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
Leonard Frey
Talk Show Guest (uncredited)
Fritz Feld
Armand
Peter Brocco
Minister (uncredited)
Nina Wayne
Sybil Atlas
Carl Reiner
Al Schilling
Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dick Winslow
Organist (uncredited)
Jeannine Riley
Lorraine Bell
Isabel Sanford
Woman
Mark Russell
Minor Role (uncredited)
Jack Berle
Minor Role (uncredited)
Ethelreda Leopold
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)
Mickey Rooney
Cockeye
Jeff Donnell
Nurse
Howard Morris
Pedestrian Gag Man in 'Love Honor and Oh Boy' (uncredited)
Barbara Heller
Ginger
Rex Benson
Minor Role (uncredited)
Ottola Nesmith
Housekeeper (uncredited)
Cosmo Sardo
Pallbearer at Funeral (uncredited)
Jeffrey Sayre
Pallbearer at Funeral (uncredited)
Jean Willes
Denise in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
Michele Lee
Mary Gibson
Mantan Moreland
Passerby at Billy's Funeral (unbilled)
Paul Frees
Newsreel Narrator / Commerical Announcer / Man in Restaurant (voice)
Pert Kelton
Mama Bell
Jerome Cowan
Lawrence
Luis Delgado
Minor Role (uncredited)
Ward Ramsey
Officer (uncredited)
Dick Van Dyke
Billy Bright
Paulene Myers
Phoebe
William Boyce
Minor Role (uncredited)
Suzie Kaye
Amanda Lou Phipps (uncredited)
Johnny Silver
Little Man (uncredited)
Steve Allen
Steve Allen
Ed Peck
Edwin G. Englehardt
Maurice Dallimore
Lord Faversham
Jay Novello
Miguel
Paul Russell
Funeral Guest (uncredited)
Johnny Weissmüller
Jungle Jim (archive footage) (uncredited)
Bill Zuckert
Prison Warden in Film (uncredited)
Gavin MacLeod
1st Director
Kenner G. Kemp
Theatre Doorman (uncredited)
William H. O'Brien
Funeral Guest (uncredited)
Irene Tedrow
Billy's Mother in 'Forget Me Not' (uncredited)
Cornel Wilde
Frank Powers
Billy Curtis
Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)