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Dance Hall Racket (1953)
Scripted by, and co-starring, Lenny Bruce,
with other parts filled by Honey Bruce and Harry Keaton.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0444171/
Actor (26 titles, including)
The Sinister Urge 1960
Jaffe (as Harry Keatan)
Laffing Time (El Brendel feature) 1959
Dr. Jones (as Harry Keatan)
Gun Girls 1957
Luke, henchman
The Violent Years 1956
Doctor (uncredited)
Girl Gang 1954
Doc (as Harry Keatan)
Dance Hall Racket 1953
Strip Tease College Girls 1948
Mr. Applebottom, the landlord

Eeek! / Oops!!!! (see below)

busterness wrote:Looks as if you have a filmography of perhaps two or three different individuals, JFK.
Harry "Jingles" Keaton (Buster's brother) appeared in several of Buster's short films, and there is a second Harry Keaton who did a few films but is most well known as a shady acting school operator who was in and out of trouble with the law during the 30s & 40s. He continued to work in the film biz for many years afterward, and stayed out of court in later years. I've not seen the spelling "Harry Keatan" before, but I'm assuming this is the same guy. Will do some checking.
For those of you who subscribe to the Keaton Chronicle, the upcoming summer issue will have an excellent article about the second Harry Keaton who obviously capitalized on the famous Keaton name in order to promote himself.

"Jingles" when he was around 15? Or, more likely, somebody else?

He would have been 18 or 19, if Buster's brother....


Camera! 7/28/1923



Camera! 8/4/1923

Motion Picture News 9/21/1929

Camera! 5/20/1922

VARIETY JANUARY 1, 1915



VARIETY JULY 11, 1913


Harry Keaton Office Boy
Picture-Play October 1925

Keaton in picture

Looks as if you have a filmography of perhaps two or three different individuals, JFK.

Harry "Jingles" Keaton (Buster's brother) appeared in several of Buster's short films, and there is a second Harry Keaton who did a few films but is most well known as a shady acting school operator who was in and out of trouble with the law during the 30s & 40s. He continued to work in the film biz for many years afterward, and stayed out of court in later years. I've not seen the spelling "Harry Keatan" before, but I'm assuming this is the same guy. Will do some checking.

For those of you who subscribe to the Keaton Chronicle, the upcoming summer issue will have an excellent article about the second Harry Keaton who obviously capitalized on the famous Keaton name in order to promote himself.

Update: This Harry Keatan is indeed the same pseudo-Harry Keaton who used the famous name to promote himself. He worked in the film biz up until the 50s, changing the spelling from Keaton to Keatan.

busterness wrote:Update: This Harry Keaton is indeed the same pseudo-Harry Keaton who used the famous name to promote himself. He worked in the film biz up until the 50s, changing the spelling from Keaton to Keaton.

Ooops (and thanks).
Next you'll be telling me Mike and Diane aren't his kids.

In strolling around the grounds of imdb,
I came across their still-incorrect page for Harry Keaton,
which listed, along with the familiar titles, silent
and talkie credits unfamiliar to me.
Even though imdb had once listed Groucho Marx as an extra in a Robert Redford movie,
I took their Harry Keaton page at face value!

Chula Vista Star-News Page 23 Thursday, December 28, 1961


Chula Vista Star-News Page 45 Thursday, September 13, 1973


Retired Bartender:

Chula Vista Star-News Thursday, December 14, 1978

JFK wrote:Camera! 7/28/1923

Hmm...I wonder who the "Cooke" working for Eddie Lyons might be? IMDb and Google give me nothing...

EDIT: a certain other silent film message board informs me Cooke was an assistant director, but also by surname only.

Aaaaaaand one more search finds Joseph W. Cooke, also a production manager.

Harry was later replaced by Buster's other brother Shemp Keaton.