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

Keaton retold the anecdote over the years, including during a 1964 interview with the CBC's Telescope.

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.

In 1933, he married his nurse, Mae Scriven, during an alcoholic binge about which he afterwards claimed to remember nothing ( Keaton himself later called that period an " alcoholic blackout ").

Confined to a hospital during his final days, Keaton was restless and paced the room endlessly, desiring to return home.

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.

Cops is a 1922 comedy short silent film about a young man ( Buster Keaton ) who accidentally gets on the bad side of the entire Los Angeles Police Department during a parade, and is chased all over town.

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

Keaton had bulimia during the early 1970s.

Keaton and Allen first met during her audition for the Broadway production of Play It Again, Sam, but they did not know each other personally until having dinner after a late night rehearsal.

On January 15, 2008, during an interview with Sawyer, the actress Diane Keaton admired Sawyer's beauty, stating that if she had lips like Sawyer's, " then I wouldn't have worked on my fucking personality!

Michael Keaton stars as CNN on-location producer Robert Wiener in Baghdad, Iraq during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

In 1982, he appeared in a first season episode of Family Ties as Jake Keaton, Steven Keaton's father, who shared an adversarial relationship with his son before finally revealing during his latest visit that he was, in fact, dying.

According to Keaton's biographer Rudi Blesh, Chaplin eased his notoriously rigid directorial style to give Keaton free rein to invent his own comic business during this sequence.

She was the leading lady to Lon Chaney, Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery, and Clark Gable ( among others ) and during the early 1930s, she was one of Hollywood's busiest actresses.

Jackson appeared in a number of films including Baby Boom with Diane Keaton, Family Business with Sean Connery, The Pick-up Artist, The Couch Trip and I Love You to Death during the time she was a cast member of Saturday Night Live.

Bounty, both part of a historic building built during 1924, directly across the street from the Ambassador Hotel ; Diane Keaton, who was one of many who fought for the preservation of the hotel, was among the speakers of the ceremony.

In an unsuccessful attempt to win the role as Catwoman ( which was offered to Annette Bening but ultimately played by Michelle Pfeiffer after Bening became pregnant ) in the sequel Batman Returns, Young constructed a homemade Catwoman costume and attempted to confront Burton and actor Michael Keaton during production.

It is a satire on Russian literature starring Allen and Diane Keaton as Boris and Sonja, respectively, Russians living during the Napoleonic Era who engage in mock-serious philosophical debates.

When Napoleon invades the Russian Empire during the Napoleonic wars, Boris Grushenko ( Allen ), a coward and pacifist scholar, is forced to enlist in the Russian Army, desperate and disappointed hearing the news that his cousin Sonja ( Keaton ) is to wed a herring merchant.

Michael Keaton and Teri Garr play Jack and Caroline Butler, a middle class couple with three kids-Kenny, Alex, and Megan-living in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan during the Early 1980s recession.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In 1994, caricaturist Al Hirschfeld penned a series of silent film stars for the United States Post Office, including Rudolph Valentino and Keaton.

Hirschfeld said that modern film stars were more difficult to depict, that silent film comedians such as Laurel and Hardy and Keaton " looked like their caricatures ".

Sherlock, Jr. ( 1924 ) is an American silent comedy film directed by and starring Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joseph A. Mitchell.

Director Cecil B. DeMille and gossip columnist Hedda Hopper play themselves, and the film includes cameo appearances by leading silent film actors Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner and Anna Q. Nilsson.

Beckett is here drawing on his viewing of the silent screen comedies of the like of Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin and Harry Langdon all of whom would have encountered objects on-screen apparently with minds of their own.

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 Schneider managed to hunt up Keaton, he found that genius of the silent screen — old, broke, ill, and alone — some $ 2 million ahead in a four-handed poker game with an imaginary Louis B. Mayer of MGM and two other invisible Hollywood moguls.

“‘ Yes, I accept the offer ,’ were silent Keaton ’ s unexpected first words to Schneider.

Harold Lloyd ranks alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most popular and influential film comedians of the silent film era.

Keaton reportedly said that Tati's work with sound had carried on the true tradition of silent cinema.

" According to one writer, he directed it " to prove he could also handle comedy ," and hired many of the leading comedic actors of the previous decades, from silent star Buster Keaton to emerging talent Jonathan Winters.

* Buster Keaton ( 1895 – 1966 ), American actor from the silent film era

While indeed silent ( except for one word and numerous sound effects ), the film is a parody of the silent film genre, particularly the slapstick comedies of Charlie Chaplin, Mack Sennett, and Buster Keaton.

The film is perhaps best known for Depp's humorous physical comedy routines ( which are based on silent film comics Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, and a bit of Harold Lloyd ) and for popularizing, in the United States, the song " I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles )" by The Proclaimers.

In part, it parodied the silent film Steamboat Bill, Jr., released earlier that year by Buster Keaton.

The director features prominently as the film's silent, expressionless protagonist in an iconic and powerfully moving performance has been compared to the work of Buster Keaton, Jim Jarmusch and Jacques Tati.

* Three Ages, 1923 Buster Keaton silent film