Actor
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
Acting
2025 -- Hodgepodge | Self (archive footage)
2025 -- Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr. with R.E.M.'s Monster and New Adventures in Hi-Fi: A Silents Synced Film | Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
2023 -- Stunts: A Taste for Risk | Various Roles (archive footage)
2023 -- Navigators |
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)
2018 -- The Great Buster: A Celebration | Self (archive footage)
2016 -- Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 |
2016 -- Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood | Self
2016 -- Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends | (archive footage)
2016 -- Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died | Self (archive footage)
2015 -- Notfilm | Self (archive footage)
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2012 -- Bad 25 | Ronald, The Boy (archive footage)
2011 -- Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2007 -- Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen | (archive footage)
2007 -- The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk | Self (archive footage)
2006 -- Edge of Outside | Buster (archive footage)
2006 -- Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts | (archive footage)
2006 -- Industrial Strength Keaton | Self
2004 -- So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM | Self (archive footage)
2001 -- Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One | Various
2001 -- Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two | Various
1998 -- Jackie Chan: My Story | (archive footage)
1994 -- That's Entertainment! III | (archive footage)
1990 -- Dance Crazy in Hollywood | Self - Actor (archive footage)
1986 -- Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend | Self (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)
1974 -- The Three Stooges Follies | Clarence Plunkett (archive footage)
1974 -- That's Entertainment! | (archive footage) (uncredited)
1970 -- 4 Clowns | (archive footage)
1966 -- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Erronius
1966 -- The Scribe | Journalist
1965 -- War Italian Style | Gen. von Kassler
1965 -- Salute to Stan Laurel | Self
1965 -- Buster Keaton Rides Again | Self
1965 -- Film | The Man
1965 -- Sergeant Deadhead | Airman Blinken
1965 -- How to Stuff a Wild Bikini | Bwana
1965 -- The Railrodder | The Man
1965 -- Beach Blanket Bingo |
1964 -- Pajama Party | Chief Rotten Eagle
1964 -- The Big Parade of Comedy | Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)
1963 -- The Sound of Laughter | Elmer Butts
1963 -- It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | Jimmy the Crook
1963 -- 30 Years of Fun | (archive footage)
1963 -- There's No Business Like No Business | Self
1963 -- The Triumph of Lester Snapwell | Lester Snapwell
1962 -- Simon Pure Beer | Self
1962 -- Crazy Days | Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962 -- Langlois-Keaton à Paris | Self
1962 -- The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers | Self
1961 -- The Home Owner | The Home Owner
1960 -- The Devil to Pay | Diablos
1960 -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Lion Tamer
1960 -- When Comedy Was King | edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)
1960 -- Lifetime of Comedy | (archive footage)
1958 -- The Adventures of Mr. Pastry | Professor
1958 -- No Time at All | Harrison
1956 -- Around the World in Eighty Days | Train Conductor
1955 -- The Silent Partner | Kelsey Dutton
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 -- The Slappiest Days of Our Lives | (archive footage)
1951 -- Life with Buster Keaton |
1950 -- The Misadventures of Buster Keaton | Buster
1950 -- Sunset Boulevard | Buster Keaton
1949 -- In the Good Old Summertime | Hickey
1949 -- You're My Everything | Butler
1949 -- The Lovable Cheat | Goulard
1947 -- A Duel to the Death | The First Fisherman
1946 -- Boom in the Moon |
1946 -- God's Country | Old Tarp / Mr. Boone
1945 -- She Went to the Races | Bellboy (uncredited)
1945 -- That Night with You | Sam - Short Order Cook
1945 -- That's the Spirit | L.M.
1944 -- San Diego I Love You | Bus Driver
1944 -- Take It or Leave It | (archive footage) (uncredited)
1943 -- Forever and a Day | Wilkins
1941 -- She's Oil Mine | Buster Waters, plumber
1941 -- General Nuisance | Peter Hedley Lamar Jr.
1941 -- Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 | Self
1941 -- So You Won't Squawk | Eddie
1940 -- His Ex Marks the Spot | Buster - the husband
1940 -- Li'l Abner |
1940 -- Li'l Abner | Lonesome Polecat
1940 -- The Villain Still Pursued Her | William Dalton
1940 -- The Spook Speaks | Buster
1940 -- New Moon | Prisoner - 'LuLu'
1940 -- The Taming of the Snood | Buster Keaton
1940 -- Pardon My Berth Marks | Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy
1940 -- Nothing But Pleasure | Clarence Plunkett
1939 -- Hollywood Cavalcade | Buster Keaton
1939 -- Mooching Through Georgia | Homer Cobb
1939 -- Pest from the West | Sir
1939 -- Hollywood Hobbies | Self (uncredited)
1937 -- Love Nest on Wheels | Elmer
1937 -- Ditto | The Forgotten Man
1937 -- Jail Bait |
1936 -- Mixed Magic | Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth
1936 -- The Chemist | Elmer Triple
1936 -- Blue Blazes | Elmer
1936 -- Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs | Self
1936 -- Grand Slam Opera | Elmer Butts
1936 -- Three on a Limb | Elmer Brown
1936 -- The Invader | Leander Proudfoot
1935 -- La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | Self
1935 -- The Timid Young Man | Milton
1935 -- The E-Flat Man | Elmer
1935 -- Tars and Stripes | Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle
1935 -- Hayseed Romance | Elmer Dolittle
1935 -- One Run Elmer | Elmer
1935 -- Palooka from Paducah | Jim Diltz
1934 -- The King of the Champs-Élysées | Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré
1934 -- Allez Oop | Elmer
1934 -- The Gold Ghost | Wally
1933 -- What! No Beer? | Elmer J. Butts
1933 -- Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 | Self
1932 -- Speak Easily | Professor Post
1932 -- The Passionate Plumber | Elmer E. Tuttle
1931 -- Casanova wider Willen | Reggie Irving
1931 -- Sidewalks of New York | Harmon
1931 -- We're switching to Hollywood | Self
1931 -- The Stolen Jools | Policeman
1931 -- Parlor, Bedroom and Bath | Reginald Irving
1930 -- Forward, March! |
1930 -- Doughboys | Elmer J. Stuyvesant, Jr.
1930 -- Estrellados | Canuto Cuadratin
1930 -- The Voice of Hollywood |
1930 -- Free and Easy | Elmer
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 -- Character Studies | Self (uncredited)
1927 -- College | Ronald, The Boy
1927 -- Life in Hollywood No. 1 | Self
1926 -- The General | Johnnie Gray
1926 -- Battling Butler | Alfred Butler
1925 -- Go West | Friendless
1925 -- The Iron Mule | Indian (uncredited)
1925 -- Seven Chances | James 'Jimmie' Shannon
1924 -- The Navigator | Rollo Treadway
1924 -- Sherlock Jr. | Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
1923 -- Our Hospitality | William McKay
1923 -- Three Ages | The Boy
1923 -- The Love Nest | Buster Keaton
1923 -- The Balloonatic | The Young Man
1922 -- Day Dreams | The Young Man
1922 -- Seeing Stars | Self
1922 -- The Electric House | Buster
1922 -- The Frozen North | The Bad Man
1922 -- The Blacksmith | Blacksmith's Assistant
1922 -- My Wife's Relations | The Husband
1922 -- Cops | The Young Man
1922 -- The Paleface | Little Chief Paleface
1921 -- The Boat | The Boat Builder
1921 -- The Play House | Orchestra / Minstrels / Dancers / Audience / Stagehand
1921 -- The Goat | The Goat
1921 -- The High Sign | Our Hero
1921 -- Hard Luck | Suicidal Boy
1921 -- The Haunted House | Bank Clerk
1920 -- Neighbors | The Boy
1920 -- The Scarecrow | Farmhand
1920 -- Convict 13 | Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard
1920 -- The Round-Up | Indian (uncredited)
1920 -- The Saphead | Bertie Van Alstyne
1920 -- One Week | The Groom
1920 -- The Garage | Mechanic / Fireman
1919 -- The Hayseed | Manager, General Store
1919 -- Back Stage | Stagehand
1918 -- The Cook | The Waiter (uncredited)
1918 -- Good Night, Nurse! | Dr. Hampton
1918 -- Moonshine | Revenue Agent
1918 -- The Bell Boy | Bellboy
1918 -- Out West | Sheriff, Saloon Owner
1917 -- Coney Island | Rival / Cop with Moustache
1917 -- Oh, Doctor! | Junior Holepoke
1917 -- His Wedding Night | Delivery boy
1917 -- The Rough House | Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop
1917 -- A Reckless Romeo | Blind Organ Grinder
1917 -- The Butcher Boy | Buster
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