Buster Keaton, who died 70 years ago today, was an American actor, comedian and filmmaker best known for his silent films in the 20s where he pioneered a unique form of physical comedy. He maintained a stoic, deadpan facial expression that became his trademark and earned him the nickname “The Great Stone Face”.
The distinguished film critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton’s “extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929” when he “worked without interruption” as “the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies”.
Possibly, but he was certainly the greatest stuntman of all time. Here are a few of his death-defying stunts. How he survived them I can’t imagine but he lived to be 70 and in 1966 he died not of falling off a building but of lung cancer.
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