Had been out of work and was pretty much broke when he killed himself.
He borrowed Buster Keaton's gun and after eating a meal that he could
not pay for, shot himself. There are two stories; One says it was in
the restroom of the cafe on Santa Monica Blvd, and the other story
states he did it in the phone booth. His last real work was directing
Buster Keaton on his local Los Angeles tv show on KTTV. This was in the
early fifties and it was live. The show ran for just a year, but was
popular. KTTV was having money problems and could not keep it on the
air. The few tapes that survived show Keaton doing his typical gags,
many that had been re-worked from his past glory.
Man on the Flying Trapeze(1935)
Spring Tonic(1935)
Horses' Collars(1935)
The Fatal Glass of Beer(1933)
Too Many Highballs(1933)
The Bachelor(1999)
Husbands Beware(1956)
Wham-Bam-Slam!(1955)
Pals and Gals(1954)
The Buster Keaton Show(1949)
Movie Crazy(1932)
Dick und Doof, die Unzertrennlichen(1968)
Special Collector's Edition(2010)
Stop! Look! and Laugh!(1960)
Beer Barrel Polecats(1946)
