Buster Keaton

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: Acting

Born: Piqua, Kansas, USA, 1895-10-03

Died: 1966-02-01

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1917	The Butcher Boy	Buster	61
2	1917	A Reckless Romeo	Blind Organ Grinder	53
3	1917	The Rough House	Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop	55
4	1917	His Wedding Night	Delivery boy	55
5	1917	Oh, Doctor!	Junior Holepoke	56
6	1917	Coney Island	Rival / Cop with Moustache	58
7	1918	Out West	Sheriff, Saloon Owner	60
8	1918	The Bell Boy	Bellboy	65
9	1918	Moonshine	Revenue Agent	56
10	1918	Good Night, Nurse!	Dr. Hampton	56
11	1918	The Cook	The Waiter (uncredited)	62
12	1919	Back Stage	Stagehand	63
13	1919	The Hayseed	Manager, General Store	59
14	1920	The Garage	Mechanic / Fireman	60
15	1920	One Week	The Groom	79
16	1920	The Saphead	Bertie Van Alstyne	58
17	1920	The Round-Up	Indian (uncredited)	60
18	1920	Convict 13	Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard	67
19	1920	The Scarecrow	Farmhand	74
20	1920	Neighbors	The Boy	71
21	1921	The Haunted House	Bank Clerk	65
22	1921	Hard Luck	Suicidal Boy	68
23	1921	The High Sign	Our Hero	71
24	1921	The Goat	The Goat	72
25	1921	The Play House	Orchestra / Minstrels / Dancers / Audience / Stagehand	68
26	1921	The Boat	The Boat Builder	65
27	1922	The Paleface	Little Chief Paleface	61
28	1922	Cops	The Young Man	71
29	1922	My Wife's Relations	The Husband	61
30	1922	The Blacksmith	Blacksmith's Assistant	66
31	1922	The Frozen North	The Bad Man	62
32	1922	The Electric House	Buster	67
33	1922	Seeing Stars	Self	49
34	1922	Day Dreams	The Young Man	65
35	1923	The Balloonatic	The Young Man	63
36	1923	The Love Nest	Buster Keaton	67
37	1923	Three Ages	The Boy	68
38	1923	Our Hospitality	William McKay	75
39	1924	Sherlock Jr.	Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.	81
40	1924	The Navigator	Rollo Treadway	71
41	1925	Seven Chances	James 'Jimmie' Shannon	75
42	1925	The Iron Mule	Indian (uncredited)	58
43	1925	Go West	Friendless	69
44	1926	Battling Butler	Alfred Butler	67
45	1926	The General	Johnnie Gray	80
46	1927	Life in Hollywood No. 1	Self	0
47	1927	College	Ronald, The Boy	68
48	1927	Character Studies	Self (uncredited)	60
49	1928	Steamboat Bill, Jr.	William 'Willie' Canfield Jr.	76
50	1928	The Cameraman	Buster	79
51	1928	The Baby Cyclone	Stunt Double (uncredited)	0
52	1929	Tide of Empire	Drunk Cowboy Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)	59
53	1929	Spite Marriage	Elmer	67
54	1929	The Hollywood Revue of 1929	Self / Princess Raja	57
55	1930	Free and Easy	Elmer	61
56	1930	The Voice of Hollywood		30
57	1930	Estrellados	Canuto Cuadratin	0
58	1930	Doughboys	Elmer J. Stuyvesant, Jr.	60
59	1930	Forward, March!		0
60	1931	Parlor, Bedroom and Bath	Reginald Irving	54
61	1931	The Stolen Jools	Policeman	56
62	1931	We're switching to Hollywood	Self	48
63	1931	Sidewalks of New York	Harmon	62
64	1931	Casanova wider Willen	Reggie Irving	0
65	1932	The Passionate Plumber	Elmer E. Tuttle	60
66	1932	Speak Easily	Professor Post	58
67	1933	Hollywood on Parade No. A-6	Self	50
68	1933	What! No Beer?	Elmer J. Butts	54
69	1934	The Gold Ghost	Wally	53
70	1934	Allez Oop	Elmer	61
71	1934	The King of the Champs-Élysées	Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré	55
72	1935	Palooka from Paducah	Jim Diltz	52
73	1935	One Run Elmer	Elmer	37
74	1935	Hayseed Romance	Elmer Dolittle	60
75	1935	Tars and Stripes	Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle	47
76	1935	The E-Flat Man	Elmer	50
77	1935	The Timid Young Man	Milton	50
78	1935	La Fiesta de Santa Barbara	Self	58
79	1936	The Invader	Leander Proudfoot	40
80	1936	Three on a Limb	Elmer Brown	57
81	1936	Grand Slam Opera	Elmer Butts	57
82	1936	Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs	Self	10
83	1936	Blue Blazes	Elmer	54
84	1936	The Chemist	Elmer Triple	60
85	1936	Mixed Magic	Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth	58
86	1937	Jail Bait		50
87	1937	Ditto	The Forgotten Man	55
88	1937	Love Nest on Wheels	Elmer	62
89	1939	Hollywood Hobbies	Self (uncredited)	56
90	1939	Pest from the West	Sir	70
91	1939	Mooching Through Georgia	Homer Cobb	60
92	1939	Hollywood Cavalcade	Buster Keaton	51
93	1940	Nothing But Pleasure	Clarence Plunkett	58
94	1940	Pardon My Berth Marks	Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy	65
95	1940	The Taming of the Snood	Buster Keaton	55
96	1940	New Moon	Prisoner - 'LuLu'	68
97	1940	The Spook Speaks	Buster	50
98	1940	The Villain Still Pursued Her	William Dalton	51
99	1940	Li'l Abner	Lonesome Polecat	59
100	1940	Li'l Abner		59
101	1940	His Ex Marks the Spot	Buster - the husband	46
102	1941	So You Won't Squawk	Eddie	65
103	1941	Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1	Self	0
104	1941	General Nuisance	Peter Hedley Lamar Jr.	63
105	1941	She's Oil Mine	Buster Waters, plumber	67
106	1943	Forever and a Day	Wilkins	73
107	1944	Take It or Leave It	(archive footage) (uncredited)	40
108	1944	San Diego I Love You	Bus Driver	63
109	1945	That's the Spirit	L.M.	40
110	1945	That Night with You	Sam - Short Order Cook	0
111	1945	She Went to the Races	Bellboy (uncredited)	55
112	1946	God's Country	Old Tarp / Mr. Boone	60
113	1946	Boom in the Moon		45
114	1947	A Duel to the Death	The First Fisherman	0
115	1949	The Lovable Cheat	Goulard	30
116	1949	You're My Everything	Butler	33
117	1949	In the Good Old Summertime	Hickey	66
118	1950	Sunset Boulevard	Buster Keaton	83
119	1950	The Misadventures of Buster Keaton	Buster	70
120	1951	Life with Buster Keaton		0
121	1951	The Slappiest Days of Our Lives	(archive footage)	0
122	1952	Paradise for Buster	Buster	0
123	1952	Limelight	Calvero's Partner	79
124	1953	L'Incantevole nemica	L'apprenti boulanger dans la pièce de théâtre	70
125	1954	The Awakening	The Man	60
126	1955	The Silent Partner	Kelsey Dutton	60
127	1956	Around the World in Eighty Days	Train Conductor	66
128	1958	No Time at All	Harrison	0
129	1958	The Adventures of Mr. Pastry	Professor	0
130	1960	Lifetime of Comedy	(archive footage)	0
131	1960	When Comedy Was King	edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)	67
132	1960	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Lion Tamer	58
133	1960	The Devil to Pay	Diablos	0
134	1961	The Home Owner	The Home Owner	70
135	1962	The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers	Self	70
136	1962	Langlois-Keaton à Paris	Self	0
137	1962	Crazy Days	Various (archive footage) (uncredited)	58
138	1962	Simon Pure Beer	Self	0
139	1963	The Triumph of Lester Snapwell	Lester Snapwell	70
140	1963	There's No Business Like No Business	Self	0
141	1963	30 Years of Fun	(archive footage)	30
142	1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Jimmy the Crook	70
143	1963	The Sound of Laughter	Elmer Butts	20
144	1964	The Big Parade of Comedy	Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)	63
145	1964	Pajama Party	Chief Rotten Eagle	49
146	1965	Beach Blanket Bingo		62
147	1965	The Railrodder	The Man	66
148	1965	How to Stuff a Wild Bikini	Bwana	55
149	1965	Sergeant Deadhead	Airman Blinken	40
150	1965	Film	The Man	69
151	1965	Buster Keaton Rides Again	Self	73
152	1965	Salute to Stan Laurel	Self	0
153	1965	War Italian Style	Gen. von Kassler	51
154	1966	The Scribe	Journalist	58
155	1966	A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum	Erronius	60
156	1970	4 Clowns	(archive footage)	75
157	1974	That's Entertainment!	(archive footage) (uncredited)	73
158	1974	The Three Stooges Follies	Clarence Plunkett (archive footage)	0
159	1976	It's Showtime	Self (archive footage)	70
160	1976	That's Entertainment, Part II	(archive footage)	68
161	1979	The Hollywood Clowns	(archive footage)	0
162	1984	Going Hollywood: The '30s	(archive footage)	100
163	1986	Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend	Self (archive footage)	75
164	1990	Dance Crazy in Hollywood	Self - Actor (archive footage)	60
165	1994	That's Entertainment! III	(archive footage)	69
166	1998	Jackie Chan: My Story	(archive footage)	62
167	2001	Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two	Various	50
168	2001	Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One	Various	50
169	2004	So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM	Self (archive footage)	70
170	2006	Industrial Strength Keaton	Self	0
171	2006	Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts	(archive footage)	0
172	2006	Edge of Outside	Buster (archive footage)	58
173	2007	The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk	Self (archive footage)	70
174	2007	Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen	(archive footage)	0
175	2011	Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	79
176	2012	Bad 25	Ronald, The Boy (archive footage)	73
177	2014	You Have to Live Somewhere	(archive footage)	0
178	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
179	2015	Notfilm	Self (archive footage)	50
180	2016	Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died	Self (archive footage)	0
181	2016	Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends	(archive footage)	90
182	2016	Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood	Self	79
183	2016	Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923		70
184	2017	Busta Keaton in COPS	The Young Man (archive footage from 'Cops')	0
185	2018	The Great Buster: A Celebration	Self (archive footage)	72
186	2018	The Image Book	(archive footage)	64
187	2019	Barney's Wall	Self (archive footage)	0
188	2020	Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies	Self (archive footage)	80
189	2023	Navigators		40
190	2023	Stunts: A Taste for Risk	Various Roles (archive footage)	90
191	2025	Hodgepodge	Self (archive footage)	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1948	The Ed Sullivan Show	Self	66
2	1950	What's My Line?	Self - Mystery Guest	69
3	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self	70
4	1952	This Is Your Life	Self	66
5	1955	Screen Director's Playhouse	Kelsey Dutton	65
6	1956	The Rosemary Clooney Show	Self	0
7	1956	Playhouse 90	Harrison	75
8	1958	The Donna Reed Show		63
9	1959	The Twilight Zone	Woodrow Mulligan	84
10	1960	Route 66		64
11	1963	The Greatest Show on Earth		50
12	1963	Burke's Law	Mortimer Lovely	60
13	1964	The Hollywood Palace	Self - Sketch Actor	45
14	1987	Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow	Self (archive footage)	76
15	1990	Star Life	Self (archive footage)	100
16	1992	Funny Business	(archive footage)	80
17	2006	Legends	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	50