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The Comic (1969)
Directed by Carl Reiner
Overview
An account of the rise and fall of a silent film comic, Billy Bright. The movie begins with his funeral, as he speaks from beyond the grave in a bitter tone about his fate, and takes us through his fame, as he ruins it with womanizing and drink, and his fall, as a lonely, bitter old man unable to reconcile his life’s disappointments. The movie is based loosely on the life of Buster Keaton.
Rated PG | Length 95 minutes
Actors
Dick Van Dyke | Michele Lee | Mickey Rooney | Cornel Wilde | Nina Wayne | Pert Kelton | Steve Allen | Barbara Heller | Ed Peck | Jeannine Riley | Gavin MacLeod | Jay Novello | Craig Huebing | Paulene Myers | Fritz Feld | Jerome Cowan | Isabel Sanford | Jeff Donnell | Carl Reiner | Howard Dayton | Maurice Dallimore | Mantan Moreland | Frank Adamo | Lillian Adams | Priscilla Ann | Robert Ball | Rex Benson | Mel Berger | Jack Berle | Barney Biro | Nick Borgani | William Boyce | Paul Bradley | Peter Brocco | Linda Burton | Patrick Campbell | Calvin Coolidge | Suzanne Covington | Billy Curtis | Luis Delgado | Peter Eastman | Joyce Easton | Geoff Edwards | Lynn Fields | Harry Fleer | Paul Frees | Leonard Frey | Sig Frohlich | Ben Frommer | Dee Gardner | Eddie Garrett | Bobby Gilbert | The Great John L. | Clive Halliday | Alvin Hammer | Carter Harbaugh | Andre Hemmers | Brick Huston | Scott James | Stardedt Kaava | Lou Kane | Suzie Kaye | Kenner G. Kemp | Walter Kightly | Joseph La Cava | Ethelreda Leopold | Marilyn Malloy | Alan Marston | Frank Mathias | Kres Mersky | Celeste Michaels | Howard Morris | Ottola Nesmith | William H. O'Brien | Angel Pine | Murray Pollack | Ward Ramsey | Bob Rhodes | Christopher Ross | Mark Russell | Paul Russell | Cosmo Sardo | Joe Sawyers | Jeffrey Sayre | Johnny Silver | Ralph Smiley | Irene Tedrow | Viki Vigen | Johnny Weissmuller | Jean Willes | Dick Winslow | Bill Zuckert