On February 1, 1966 the American actor and director Buster Keaton died of lung cancer. Fame Buster brought silent movies, where he revealed his remarkable comedic talent. Basseterre Keaton over his 70 years of life starred in over a hundred films, shot over three dozen films included in the golden fund of cinema. The decline of his career, as for many actors of the 1910-1920′s era came with the advent of talking movies.
Kitona career in film began in 1917 with acquaintance with Rasko Arbaklom, already a popular comedian. He made his debut in the film “The Butcher’s Apprentice” – Arbuckle knocked Kitona with a bag of flour. Fall actor was not used to – his first fall happened at the age of six months and was noted by Harry Houdini, who worked with Keaton’s father. He came up with the same nickname and the boy – Buster (buster – lucky). Later, Joseph (which is the name the boy was born), spoke in the family show “Three Keetons,” where one of the scenes he often had to fall down and apologize to the audience: “Sorry, I fell down. All of his actions the boy performed without a shadow of a smile on his face, causing even more laughter in the audience with his seriousness.
Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe Arbuckle made his film debut in 1909 – this came after a successful career on the theatrical stage. In addition to the fact that the “Fat Man” Arbuckle was a talented actor, he was also not bad singing – the great Enrico Caruso himself gave him compliments. However, Arbuckle not give in to persuasion of the great tenor and chose the path of “the second great singer in the world. In movies Roscoe made great success rather quickly, by 1919 he was a leading actor of the studio Universal and earned 3 dollars a day. A lot of weight, because of which he was nicknamed the “Fat Man”, was his role, but the actor was very shy of it. However, despite the complexities, Arbuckle was quite flexible and often performed acrobatic numbers.
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin, like many actors of the silent film era, began his career in the theater – the more so because his parents themselves were actors. In the United States, Chaplin came with the troupe of Ferdinand Carnot Theater in 1910. In 1913 he was offered a contract artist studio Keystone, where he took under his wing Roscoe “Fat Man” Arbuckle. Adjust to the work in the film industry Chaplin was initially difficult, but he quickly adapted – and soon the most famous image of the world cinema was born. His Tramp created Chaplin in 1914: baggy pants, narrow business card, bowler, big shoes, little black mustache and a cane.
Harold Lloyd.
Harold Lloyd career began in 1912 with roles in short comedies. A year later he had his first decent contract with the film company of Thomas Edison. The first images of Lloyd were similar to created by Chaplin tramp – only the clothes were the opposite of small. But in 1919 Lloyd and his companion Hal Roach came up with the “character with glasses” – the most famous image of the actor.