Personal Info
Known Credits
190
Gender
Male
Birthdate
1895-10-03 (130 Y.O)
Place Of Birth
Piqua, Kansas, USA
Also Known For
The Great Stone FaceJoseph Frank Keaton巴斯特·基顿
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