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Buster W Keaton

from Fort Worth, TX
Age ~82

Buster Keaton Phones & Addresses

  • 6408 Lake Vista St, Lake Worth, TX 76135 (817) 238-3308 (817) 238-9107 (817) 238-9588
  • Fort Worth, TX
  • Montgomery, TX
  • Azle, TX
  • Elgin, TX
  • Bastrop, TX
  • 6408 Lake Vista St, Fort Worth, TX 76135 (817) 917-5095

Work

Position: Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations

Education

Degree: Graduate or professional degree

Resumes

Resumes

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Actor

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Industry:
Motion Pictures And Film
Work:
Firststar
Actor
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Buster Keaton

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Location:
United States

Business Records

Name / Title
Company / Classification
Phones & Addresses
Buster Keaton
President, Director
CHRISTIAN GARDEN AND LIBRARY
Religious Organization
6408 Lk Vis St, Fort Worth, TX 76135

Publications

Imdb

Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Birth Name

Joseph Frank Keaton VI

Nickname

The Great Stone Face
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Biography

When at six months he tumbled down a flight of stairs unharmed he was given the name "Buster" by Harry Houdini who, along with W.C. Fields, Bill Robinson (I) ("Bojangles"), Eddie Cantor and Al Jolson ...
Joseph Francis Keaton Jr. was born on October 4th 1895 in Piqua, Kansas to Joe and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were stage comedians and they were very successful especially with the renowned magician Ha...

Write biography

Ed Stephan <[email protected]>
Daniel Dopierala [email protected]

Spouse

Eleanor Keaton (28 July 1940 - 1 February 1966) (his death)
'Mae Scriven' (8 January 1933 - 1936) (divorced)
Natalie Talmadge (31 May 1921 - 25 July 1932) (divorced); 2 children

Trade Mark

Porkpie hat, slapshoes, deadpan expression
His films contain elaborate gadgets of his own devising.
Used the camera to help comedy, e.g to create effect of rocking boat inbeginning of The Boat (1921).

Other Work

"My Wonderful World of Slapstick" (1960 autobiography)
TV commercials for Pure Oil Company gasoline (1960s)
TV Commercials for Simon Pure beer, 1960s
TV commercial for Alka-Seltzer (1958)
TV commercial for Northwest Orient Airlines (1958)
TV Commercials for Simon Pure beer (1958)

Biography print

Joanna E. Rapf and Gary L. Green. _Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography._ Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995.ISBN 0313251487
Rudi Blesh. _Keaton._ Riverside, New Jersey, USA: The MacMillan Company, 1966.
Marion Meade. _Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase._ New York: HarperCollins, 1995.
Jan Kline. _The Complete Films of Buster Keaton._ Secaucus, NJ: Citadel, 1994.
R. Benayoun. _The Look of Buster Keaton._ 1983.
Tom Dardis. _Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down._ New York: Charles Scribners Sons, 1979.

Personal quotes

No man can be a genius in slapshoes and a flat hat.
Tragedy is a close-up; comedy, a long shot.
I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in mylife! And I go 'round all the time dolled up in kippie clothes-weareverything but a corset . . . can't stub my toe in this pictu...
[when told to cheer up at an MGM film premiere, the reporter asked, "Areyou happy to be here?"] Of course, I got off location for this!
What used to get my goat at MGM were comedians likeThe Marx Brothers or Abbott and Costello who never worried aboutthe script or the next scene. My God, we ate, slept and dreamed ourpictures.
Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New Yorkcan be like that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, andsomething happens, and then you're out - nobody knows you on ...

Portrayed in

Lucy (2003) (TV)
Hollywood Steps Out (1941)
The Buster Keaton Story (1957)

Salary

Jail Bait (1937): $2,500.00
Love Nest on Wheels (1937): $2,500.00
Ditto (1937): $2,500.00
The Chemist (1936): $2,500.00
Blue Blazes (1936): $2,500.00
Mixed Magic (1936): $2,500.00
Three on a Limb (1936): $2,500.00
Grand Slam Opera (1936): $2,500.00
The Timid Young Man (1935): $2,500.00
Tars and Stripes (1935): $2,500.00
Palooka from Paducah (1935): $2,500.00
The E-Flat Man (1935): $2,500.00
Hayseed Romance (1935): $2,500.00
One Run Elmer (1935): $2,500.00
Sunset Blvd. (1950): $1,000.00

Article

"Radio Times" (UK), 11 March 2006, Vol. 328, Iss. 4275, by: Barry Norman, "Film Star of the Week: Buster Keaton"
"The Guardian" (UK), 17 February 2006, by: Armando Iannucci, "My poster boy"
"Remember" (USA), April 1996, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, pg. 12 - 17, by: Terry Maser, "Buster Keaton - The Legend of the Great Stone Face"
"Remember" (USA), April 1996, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, pg. 17, by: Patricia Eliot Tobias, "Keaton's Fall - And Rise"
"Garbo" (Spain), 20 September 1972, Vol. XX, Iss. 1012, pg. 53-55, by: Giuseppe Grieco, "Nunca me han visto sonreir"

Cover Photo

"Cinema" (Italy), 30 June 1950, Iss. 41

Biographical movie

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987) (TV)
The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
Buster Keaton and Fatty Roscoe Arbuckle (2002) (TV)
The Art of Buster Keaton (1995) (V)
The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1975)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004) (TV)

Filmography

Sunset Blvd. (1950) Film-Noir

A Night at the Opera (1935) Musical

Cineastas contra magnates (2005) Biography

Film (1965) Drama

One Week (1920) Comedy

Seven Chances (1925) Family

Sherlock Jr. (1924) Mystery

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) Family

The Cameraman (1928) Family

"Pritzker Military Library Presents" (2006) {Stealing the General (#4.25)}

Isbn (Books And Publications)

My Wonderful World of Slapstick

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Author

Buster Keaton

ISBN #

0306801787

Wikipedia

Al Capp

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…In 1940, an RKO movie adaptation starred Granville Owen (later known as Jeff York) as Li'l Abner, with Buster Keaton taking the role of Lonesome Polecat, and featuring a title song with lyrics by Milton Berle. A successful musical comedy adaptation of the strip opened on Broadway at the St. ...

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