Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
1987
1 Season
7.6
Documentary
A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.
Episodes
E1Sep 30, 198753m
Episode One
Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.
E2Oct 7, 198753m
Episode Two
Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.
E3Oct 14, 198752m
Episode Three
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.
Top 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
No Image
William R. Cox
No Image
Loyal T. Lucas
Self
