
The Comic
A funny new motion picture that tells Hollywood like it was!
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.
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Cast

Cosmo Sardo
Pallbearer at Funeral (uncredited)

Fritz Feld
Armand

Jeffrey Sayre
Pallbearer at Funeral (uncredited)

Dick Winslow
Organist (uncredited)

Cornel Wilde
Frank Powers

Jack Berle
Minor Role (uncredited)

Luis Delgado
Minor Role (uncredited)

Paul Frees
Newsreel Narrator / Commerical Announcer / Man in Restaurant (voice)

Kenner G. Kemp
Theatre Doorman (uncredited)

Dick Van Dyke
Billy Bright

Isabel Sanford
Woman

Howard Morris
Pedestrian Gag Man in 'Love Honor and Oh Boy' (uncredited)

Paulene Myers
Phoebe

Gavin MacLeod
1st Director

Jeff Donnell
Nurse

Peter Brocco
Minister (uncredited)

Billy Curtis
Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)

Suzie Kaye
Amanda Lou Phipps (uncredited)

Steve Allen
Steve Allen

Leonard Frey
Talk Show Guest (uncredited)

Mark Russell
Minor Role (uncredited)

Jay Novello
Miguel

Ottola Nesmith
Housekeeper (uncredited)

Rex Benson
Minor Role (uncredited)

Michele Lee
Mary Gibson

Ed Peck
Edwin G. Englehardt

Johnny Weissmüller
Jungle Jim (archive footage) (uncredited)

Jean Willes
Denise in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)

Carl Reiner
Al Schilling

Maurice Dallimore
Lord Faversham

Ward Ramsey
Officer (uncredited)

Irene Tedrow
Billy's Mother in 'Forget Me Not' (uncredited)

Bill Zuckert
Prison Warden in Film (uncredited)

Mickey Rooney
Cockeye

Nina Wayne
Sybil Atlas

Barbara Heller
Ginger

William H. O'Brien
Funeral Guest (uncredited)

Paul Russell
Funeral Guest (uncredited)

Johnny Silver
Little Man (uncredited)

Pert Kelton
Mama Bell

Ethelreda Leopold
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Jeannine Riley
Lorraine Bell

Mantan Moreland
Passerby at Billy's Funeral (unbilled)

William Boyce
Minor Role (uncredited)

Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)