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.

Lou Gehrig was given the nickname Buster, and he ran Ruth a close race in home runs.

The next stop of the day was Buster Crater, about from the LM.

Puzzle Bobble was originally released in Japan only in June 1994 by Taito Corporation, running on Taito's B System hardware ( with the preliminary title " Bubble Buster ").

* Tasha, a female borzoi belonging to the noted vet Buster Lloyd-Jones ( founder of Denes natural pet foods ), was born in the UK during the Second World War and is the pedigree ancestor of most British borzoi bloodlines.

On November 15, 2010, Giants catcher Buster Posey was named NL Rookie of the Year.

A novelty single was released in 1987 for Viz and its Buster Gonad character by the band XTC as " Johnny Japes and His Jesticles ".

The A-side was " Bags of Fun With Buster " b / w " Scrotal Scratch Mix ".

However, Buster Keaton was always able to show the authorities that he had no bruises or broken bones.

By the time he was 21, his father's alcoholism threatened the reputation of the family act, so Keaton and his mother, Myra, left for New York, where Buster Keaton's career swiftly moved from vaudeville to film.

The Railrodder was made in tandem with a behind-the-scenes documentary about Keaton's life and times, called Buster Keaton Rides Again, also made for the National Film Board.

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow, which won two Emmy Awards and was directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill, is considered a much more accurate telling of Keaton ’ s story.

Major General Franklin L. " Buster " Hagenback was put in command of the operation.

Instead, the number was replaced by one featuring Buster Keaton, though Dressler did pose for stills wearing a Lady Godiva wig.

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.

Buster Wiles-stuntman and close friend of Errol Flynn-maintains that the arrow splitting stunt was carried out using an extra large arrow ( for the target ) and that the second arrow had a wide, flat arrowhead and was fired along a wire.

Despite the contract Pierce did not star after he was tricked into stepping aside in favor of fellow Flash Gordon actor Buster Crabbe ( the first serial role for the future " King of the Serials ").

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.

Rockerduck was created by Carl Barks, who used him in one story: Boat Buster, first published in December, 1961.