Personal Info
Known For:
Directing
Birthday:
October 3, 1895
Place of Birth:
Piqua, Kansas, USA
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Buster Keaton
Biography
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname The Great Stone Face. He was recognized as the seventh-greatest director of all time by Entertainment Weekly. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Keaton the 21st-greatest male star of all time.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | R.E.M x Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr | Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr. |
| 2025 | Hodgepodge | Self (archive footage) |
| 2023 | Stunts: A Taste for Risk | Various Roles (archive footage) |
| 2021 | The Real Charlie Chaplin | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2020 | Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies | Self (archive footage) |
| 2019 | Barney's Wall | Self (archive footage) |
| 2018 | The Image Book | (archive footage) |
| 2017 | Busta Keaton in COPS | The Young Man (archive footage from 'Cops') |
| 2016 | Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood | Self |
| 2016 | Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died | Self (archive footage) |
| 2016 | Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 | |
| 2016 | Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends | (archive footage) |
| 2015 | Notfilm | Self (archive footage) |
| 2014 | You Have to Live Somewhere | (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 2007 | The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Self (archive footage) |
| 2007 | Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen | (archive footage) |
| 2006 | Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts | (archive footage) |
| 2004 | So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM | Self (archive footage) |
| 2001 | Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One | Various |
| 2001 | Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two | Various |
| 2000 | Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy | Self (archive footage) |
| 1999 | Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults | (archive footage) |
| 1994 | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) |
| 1990 | Dance Crazy in Hollywood | Self - Actor (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) |
| 1979 | The Hollywood Clowns | (archive footage) |
| 1976 | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) |
| 1976 | It's Showtime | Self (archive footage) |
| 1976 | Hooray for Hollywood | Self (archive footage) |
| 1974 | That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1974 | The Three Stooges Follies | Clarence Plunkett (archive footage) |
| 1970 | 4 Clowns | (archive footage) |
| 1970 | The Metaphysics of Buster Keaton | Self (archival footage) |
| 1966 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Erronius |
| 1966 | The Scribe | Journalist |
| 1965 | The Railrodder | The Man |
| 1965 | How to Stuff a Wild Bikini | Bwana |
| 1965 | Film | The Man |
| 1965 | Sergeant Deadhead | Airman Blinken |
| 1965 | Buster Keaton Rides Again | Self |
| 1965 | Beach Blanket Bingo | Buster |
| 1965 | Salute to Stan Laurel | Self |
| 1965 | War Italian Style | Gen. von Kassler |
| 1964 | Pajama Party | Chief Rotten Eagle |
| 1964 | The Big Parade of Comedy | Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) |
| 1963 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Jimmy the Crook |
| 1963 | The Triumph of Lester Snapwell | Lester Snapwell |
| 1963 | The Sound of Laughter | Elmer Butts |
| 1963 | 30 Years of Fun | (archive footage) |
| 1963 | There's No Business Like No Business | Self |
| 1962 | Crazy Days | Various (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1962 | The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers | Self |
| 1962 | Simon Pure Beer | Self |
| 1962 | Langlois-Keaton à Paris | Self |
| 1962 | The Great Chase | |
| 1961 | The Home Owner | The Home Owner |
| 1960 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Lion Tamer |
| 1960 | When Comedy Was King | edited from 'Cops' (archive footage) |
| 1960 | The Devil to Pay | Diablos |
| 1960 | Lifetime of Comedy | (archive footage) |
| 1958 | No Time at All | Harrison |
| 1958 | The Adventures of Mr. Pastry | Professor |
| 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | Train Conductor |
| 1954 | The Awakening | The Man |
| 1953 | L'Incantevole nemica | L'apprenti boulanger dans la pièce de théâtre |
| 1952 | Limelight | Calvero's Partner |
| 1952 | Paradise for Buster | Buster |
| 1951 | Life with Buster Keaton | |
| 1951 | The Slappiest Days of Our Lives | (archive footage) |
| 1950 | Sunset Boulevard | Buster Keaton |
| 1950 | The Misadventures of Buster Keaton | Buster |
| 1949 | In the Good Old Summertime | Hickey |
| 1949 | The Lovable Cheat | Goulard |
| 1949 | You're My Everything | Butler |
| 1947 | A Duel to the Death | The First Fisherman |
| 1946 | God's Country | Old Tarp / Mr. Boone |
| 1946 | Boom in the Moon | |
| 1945 | That's the Spirit | L.M. |
| 1945 | That Night with You | Sam - Short Order Cook |
| 1945 | She Went to the Races | Bellboy (uncredited) |
| 1944 | San Diego I Love You | Bus Driver |
| 1944 | Take It or Leave It | (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1943 | Forever and a Day | Wilkins |
| 1941 | So You Won't Squawk | Eddie |
| 1941 | General Nuisance | Peter Hedley Lamar Jr. |
| 1941 | She's Oil Mine | Buster Waters, plumber |
| 1941 | Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 | Self |
| 1940 | Li'l Abner | Lonesome Polecat |
| 1940 | Li'l Abner | |
| 1940 | The Spook Speaks | Buster |
| 1940 | Nothing But Pleasure | Clarence Plunkett |
| 1940 | The Taming of the Snood | Buster Keaton |
| 1940 | Pardon My Berth Marks | Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy |
| 1940 | His Ex Marks the Spot | Buster - the husband |
| 1940 | The Villain Still Pursued Her | William Dalton |
| 1940 | New Moon | Prisoner - 'LuLu' |
| 1939 | Hollywood Cavalcade | Buster Keaton |
| 1939 | Pest from the West | Sir |
| 1939 | Mooching Through Georgia | Homer Cobb |
| 1939 | Hollywood Hobbies | Self (uncredited) |
| 1937 | Jail Bait | |
| 1937 | Love Nest on Wheels | Elmer |
| 1937 | Ditto | The Forgotten Man |
| 1936 | Grand Slam Opera | Elmer Butts |
| 1936 | Blue Blazes | Elmer |
| 1936 | Mixed Magic | Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth |
| 1936 | The Invader | Leander Proudfoot |
| 1936 | The Chemist | Elmer Triple |
| 1936 | Three on a Limb | Elmer Brown |
| 1936 | Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs | Self |
| 1935 | Hayseed Romance | Elmer Dolittle |
| 1935 | One Run Elmer | Elmer |
| 1935 | Palooka from Paducah | Jim Diltz |
| 1935 | Tars and Stripes | Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle |
| 1935 | The Timid Young Man | Milton |
| 1935 | The E-Flat Man | Elmer |
| 1935 | La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | Self |
| 1934 | The Gold Ghost | Wally |
| 1934 | Allez Oop | Elmer |
| 1934 | The King of the Champs-Élysées | Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré |
| 1933 | Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 | Self |
| 1933 | What! No Beer? | Elmer J. Butts |
| 1932 | Speak Easily | Professor Post |
| 1932 | The Passionate Plumber | Elmer E. Tuttle |
| 1931 | The Stolen Jools | Policeman |
| 1931 | Parlor, Bedroom and Bath | Reginald Irving |
| 1931 | Sidewalks of New York | Harmon |
| 1931 | We're switching to Hollywood | Self |
| 1931 | Casanova wider Willen | Reggie Irving |
| 1930 | Forward, March! | |
| 1930 | Estrellados | Canuto Cuadratin |
| 1930 | Free and Easy | Elmer |
| 1930 | The Voice of Hollywood | |
| 1930 | Doughboys | Elmer J. Stuyvesant, Jr. |
| 1929 | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Self / Princess Raja |
| 1929 | Spite Marriage | Elmer |
| 1929 | Tide of Empire | Drunk Cowboy Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited) |
| 1928 | The Baby Cyclone | Stunt Double (uncredited) |
| 1928 | The Cameraman | Buster |
| 1928 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | William 'Willie' Canfield Jr. |
| 1927 | College | Ronald, The Boy |
| 1927 | Life in Hollywood No. 1 | Self |
| 1927 | Character Studies | Self (uncredited) |
| 1926 | The General | Johnnie Gray |
| 1926 | Battling Butler | Alfred Butler |
| 1925 | Go West | Friendless |
| 1925 | Seven Chances | James 'Jimmie' Shannon |
| 1925 | The Iron Mule | Indian (uncredited) |
| 1924 | Sherlock Jr. | Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr. |
| 1924 | The Navigator | Rollo Treadway |
| 1923 | Our Hospitality | William McKay |
| 1923 | Three Ages | The Boy |
| 1923 | The Balloonatic | The Young Man |
| 1923 | The Love Nest | Buster Keaton |
| 1922 | The Paleface | Little Chief Paleface |
| 1922 | The Blacksmith | Blacksmith's Assistant |
| 1922 | Cops | The Young Man |
| 1922 | Day Dreams | The Young Man |
| 1922 | My Wife's Relations | The Husband |
| 1922 | The Frozen North | The Bad Man |
| 1922 | The Electric House | Buster |
| 1922 | Seeing Stars | Self |
| 1921 | Hard Luck | Suicidal Boy |
| 1921 | The High Sign | Our Hero |
| 1921 | The Boat | The Boat Builder |
| 1921 | The Haunted House | Bank Clerk |
| 1921 | The Goat | The Goat |
| 1921 | The Play House | Orchestra / Minstrels / Dancers / Audience / Stagehand |
| 1920 | One Week | The Groom |
| 1920 | Convict 13 | Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard |
| 1920 | The Scarecrow | Farmhand |
| 1920 | Neighbors | The Boy |
| 1920 | The Saphead | Bertie Van Alstyne |
| 1920 | The Garage | Mechanic / Fireman |
| 1920 | The Round-Up | Indian (uncredited) |
| 1919 | Back Stage | Stagehand |
| 1919 | The Hayseed | Manager, General Store |
| 1918 | The Bell Boy | Bellboy |
| 1918 | Good Night, Nurse! | Dr. Hampton |
| 1918 | Out West | Sheriff, Saloon Owner |
| 1918 | The Cook | The Waiter (uncredited) |
| 1918 | Moonshine | Revenue Agent |
| 1917 | Coney Island | Rival / Cop with Moustache |
| 1917 | His Wedding Night | Delivery boy |
| 1917 | The Rough House | Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop |
| 1917 | The Butcher Boy | Buster |
| 1917 | Oh, Doctor! | Junior Holepoke |
| 1917 | A Reckless Romeo | Blind Organ Grinder |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Legends | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1992 | Funny Business | (archive footage) |
| 1987 | Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow | Self (archive footage) |
| 1964 | The Hollywood Palace | Self |
| 1963 | Burke's Law | Mortimer Lovely |
| 1963 | The Greatest Show on Earth | |
| 1960 | Route 66 | |
| 1959 | The Twilight Zone | Woodrow Mulligan |
| 1958 | The Donna Reed Show | |
| 1956 | The Rosemary Clooney Show | Self |
| 1956 | Playhouse 90 | Harrison |
| 1955 | Screen Director's Playhouse | Kelsey Dutton |
| 1952 | This Is Your Life | Self |
| 1950 | The Colgate Comedy Hour | Self |
| 1950 | What's My Line? | Self |
| 1948 | The Ed Sullivan Show | Self |