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.

Based on Scott McPherson's screenplay adaptation of his own 1991 stage play of the same name, the film revolves around two sisters, played by Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton, who are reunited through tragedy after 17 years of estrangement.

Upon trying to escape from the Gotham City Police and encountering Batman, played by Michael Keaton, in the chemical plant, Napier shoots Batman who deflects the bullet with his own bullet-proof leather glove.

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 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.

In the romantic comedy Because I Said So, directed by Michael Lehmann, Keaton played a long-divorced mother of three daughters, determined to pair off her only single daughter Milly, played by Mandy Moore.

In Mama's Boy, director Tim Hamilton's feature film debut, Keaton starred as the mother of a self-absorbed 29-year old ( played by Jon Heder ) whose world turns upside down when his widowed mother starts dating and considers booting him out of the house.

In 2008, Keaton starred alongside Dax Shepard and Liv Tyler in Vince Di Meglio's dramedy Smother, playing the overbearing mother of an unemployed therapist, who decides to move in with him and his girlfriend following the split from her husband, played by Ken Howard.

Co-starring Kevin Kline and Dianne Wiest and set in Colorado, the film follows a woman, played by Keaton, whose husband loses her much-beloved dog at a wedding held at their vacation home in the Rocky Mountains, resulting in a search party to find the pet.

He later moved to Washington, D. C. as an environmental lobbyist, there ( offscreen ) meeting a senator named Alex P. Keaton, the name of the character Fox played on Family Ties.

Also in 2003, Favreau had a small part in Something's Gotta Give ( a film starring Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson ); Favreau played Leo, Harry Sanborn's ( Nicholson ) personal assistant, who visited Harry in the hospital.

In fact, earlier in the film when their psychiatrist says that at least Albert is now listening, Billy ( played by Michael Keaton ) says snidely, " Yeah, to Phil Rizzuto.

* Kay Adams-Corleone — Second wife ; played by Diane Keaton.

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.

The Beiderbecke Affair has a similar style to Get Lost !, where Neville Keaton ( Alun Armstrong ) and Judy Threadgold ( Bridget Turner ) played in an ensemble cast.

Her next series was Family Ties, on which she played an ex-flower child mother, Elyse Keaton.

Fox, who played her son Alex Keaton.

Coincidentally, her co-star Michael Gross ( who played her husband Steven Keaton ) shares the same birthday, June 21, 1947.

Coincidentally, Gross and his Family Ties co-star Meredith Baxter ( who played his wife Elyse Keaton ), were born on the same date, June 21, 1947 .< ref >

He played Buster Keaton in the TV movie Lucy: The Lucille Ball Story.

His earliest film roles included teenager Kevin Donaldson, in SpaceCamp ( 1986 ), co-starring Lea Thompson and Kate Capshaw ; in the 1988 film Clean and Sober, he played a recovering drug addict, costarring with Michael Keaton and Kathy Baker.

The family patriarch, Brian Harper ( played by Sheehan ) was a college roommate of Steven Keaton ( Michael Gross ).

Allen and Keaton are essentially playing Alvy Singer and Annie Hall gone middle-aged ".

* Diane Keaton as Erica Barry, a 56-year-old successful, divorced Broadway playwright, partly living in an upscale Hamptons beach house.

He was named " Joseph " to continue a tradition on his father's side — he was sixth in a line bearing the name Joseph Keaton — and " Frank " for his maternal grandfather, who disapproved of the parents ' union.

In 1940, Keaton married Eleanor Norris ( 1918 – 1998 ), who was 23 years his junior.

Notable examples include David Tennant, born David McDonald, who said in an interview that he adopted the surname " Tennant " after seeing Neil Tennant in a copy of Smash Hits, Nathan Lane, whose birth name Joseph Lane was already in use, Stewart Granger, whose birth name was James Stewart, and Michael Keaton, born Michael Douglas.

The director co-stars as Alvy Singer, who investigates the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the film's eponymous female lead ( Diane Keaton ).

The role of Annie Hall was written specifically for Keaton, who had worked with Allen on Play it Again, Sam, Sleeper and Love and Death.

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.

Buster Keaton and Fatty Arbuckle were two of Balboa Studio actors who had films shot on Signal Hill.

As a vaudevillian who traveled constantly in non-summer months, Keaton always regarded Muskegon as his home town.

James Karen, who was to have a small part in the film, talked constantly about the 68 year old Buster Keaton and persuaded Schneider to consider him when MacGowran ’ s circumstances changed.

“ It has even been suggested that the inspiration for Waiting for Godot might have come from a minor Keaton film called The Lovable Cheat in which Keaton plays a man who waits endlessly for the return of his partner-whose name interestingly enough was Godot .”

Most of the clothing seen in the film came from Keaton herself, who was already known for her tomboyish clothing style years before Annie Hall, though Ruth Morley and Ralph Lauren reportedly worked on the movie's costume.

As Theresa Dunn, Keaton dominates this raunchy, risky, violent dramatization of Judith Rossner's 1975 novel about a schoolteacher who cruises singles bars.

In a 2006 Vanity Fair story, Keaton described her role as " the everyman of that piece, as someone who wanted to be extraordinary but was probably more ordinary ...

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

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.

A review of the film for the San Francisco Examiner was one of many in which Keaton once again received comparison to Katharine Hepburn: " No longer relying on that stuttering uncertainty that seeped into all her characterizations of the 1970s, she has somehow become Katharine Hepburn with a deep maternal instinct, that is, she is a fine and intelligent actress who doesn't need to be tough and edgy in order to prove her feminism.

" In 1997, Keaton, along Hawn and Midler, was a recipient of the Women in Film Crystal Award, which honors " outstanding women who, through their endurance and the excellence of their work, have helped to expand the role of women within the entertainment industry ".

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.