He wasn’t quite deadpan, but his expressions were infinitesimal: minimalist reactions to often cataclysmic events. His other nickname – The Great Stoneface – related to his stoic demeanour. … a family friend who (supposedly) saw the infant Joseph Frank Keaton fall down a flight of stairs only to emerge untroubled and uninjured, causing the famed escapologist to cry out: “ That was a real buster!”. Here are eight things you need to know about Buster: 1. (and not realise until a routine check-up several years later) and enjoy an unbroken, 10-year run of great movies unequalled in American cinema until Woody Allen decided that he should probably try to make films as good as Manhattan from now on. It was the apogee of a career that had seen him being chucked around a vaudeville stage as a child, a suitcase handle handily sewn into his jacket for ease of lifting break his neck whilst filming his trendsetting masterpiece Sherlock, Jr. That’s not him hanging from the clock-face (it’s his contemporary, bespectacled Harold Lloyd) Buster’s the one standing in the midst of a hurricane when the brick-façade of a house falls on top of him – and he’s left standing, unruffled, unblinking and expressionless, his feet planted in a top-floor window.
One of them features the great Buster Keaton.
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In the annals of movie history, there are a handful of images that transcend genre, continent and time itself: you might not know the film, you might not even know the actor, but you know the photo.
As film historian and composer Neil Brand brings his show about Buster Keaton to the Royal Albert Hall, we tell you everything you need to know about the legendary silent comedian.
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