Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank Keaton was born in 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, into a family of vaudeville performers. As a child, he joined his parents' act, in which his father threw him across the stage; there he learned to fall without hurting himself, and to keep an impassive face, the audience laughing less when he laughed. He produced his films from 1920 to 1928 with Joseph Schenck, then signed with MGM, which took away all his control and dismissed him in 1933. He then took supporting roles, until television and reissues led to his rediscovery. He died in California in 1966.

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• CinemaThe GeneralBuster Keaton · 1926Cinema