Down through the years my face has been called a sour puss, a dead pan, a frozen face, The Great Stone Face, and, believe it or not, "a tragic mask." On the other hand that kindly critic, the late James Agee, described my face as ranking "almost with Lincoln's as an early American archetype, it was haunting, handsome, almost beautiful." I can't imagine what the great rail splitter's reaction would have been to this, though I sure was pleased.

In 1950 Keaton had a successful television series The Buster Keaton Show which was broadcast live on a local Los Angeles station. Keaton later claimed that he was soon Arbuckle's second director and his entire gag department. Smith Goes to Washington sitcom starring Fess Parker.

Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4 1895 – February 1 1966) was an American comic actor filmmaker producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic deadpan expression earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is "the greatest comedy ever made the greatest Civil War film ever made and perhaps the greatest film ever made.