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, 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.

It’s a miracle that Tom Cruise is still alive. During a four-decade-long career, he’s dangled from a flying Airbus A400M, sprinted down the world’s tallest building, corkscrew-turned a ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Buster Keaton has long been one of our heroes—next to his friend Chaplin he was surely the greatest of the silent-film comedians—and we were delighted to accept an invitation from the “Today ...

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 ...