TV Show

Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow

A series about the life, career and works of the movie comedy genius.

TV Show Stats +8%

1 seasons

3 episodes total

Status

Ended

First Aired

1987

Rating

TV Show

7.6/10

10 votes • HD

Season 1

3 episodes
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Episode One
Episode 1

Episode One

Episode 1 • Sep 30, 1987

Covering Keaton's early years - from being a child performer in vaudeville to the creation of his masterpiece, The Navigator, in 1924.

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Episode Two
Episode 2

Episode Two

Episode 2 • Oct 07, 1987

Keaton's finest film, The General, also cost him his creative freedom. It would be thirty years before his genius was properly recognized.

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Episode Three
Episode 3

Episode Three

Episode 3 • Oct 14, 1987

The great Keaton revival began in 1949 with a tribute in Life Magazine to the silent comics. By the time Keaton died in 1966 he had been acclaimed as one of the giants of the cinema.

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52m