NOUN
- United States comedian and actor in silent films noted for his acrobatic skills and deadpan face (1895-1966)
How To Use Buster Keaton In A Sentence
- The film is a relatively conventional romantic comedy, based loosely on Buster Keaton's silent Seven Chances.
- Wilder grew up loving Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, but his great idol was famed director Ernst Lubitsch.
- Buster Keaton plays a cameo role as a member of this sad entourage of icons who have outlived themselves.
- In trademark whiteface and Buster Keaton regalia, Viglione pummeled his drums in a murderous rage, while Palmer's full, rich voice created a palpable drama.
- She has assumed the role of a musical Charlie Chaplin trapped in the giant gears of Modern Times, as well as a keyboard-sampler artist with the deadpan efficiency of Buster Keaton commandeering The General. Rodney Punt: Annie Gosfield in Concert -- The Industrial Age Goes Avant-Garde
- Right at the top, plastered across the faces of Deneuve, Buster Keaton, Cary Grant and Al Pacino, is Ebert's name in capital letters.
- Those terrific old handcars with the seesaw type of double handle so one guy would push down while the other guy facing him pulled up, and then vice versa, and the handcar would go zipping along the track, that old kind of handcar that guys like Buster Keaton used to travel on, they don’t have them anymore. Drowned Hopes
- Control of the comedy's timing is now in the hands of an editor, and few editors are as funny as Buster Keaton in a bearskin wielding a knobbly club.
- But Buster Keaton is the greatest silent film director/performer ever and one of the greatest film figures of all time.
- The Presidential Library goes through the Charlie Chaplin films, Buster Keaton comedies, Leni Riefenstahl's 1935 extreme propaganda film, Triumph of the Will, and the Marx bros Duck Soup, to name but a few.