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16 unusual facts about Buster Keaton


Arthur Worsley

Worsley would accept Charlie's tirades with a Buster Keaton-like implacability, on rare occasions a barely detectable rise of the eyebrow, on still rarer ones a slight smirk.

Bobbi Shaw

Bobbi Shaw (born September 16, 1943) is an actress best known for her appearance in American International Pictures' beach party movies of the 1960s, where she was often teamed with Buster Keaton.

Buster Kilrain

The popularization of the word as a first name or nickname did not come about until the early twentieth century because of its usage by Buster Keaton.

Galenskaparna och After Shave

The group is influenced a lot by the humour of both Monty Python and Hasseåtage, as well as Povel Ramel (in terms of his musical humour and playfulness with texts and lyrics), and also the physical comedy of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.

Kevin Brownlow

This was followed by Unknown Chaplin (1983) (Charlie Chaplin), Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987) (Buster Keaton), Harold Lloyd: The Third Genius (1989) (Harold Lloyd) and Cinema Europe: the Other Hollywood (1995), among others.

Lee Barnes

Barnes has the honor of being the only known stunt double for silent film star Buster Keaton during Keaton's independent years of filmmaking.

Lounge lizard

In Buster Keaton's 1924 film "Sherlock, Jr.", Keaton plays a projectionist at a movie theater where the movie showing is "Hearts & Pearls or The Lounge Lizard's Lost Love".

Major Star

In spite of Bob's more convincing and better received 'drag' act, and Baldrick's now seemingly "feeble impression of Buster Keaton," Melchett proclaims the second night's show a disaster, recognising Bob and still not realising she is a female, and immediately stops any possibility of a tour (and Blackadder leaving).

Ontario Government Buildings

The massive construction site for the Ontario Government Buildings was the filming location for Buster Keaton's last film, "The Reporter," an industrial safety short that was released under the title The Scribe.

Ormsby M. Mitchel

The pursuit of Andrews' Raiders formed the basis of the Buster Keaton silent film The General and a dramatic 1956 Walt Disney film, The Great Locomotive Chase.

Piqua, Kansas

Buster Keaton (1895–1966), acclaimed actor and film director.

Reginald Le Borg

His most expensive and also most successful film was San Diego, I Love You (1944) featuring Buster Keaton in a supporting role.

The Cliffhanger: Edward Randy

The game also contains parodies or homages to works by Hayao Miyazaki and Buster Keaton.

The High Sign/One Week

It was released at the same time as another album by Frisell of Keaton soundtracks, Go West: Music for the Films of Buster Keaton (1995).

Werner Schwier

He also had two silent film stars on the show as guests, Buster Keaton in 1962 and Harold Lloyd in 1963.

WNYX-LD

Programming consists of silent black & white movies featuring Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton.


Baker Building

Stars who have visited the theater or appeared on the stage include Al St. John, Buster Keaton, Pearl White, DeWolf Hopper, Helen Hayes, Lillian Russell, Ethel Barrymore and Abbott and Costello.

Be My Wife

However, Stanley Dorfman's new clip featured a Bowie in make-up and clothing influenced by Buster Keaton and giving an irreverent, detached performance on a guitar, gelling with the candid feeling generated by the song.

Slapstick

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber and Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

Speak Easily

Prof. Post (Buster Keaton) is a shy Classics professor at Potts College, who has lived a sheltered life and has little experience of life outside of academia.

The Norconian Resort Supreme

Several films were shot at the Norconian, and it was not unusual to see Buster Keaton or Babe Ruth on the golf course (in 1938, actress Lona Andre set a new record for speed in women's golf, shooting 156 holes in 11 hours and 56 minutes).

Times Square Theater

Battling Butler, the basis for the Buster Keaton film of the same name, transferred from the Selwyn to the Times Square in 1924.