Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

Overview

A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.

Episodes

Episode One

S01E01 Episode One

September 30, 1987 53 min
Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.
Episode Two

S01E02 Episode Two

October 7, 1987 53 min
Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.
Episode Three

S01E03 Episode Three

October 14, 1987 52 min
The great Keaton revival began in 1949 with a tribute in Life Magazine to the silent comics. By the time Keaton died in 1966 he had been acclaimed as one of the giants of the...

Cast

Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton
Self (archive footage)
Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Anderson
Self - Narrator (voice)
Eleanor Keaton
Eleanor Keaton
Self
James Karen
James Karen
William Collier Jr.
William Collier Jr.
Viola Dana
Viola Dana
Marion Mack
Marion Mack
Charles Lamont
Charles Lamont
Self
William R. Cox
Loyal T. Lucas
Self
Dean Riesner
Dean Riesner

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