Film
The Comic
United States- Age rating
- PG
- Director
- Carl Reiner
- Year
- 1969
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.
Top cast
Dick Van Dyke
Billy Bright
Michele Lee
Mary Gibson
Mickey Rooney
Cockeye
Cornel Wilde
Frank Powers
Nina Wayne
Sybil Atlas
Pert Kelton
Mama Bell
Steve Allen
Steve Allen
Barbara Heller
Ginger
Ed Peck
Edwin G. Englehardt
Jeannine Riley
Lorraine Bell
Gavin MacLeod
1st Director
Jay Novello
Miguel
Craig Huebing
Doctor
Paulene Myers
Phoebe
Fritz Feld
Armand
Jerome Cowan
Lawrence
Isabel Sanford
Woman
Jeff Donnell
Nurse
Directed by
Carl Reiner
Written by
Carl Reiner, Aaron Ruben
Produced by
Carl Reiner, Aaron Ruben
