At the age of three, Keaton began performing with his parents in The Three Keatons.

He began appearing in motion pictures in a comedy series pairing him with silent film legend Buster Keaton and continuing with The Wet Parade ( 1932 ), Broadway to Hollywood ( 1933 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942, playing " Banjo ", a character based on Harpo Marx ), Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ), Billy Rose's Jumbo ( 1962, based on the 1935 musical ) and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ( 1963 ).

When Buster Keaton began making his own shorts, after having worked with Roscoe " Fatty " Arbuckle for years, he hired Cline as his co-director.

From the beginning, Clampett was intrigued with and influenced by Douglas Fairbanks, Lon Chaney, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and he began making film short-subjects in his garage beginning when he was twelve.

Keaton began studying acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City.

Also in 2011, Keaton began production on Justin Zackham's ensemble comedy The Big Wedding, in which she, along with Robert De Niro, will play a long-divorced couple who, for the sake of their adopted son's wedding and his very religious biological mother, pretend they're still married.

Keaton decided to become a mother at the age of 50 after the death of her father, when she began to realize her own mortality.

However, her television career began nearly ten years earlier when she appeared in several episodes of Family Ties ( 1984 ) as a girlfriend of Alex P. Keaton.

; Master Keaton: Just after Pineapple Army, and while writing Yawara !, Urasawa began one of his most famous works, Master Keaton.

; Monster: In 1994, after finishing Master Keaton, Urasawa began writing what would become another one of his most famous works, Monster.

Williams began to snag bit roles in motion pictures, including a part in the 1928 Buster Keaton film Steamboat Bill, Jr.

The singular event that triggered Mae filing for divorce in 1935 was her finding Keaton in flagrante delicto with the infamous Leah Clampitt Sewell on the 4th of July of that same year in a hotel in Santa Barbara.

In 1997, Hawn, along with her co-stars from The First Wives Club, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler, were recipients of the Women in Film Crystal Awards.

In 2001, Hawn was reunited with former co-stars Warren Beatty ( her co-star in $ and Shampoo ) and Diane Keaton for the comedy Town & Country, a critical and financial fiasco.

Coincidentally, Diane Keaton, whose birth name is Diane Hall, took her mother's maiden name as a stage name after learning that there was already a registered actress named Diane Hall in the Actors ' Equity Association.

Despite this, Keaton has stated that the relationship between Alvy and Annie was partly based on her relationship with the director.

His best friend, Yale ( Michael Murphy ), married to Emily ( Anne Byrne ), is having an affair with Mary Wilkie ( Diane Keaton ); her ex-husband and former teacher, Jeremiah ( Wallace Shawn ), also appears.

Later that year, she made her TV acting debut in the cable movie Wildflower, directed by Diane Keaton and starring Patricia Arquette.

Michael and Kay ( Diane Keaton ) have been divorced since 1960, and Michael gave her custody of their children, Anthony ( Franc D ' Ambrosio ) and Mary ( Sofia Coppola ).

Keaton subsequently expanded her range to avoid becoming typecast as her Annie Hall persona.

Her mother, Dorothy Deanne ( née Keaton ; 1921 – 2008 ), was a homemaker and amateur photographer ; her father, Jack Newton Ignatius Hall ( 1921 – 1990 ), was a real estate broker and civil engineer.

Keaton was raised a Methodist by her mother.

Keaton has said that the theatricality of the event inspired her to become a stage actress.

Upon joining the Actors ' Equity Association, she adopted the surname of Keaton, her mother's maiden name, as there was already a registered Diane Hall.

After being nominated for a Tony Award for Play It Again, Sam, Keaton made her film debut in 1970's Lovers and Other Strangers.

Coppola noted that he first noticed Keaton in Lovers and Other Strangers, and cast her because of her reputation for eccentricity that he wanted her to bring to the role ( Keaton claims that at the time she was commonly referred to as " the kooky actress " of the film industry ).

Even though Keaton received widespread exposure from the films, her character's importance was minimal.

In 1977, Keaton starred with Allen in the romantic comedy Annie Hall, one of her most famous roles.

However, during his own silent film career, the nearest Keaton had appeared in a " police comedy " was The Goat ( 1921 ) and Cops ( 1922 ).

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.

In a British television documentary about his career, his widow Eleanor told producers of Thames Television that Keaton was up out of bed and moving around, and even played cards with friends who came to visit at their house the day before he died.

Keaton designed and modified his own pork pie hats during his career.

Keaton estimated that he and his wife Eleanor made thousands of the hats during his career.

* Brighton, Catherine, Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton ( 2008 ) Roaring Brook Press ( An illustrated children's book about Keaton's career )

Sarris discusses Film in the context of his section on the film career of Buster Keaton, writing that: " Even Samuel Beckett contributed to the desecration of the Keaton mask by involving the actor of absurdity before its time in a dreary exercise called Film, the most pretentious title in all cinema.

Allen has credited Keaton as his muse during his early film career.

In Baby Boom, Keaton starred as a Manhattan career woman who is suddenly forced to care for a toddler.

Critical reaction to the film was generally unfavorable, and once again Keaton was dismissed for her role choices, with Sandra Hall of the New York Post writing, " Diane's career is dyin ' [...] this time, sadly, she's gone too far.

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.

Her debut collaboration with Diane Keaton, who appeared in her first commercial vehicle with the film, the catalyst for the project was a series of situations that Meyers and Shyer and their friends had experienced while managing a life with a successful career and a growing family.

TV Guide < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s Movie Guide wrote that " Winkler turns in the best performance of his career, and Keaton is wonderful.

In the 1940s and 1950s, son Bryan composed show music, wrote for Buster Keaton, and had a long career as a director of films in Hollywood.

Throughout his career, Meisner worked with, and taught, students who became well known, such as Sandra Bullock, Dylan McDermott, Eileen Fulton, James Caan, Steve McQueen, Robert Duvall, Gregory Peck, Jack Lord, Bob Fosse, Diane Keaton, Peter Falk, Jon Voight, Jeff Goldblum, Grace Kelly, James Doohan, Jason Boss, Manu Tupou, Tony Randall and Sydney Pollack.

Buster Keaton was one of the biggest stars of the silent era, starring in and devising elaborate stunts and gags for such classic comedies as The General and Steamboat Bill, Jr .. His career suffered with the advent of sound films, and he spent decades struggling in Hollywood.