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Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) [1] was an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. [2] He is best known for his silent films during the 1920s, in which he performed physical comedy and inventive stunts.
Gilbert was next cast by Thalberg to star in King Vidor's war-romance The Big Parade (1925), which became the second-highest grossing silent film and the most profitable film of the silent era. Gilbert's "inspired performance" as an American doughboy in France during World War I was the high point of his acting career.
The public failed to respond to her in the more sophisticated roles. Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences. [30] Her next film, The Taming of The Shrew, made with husband Douglas Fairbanks, was not well received at the box office. [32]
The film The Artist (2011), winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture, was promoted as a silent film and the first of its kind to win a major Oscar award since the 1920s, but it was really a part-talkie due to the use of on-screen dialog at the end, audible female laughter in a dream sequence, and the appearance of a song with sung ...
Silent film actors The following is a list of actors and actresses whose careers began in the silent film era of the 1910s and 1920s. This list includes international performers who were well known throughout the world, and those who may have only achieved a degree of success in their native countries.
When talking pictures began, Logan's voice was recorded to accompany her acting part in the original silent film. The actress of silent films was largely unsuccessful in the new medium of talkies. In an early musical, The Show of Shows (1929), Logan was a member of an all-star cast.
Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films. [1]One of the most influential film comedians of the silent era, Lloyd made nearly 200 comedy films, both silent and talkies, from 1914 to 1947.
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