Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton 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". Keaton 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. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies."Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made. A 2002 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. Three other Keaton films received votes in the magazine's survey: Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., and The Navigator.
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- Born:
- Oct 4, 1895 In Piqua, Kansas, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 176
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Butcher Boy 1917-04-23
- Latest Project:
- Movie Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies 2020-06-16
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies | Self (archive footage) | 2020-06-16 |
| Movie | Barney's Wall | Self (archive footage) | 2019-05-04 |
| Movie | The Great Buster: A Celebration | Self (archive footage) | 2018-10-05 |
| Movie | The Image Book | (archive footage) | 2018-10-11 |
| Movie | Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died | Self (archive footage) | 2016-01-01 |
| Movie | Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 | 2016-07-17 | |
| Movie | Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends | (archive footage) | 2016-02-04 |
| Movie | Notfilm | Self (archive footage) | 2015-10-27 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Movie | Bad 25 | Ronald, The Boy (archive footage) | 2012-11-22 |
| Movie | Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | 2011-12-28 |
| Movie | The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Self (archive footage) | 2007-09-02 |
| Movie | Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen | (archive footage) | 2007-12-31 |
| Movie | Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts | (archive footage) | 2006-03-07 |
| Movie | Edge of Outside | Buster (archive footage) | 2006-06-11 |
| Movie | So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM | Self (archive footage) | 2004-12-07 |
| Movie | Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two | Various | 2001-09-05 |
| Movie | Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One | Various | 2001-09-05 |
| Movie | Jackie Chan: My Story | (archive footage) | 1998-07-17 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage) | 1994-07-01 |
| Series | Funny Business | (archive footage) | 1992-11-22 |
| Movie | Dance Crazy in Hollywood | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 1990-01-01 |
| Series | Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow | Self (archive footage) | 1987-09-30 |
| Movie | Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self (archive footage) | 1986-04-19 |
| Movie | Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984-01-01 |
| Movie | The Hollywood Clowns | (archive footage) | 1979-03-23 |
| Movie | It's Showtime | Self (archive footage) | 1976-03-31 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment, Part II | (archive footage) | 1976-05-16 |
| Movie | That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1974-06-21 |
| Movie | 4 Clowns | (archive footage) | 1970-09-01 |
| Movie | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Erronius | 1966-10-16 |
| Movie | How to Stuff a Wild Bikini | Bwana | 1965-07-14 |
| Movie | Beach Blanket Bingo | 1965-04-14 | |
| Movie | Sergeant Deadhead | Airman Blinken | 1965-08-18 |
| Movie | Buster Keaton Rides Again | Himself | 1965-10-30 |
| Movie | War Italian Style | Gen. von Kassler | 1965-11-26 |
| Movie | Salute to Stan Laurel | Self | 1965-11-23 |
| Movie | The Big Parade of Comedy | Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage) | 1964-09-02 |
| Movie | Pajama Party | Chief Rotten Eagle | 1964-11-11 |
| Movie | 30 Years of Fun | (archive footage) | 1963-02-10 |
| Movie | The Triumph of Lester Snapwell | Lester Snapwell | 1963-01-01 |
| Movie | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Jimmy the Crook | 1963-11-07 |
| Movie | The Sound of Laughter | Elmer Butts | 1963-12-17 |
| Movie | Langlois-Keaton à Paris | Self | 1962-02-22 |
| Movie | The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers | Self | 1962-01-06 |
| Movie | Crazy Days | Various (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1962-07-12 |
| Movie | Lifetime of Comedy | (archive footage) | 1960-01-01 |
| Movie | When Comedy Was King | edited from 'Cops' (archive footage) | 1960-03-29 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Lion Tamer | 1960-07-21 |
| Movie | The Devil to Pay | Diablos | 1960-11-09 |
| Movie | The Adventures of Mr. Pastry | Professor | 1958-06-21 |
| Movie | The Golden Age of Comedy | 1957-12-26 | |
| Movie | Around the World in Eighty Days | Train Conductor | 1956-10-17 |
| Movie | The Silent Partner | Kelsey Dutton | 1955-12-21 |
| Movie | The Awakening | The Man | 1954-07-14 |
| Movie | L'Incantevole nemica | L'apprenti boulanger dans la pièce de théâtre | 1953-06-14 |
| Movie | Paradise for Buster | Buster | 1952-05-31 |
| Movie | Limelight | Calvero's Partner | 1952-10-23 |
| Movie | Life with Buster Keaton | 1951-02-10 | |
| Movie | The Slappiest Days of Our Lives | (archive footage) | 1951-03-23 |
| Movie | Sunset Boulevard | Buster Keaton | 1950-08-10 |
| Movie | The Misadventures of Buster Keaton | Buster | 1950-12-31 |
| Movie | The Lovable Cheat | Goulard | 1949-05-11 |
| Movie | You're My Everything | Butler | 1949-07-22 |
| Movie | In the Good Old Summertime | Hickey | 1949-07-29 |
| Movie | A Duel to the Death | The First Fisherman | 1947-01-01 |
| Movie | God's Country | Old Tarp / Mr. Boone | 1946-03-15 |
| Movie | Boom in the Moon | 1946-08-02 | |
| Movie | That's the Spirit | L.M. | 1945-06-01 |
| Movie | That Night with You | Sam - Short Order Cook | 1945-09-28 |
| Movie | She Went to the Races | Bellboy (uncredited) | 1945-11-04 |
| Movie | Take It or Leave It | (archive footage) (uncredited) | 1944-07-17 |
| Movie | San Diego I Love You | Bus Driver | 1944-09-29 |
| Movie | Forever and a Day | Wilkins | 1943-01-21 |
| Movie | So You Won't Squawk | Eddie | 1941-02-21 |
| Movie | She's Oil Mine | Buster Waters, plumber | 1941-11-20 |
| Movie | General Nuisance | Peter Hedley Lamar Jr. | 1941-09-18 |
| Movie | The Taming of the Snood | Buster Keaton | 1940-06-28 |
| Movie | Pardon My Berth Marks | Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy | 1940-03-22 |
| Movie | Nothing But Pleasure | Clarence Plunkett | 1940-01-19 |
| Movie | New Moon | Prisoner - 'LuLu' | 1940-06-28 |
| Movie | The Spook Speaks | Buster | 1940-09-20 |
| Movie | His Ex Marks the Spot | Buster - the husband | 1940-12-13 |
| Movie | Li'l Abner | 1940-11-09 | |
| Movie | The Villain Still Pursued Her | William Dalton | 1940-10-11 |
| Movie | Hollywood Hobbies | Self (uncredited) | 1939-05-03 |
| Movie | Pest from the West | Sir | 1939-06-16 |
| Movie | Mooching Through Georgia | Homer Cobb | 1939-08-11 |
| Movie | Hollywood Cavalcade | Buster Keaton | 1939-10-13 |
| Movie | Jail Bait | 1937-01-08 | |
| Movie | Ditto | The Forgotten Man | 1937-02-12 |
| Movie | Love Nest on Wheels | Elmer | 1937-03-26 |
| Movie | Three on a Limb | Elmer Brown | 1936-01-03 |
| Movie | The Invader | Leander Proudfoot | 1936-01-02 |
| Movie | Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs | Self | 1936-08-05 |
| Movie | Grand Slam Opera | Elmer Butts | 1936-02-21 |
| Movie | Mixed Magic | Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth | 1936-11-20 |
| Movie | The Chemist | Elmer Triple | 1936-10-09 |
| Movie | Blue Blazes | Elmer | 1936-08-21 |
| Movie | One Run Elmer | Elmer | 1935-02-22 |
| Movie | Palooka from Paducah | Jim Diltz | 1935-01-11 |
| Movie | Hayseed Romance | Elmer Dolittle | 1935-03-15 |
| Movie | The E-Flat Man | Elmer | 1935-08-09 |
| Movie | The Timid Young Man | Milton | 1935-10-25 |
| Movie | Tars and Stripes | Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle | 1935-05-03 |
| Movie | La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | Self | 1935-12-07 |
| Movie | Allez Oop | Elmer | 1934-05-25 |
| Movie | The Gold Ghost | Wally | 1934-03-16 |
| Movie | The King of the Champs-Élysées | Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré | 1934-12-10 |
| Movie | What! No Beer? | Elmer J. Butts | 1933-02-10 |
| Movie | The Passionate Plumber | Elmer E. Tuttle | 1932-02-06 |
| Movie | Speak Easily | Professor Post | 1932-08-13 |
| Movie | Parlor, Bedroom and Bath | Reginald Irving | 1931-02-28 |
| Movie | The Stolen Jools | Policeman | 1931-04-04 |
| Movie | Sidewalks of New York | Harmon | 1931-09-26 |
| Movie | We're switching to Hollywood | Self | 1931-06-09 |
| Movie | Casanova wider Willen | Reggie Irving | 1931-10-19 |
| Movie | The Voice of Hollywood | 1930-04-28 | |
| Movie | Free and Easy | Elmer | 1930-03-22 |
| Movie | Doughboys | Elmer J. Stuyvesant, Jr. | 1930-08-30 |
| Movie | Estrellados | Canuto Cuadratin | 1930-07-07 |
| Movie | Forward, March! | 1930-12-11 | |
| Movie | Spite Marriage | Elmer | 1929-03-24 |
| Movie | Tide of Empire | Drunk Cowboy Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited) | 1929-03-23 |
| Movie | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | Self / Princess Raja | 1929-11-23 |
| Movie | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | William 'Willie' Canfield Jr. | 1928-05-09 |
| Movie | The Cameraman | Buster | 1928-09-10 |
| Movie | The Baby Cyclone | Stunt Double (uncredited) | 1928-09-26 |
| Movie | College | Ronald, The Boy | 1927-09-10 |
| Movie | Character Studies | Self (uncredited) | 1927-11-20 |
| Movie | Battling Butler | Alfred Butler | 1926-08-02 |
| Movie | The General | Johnnie Gray | 1926-12-25 |
| Movie | The Iron Mule | Indian (uncredited) | 1925-04-12 |
| Movie | Seven Chances | James 'Jimmie' Shannon | 1925-03-15 |
| Movie | Go West | Friendless | 1925-11-01 |
| Movie | Sherlock Jr. | Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr. | 1924-04-17 |
| Movie | The Navigator | Rollo Treadway | 1924-09-28 |
| Movie | The Love Nest | Buster Keaton | 1923-03-01 |
| Movie | The Balloonatic | The Young Man | 1923-01-22 |
| Movie | Three Ages | The Boy | 1923-09-24 |
| Movie | Our Hospitality | William McKay | 1923-11-19 |
| Movie | My Wife's Relations | The Husband | 1922-05-15 |
| Movie | The Paleface | Little Chief Paleface | 1922-01-01 |
| Movie | The Blacksmith | Blacksmith's Assistant | 1922-07-21 |
| Movie | Cops | The Young Man | 1922-03-11 |
| Movie | The Frozen North | The Bad Man | 1922-08-28 |
| Movie | The Electric House | Buster | 1922-10-01 |
| Movie | Day Dreams | The Young Man | 1922-11-27 |
| Movie | Seeing Stars | Self | 1922-10-29 |
| Movie | The High Sign | Our Hero | 1921-04-18 |
| Movie | The Haunted House | Bank Clerk | 1921-02-21 |
| Movie | Hard Luck | Suicidal Boy | 1921-03-14 |
| Movie | The Goat | The Goat | 1921-05-15 |
| Movie | The Boat | The Boat Builder | 1921-11-10 |
| Movie | The Play House | Orchestra / Minstrels / Dancers / Audience / Stagehand | 1921-10-26 |
| Movie | One Week | The Groom | 1920-08-29 |
| Movie | The Garage | Mechanic / Fireman | 1920-01-11 |
| Movie | The Saphead | Bertie Van Alstyne | 1920-09-01 |
| Movie | The Scarecrow | Farmhand | 1920-11-07 |
| Movie | Neighbors | The Boy | 1920-12-12 |
| Movie | Convict 13 | Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard | 1920-10-27 |
| Movie | The Round-Up | Indian (uncredited) | 1920-10-10 |
| Movie | Back Stage | Stagehand | 1919-09-07 |
| Movie | The Hayseed | Manager, General Store | 1919-10-26 |
| Movie | Out West | Sheriff, Saloon Owner | 1918-01-20 |
| Movie | Moonshine | Revenue Agent | 1918-05-12 |
| Movie | The Bell Boy | Bellboy | 1918-03-18 |
| Movie | Good Night, Nurse! | Dr. Hampton | 1918-06-30 |
| Movie | The Cook | The Waiter (uncredited) | 1918-09-15 |
| Movie | A Reckless Romeo | Blind Organ Grinder | 1917-05-21 |
| Movie | The Butcher Boy | Buster | 1917-04-23 |
| Movie | The Rough House | Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop | 1917-06-25 |
| Movie | A Country Hero | Vaudeville Artist | 1917-12-10 |
| Movie | Coney Island | Rival / Cop with Moustache | 1917-10-29 |
| Movie | Oh, Doctor! | Junior Holepoke | 1917-09-30 |
| Movie | His Wedding Night | Delivery boy | 1917-08-20 |