So here it is. Ordered by the number of Keaton films they've featured in, Buster Keaton's little gang - or at least, all the faces that I find memorable from his films. (Mouse-over the pictures to see which movie they're from.)
Joe Roberts - 18 Busters
A long-time friend of Buster's, he played menacing and/or comic characters of large stature in pretty much all of his short films. Sadly, he died of a stroke in 1923, meaning that he only had the chance to appear in two of Keaton's feature length pictures.
Virginia Fox - 10 Busters
The daughter of the man who gave the Fox studio its name, Virginia played brash, alluring women in many of Buster's short films.
Joe Keaton - 10 Busters
Joe, father of Buster, played numerous small parts in his son's films - often sporting ridiculous make-up.
Sybil Seely - 5 Busters
The other leading lady common to many of Keaton's short films, Seely was more obviously pretty than Fox, but generally played less interesting characters.
Snitz Edwards - 3 Busters
A prolific character actor of the 1920s, Keaton obviously liked the look of his versatile face, casting him in prominent roles in three of his feature length pictures.
Erwin Connelly - 3 Busters
Memorable more for his interesting face than the size of his roles, Connelly had parts in three of Keaton's feature length pictures, most notably as a villain in Sherlock Jr.
4 comments:
What a cool quick reference you've created here, Pacian. And what a great dad Buster must have had to go along with all that - it's hard enough to get many dad's to sit still for a family portrait, and they don't even have to put on make-up.
Cool, to have the images right there, all together.
I assume you got the names off the IMDB.
The names themselves were easy enough to get from the DVDs, but IMDb did help match them to the faces, and also to determine how many Keaton films they had each appeared in.
Wikipedia and Google had their uses as well.
Reasons to love the Internets, part 377.
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