-2004 at various locations across the UK starring ( amongst others ) Ray Quinn in the main cast.

Unlike the Mega Buster, Master Weapons require weapon energy to use and must be replenished if it is depleted in the same selected stage.

Midway through the stage, Buster will drop into the darkened art room, prompting the appearance of the mini-boss, Arnold the Pitbull.

When Arnold is defeated, he drops a key which gives Buster access to the next part of the stage.

At the end of the stage, Hampton tells Buster that Dizzy Devil is destroying the kitchen.

The first part of the stage has Buster walking through the town, encountering enemies such as the Coyote Kid from the series episode " High Toon " and, for some reason, Barky Marky.

The second half of the stage ( skipped in the easy mode ) is an auto-scrolling stage and has Buster chasing after Max on a runaway train.

After clearing the previous stage, it starts to rain, so Buster seeks shelter in a seemingly-abandoned mansion, which he notes is an obvious cliché.

But if played on the normal or hard modes, Babs will appear at the end of the stage to tell Buster that her friend, Melvin the Monster ( from the episode " Hare Raising Night ", but not referred to by name in the game itself ) has been captured and taken under the control of the stage's boss, Dr. Gene Splicer ( also from " Hare Raising Night ", but referred to as the Mad Scientist in the game itself ).

For this stage, Buster goes up into the sky to retrieve an item that Calamity Coyote accidentally left up there.

Buster climbs about the stage by jumping onto bubbles ( provided by Hamton ), balloons, and pinball flippers.

The only enemies in this stage are some buzzards who assault Buster while he's flying on a blimp which appears to be promoting the cartoon itself ( it later pops and Concord Condor airlifts Buster to the next part ).

The game's final stage is an science-fiction setting where Buster plays " a Knight of Honor " who has to rescue Babs, who is in her Princess Leia-based persona from the episode " A Quack in the Quarks ".

* In the opening for the second stage, Buster tells the player that the top L and R buttons are used to dash.

According to the half-hour episode " Citizen Max " ( a parody of the movie Citizen Kane ), Monty was once impoverished and friends with one of the series ' stars, Buster Bunny, until the day his parents won the lottery and became quite wealthy ; after this, he abandoned Buster and quickly turned into his familiar, bullying, juvenile delinquent self, thus setting the stage for his long-running feud with the blue rabbit.

The stage hosted many bands including Hawkwind, Gong, Doctor and the Medics, Flux of Pink Indians, Buster Blood Vessel, Omega Tribe, Crass, Selector, Dexys Midnight Runners, Thompson Twins, Bronz, The Raincoats, Brent Black Music Co-op, Amazulu, Wishbone Ash, Man, Benjamin Zephaniah, Inner City Unit, Here and Now, Cardiacs, The Enid, Roy Harper, Jimmy Page, Ted Chippington, Zorch and Ozric Tentacles all played for free.