Buster Keaton "Francis". His father was Joseph Hallie "Joe" Keaton, who owned a traveling show with Harry Houdini called the Mohawk Indian Medicine Company, which performed on stage and sold patent medicine on the side. According to a frequently repeated story, which may be apocryphal, Keaton acquired the nickname "Buster" at about 18 months of age. Keaton told interviewer Fletcher Markle that Houdini was present one day when the young Keaton took a tumble down a long flight of stairs without injury. After the infant sat up and shook off his experience, Houdini remarked, "That was a real buster!" According to Keaton,
International Buster Keaton Society of Muskegon—in 2010, Michigan Live in 2011, and The Muskegon Tribune in 2013. The Damfinos are listed online at Turner Classic Movies. The group has also been referenced in several Keaton related books, including Imogen Sara Smith's "Buster Keaton: The Persistence of Comedy," Kevin W. Sweeney's "Buster Keaton: Interviews," Edward McPherson's "Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat," "The Fall of Buster Keaton: His Films for MGM, Educational Pictures, and Columbia" by James L. Neibaur and "Silent Echoes: discovering early Hollywood through the films of Buster Keaton" by John Bengtson. The current president of the International Buster Keaton Society is