Buster KeatonAKA:
Joseph Frank Keaton
Nationality:
American Birthdate:
10/04/1895 Birthplace:
Piqua, Kansas Death Date:
02/01/1966 Celeb News
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biography
A vaudeville star before the age of ten, Buster Keaton was preparing to make his Broadway debut in 1917 when a meeting with Rosco 'Fatty' Arbuckle changed the course of his life and that of the cinema forever. 'The Great Stone Face' translated marvelously to the screen, somehow surviving the disasters that came hurtling his way, to eventually become along with Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd one of the most popular comic actors of the Silent Era. Keaton's immediate fascination with the new medium led him to take the camera home, disassembling and reassembling it to more fully understand its
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milestones
Year
Milestone
Made first stage appearance at the age of nine months, crawling into the middle of his father's blackface routine
Joined the family act before the age of three, The Two Keatons becoming The Three Keatons
1900
"Official" professional debut, October 17 at Dockstader's Theatre, Wilmington, Delaware
1900
The Three Keatons traveled widely, appearing all over the USA and becoming headliners in NYC; from the beginning Buster was the star of the act
1909
Keaton family made a brief trip to Europe, during which they played London's Palace
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