Actor (4-Oct-1895 — 1-Feb-1966)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Richard J. Anobile (editor). The Best Of Buster: The Classic Comedy Scenes Direct from the Films of Buster Keaton. Darien House. 1976.

Robert Benayoun. Translated by Randall Conrad. The Look of Buster Keaton. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1983. 207pp.

John Bengtson. Silent Echoes: Discovering Early Hollywood Through the Films of Buster Keaton. Santa Monica Press. 2000. 231pp.

Rudi Blesh. Buster Keaton. New York: Macmillan. 1966.

Jean-Pierre Coursodon. Buster Keaton. Paris, France: Seghers/Cinema Club. 1973. 472pp. Language: French.

Tom Dardis. Keaton: The Man Who Wouldn't Lie Down. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1979. 336pp.

Gary L. Green; Joanna E. Rapf. Buster Keaton: A Bio-Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. 1995. 272pp.

Andrew Horton (editor). Buster Keaton's "Sherlock Jr.". Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. 1997. 205pp.

Buster Keaton; with Charles Samuels. My Wonderful World of Slapstick. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. 1960. 282pp.

Eleanor Keaton; Jeffrey Vance. Buster Keaton Remembered. Harry N. Abrams. 2001. 238pp.

Jim Kline. The Complete Films of Buster Keaton. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press. 1993. 238pp.

Robert Knopf. The Theatre and Cinema of Buster Keaton. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 1999. 216pp.

Jean Patrick Lebel. Translated by P. D. Stovin (from French). Buster Keaton. London: A. Zwemmer, Ltd./A. S. Barnes. 1967. 179pp.

Edward McPherson. Buster Keaton: Tempest in a Flat Hat. London: Faber and Faber Ltd.. 2004. 288pp.

Marion Meade. Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase. New York: Harper Collins. 1995.

Daniel Moews. Keaton: The Silent Features Close Up. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 1977. 332pp.

David Robinson. Buster Keaton. UK: Secker & Warburg. 1969. 198pp.

George Wead; George Lellis. The Film Career of Buster Keaton. Boston, MA: G. K. Hall & Co.. 1977.

PARALLELS

Below are references indicating presence of this name in another database or other reference material. Most of the sources listed are encyclopedic in nature but might be limited to a specific field, such as musicians or film directors. A lack of listings here does not indicate unimportance -- we are nowhere near finished with this portion of the project -- though if many are shown it does indicate a wide recognition of this individual.

1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Internet Movie Database [link]

4. Wikipedia [link]

5. The Film Encyclopedia, 5th Edition (p.755)

6. 20th Century Culture: A Biographical Companion (p.385)

7. International Dictionary of 20th Century Biography (p.365)

8. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.813)

9. Webster's American Biographies (p.572)

10. Penguin Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century (p.251)

11. Cassell Companion to Cinema (p.306)

12. Quinlan's Illustrated Registry of Film Stars (p.254)

13. Chambers Film and TV Handbook (p.176)

14. The Encyclopedia of Film (p.293)

15. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood (p.226)

16. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.550)

17. The New Biographical Dictionary of Film (pp.458-60)

18. The Hollywood.com Guide to Film Directors (pp.456-61)

19. The St. James Encyclopedia of Film Directors (pp.241-44)

20. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.391)

21. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.272)

22. St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (vol.3, p.10)

23. Obituaries from the Times 1961-1970 (p.430)

24. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.335)

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