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
all 235
Movies 215
self 52
Director 25
TV Shows 20
Producer 12
Writer 4
Self (archive footage)
Hodgepodge (2025)
Movie
Various Roles (archive footage)
Stunts: A Taste for Risk (2023)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
The Codebreaker (2021)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies (2020)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Barney's Wall (2019)
Movie
(archive footage)
The Image Book (2018)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
Movie
The Young Man (archive footage from 'Cops') / Director
Busta Keaton in COPS (2017)
Movie
(archive footage)
Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends (2016)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died (2016)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Notfilm (2015)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
And the Oscar Goes To... (2014)
Movie
(archive footage)
You Have to Live Somewhere (2014)
Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic (2011)
Movie
Buster Keaton
Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations (2010)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
Buster Keaton: Head Over Heels in Hollywood (2008)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008)
Movie
(archive footage)
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen (2007)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk (2007)
Movie
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Legends (2006)
TV
Buster (archive footage)
Edge of Outside (2006)
Movie
(archive footage)
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts (2006)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
Hollywood Rivals: Chaplin vs Keaton (2006)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004)
Movie
(archive footage)
Jackie Chan: My Story (1998)
Movie
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Movie
(archive footage)
Funny Business (1992)
TV
Self (archive footage)
Star Life (1990)
TV
Self - Actor (archive footage)
Dance Crazy in Hollywood (1990)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow (1987)
TV
Self (archive footage)
Marilyn Monroe: Beyond the Legend (1986)
Movie
(archive footage)
Going Hollywood: The '30s (1984)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
Great Movie Stunts: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Movie
(archive footage)
The Hollywood Clowns (1979)
Movie
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
It's Showtime (1976)
Movie
Clarence Plunkett (archive footage)
The Three Stooges Follies (1974)
Movie
(archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
Movie
(archive footage)
4 Clowns (1970)
Movie
Various Characters
The Great Stone Face (1968)
Movie
Journalist
The Scribe (1966)
Movie
Gen. von Kassler
War Italian Style (1965)
Movie
The Man
Film (1965)
Movie
Airman Blinken
Sergeant Deadhead (1965)
Movie
The Man
The Railrodder (1965)
Movie
Chief Rotten Eagle
Pajama Party (1964)
Movie
4
Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Movie
Self - Sketch Actor
The Hollywood Palace (1964)
TV
Elmer Butts
The Sound of Laughter (1963)
Movie
Jimmy the Crook
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Movie
5.79
Mortimer Lovely
Burke's Law (1963)
TV
6
(archive footage)
30 Years of Fun (1963)
Movie
Lester Snapwell
The Triumph of Lester Snapwell (1963)
Movie
Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
Crazy Days (1962)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
Return of the General (1962)
Movie
The Home Owner
The Home Owner (1961)
Movie
Diablos
The Devil to Pay (1960)
Movie
edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)
When Comedy Was King (1960)
Movie
(archive footage)
Lifetime of Comedy (1960)
Movie
Woodrow Mulligan
The Twilight Zone (1959)
TV
8
Harrison
No Time at All (1958)
Movie
Technical Advisor
The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
Movie
Train Conductor
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Movie
4.67
Harrison
Playhouse 90 (1956)
TV
Kelsey Dutton
The Silent Partner (1955)
Movie
Kelsey Dutton
Screen Director's Playhouse (1955)
TV
Self - Guest
Make the Connection (1955)
TV
Dr. Bradley
The Best of Broadway (1954)
TV
The Man
The Awakening (1954)
Movie
L'apprenti boulanger dans la pièce de théâtre
L'Incantevole nemica (1953)
Movie
Calvero's Partner
Limelight (1952)
Movie
3.33
(archive footage)
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives (1951)
Movie
Buster Keaton
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Movie
5.25
Self - Mystery Guest
What's My Line? (1950)
TV
Hickey / Additional Writing
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Movie
The First Fisherman
A Duel to the Death (1947)
Movie
Old Tarp / Mr. Boone
God's Country (1946)
Movie
Bellboy (uncredited)
She Went to the Races (1945)
Movie
Sam - Short Order Cook
That Night with You (1945)
Movie
Bus Driver
San Diego I Love You (1944)
Movie
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Take It or Leave It (1944)
Movie
Buster Waters, plumber
She's Oil Mine (1941)
Movie
Peter Hedley Lamar Jr.
General Nuisance (1941)
Movie
Buster - the husband
His Ex Marks the Spot (1940)
Movie
Lonesome Polecat
Li'l Abner (1940)
Movie
William Dalton
The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)
Movie
Prisoner - 'LuLu'
New Moon (1940)
Movie
Buster Keaton
The Taming of the Snood (1940)
Movie
Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy
Pardon My Berth Marks (1940)
Movie
Clarence Plunkett
Nothing But Pleasure (1940)
Movie
Buster Keaton
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Movie
Homer Cobb / Writer
Mooching Through Georgia (1939)
Movie
Sir / Writer
Pest from the West (1939)
Movie
Self (uncredited)
Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
Movie
Director
Streamlined Swing (1938)
Movie
Director
Hollywood Handicap (1938)
Movie
The Forgotten Man
Ditto (1937)
Movie
Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth
Mixed Magic (1936)
Movie
Elmer Triple
The Chemist (1936)
Movie
Elmer Butts / Writer
Grand Slam Opera (1936)
Movie
Elmer Brown
Three on a Limb (1936)
Movie
Leander Proudfoot
The Invader (1936)
Movie
Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle
Tars and Stripes (1935)
Movie
Elmer Dolittle
Hayseed Romance (1935)
Movie
Jim Diltz
Palooka from Paducah (1935)
Movie
Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré
The King of the Champs-Élysées (1934)
Movie
Elmer J. Butts
What! No Beer? (1933)
Movie
Elmer E. Tuttle
Plumber in love (1932)
Movie
Professor Post / Producer
Speak Easily (1932)
Movie
Elmer E. Tuttle
The Passionate Plumber (1932)
Movie
Reggie Irving
Casanova wider Willen (1931)
Movie
Policeman
The Stolen Jools (1931)
Movie
6
Reginald Irving
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
Movie
Elmer J. Stuyvesant, Jr. / Story
Doughboys (1930)
Movie
Canuto Cuadratin
Estrellados (1930)
Movie
Elmer / Producer
Free and Easy (1930)
Movie
Self / Princess Raja
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Movie
6
Elmer / Director / Producer
Spite Marriage (1929)
Movie
Drunk Cowboy Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)
Tide of Empire (1929)
Movie
Stunt Double (uncredited)
The Baby Cyclone (1928)
Movie
Buster / Producer / Director
The Cameraman (1928)
Movie
William 'Willie' Canfield Jr. / Director
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Movie
4.87
Self (uncredited)
Character Studies (1927)
Movie
Ronald, The Boy / Director
College (1927)
Movie
Johnnie Gray / Screenplay / Editor / Director / Producer / Stunts
The General (1926)
Movie
5.12
Alfred Butler / Director / Producer
Battling Butler (1926)
Movie
Friendless / Story / Director / Producer
Go West (1925)
Movie
Indian (uncredited)
The Iron Mule (1925)
Movie
James 'Jimmie' Shannon / Director / Producer / Editor
Seven Chances (1925)
Movie
4.93
Rollo Treadway / Director / Editor / Producer
The Navigator (1924)
Movie
2.67
Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr. / Director / Producer / Editor
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Movie
5.06
William McKay / Producer / Director / Stunts
Our Hospitality (1923)
Movie
4.86
The Boy / Director / Writer / Producer
Three Ages (1923)
Movie
Buster Keaton / Writer / Director
The Love Nest (1923)
Movie
The Young Man / Director / Writer
The Balloonatic (1923)
Movie
The Young Man / Writer / Director
Day Dreams (1922)
Movie
Buster / Director / Writer
The Electric House (1922)
Movie
The Bad Man / Writer / Director
The Frozen North (1922)
Movie
Blacksmith's Assistant / Writer / Director
The Blacksmith (1922)
Movie
The Husband / Director / Writer
My Wife's Relations (1922)
Movie
The Young Man / Editor / Writer / Director
Cops (1922)
Movie
Little Chief Paleface / Director / Writer
The Paleface (1922)
Movie
The Boat Builder / Director / Writer
The Boat (1921)
Movie
Orchestra / Minstrels / Dancers / Audience / Stagehand / Director / Writer
The Play House (1921)
Movie
6
The Goat / Director / Writer
The Goat (1921)
Movie
Our Hero / Writer / Director
The High Sign (1921)
Movie
Suicidal Boy / Director / Writer
Hard Luck (1921)
Movie
Bank Clerk / Director / Writer
The Haunted House (1921)
Movie
The Boy / Director / Writer
Neighbors (1920)
Movie
Farmhand / Writer / Director
The Scarecrow (1920)
Movie
Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard / Director / Editor / Writer
Convict 13 (1920)
Movie
6
Indian (uncredited)
The Round-Up (1920)
Movie
Bertie Van Alstyne / Writer
The Saphead (1920)
Movie
The Groom / Director / Editor / Writer
One Week (1920)
Movie
Mechanic / Fireman
The Garage (1920)
Movie
Manager, General Store
The Hayseed (1919)
Movie
Stagehand
Back Stage (1919)
Movie
The Waiter (uncredited)
The Cook (1918)
Movie
Dr. Hampton
Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
Movie
Revenue Agent / Editor
Moonshine (1918)
Movie
Bellboy
The Bell Boy (1918)
Movie
Sheriff, Saloon Owner
Out West (1918)
Movie
Vaudeville Artist
A Country Hero (1917)
Movie
Rival / Cop with Moustache
Coney Island (1917)
Movie
Junior Holepoke
Oh, Doctor! (1917)
Movie
Delivery boy
His Wedding Night (1917)
Movie
Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop / Director / Writer
The Rough House (1917)
Movie
Blind Organ Grinder
A Reckless Romeo (1917)
Movie
Thanks
Sniff the Milk
Movie
Gallery
Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1895-10-04
Deathday1966-02-01 (70 years old)
Birth NameJoseph Frank Keaton
Birth PlacePiqua, United States
Height165-centimeter
RelationshipsEleanor Keaton (1940 - 1966), Natalie Talmadge (1921 - 1932)
ChildrenRobert Talmadge Keaton, Joseph Talmadge Keaton
FatherJoe Keaton
MotherMyra Keaton
CitizenshipsUnited States
ResidencesBeverly Hills, United States
Also Known AsThe Great Stone Face, Joseph Frank Keaton, 巴斯特·基顿, باستر کیتون
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Academy Honorary Award
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