# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/buster-keaton
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:49:58.907Z

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description: "He fell down stairs, rode trains through collapsing bridges, and stood motionless as the front of a house dropped around him — and through it all, his face never moved. That stone mask and those perfectly timed stunts made Keaton silent comedy's most precise daredevil."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Joseph Frank Keaton grew up in vaudeville, touring with his family's act before he could read. In the early 1920s, working with producer Joseph M. Schenck and director Edward F. Cline, he turned out a string of short comedies — One Week, The Playhouse, Cops, The Electric House — that built his reputation for physical invention. He scaled up to features, and between 1924 and 1928 released Sherlock Jr., The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr., and The Cameraman, films that critics would later call untouchable. Then he signed with MGM in 1928, surrendered creative control, and watched it all collapse: his first marriage ended, the drinking started, and by 1933 the studio fired him. He clawed back in the 1940s, remarried Eleanor Norris, and spent his final decades doing cameos and television, collecting an honorary Oscar in 1959. Orson Welles called The General the greatest comedy ever made, possibly the greatest film, period.