That title should go to Buster Keaton, the doe-eyed, stoney-faced maverick of the silent film era, whose extraordinary stunts make Tom Cruise look risk-averse. Advertisement. Advertisement.

The film, of course, is Sherlock Jr. (1924), directed by and starring Buster Keaton, the greatest of all silent film comedian-auteurs. (Team Chaplin is welcome to dissent.) ...

In the trinity of the great silent comedians, Buster Keaton has traveled into our own realm without a trace of mileage. Charles Chaplin’s Victorian sentimentality can be cloying and Harold Lloyd ...

But there’s something else to love about Buster Keaton, something newer fans are just learning. Way back in 1918, he was giving queer excellence on the set of Fatty Arbuckle’s film The Cook.

MUSKEGON, MI -- A new documentary highlighting why silent film star Buster Keaton called Muskegon ‘home’ is premiering Sunday in Muskegon. “Home” is a locally made film that features many ...

Today, October 4, marks what would be the 128th birthday of Buster Keaton, silver screen star of the silent film era and—at 5’5″—Hollywood’s original short king.

But Buster Keaton, whose films “Go West” and “One Week” will be shown at the Paramount Theatre on Nov. 21 to kick off a new season of Silent Movie Mondays, was far from stoic.

The film stars Keaton's then-wife, Natalie Talmadge, as his on-screen love interest; their first child, newborn James Talmadge Keaton, makes a cameo appearance, playing Buster as an infant.

The way Ron Pesch got into Buster Keaton was that one of his relatives told him Charlie Chaplin used to live just outside Muskegon. Pesch was 12 years old or so, and the relative was wrong.