Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.
Cast
Buster Keaton
Self (archive footage)
Lindsay Anderson
Self - Narrator (voice)
Eleanor Keaton
Self
James Karen
William Collier Jr.
Viola Dana
Marion Mack
Charles Lamont
Self
William R. Cox
Loyal T. Lucas
Self
Dean Riesner
Seasons
E1Episode One
Sep 30, 1987
Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.
E2Episode Two
Oct 7, 1987
Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.
E3Episode Three
Oct 14, 1987
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 cinema.
Storyline
A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.
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