Buster Keaton
Directing • Born 1895-10-03 – Died 1966-02-01
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.
Filmography
209 credits
The General
Movie • 1926
Johnnie Gray
Sherlock Jr.
Movie • 1924
Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
The Baby Cyclone
Movie • 1928
Stunt Double (uncredited)
Forward, March!
Movie • 1930
Sunset Boulevard
Movie • 1950
Buster Keaton
Our Hospitality
Movie • 1923
William McKay
Estrellados
Movie • 1930
Canuto Cuadratin
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie • 1956
Train Conductor
Li'l Abner
Movie • 1940
Lonesome Polecat
The Cameraman
Movie • 1928
Buster
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Movie • 1963
Jimmy the Crook
Li'l Abner
Movie • 1940
One Week
Movie • 1920
The Groom
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
Movie • 1933
Self
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
Movie • 1929
Self / Princess Raja
The Navigator
Movie • 1924
Rollo Treadway
The Railrodder
Movie • 1965
The Man
Go West
Movie • 1925
Friendless
In the Good Old Summertime
Movie • 1949
Hickey
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
Movie • 1965
Bwana
Seven Chances
Movie • 1925
James 'Jimmie' Shannon
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Movie • 1928
William 'Willie' Canfield Jr.
The Paleface
Movie • 1922
Little Chief Paleface
Three Ages
Movie • 1923
The Boy
The Hollywood Clowns
Movie • 1979
(archive footage)
College
Movie • 1927
Ronald, The Boy
Limelight
Movie • 1952
Calvero's Partner
Free and Easy
Movie • 1930
Elmer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Movie • 1960
Lion Tamer
The Blacksmith
Movie • 1922
Blacksmith's Assistant
Speak Easily
Movie • 1932
Professor Post
Forever and a Day
Movie • 1943
Wilkins
The Voice of Hollywood
Movie • 1930
Back Stage
Movie • 1919
Stagehand
Convict 13
Movie • 1920
Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard
Film
Movie • 1965
The Man
The Balloonatic
Movie • 1923
The Young Man
The Bell Boy
Movie • 1918
Bellboy
Cops
Movie • 1922
The Young Man
Coney Island
Movie • 1917
Rival / Cop with Moustache
Day Dreams
Movie • 1922
The Young Man
Good Night, Nurse!
Movie • 1918
Dr. Hampton
Hard Luck
Movie • 1921
Suicidal Boy
His Wedding Night
Movie • 1917
Delivery boy
My Wife's Relations
Movie • 1922
The Husband
The High Sign
Movie • 1921
Our Hero
Life in Hollywood No. 1
Movie • 1927
Self
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Movie • 1966
Erronius
The Boat
Movie • 1921
The Boat Builder
Jail Bait
Movie • 1937
Out West
Movie • 1918
Sheriff, Saloon Owner
Spite Marriage
Movie • 1929
Elmer
The Hayseed
Movie • 1919
Manager, General Store
The Rough House
Movie • 1917
Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop
The Scarecrow
Movie • 1920
Farmhand
Neighbors
Movie • 1920
The Boy
The Haunted House
Movie • 1921
Bank Clerk
The Goat
Movie • 1921
The Goat
The Play House
Movie • 1921
Orchestra / Minstrels / Dancers / Audience / Stagehand
The Frozen North
Movie • 1922
The Bad Man
The Electric House
Movie • 1922
Buster
The Love Nest
Movie • 1923
Buster Keaton
Battling Butler
Movie • 1926
Alfred Butler
The Gold Ghost
Movie • 1934
Wally
Allez Oop
Movie • 1934
Elmer
Grand Slam Opera
Movie • 1936
Elmer Butts
Blue Blazes
Movie • 1936
Elmer
Mixed Magic
Movie • 1936
Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth
Love Nest on Wheels
Movie • 1937
Elmer
Hollywood Cavalcade
Movie • 1939
Buster Keaton
The Saphead
Movie • 1920
Bertie Van Alstyne
The Butcher Boy
Movie • 1917
Buster
Oh, Doctor!
Movie • 1917
Junior Holepoke
Moonshine
Movie • 1918
Revenue Agent
The Cook
Movie • 1918
The Waiter (uncredited)
The Garage
Movie • 1920
Mechanic / Fireman
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Movie • 1931
Reginald Irving
The Stolen Jools
Movie • 1931
Policeman
Sidewalks of New York
Movie • 1931
Harmon
The Passionate Plumber
Movie • 1932
Elmer E. Tuttle
What! No Beer?
Movie • 1933
Elmer J. Butts
The Invader
Movie • 1936
Leander Proudfoot
Palooka from Paducah
Movie • 1935
Jim Diltz
One Run Elmer
Movie • 1935
Elmer
Hayseed Romance
Movie • 1935
Elmer Dolittle
Tars and Stripes
Movie • 1935
Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle
The E-Flat Man
Movie • 1935
Elmer
The Timid Young Man
Movie • 1935
Milton
Three on a Limb
Movie • 1936
Elmer Brown
The Chemist
Movie • 1936
Elmer Triple
Ditto
Movie • 1937
The Forgotten Man
Pest from the West
Movie • 1939
Sir
Mooching Through Georgia
Movie • 1939
Homer Cobb
Nothing But Pleasure
Movie • 1940
Clarence Plunkett
Pardon My Berth Marks
Movie • 1940
Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy
The Taming of the Snood
Movie • 1940
Buster Keaton
The Spook Speaks
Movie • 1940
Buster
The Villain Still Pursued Her
Movie • 1940
William Dalton
His Ex Marks the Spot
Movie • 1940
Buster - the husband
So You Won't Squawk
Movie • 1941
Eddie
General Nuisance
Movie • 1941
Peter Hedley Lamar Jr.
She's Oil Mine
Movie • 1941
Buster Waters, plumber
San Diego I Love You
Movie • 1944
Bus Driver
That's the Spirit
Movie • 1945
L.M.
That Night with You
Movie • 1945
Sam - Short Order Cook
God's Country
Movie • 1946
Old Tarp / Mr. Boone
Boom in the Moon
Movie • 1946
The Lovable Cheat
Movie • 1949
Goulard
You're My Everything
Movie • 1949
Butler
L'Incantevole nemica
Movie • 1953
L'apprenti boulanger dans la pièce de théâtre
The Misadventures of Buster Keaton
Movie • 1950
Buster
The Triumph of Lester Snapwell
Movie • 1963
Lester Snapwell
Pajama Party
Movie • 1964
Chief Rotten Eagle
Sergeant Deadhead
Movie • 1965
Airman Blinken
The Scribe
Movie • 1966
Journalist
A Reckless Romeo
Movie • 1917
Blind Organ Grinder
The Image Book
Movie • 2018
(archive footage)
The Iron Mule
Movie • 1925
Indian (uncredited)
Doughboys
Movie • 1930
Elmer J. Stuyvesant, Jr.
When Comedy Was King
Movie • 1960
edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)
Buster Keaton Rides Again
Movie • 1965
Self
Life with Buster Keaton
Movie • 1951
A Duel to the Death
Movie • 1947
The First Fisherman
4 Clowns
Movie • 1970
(archive footage)
Crazy Days
Movie • 1962
Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
Seeing Stars
Movie • 1922
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
Movie • 1941
Self
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
Movie • 1951
(archive footage)
The King of the Champs-Élysées
Movie • 1934
Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré
The Home Owner
Movie • 1961
The Home Owner
The Devil to Pay
Movie • 1960
Diablos
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Movie • 1936
Self
Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood
Movie • 2016
Self
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
Movie • 1935
Self
Hollywood Hobbies
Movie • 1939
Self (uncredited)
Paradise for Buster
Movie • 1952
Buster
Going Hollywood: The '30s
Movie • 1984
(archive footage)
Beach Blanket Bingo
Movie • 1965
Buster
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
Movie • 1962
Self
Dance Crazy in Hollywood
Movie • 1990
Self - Actor (archive footage)
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
Movie • 2007
Self (archive footage)
Tide of Empire
Movie • 1929
Drunk Cowboy Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)
No Time at All
Movie • 1958
Harrison
That's Entertainment!
Movie • 1974
(archive footage) (uncredited)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Stunts: A Taste for Risk
Movie • 2023
Various Roles (archive footage)
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
Movie • 2006
(archive footage)
We’re Switching to Hollywood
Movie • 1931
Self
New Moon
Movie • 1940
Prisoner - 'LuLu'
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
Movie • 2016
Self (archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III
Movie • 1994
(archive footage)
Character Studies
Movie • 1927
Self (uncredited)
Lifetime of Comedy
Movie • 1960
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II
Movie • 1976
(archive footage)
The Round-Up
Movie • 1920
Indian (uncredited)
She Went to the Races
Movie • 1945
Bellboy (uncredited)
Take It or Leave It
Movie • 1944
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923
Movie • 2016
The Awakening
Movie • 1954
The Man
Simon Pure Beer
Movie • 1962
Self
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Barney's Wall
Movie • 2019
Self (archive footage)
Notfilm
Movie • 2015
Self (archive footage)
Salute to Stan Laurel
Movie • 1965
Self
The Big Parade of Comedy
Movie • 1964
Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)
It's Showtime
Movie • 1976
Self (archive footage)
The Sound of Laughter
Movie • 1963
Elmer Butts
War Italian Style
Movie • 1965
Gen. von Kassler
Langlois-Keaton à Paris
Movie • 1962
Self
Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends
Movie • 2016
(archive footage)
Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
Casanova wider Willen
Movie • 1931
Reggie Irving
30 Years of Fun
Movie • 1963
(archive footage)
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One
Movie • 2001
Various
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two
Movie • 2001
Various
The Adventures of Mr. Pastry
Movie • 1958
Professor
There's No Business Like No Business
Movie • 1963
Self
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen
Movie • 2007
(archive footage)
Hodgepodge
Movie • 2025
Self (archive footage)
The Three Stooges Follies
Movie • 1974
Clarence Plunkett (archive footage)
Busta Keaton in COPS
Movie • 2017
The Young Man (archive footage from 'Cops')
You Have to Live Somewhere
Movie • 2014
(archive footage)
The Great Chase
Movie • 1962
Hooray for Hollywood
Movie • 1976
Self (archive footage)
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
Movie • 1999
(archive footage)
The Metaphysics of Buster Keaton
Movie • 1970
Self (archival footage)
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
Movie • 2000
Self (archive footage)
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Movie • 2021
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
R.E.M x Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr
Movie • 2026
Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
A Country Hero
Movie • 1917
Vaudeville Artist
Buster se marie
Movie • 1931
Reggie Irving
Plumber in love
Movie • 1932
Elmer E. Tuttle
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Movie • 2020
archive footage
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Mortimer Lovely
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self
Route 66
TV • 1960
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV • 1948
Self
The Twilight Zone
TV • 1959
Woodrow Mulligan
The Greatest Show on Earth
TV • 1963
The Hollywood Palace
TV • 1964
Self
This Is Your Life
TV • 1952
Self
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Funny Business
TV • 1992
(archive footage)
The Rosemary Clooney Show
TV • 1956
Self
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
TV • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Legends
TV • 2006
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
What's My Line?
TV • 1950
Self
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Kelsey Dutton
Playhouse 90
TV • 1956
Harrison