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He is almost like an animated character. Just unbelievable.

The fact that Buster Keaton survived into old age is nothing short of miraculous.

He verbally mentions it in this video, but Buster Keaton started practicing physical comedy stunts at around 4 years old. His family was part of a vaudeville act they co-owned with Houdini, and his dad (as part of the act, with no real malice and not a single recollected injury from Keaton himself) would throw him at walls, into the orchestra, off the stage, etc. He credits that very early training with his success, but his family BARELY got away with it in the 1890s (his father was actually arrested multiple times for abuse after the audience saw the show, which Keaton had always fully rejected, asserting very firmly it was all for the act).

Easily one of the most legendary actors to ever exist. It’s a shame that so many modern people don’t understand what it took to do what he did way back when. He will always be a legend.

The fact that all of these things used to be done in real time just makes it even more amazing. Incredibly dangerous work executed so perfectly and with style.... what a legend.

To impress Harry Houdini and inspire Jackie Chan, you have to be a legend.

The waterfall clip was absolutely amazing!! Never seen this before. What a legend!!

Keaton was one of the greatest performers to ever live. Without speaking a single word he made timeless comedy that can make anyone, from anywhere, born in any year laugh until it hurts.

Keaton risked his life in every scene of every film; that he survived all these stunts is miraculous.

Some of this stuff is literally 100 years old and I still can't figure how they did it. Simply amazing.

I can't imagine all the small injuries he sustained over the years. That boy was tougher than a bucket of nails!

The man was tougher than nails and had a command of his body that most professional athletes can never reach. I'm glad he's continuing to get the attention and adulation he deserves.

If you're not amazed by his stunts, you need to watch them again. Astounding.

0:55 As historian David MacLeod explains, "He grabbed the water spout, it slowly came down and the force of the water knocked him down on to the railway line. In the film he got up and ran away, but he said for about two or three weeks afterwards he was getting these terrible headaches”. Remarkably, unbeknownst to the actor, Keaton had broken his neck and only noticed the injury 30 years later when the doctor performed an X-ray and revealed the shocking news.

The cleaning of the glass window must have been an inspiration to Marcel Marceau. Buster Keaton was absolutely phenomenal !!! His stunts were death defying and executed to perfection. He was superbly fit, flexible and strong with an incredible sense of timing and guts like very few had or will ever have. Just a rare individual who performed some of the most dangerous stunts as if they were business as usual.

A hundred years later and it's still astounding!

Just by looking at this 5 min of clips he's the greatest stuntman of all time.

This guy was just insane. The scene with the Train and water tower is so crazy. The high pressure burst of water actually broke his neck, but this guy just finished the scene despite the pain and only realised he had a broken neck a full 10 years later.

This guy was amazing, most stunts wouldn't even be thought of today, nevermind done.

He had the vision long before youtube put everyone on the screen with these stunts. Incredible thanks for posting!

The stunt on the front of the train still makes me tense up even after seeing it hundreds of times. Utter genius.

I cannot believe how easy he makes these stunts look. Unreal. I remember watching him as a kid, honestly thinking he was just another cartoon. Watching him now is incredible.

The fact that he lived to be 70 tells you how well-thought out and performed his stunts were.

His stunt work is not only ahead of his time, but ours as well.

The sheer athleticism of this man's stunts is just awe inspiring.

How he did some of these is nothing short of amazing. No cgi and elaborate harnesses and wires for the most part. A true G.O.A.T

That boucing and rolling down the sand hill, is just beyond belief, I can recall seeing them as a child when played at his works Christmas party for the kids and weall laughed and chered but now I am 70 and watching these stunts as an old man, I just can't believe the heights he did them at ,

My first day working on a roof as a painter. I was told " do you fall down just waking around" no "then good just do it" buster Keaton is an amazing example of just do it.

It's not 'just' the jaw-dropping stunts but that facial expression and the body movements to enhance the effect yet more. A Genius. He should be awarded a posthumous Oscar for such a significant contribution to the action film.

Without CGI etc, his stunts and effects seems flawless and amazing even today

This video was century ago and still the camera quality way way better than today's security footage or UFO videos

This is February 2024 and amazing, awesome and astounding stunts of Buster Keaton continue to be exceedingly popular even today. These are hugely hilarious & fun-filled silent era movies. 😀😀😁😁😆😆

Buster Keaton Broke the internet before there was internet.

42 years old. Right now (literally) is first time I’m hearing about this man and his work. All because it appeared on my KZfaq feed. Makes me wonder how many other extraordinary people or events are out there….

The General was great - hilarious, impressive and grand. I need to see more of his work.

Considering how the majority of stunt actors usually end up after a couple of years or so, I highly suspect that this man had an extremely rare ability to precisely foresee if he survives the trick or not, or - what exactly will happen the next second and what to do. Someone may call that "luck", if they will, but I mean something else. Besides a truly excellent physical shape and perfect body control, of course. Amazing.

The car falling apart gets me every time! :)

He was a one shot. Just imagine if the director or film guy says we ran out of film. Just imagine what we all would have lost. A pure genius at play.

Buster Keaton was a legend,a few mins of this beats any movie today

To never say a word and leave your audience speechless is a gift few ever achieve buster was that man a stuntman , actor of unmatched skill fearless and so so funny ! 🙏🏻👏👏👏

Wait a second...these stunts were F'n real??? That's insane!!! Obviously this was way before my time and I've heard the name Buster Keaton thrown around my entire life but this is the first time I've seen anything from him....I'm literally dumbfounded by this, one of the most impressive things I've ever seen.

I never took the time to fully appreciate this man's ingenuity. I have some serious viewing to catch up on!

Love me some Buster. How he kept all his fingers and toes we'll never know...? True legend.

When he did all those stunts the creators of KZfaq did not even exist at the idea stage of their parents. And now this video has 19 million views :) This is amazing!

Buster was a man before his time!

In his final days he was restless. Despite dying of cancer he’s pace his hospital room and desired to go home. He even sat at a table playing cards with fiends the day before he died

This guy was no joke, very killer stunts.

That flying scene with one hand holding the train handle. OMG!!!!!

When I was young he was my favourite actor, I remember laughing hard to his movies. Now I realize how many times put in risk his health only to entertain us. He was amazing.

That stunt on the train grill was extremely dangerous, one slipped foot and he would have been caught under the grill and brutally killed. These are fun to watch, but he did stuff that was insane.

Some of these stunts are just off-the-chart impressive!

This is brilliant no matter how many times and for how many years i watch it.

The last scene took an amazing amount of planning and practice. In every scene Buster could have been killed or badly injured. Instead he just got back up.....Incredible performer....

Buster Keaton was a genius, all of his stunts being real action, just next level.

Every frame is beautiful

The car collapsing when it hits the pothole is priceless

When Jackie Chan said he dedicates his Work to Buster Keaton, I felt that RIP to the Greatest Man of Cinema Entertainment Bravo👏🏽👏🏽

The one true master of film.

Mind boggling sequences that will never be surpassed, ever!

The original Doctor strange and teleporting act. Awesome. It looked so seamless and flawless . Hats off to the showman of the time.

Buster keaton was a true legend. Total respect to him. R.I.P.🙏✊

Even today his movies are absolutely iconic. For something over 100 years old, his work was ahead of his time

No wires, no cgi, just a camera, a man and his life on the line.

I remember in high school film class, Buster Keaton was my teacher’s favorite actor.

This guy is almost certainly one of Jackie Chan's influences.

I legit thought there was glass he was cleaning. That was smooth as hell.

ABSOLUTE GENIUS, WAY AHEAD OF THE TIME , MASTERPIECE WILL NEVER GROW OLD AND THAT LAST VIDEO HOW DID THEY DO THAT 🤔🤔🤔😯😯😯😳😳😳

These days you can replicate these stunts with CGI. Back then you did them with GUTS. Amazing

He broke his neck In the clip where the water spout opened up above him . He passed it off as a headache and kept filming , and he didn't reliaze he broke his neck until long after at the doctors .

The GOAT. No one will ever come close to this. Absolutely unique.

Непревзойдённый и один из величайших людей на планете!Пожалуй,из-за невероятных трюков его фильмы сейчас вышли бы на очень высокий уровень!

Dude was a genius. Movie makers now a days can't do half the things he pulled off.

Absolutely genius picture... such brave, mad, clever men and women..

If you ever wondered what max luck looks like in real life, this man had it. Not to mention skill.

There's not an actor today that could do these stunts. Not physically, mentally and most of all legally.

Special effects have been around since the birth of cinema,but a lot of the stunts that Keaton did were very real and very dangerous.Amazing but scary.

Fascinating! One of a kind. Amazing that he survived some of his stunts.

Absolutely timeless! He was brilliant!

It's 2020 and I think these scenes are magical. I watched the whole video with a smile on my face.

It’s just spectacular to watch and listen to a guy from a completely different world, and be completely transfixed by it. This guy was born over a hundred years before I was. How the hell did he manage all that with the sort of technology he had? It’s just remarkable. One of the things that stands out to me is how normal he sounds. Lots of people from his time period had those goofy transatlantic accents, but he sounds like a normal gravelly old man.

This is sooo advanced in every way!!! Thanks for posting and cheers!

Some of these gags he came up with were reused in film dozens of times over the decades and even today. He was the best gag man of all time.

Pure genius. It’s amazing he survived some of those stunts. No CGI, back then.

I have never seen stunts like this ever in my life before. This is just another level especially in the initial age of cinema. Respect to such a talent who inspired the heros of the modern age.

3:41 I'm surprised and impressed with this one. I didn't know such film technique was possible in this time

A timeless legend, and just as entertaining today! Incredible man.

The first clip where he jumps from building to building where he fell was a stunt gone wrong. It resulted in him falling from the building. He took 3 days to recover then included the fall in the movie and edited it together with another stunt that saw him going through the window. He was a genius but made a massive error based on the advice of his lawyer and signed for MGM. MGM basically took away Keaton's creative control over his work, replaced Buster's own technicians with their own and eventually MGM sacked him for not doing a degrading promotional ad for a movie.

That train scene. If he fell or even put his foot on the ground it would have torn his leg off at the least.

I'm 42 years old and have only just heard of this man,how on earth he managed to pull off some of these stunts is beyond me and the fact these stunts were done so many years ago is just absolutely amazing and complete credit to this man. I shall be looking into watching these movies now as I'm was a Charlie Chaplin fan before but now I believe I will like this man's work aswell. Great to discover things like this and always seems to be KZfaq that shows me these things.

Jackie Chan said Buster Keaton was his role model. Ironically Keaton was an American who inspired him to be a stuntman, and then years later he brings the art of stunts to American cinema. Full circle basically.

In Sherlock Jr when he goes into and out of the movie screen the effects are flawless. He was a mechanical genius on top of being a fearless stuntman/athlete. .

We'll never see another like him. He was brilliant, fearless and exceptionally gifted talent wise. He was a complete master of his craft from top to bottom. Lightyears ahead of his time.

This man is tougher than 99% of living creatures

That waterfall stunt is absolutely incredible.

JESUS, how did people laugh at this and not just gawk at the sheer madness of him. That is putting a lot of faith in way too many variables. It's AMAZINGLY impressive. A lot of tight timing.

I am 21, and never heard of him Thanks to yt for recommending this video :)

What an athlete and entertainer, and with balls of steel.

I hope one day I could be half as cool as Buster Keaton...

"The average mind of the motion picture audience is 12 years old." Still true.