Harry Houdini gave Buster Keaton the “Buster” nickname. A 1905 photo of Buster Keaton as a child with his parents, Joe and Myra, with whom he formed a family vaudeville act. ...

A hundred years later, the sequence still radiates an otherworldly aura: a man wearing a porkpie hat walks down the aisle of ...

Comedian Buster Keaton, 70, ... Harry Houdini, Succumbs. From the Archives: Naturalist and poet who launched a campaign to preserve Yosemite and Sequoia parks as national monuments.

Buster Keaton's fame was aided by such Jewish stalwarts as Harry Houdini, Joseph Schenck and, much later, Richard Lester and Stephen Sondheim.

(The oft-told tale of Buster getting his nickname from escape artist Harry Houdini — “That’s some little buster you got there!” he allegedly exclaimed as the toddler landed on his feet ...