Buster Keaton (1895-1966)

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Vaudeville Years: The Three Keatons

Other Vaudeville Acts

Source: Buster Keaton Scrapbook, in the Digital Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences).

The Keith's Theater, Boston (1905).

Source: Buster Keaton Scrapbook, in the Digital Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences).

Joe, Myra, & Buster

Cartoon showing Joe throwing Buster across the stage. Source: Buster Keaton Scrapbook, in the Digital Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library (Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences).

Later, The Four Keatons (with Buster's younger brother, Harry)

The Butcher Boy (1917)

With Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.

Coney Island (1917)

Keaton Studios

The Playhouse (1921)

Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)

"House front" stunt (view clip):

(Restoration comparison.)

Keaton's Decline

What! No Beer? (1933)

Pajama Party (1964)