In 1914, Keaton told the Detroit News:

Despite being diagnosed with cancer in January 1966, he was never told that he was terminally ill or that he had cancer ; Keaton thought that he was recovering from bronchitis.

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.

In between takes on the set near the Brooklyn Bridge, Keaton told a reporter something similar, summarizing the theme as " a man may keep away from everybody but he can't get away from himself.

Their story is told in the 1981 film Reds, starring Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, and Jack Nicholson.

Roger Ebert, writing in the Chicago Sun-Times, gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of a possible four :" When I did a seminar at the Hawaii Film Festival several years ago, comparing the physical comedy of Chan and Buster Keaton, martial arts fans brought in their bootleg Hong Kong laser discs of this film and told me that I had to see the final 20-minute fight sequence.

An interviewer once described him as " a bit like Buster Keaton injected with Silly Putty.

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.

Joe Keaton owned a traveling show with Harry Houdini called the " Mohawk Indian Medicine Company ", which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side.

* Keaton, Eleanor, Buster Keaton Remembered ( 2001 ) Harry N. Abrams ISBN 0-8109-4227-5

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.

Columbia's short-subject department employed many famous comedians, including Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, Harry Langdon, Andy Clyde, and Hugh Herbert.

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.

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.

Comedy was king, and battling for the throne were stars like Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton, Harry Langdon and Charlie Chaplin.

The film features a cast including Richard Castellano, Gig Young, Cloris Leachman, Anne Jackson, Beatrice Arthur, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Brandon, Harry Guardino, Anne Meara, Bob Dishy, Marian Hailey, Joseph Hindy, and, in her film debut, Diane Keaton.

* Harry Osborn ( voiced by Josh Keaton )

This review also starred Paul Whiteman, Buster Keaton, Rudy Vallée, Harry Richmond and Fifi D ' Orsay.

Andy Clyde and Harry Langdon led Educational's release schedule for a few years, then Buster Keaton headlined a series that yielded 16 popular two-reel comedies.

Buster Keaton was born in Piqua, Kansas, the small town where his mother, Myra Keaton ( née Myra Edith Cutler ), happened to go into labor.

He is also mentioned many times throughout the film ; the dialogue makes it clear that Michael is wracked with guilt over ordering his brother's death, and that it has alienated him from his ex-wife, Kay ( Diane Keaton ), and his son, Anthony ( Franc D ' Ambrosio ), both of whom know what really happened.

In a text about the audience of UK Decay, journalist Steve Keaton asked this question: " Could this be the coming of Punk Gothique?

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 ".

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

Diane Keaton performs twice in the jazz club: " It Had to be You " and " Seems Like Old Times " ( the latter reprises in voiceover on the closing scene ).

This speech by Diane Keaton is as close to perfect as such a speech can likely be ... all done in one take of brilliant brinksmanship.

Annie Hall was written and directed by Allen and the film was believed to be autobiographical of his relationship with Keaton.

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

After Manhattan in 1979, Keaton and Woody Allen ended their long working relationship, and the film would be their last major collaboration until 1993.

The production of Reds was delayed several times since its conception in 1977, and Keaton almost left the project when she believed it would never be produced.

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 ...

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.

* The 1989 film Batman, starring Michael Keaton, the Batmobile is shown to be able to drive itself to Batman's current location.

Even though there was often no set release schedule, these series could be considered somewhat like a modern TV sitcom – lower in status than feature films but nevertheless very popular ( comedians such as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton all ' graduated ' from shorts to features ).

Nicholson and Keaton, aged 63 and 57 respectively, were seen as bold casting choices for leads in a romantic comedy, and Twentieth Century Fox, the film's original studio, reportedly declined to produce the film, fearing that the lead characters were too old to be bankable.

It was not until he learned that Keaton was going through hard times ( before Limelight, Keaton had gone through a disastrous marriage, lost most of his fortune in the divorce in the process, and had appeared infrequently in films over the previous years ) that Chaplin insisted that Keaton should be cast in the film.

A rumor has persisted, fueled by the intense rivalry among fans of the two comics, that Keaton gave such a superior performance that Chaplin jealously cut his scenes so he would not be upstaged by his rival.

Linder's influence on film comedy and particularly on slapstick films is that the genre shifted from the " knockabout " comedies made by such people as Mack Sennett and André Deed to a more subtle, refined and character driven medium that would later be dominated by Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others.

She was the first foreign woman to be approached by the American film company MGM to finance her direction of a big-budget feature, which became " Mrs. Soffel ( 1984 )" starring Mel Gibson and Diane Keaton This film tells the scandalous true-story of an affair between a prisoner and a prison warden ’ s wife, and was relatively well received by audiences and critics

In the movie Night Shift Bill " Blaze " Blazejowski ( played by Michael Keaton ) appears to be driving a 1981 IV-Porte sedan.

In this first sequence, Keaton plays beside him and remarks, " This fellow Keaton seems to be the whole show.