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 her career on stage, and made her screen debut in 1970.

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.

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

In addition to acting, Keaton has stated that "< nowiki ></ nowiki > had a lifelong ambition to be a singer.

In 1920, he married the actress Sybil Seely, who played in five films directed by Buster Keaton and bore him a son in 1921 and retired from acting in 1922.

When the film opened in June 1989, it was backed by the biggest marketing and merchandising campaign in film history at the time, and became one of the biggest box office hits of all time, grossing well over US $ 250 million in the US alone and $ 400 million worldwide ( numbers not adjusted for inflation ) and earning critical acclaim for the performances of both Keaton and Nicholson, as well as the film's production aspects, which won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction.

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

After attempts at reconciliation, Natalie divorced Keaton in 1932, taking his entire fortune and refusing to allow any contact between Keaton and his sons, whose last name she had changed to Talmadge.

Keaton was not at home at the time, and his wife and children escaped unharmed, staying at the home of Tom Mix until the following morning.

Keaton was at one point briefly institutionalized ; however, according to the TCM documentary So Funny it Hurt, Keaton escaped a straitjacket with tricks learned during his vaudeville days.

When they divorced in 1936, it was again at great financial cost to Keaton.

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 observed that during his silent period, such a hat cost him around two dollars ; at the time of his interview, he said, they cost almost $ 13.

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

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.

From this one might think that Keaton jumped at the chance but this is not the case.

) Often when crew was stumped over a technical problem with the camera, he came through with suggestions, inevitably prefacing his comments by explaining that he had solved such problems many times at the Keaton Studios back in 1927 .”

* Buster Keaton in FILM ( 1965 ) at Internet Archive

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 ).

Keaton at the White House with Warren Beatty and first lady Nancy Reagan, 1981

Keaton reprised her role four years later in the sequel, as a woman who becomes pregnant in middle age at the same time as her daughter.

In the film, scripted and directed by Thomas Bezucha, Keaton played a breast cancer survivor and matriarch of a big New England family, who reunites at the parents ' home for their annual Christmas holidays.

Keaton received her second Satellite Award nomination for her portrayal, on which Peter Travers of Rolling Stone commented, " Keaton, a sorceress at blending humor and heartbreak, honors the film with a grace that makes it stick in the memory.

Over the years, talent like Michael Keaton, who worked behind the scenes on Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood, emerged from the station and went on to national fame.

* The Playhouse ( film ), a 1921 film written and directed by Buster Keaton

The Playhouse composited using multiple exposures to show nine copies of Buster Keaton on screen at once.

However, as early as 1900 Georges Méliès used seven-fold exposure in L ' homme-orchestre / The One-man Band ; and in the 1921 film The Playhouse, Buster Keaton used multiple exposures to appear simultaneously as nine different actors on a stage, perfectly synchronizing all nine performances.

Buster Keaton played nearly every part in his 1921 film The Playhouse.

The Playhouse is a 1921 silent short film written, directed by, and starring Buster Keaton.

" According to one biographer, Keaton was made to go to school while performing in New York, but only attended for part of one day.

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 his review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert wrote, " Diane Keaton gives us a fresh and nicely edged New York intellectual.

* Parts of the 1994 movie Speechless, with Geena Davis and Michael Keaton, about a fictional New Mexico senatorial campaign, were filmed in Las Vegas.

The New York Times wrote that Keaton was, " nothing less than splendid as Louise Bryant – beautiful, selfish, funny and driven.

The Little Drummer Girl was both a financial and critical failure, with critics claiming that Keaton was miscast for the genre, such as one review from The New Republic claiming that " the title role, the pivotal role, is played by Diane Keaton, and around her the picture collapses in tatters.

In a geographic switch, Keaton shifted the story's setting from the New York of Lidz's book to the Southern California of her own childhood.

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.

According to Woody Allen ( in a New York Times interview from January 30, 2000 ), W. C. Fields is one of only six " genuine comic geniuses " he recognized as such in movie history, along with Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Groucho and Harpo Marx, and Peter Sellers.

After Smilin ' Through, Schenck closed the New York studios and Norma and Constance moved to Hollywood to join Keaton and Natalie.

Cynthia Nixon, John Hurt and Kurtz at the premiere of An Englishman in New York ( film ) | An Englishman in New York. In 1978, Kurtz was part of the ensemble cast of Mary Tyler Moore's short lived variety series Mary, that also included David Letterman and Michael Keaton.

It stars Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle and Stephen Furst as mental-hospital inpatients who are left unsupervised in New York City during a field trip gone awry.

* Diane Keaton as New Year's Singer

The early Eccentrist movies of Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg ( The New Babylon, Alone ) had similarly avant-garde intentions, as well as a fixation on jazz-age America which was characteristic of the philosophy, with its praise of slapstick-comedy actors like Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, as well as of Fordist mass production.

The New York Times movie review said, " One Week, a Buster Keaton work, has more fun in it than most slap-stick, trick-property comedies.

LFO's 1999 single " Summer Girls " name-checks " Alex P. Keaton " alongside other 1980s cultural references such as Footloose, Home Alone, and New Edition's song " Candy Girl ".

The song has myriad of primarily 1980's and early 1990s cultural references, including: Cherry Coke, Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone, Alex P. Keaton, New Edition, Kevin Bacon in Footloose, New Kids on the Block, Beastie Boys, Larry Bird, William Shakespeare, Abercrombie and Fitch, Michael J Fox, Cherry Pez, " Paul Revere ", Mr. Limpet, Chinese Food, pogo sticks, Candy Girl, The Color Purple and Fun Dip.