The name “Buster” has become so synonymous with the stone-faced silent film legend that it’s easy to forget Joseph Frank Keaton wasn’t born with it. The story of how one of cinema’s greatest comedians ...

Buster Keaton was called the ‘Great Stone Face,’ a vaudeville kid who had been thrown around a stage by his father since he was three years old. So when he heard a sharp crack in his neck after a ...