Personal Info
Joseph Hallie Keaton
Joe Keaton
Acting
Biography
Joseph Hallie Keaton (July 6, 1867 – January 13, 1946) was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actor. He was the father of actor Buster Keaton and appeared with his son in several films.
Keaton was born a few miles south of Terre Haute, Indiana, to Libbie Jane and Joseph Francis Keaton IV. Leaving home in 1889, the year of the Land Rush, he homesteaded in the Oklahoma territory for a time, securing a claim three and a half miles northwest of Edmond. A few months into Keaton's residency, the neighboring homesteader (a Canadian whom Keaton had befriended on their shared journey wes…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
R.E.M x Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr
as Girl's Father / Man on Film Screen
Palooka from Paducah
as Pa Diltz
The General
as Union General
Go West
as Man in Barber Shop (uncredited)
Sherlock Jr.
as Girl's Father / Man on Film Screen
Our Hospitality
as The Engineer
The Electric House
as Buster's Father in Prologue
Day Dreams
as The Girl's Father
The Goat
as Minor Role (uncredited)
The Scarecrow
as Farmer (uncredited)
