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
Buster Keaton tribute to the comedian and friend of Keaton who had died earlier that year. Keaton starred in four films for American International Pictures: 1964's "Pajama Party" and 1965's "Beach Blanket Bingo", "How to Stuff a Wild Bikini", and "Sergeant Deadhead". Director William Asher recalled: In 1965, Keaton starred in the short film "The Railrodder" for the National Film Board of Canada. He travelled from one end of Canada to the other on a motorized handcar, wearing his traditional pork pie hat and performing gags similar to those in films that he made 50 years before. The film is also notable