Buster Keaton

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966)Meade, Marion (1997). Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase. Da Capo. p. 16. ISBN 0-306-80802-1. be American actor, comedian, den filmmaker.Obituary, Variety, February 2, 1966, page 63. Dem know am for ein silent film work, wey na ein trademark be physical comedy wey stoic dey accompany am, deadpan expression wey earn am ein nickname "The Great Stone Face".Barber, Nicholas (January 8, 2014), "Deadpan but alive to the future: Buster Keaton the revolutionary". The Independent. Ebert, Roger (November 10, 2002). "The Films of Buster Keaton". Archived from the original on November 3, 2015. Retrieved January 28, 2016.

 Filmography 
Directed features:

 Three Ages (1923)
 Our Hospitality (1923)
 Sherlock Jr. (1924)
 The Navigator (1924)
 Seven Chances (1925)
 Go West (1925)
 Battling Butler (1926)
 The General (1926)
 College (1927)
 Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
 The Cameraman (1928)
 Spite Marriage (1929)

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 You fi read further 

 Agee, James, "Comedy's Greatest Era" from Life (September 5, 1949), reprinted in Agee on Film (1958), McDowell, Obolensky (2000), Modern Library
 Anobile, Richard J. (ed.) (1976), The Best of Buster: Classic Comedy Scenes Direct from the Films of Buster Keaton. Crown Books.
 Benayoun, Robert, The Look of Buster Keaton (1983) St. Martin's Press
 Bengtson, John (1999), Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton, Santa Monica Press.
 Brighton, Catherine (2008), Keep Your Eye on the Kid: The Early Years of Buster Keaton, Roaring Brook Press. An illustrated children's book about Keaton's career.
 Brownlow, Kevin, "Buster Keaton" from The Parade's Gone By. Alfred A. Knopf (1968), University of California Press (1976)
 Byron, Stuart and Weis, Elizabeth (eds.) (1977), The National Society of Film Critics on Movie Comedy, Grossman/Viking
 Carroll, Noel (2009), Comedy Incarnate: Buster Keaton, Physical Humor, and Bodily Coping, Wiley-Blackwell
 Curtis, James, Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life, (2022) Alfred A. Knopf, Penguin Random House
 Dardis, Tom, Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down, Scribners (1979), Limelight Editions (2004)
 Robinson, David (1969), Buster Keaton, Indiana University Press, in association with British Film Institute
 Durgnat, Raymond (1970), "Self-Help with a Smile" from The Crazy Mirror: Hollywood Comedy and the American Image, Dell
 Edmonds, Andy (1992), Frame-Up!: The Shocking Scandal That Destroyed Hollywood's Biggest Comedy Star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Avon Books
 Everson, William K. (1978), American Silent Film, Oxford University Press
 Gilliatt, Penelope (1973), "Buster Keaton" from Unholy Fools: Wits, Comics, Disturbers of the Peace, Viking
 Horton, Andrew (1997), Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr. Cambridge University Press
 Keaton, Buster (with Charles Samuels) (1960), My Wonderful World of Slapstick, Doubleday
 Keaton, Buster (2007), Buster Keaton: Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series), University Press of Mississippi
 Keaton, Eleanor, and Vance, Jeffrey (2001), Buster Keaton Remembered, Harry N. Abrams 
 Kerr, Walter (1975), The Silent Clowns, Alfred A. Knopf, (1990) Da Capo Press 
 Kline, Jim (1993), The Complete Films of Buster Keaton, Carol Pub. Group
 Knopf, Robert (1999), The Theater and Cinema of Buster Keaton, Princeton University Press 
 Lahue, Kalton C. (1966), World of Laughter: The Motion Picture Comedy Short, 1910–1930, University of Oklahoma Press
 Maltin, Leonard (1978), The Great Movie Comedians, Crown Books
 Maltin, Leonard (revised 1983), Selected Short Subjects (first published as The Great Movie Shorts, 1972, Crown Books), Da Capo Press
 Mast, Gerald (1973, 2nd ed. 1979), The Comic Mind: Comedy and the Movies, University of Chicago Press
 McCaffrey, Donald W. (1968), 4 Great Comedians: Chaplin, Lloyd, Keaton, Langdon A.S. Barnes
 McPherson, Edward (2005), Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat Newmarket Press 
 Meade, Marion (1995), Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase, HarperCollins
 Mitchell, Glenn (2003), A–Z of Silent Film Comedy, B.T. Batsford Ltd.
 Moews, Daniel (1977), Keaton: The Silent Features Close Up University of California Press
 Neibaur, James L. (2010), The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia, Scarecrow Press
 Neibaur, James L. (2006), Arbuckle and Keaton: Their 14 Film Collaborations, McFarland & Co.
 Oderman, Stuart (2005), Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: A Biography of the Silent Film Comedian, McFarland & Co.
 Oldham, Gabriella (1996), Keaton's Silent Shorts: Beyond the Laughter, Southern Illinois University Press
 Rapf, Joanna E. and Green, Gary L. (1995), Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography, Greenwood Press
 Robinson, David (1969), The Great Funnies: A History of Film Comedy. E.P. Dutton.
 Scott, Oliver Lindsey (1995), Buster Keaton: The Little Iron Man. Buster Books.
 Smith, Imogen Sara (2008), Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy. Gambit Publishing.
 Staveacre, Tony (1987), Slapstick!: The Illustrated Story. Angus & Robertson Publishers.
 Yallop, David (1976), The Day the Laughter Stopped: The True Story of Fatty Arbuckle. St. Martin's Press.

 External links 

 The International Buster Keaton Society 
 Buster Keaton Museum
 Buster Keaton and the Muskegon Connection
 Buster Keaton in Five Easy Clips
 Buster Keaton Photo Galleries (includes rare images of BK smiling and laughing)
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