Joe Keaton Joe Keaton Joseph Hallie Keaton (July 6, 1867 – January 13, 1946) was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actor. He was the father of actor Buster Keaton and appeared with his son in several of his films. Keaton was born a few miles south of Terre Haute, Indiana to Libbie Jane and Joseph Francis Keaton IV. Leaving home in 1889, the year of the Land Rush, he homesteaded in the Oklahoma territory for a time, securing a claim three and a half miles northwest of Edmond. A few months into Keaton's residency, the neighboring homesteader (a Canadian whom
Paradise for Buster Paradise for Buster Paradise for Buster (1952) is a private industrial film made by John Deere and Company, Inc. showcasing Buster Keaton. Bookkeeper Buster Keaton works for a company in the big city when he inherits a rural farm from his uncle Burr McKeaton and is able to quit his job. The city job sight gags include sprayed ink, tray smashing and many doors breaking glass. Arriving at the rundown, debt-ridden farm, Buster finds a piggy bank under his uncle Burr McKeaton's portrait and while trying to break it open, winds up burning down the farm in the process. He