
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

Jeffrey Sayre
Pallbearer at Funeral (uncredited)

Maurice Dallimore
Lord Faversham

Jack Berle
Minor Role (uncredited)

Leonard Frey
Talk Show Guest (uncredited)

Michele Lee
Mary Gibson

Jay Novello
Miguel

Ottola Nesmith
Housekeeper (uncredited)

Billy Curtis
Lifeguard in Film (uncredited)

Luis Delgado
Minor Role (uncredited)

Suzie Kaye
Amanda Lou Phipps (uncredited)

Nina Wayne
Sybil Atlas

Pert Kelton
Mama Bell

Barbara Heller
Ginger

Paulene Myers
Phoebe

Carl Reiner
Al Schilling

Peter Brocco
Minister (uncredited)

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

Isabel Sanford
Woman

Dick Winslow
Organist (uncredited)

Jeannine Riley
Lorraine Bell

Jeff Donnell
Nurse

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

Ethelreda Leopold
Restaurant Patron (uncredited)

Cosmo Sardo
Pallbearer at Funeral (uncredited)

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

Dick Van Dyke
Billy Bright

Cornel Wilde
Frank Powers

Ed Peck
Edwin G. Englehardt

Johnny Silver
Little Man (uncredited)

Rex Benson
Minor Role (uncredited)

Calvin Coolidge
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Paul Russell
Funeral Guest (uncredited)

William Boyce
Minor Role (uncredited)

Ward Ramsey
Officer (uncredited)

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

Fritz Feld
Armand

Steve Allen
Steve Allen

Bill Zuckert
Prison Warden in Film (uncredited)

Gavin MacLeod
1st Director

Mickey Rooney
Cockeye

Kenner G. Kemp
Theatre Doorman (uncredited)

William H. O'Brien
Funeral Guest (uncredited)

Mark Russell
Minor Role (uncredited)

Johnny Weissmüller
Jungle Jim (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mantan Moreland
Passerby at Billy's Funeral (unbilled)