Buster Keaton

 

 

 

Joseph frank "buster" Keaton was an American actor, vaudevillian, comedian, filmmaker, stunt performer, and writer. He was a multi caused actor. he worked along side of Charlie Chaplin, and Harold Lloyd , Stan Laurel, roscoe "fatty" Arbuckle. Buster was brought into a Vaudeville family which to keep tradition he was named after his father "joseph Keaton" which made him sixth in the line to hold that name. He was a silent film director so his comedic side was not through words, but through actions and gestures. He created his first film in 1917 which was a two-reeler called "The Butcher Boy." He was a very surreal man with his abnormal film making ways. In his film "One week" you can tell how surreal and comedic he was just by his props, the house, the trains leaning to the side as its driving down the track, and the fact the car drove off without the other half of it.