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 ( 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.

Footage from the interview sessions was used in the 1987 documentary Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow.

The Hollywood documentary series was followed by the documentaries Unknown Chaplin in 1982, Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow ( cf Buster Keaton ) in 1987 and Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius ( cf Harold Lloyd ) in 1989.

* Mixing – Dave " Hard Drive " Pensado, Kevin Parker, Larry Sturm, Buster & Shavoni, Thor Laewe, Wayne Allison

This was followed by Unknown Chaplin ( 1983 ) ( Charlie Chaplin ), Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow ( 1987 ) ( Buster Keaton ), Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius ( 1989 ) ( Harold Lloyd ) and Cinema Europe: the Other Hollywood ( 1995 ), among others.

* Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow ( 1987 )

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

as a minigame called " Virus Buster ," which is played by using the system's touch screen to drag the capsules around the playing field.

One of the first major films to use anachronism was Buster Keaton's The Three Ages, which included the invention of Stone Age baseball and modern traffic problems in classical Rome.

The " roll dance " the tramp character performs in the film is considered one of the most memorable scenes in film history, although Roscoe Arbuckle did something similar in the 1917 movie The Rough House which co-starred Buster Keaton.

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.

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.

Pearce died in 1984 whilst filming the series four episode " Hole in One " ( several scenes were subsequently re-shot with Buster Merryfield ) and Sullivan thus wrote a new episode, " Strained Relations ", which featured Grandad's funeral.

Uncle Albert ( Buster Merryfield ) — 1984-1996 Shortly after the death of Lennard Pearce, it was decided that a new older family member should be brought in, which eventually led to " Uncle Albert ", Grandad's long-lost brother.

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.

He was also shown in two drawn photographs in the 2 July 1960 issue, the first of which was displayed by Buster's mum with the pronouncement " It's a photo of Buster taken with Andy!

Police, criminals and various others are dealt with, after which Elwood and young Buster once again travel the road.

Buster sings about the junkyard in which the Junkyard Dogs make their home and about the life of the Junkyard Dogs, with the other Junkyard Dogs also offering their opinions.

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.

Collins and Dozier also co-wrote " Loco in Acapulco " for The Four Tops, which is also featured on the Buster soundtrack.

He won the IBF junior middleweight title, and brought Canada its first world boxing title since the 1940s, with a 15-round unanimous decision over defender Buster Drayton on ABC in Montreal, June 27, 1987, which was also named KO Magazines TV Fight of the Year for 1987.

When the Rough Riders returned to the U. S., they presented their courageous leader Roosevelt with Remington ’ s bronze statuette, The Broncho Buster, which the artist proclaimed, “ the greatest compliment I ever had … After this everything will be mere fuss .” Roosevelt responded, “ There could have been no more appropriate gift from such a regiment .”

From his inaugural piece, The Broncho Buster ( 1895 ), he created an art form which is still very popular among collectors of Western art.

It was in this line of work that he earned the nickname " The Prince ", which along with his boyhood moniker " Buster " ( from his middle name Bustamente ), formed the name under which he would later become famous.

Buster dubbed himself ' The Voice of the People ', and gave a voice to those people with " Oh Carolina ", which expressed black Jamaicans through a commercially successful medium.

While in England, Buster met World Heavyweight Champion boxer Muhammad Ali, a meeting that resulted in Buster joining the Nation of Islam, as well as Ali being mentioned in the song " Earthquake on Orange Street ", which was subsequently referenced by the UK group Madness, who took their name from one of his songs, in their first single " The Prince ".

Prince Buster had two hit singles in the UK: first, " Al Capone " (# 18, 1967 ), and much later, with an updated version of " Whine And Grine ", which was used on a television advertisement (# 21, 1998 ).