Comedian Buster Keaton, 70, Hollywood immortal whose trade-mark was the dead pan and who felt last year that “I might live forever,” died of lung cancer Tuesday in his Woodland Hills home.

Beloved American actor / comedian Buster Keaton lived to be 70 years old when he passed away in 1966. His very last silent film was actually made in 1964 and released in 1965 – in full color.

There's no debating that Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton is an essential figure in the history of cinema. The more pressing question is why. In a career that began when he was 4 years old and ended ...

100 Years Later, Revisiting Buster Keaton in the Multiverse. Story by Thomas Doherty ... (1924), directed by and starring Buster Keaton, the greatest of all silent film comedian-auteurs.

100 Years Later, Revisiting Buster Keaton in the Multiverse. ... (1950) and as an old vaudevillian performing a haunting pas de deux with Charles Chaplin in Limelight (1952). ...

Notably, Buster Keaton had faced his own fallout with the studio system years prior. Following the advent of sound, Keaton had signed a studio contract he felt completely destroyed his career.

What a remarkable thing an artist can accomplish in 45 minutes — that’s among the upshots of “Sherlock Jr.” (1924), a film that will be featured for the next two weekends at the Museum of the Moving ...

“And so they grabbed little, 4-year-old ‘Buster’ and told him, ‘Hey, you’re in show biz now.'” In 1957, with the release of a movie about his life, Keaton came back to town for a ...

Just a few years after Keaton’s death at 70 in 1966, his work was enthusiastically embraced by a large and mostly youthful new audience with the wide theatrical revival release of his key titles.

After 1933, Keaton made nearly 60 films, including two unforgettable appearances: a cameo as one of the card-playing “waxworks” in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd. (1950) and as an old ...