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
The Buster Keaton Show the original commercials for Studebaker cars. (This was an era where television shows typically had a single sponsor, with "The Buster Keaton Show" having three commercial breaks, each for Studebaker.) This was Keaton's second foray into the new medium of television. It followed the 1949 one-off "The Buster Keaton Comedy Show". Broadcast live, no record of that first program remains and it was not seen by viewers outside California, as it was not filmed in kinescope nor was there a coaxial cable linking the coasts at that time. The Buster Keaton Show The Buster Keaton Show was a television series