Rest In Peace, Joseph Frank “Buster” Keaton
American comic actor, film-maker, producer, writer, and his own stuntman.
October 4, 1895 ~ February 1, 1966“Think slow, act fast.”“A comedian does funny things. A good comedian does things funny”“Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out—nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too.”“Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, “a tragic mask.” On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking “almost with Lincoln’s as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful.” I can’t imagine what the great rail splitter’s reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.”- Buster Keaton