Happy Happy 125th Birthday Buster Keaton! You gave such joy and still do over 50 years after your death. You comedy never gets old. It is has fresh now as it was all those years ago. Thank You Buster for all those films you left behind.
saw dankula’s buster keaton vid months ago and this one is shorter but significantly better and more descriptive of the man’s actual life. fantastic vid. thanks.
Nice documentary and sensitively put together, just a couple of points though, it was never a fact that Houdini actually nicknamed Joseph 'Buster' after a tumble down the stairs, even though Buster later said that he did, maybe to keep the mystique. Also he was never ordinary. This guy served sandwiches in a working train set, made chow mein for tea parties with animals who he adored, and made the first Segway amongst many other things. He was extraordinary. He was also an incredibly striking man in his youth.
also he didn't break his neck when he was in his family's traveling show, he broke it on the set of sherlock jr, where he was slammed onto railroad tracks by high water pressure and didnt know until later in his life.
Buster Keaton did not break his neck falling into the audience when he was a child! No one has ever said that! He broke his neck in one of his feature films "Sherlock Jr." The scene where he opens up the water tower next to the train tracks when he is hanging from the spout about 15 feet high. When the water comes out of the spout it hits him on the top of the head and pushes him all the way down to the ground. The 15 foot drop on his ass, plus the gallons upon gallons of water rushing strait down on his head smashed his scull down on his spine and caused a break. The crazy thing is, you can see that happen in the movie. It is true that he did not learn of his broken neck for years.
The Doctors found an earlier break (healed reasonably well) while looking at the second break, (also healed reasonably well) so that may be the break that Brit is referring to.
He did not break his neck while he was young child --- it happened during a stunt for Sherlock Jr. that involved high pressure water pouring on to him.
The last twenty six years of his life - after marrying Eleanor - were very happy years. He recovered from his dark depressive period, with her help, into prominence and usually had more work offers - mostly television - than he could cope with. He died knowing his very early works that he thought had been forgotten were appreciated, critically acclaimed and he was considered by many as a genius. He famously stated 'No man can be a genius in slap shoes and a flat hat'. The end of his life is only tragic because the world lost a wonderfully talented, kind and humble man.
He's a product of so much suffering. A kind of hero, brilliant, and he made a wonderful creative career and life. Thanks to BK and thanks for this video!
Dame Mae Fishman, a rising star in the silent film era, was a force to be reckoned with. Born at the turn of the 20th century, she was one of the earliest female figures to dominate the silver screen. Her talent caught the eye of Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, who became her close friends. They spent countless hours together, sharing laughs and refining their craft. Her performances were so compelling that she was honored in both Germany and the United States. She even earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Despite the hurdles, Dame Mae Fishman refused to fade into oblivion. She pushed through, making her last film in 1939 before retiring from the big screen. Unfortunately, only seven of her silent films have survived the test of time. But those that remain serve as a reminder of her exceptional talent.
Lol a lot of this information is not right. His parents never lied about him being a dwarf, it was rumored by other people who would watch his plays. And he never broke his neck as a kid, it was actually during one of his movies in the 1920's so idk if this guy decided to read Buster's Wikipedia out loud or something but this shit is wrong.
Yea, let´s wreck train into the river, let´s kick kids into the audience - what a funkcioning society. Regulations are helping to weakest people in society and also to the nature. If we kept doing things like in 20s,30s we would by this time suffered at least two wars for drinkable water.
No. He had a most wonderful life, a life he he never thought he would have. He did have a bad and dark battle with alcohol due to his loss of independence as an independent film maker when he lost his studio and at the same time, matrimonial issues, bad scripts and subsequential demeaning film roles. He lost everything, including his two sons, in an acrimonial divorce, all he was allowed to keep from his vast fortune was his car He regained his rightful place in history as a talented, director, actor and pioneer of the film industry, worldwide, was appreciated, and he thankfully just lived long enough to know it. All said, he lived a wonderful life during the best of American history - the roaring 20s - he had America by the tail, try to find his autobiography it's very interesting! :)
His autobiography My Wonderful World of Slapstick and other biographies consistently quote BK refuting claims he was abused. He learned how to not get hurt, and said he loved his work with his family on stage.
i would only grant buster keaton the title of best silent film actor if you exclude charlie chaplin for his speaking appearances. buster keaton was the more impressive stuntman/daredevil tho
0:23 "Como dis... Como que si te enseñan un bebe y dices "esta bonito", este, obvia... Y en tu mente no piensas eso es que no estas siendo sincero, pero si lo dices que "esta bien culero", se oye feo"
Very nice but you got some of your facts wrong he did not break his neck being thrown into an audience he broke his neck off a water tower while he was in film but nice job though
I don't know if I want to watch any of his work truth be told. His upbringing and life story just make me sad. Abused as a child, conditioned to basically only crave the attention of others while being on a stage or set, losing his wife and children, becoming an alcoholic, ending up in a mental hospital and then finally dying from lung cancer after an extremely drawn out period of being broken by stagnating career. I'll give him deserved credit for being so stoic about it all. But what he was going through basically showcase everything that's wrong with "show business" in my view, and I wouldn't like the fact that someone is sitting here today, earning money from this mans misery.
@Mel Bee It does for me. Someone is making money off his legacy. And I don't want to contribute to profiteering off abused children. If the person or company owning the rights to the films donated all proceeds to shelters that help abused children, it might be a different story.
@@sevenproxies4255 you are making the assumption that Buster has abused children in his films when he does not. Nor was he a child in any of his films.
chuckthetrashmanjr I do actually and i still know he didn’t, because you’re too thick to know the difference if you were in the medic profession you’d know and obviously you don’t
There’s a statue of him outside a theater in my town. Now I know why.
Where? 😃
@@lapocha7250 Muskegon, Michigan.
Happy Happy 125th Birthday Buster Keaton! You gave such joy and still do over 50 years after your death. You comedy never gets old. It is has fresh now as it was all those years ago. Thank You Buster for all those films you left behind.
He says Houdini was a musician and escape artist....I think that should be magician and escape artist.
saw dankula’s buster keaton vid months ago and this one is shorter but significantly better and more descriptive of the man’s actual life. fantastic vid. thanks.
I mean both are great. Sadly dankula doesn’t put as much other videos in his stuff anymore mostly due to copyright concerns
Nice documentary and sensitively put together, just a couple of points though, it was never a fact that Houdini actually nicknamed Joseph 'Buster' after a tumble down the stairs, even though Buster later said that he did, maybe to keep the mystique. Also he was never ordinary. This guy served sandwiches in a working train set, made chow mein for tea parties with animals who he adored, and made the first Segway amongst many other things. He was extraordinary. He was also an incredibly striking man in his youth.
also he didn't break his neck when he was in his family's traveling show, he broke it on the set of sherlock jr, where he was slammed onto railroad tracks by high water pressure and didnt know until later in his life.
Proving film critics wrong even back then, BK exemplified reality that is so desperately missing today
Buster Keaton did not break his neck falling into the audience when he was a child! No one has ever said that! He broke his neck in one of his feature films "Sherlock Jr." The scene where he opens up the water tower next to the train tracks when he is hanging from the spout about 15 feet high. When the water comes out of the spout it hits him on the top of the head and pushes him all the way down to the ground. The 15 foot drop on his ass, plus the gallons upon gallons of water rushing strait down on his head smashed his scull down on his spine and caused a break. The crazy thing is, you can see that happen in the movie. It is true that he did not learn of his broken neck for years.
The scene you mention is from "The General", not "Sherlock Jr.". And he only discovered his broken neck years later.
The Doctors found an earlier break (healed reasonably well) while looking at the second break, (also healed reasonably well) so that may be the break that Brit is referring to.
@@scullyxenagg . the water tower scene, in which Buster broke his neck, is indeed in Sherlock Jr. (1924)
@@scullyxenagg no it's from Sherlock Jr. not from The General
@@hampehopptheroyal3226 I stand corrected.
My favorite silent film artist!!! Thanks for making this. He is a legend and it's good to see other people bask in his memory.
Rare example of the American dream being real.
love and respect to Buster Keaton. genius. great ukulele player too.
He did not break his neck while he was young child --- it happened during a stunt for Sherlock Jr. that involved high pressure water pouring on to him.
It's great to see his acomplishments. But the end of his life is too tragic.
The last twenty six years of his life - after marrying Eleanor - were very happy years. He recovered from his dark depressive period, with her help, into prominence and usually had more work offers - mostly television - than he could cope with. He died knowing his very early works that he thought had been forgotten were appreciated, critically acclaimed and he was considered by many as a genius. He famously stated 'No man can be a genius in slap shoes and a flat hat'. The end of his life is only tragic because the world lost a wonderfully talented, kind and humble man.
I clicked on this thinking, it better be Buster Keaton. I wasn't disappointed.
Imagine changing your name to avoid association but you get mentioned for it anyways 😂
His wife Natalie Talmadge was responsible for the name changes after their divorce.
He's a product of so much suffering. A kind of hero, brilliant, and he made a wonderful creative career and life. Thanks to BK and thanks for this video!
If you want facts, My Wonderful Life of Slapstick will fill you in better. The inaccuracies in this video make Buster fans confused.
Dame Mae Fishman, a rising star in the silent film era, was a force to be reckoned with. Born at the turn of the 20th century, she was one of the earliest female figures to dominate the silver screen. Her talent caught the eye of Charlie Chaplin and Mabel Normand, who became her close friends. They spent countless hours together, sharing laughs and refining their craft. Her performances were so compelling that she was honored in both Germany and the United States. She even earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Despite the hurdles, Dame Mae Fishman refused to fade into oblivion. She pushed through, making her last film in 1939 before retiring from the big screen. Unfortunately, only seven of her silent films have survived the test of time. But those that remain serve as a reminder of her exceptional talent.
Several mistakes and inaccuracies...but still. Good show
he was in sunset boulevard as well in the 1950s
He called Houdini a “musician” 😂😂😂
he played for the loving spoonful
Oh, look at "The Railrodder". It's almost his finest hour.
Coincidence that I watched this video on his birthday by chance and choice.
Happy Birthday, Mr. Keaton, a legend.
That's all so sad, right up to the end, when his wife is practically ignoring him.
4:40 "Cut or gets killed" hahaha
That was excellent. Keep up the good work.
Lol a lot of this information is not right. His parents never lied about him being a dwarf, it was rumored by other people who would watch his plays. And he never broke his neck as a kid, it was actually during one of his movies in the 1920's so idk if this guy decided to read Buster's Wikipedia out loud or something but this shit is wrong.
Also it was unlikely that Buster was actually sucked out of a window during a tornado. That's more of an urban legend.
Was barely over a minute in and I caught the mistake about his broken neck too. The movie was Sherlock Jr.
Salute! Keep the job man!!
he's funny but makes you uneasy, and depressed, no smile, no expression.
Brilliant video 🙏🏼
Wonderful
This is not 100% accurate, but helpful.
How so?
How old was Mr. Keaon when he passed away the most important thing you MISSED"
He died in 1866 I don't know for sure but he was probably almost 80
@@n1thmusic229 1966 he was 70
Well Done!
Thanks
If they ever make a film about buster keaton, I think rami males would be perfect
I thought they had. Wasn't it the Donald O'Connor debacle
@@talcumpowder1000 yes The Buster Keaton Story
tom holland
I am a filmmaker and Buster is a huge inspiration for me. This video it great thank you BritMonkey.
Legendary
"It was rude, rough, dangerous, morally repugnant and it was a hit across the United States".
That is how it is.
Absolutely the best. Hands down. 💛💛💛
Sir buster Keaton legendary man
Mad lad
the. original stuntman
0:21
“Busta- Straight Busta!”
I like buster kiton and his videos
11:50 what song is he playing here ? Full video pls
June Night - Cliff Edwards
Made the best train movie!
Good one Britmonkey 👍
He played almost as many roles as Johnny sins
Was Harry Houdini really a musician too? I can't find anything about it
M EX ICANS a r e
EX a M e r ICANS
And this is why the Industrial revolution is great...no regulations for anything but yet socictiy still functioned somehow.
Yea, let´s wreck train into the river, let´s kick kids into the audience - what a funkcioning society. Regulations are helping to weakest people in society and also to the nature. If we kept doing things like in 20s,30s we would by this time suffered at least two wars for drinkable water.
He spent one day in school that's so weird
He is the best movie actor in the world
A savage upbringing- high strangeness and probably sex used to... poor boy- but he changed film history hands down. 🦖🇺🇸🎺🎷🥃🍸🦖🥃☄🥃🍸🇺🇸
I wish I was born in the 20'
Oh trust me, you really don’t
Oh Yeah Yeah yeah not at all
@@ohyeahyeah4267 why do u say that?
@@sarahssentongo2587 the great depression
@@sarahssentongo2587 Also, he would have been 20 by the time of the second world war, so probably he would've ended up drafted to the army
Such a tragic life 😐
No. He had a most wonderful life, a life he he never thought he would have. He did have a bad and dark battle with alcohol due to his loss of independence as an independent film maker when he lost his studio and at the same time, matrimonial issues, bad scripts and subsequential demeaning film roles. He lost everything, including his two sons, in an acrimonial divorce, all he was allowed to keep from his vast fortune was his car He regained his rightful place in history as a talented, director, actor and pioneer of the film industry, worldwide, was appreciated, and he thankfully just lived long enough to know it. All said, he lived a wonderful life during the best of American history - the roaring 20s - he had America by the tail, try to find his autobiography it's very interesting! :)
Wow! The child abuse he had to endured. So sad to know his childhood.
His autobiography My Wonderful World of Slapstick and other biographies consistently quote BK refuting claims he was abused. He learned how to not get hurt, and said he loved his work with his family on stage.
How was this person living to adulthood?
i would only grant buster keaton the title of best silent film actor if you exclude charlie chaplin for his speaking appearances.
buster keaton was the more impressive stuntman/daredevil tho
man, keatons kinda cute...
He why always serious face
Stone face but amazing silent comedian
This guys were the real deal!not like today! Boring!
Buster Keaton is the BEST!
0:23 "Como dis... Como que si te enseñan un bebe y dices "esta bonito", este, obvia... Y en tu mente no piensas eso es que no estas siendo sincero, pero si lo dices que "esta bien culero", se oye feo"
9:13 MGM wanted him to talk, I dunno what book you’re reading this from but it’s full of BS
All that broken down crap he worked in probably filled his lungs with all sorts of cancer causing crap
He was also a heavy smoker.
Honorable and well done tribute.
1:13 BS no he didn’t
Very nice but you got some of your facts wrong he did not break his neck being thrown into an audience he broke his neck off a water tower while he was in film but nice job though
I don't know if I want to watch any of his work truth be told.
His upbringing and life story just make me sad. Abused as a child, conditioned to basically only crave the attention of others while being on a stage or set, losing his wife and children, becoming an alcoholic, ending up in a mental hospital and then finally dying from lung cancer after an extremely drawn out period of being broken by stagnating career.
I'll give him deserved credit for being so stoic about it all. But what he was going through basically showcase everything that's wrong with "show business" in my view, and I wouldn't like the fact that someone is sitting here today, earning money from this mans misery.
His films are absolutely brilliant. Please give them a chance to enchant you.
@Mel Bee It does for me.
Someone is making money off his legacy. And I don't want to contribute to profiteering off abused children.
If the person or company owning the rights to the films donated all proceeds to shelters that help abused children, it might be a different story.
It's like watch Chaplin, who also had a tragic childhood (seems like most of UA had them)
@@sevenproxies4255 you are making the assumption that Buster has abused children in his films when he does not. Nor was he a child in any of his films.
@@SeanHiruki No I didn't. You need to check your reading comprehension.
5:06 he didn’t break his neck he fractured it
A fracture is a break.
chuckthetrashmanjr good job you ain’t a Dr
@@beckyneopolitan8945 do you know what a compound fracture is. Also how do you know I'm not a medic or doc.
chuckthetrashmanjr I do actually and i still know he didn’t, because you’re too thick to know the difference if you were in the medic profession you’d know and obviously you don’t
@@beckyneopolitan8945 fracture and break are the same thing
He was very good but couldn't compare to Charlie Chaplin.
The life of busted balls
XD i can't stop laughing lol