Joe Keaton help of a girlfriend who was a Christian Scientist. Joe Keaton died on January 13, 1946. According to the New York Times, he died at his home in Hollywood, after a long illness. However, Buster later said he was hit by a car, and state death records show that he died in Ventura. It was announced that Joe Keaton would play a court reporter in "Evelyn Prentice" (1934), but his actual appearance in the film cannot be confirmed. Joe Keaton Joseph Hallie Keaton (July 6, 1867 – January 13, 1946) was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actor. He
Buster Keaton able to land like a cat. Imitators of our act don't last long, because they can't stand the treatment." Keaton claimed he was having so much fun that he would sometimes begin laughing as his father threw him across the stage. Noticing that this drew fewer laughs from the audience, he adopted his famous deadpan expression whenever he was working. The act ran up against laws banning child performers in vaudeville. According to one biographer, Keaton was made to go to school while performing in New York, but only attended for part of one day. Despite tangles with the law