Biography
Buster Keaton 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 230
Movies 211
self 48
TV Shows 19
Writer 8
Director 7
Producer 1
Various Roles (archive footage)
Stunts: A Taste for Risk (2023)
Movie
Navigators (2023)
Movie
Self
Flickering Ghosts of Love Gone By (2022)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
Time Travelers (2020)
Movie
Himself (archival footage)
Barney's Wall (2019)
Movie
(film archive footage)
The Image Book (2018)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Great Buster: A Celebration (2018)
Movie
Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 (2016)
Movie
Self
Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood (2016)
Movie
(archive footage)
Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends (2016)
Movie
Self
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
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic (2011)
Movie
Farmhand
Savoring the Scarecrow: Or Buster & the Sybil Trilogy (2011)
Movie
Buster Keaton
Three Ages: Tour of Filming Locations (2010)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
Buster Keaton: Head Over Heels in Hollywood (2008)
Movie
Thanks
The Smelly Janitor (2008)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass (2008)
Movie
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
ArchiveFootage
Hollywood Rivals: Chaplin vs Keaton (2006)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts (2006)
Movie
Himself
Industrial Strength Keaton (2006)
Movie
Self
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004)
Movie
Various
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One (2001)
Movie
Various
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two (2001)
Movie
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment! III (1994)
Movie
(archive footage)
Funny Business (1992)
TV
Lui-même
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
(archive footage)
The Hollywood Clowns (1979)
Movie
(archive footage)
That's Entertainment, Part II (1976)
Movie
Self (archive footage)
It's Showtime (1976)
Movie
(archive footage) (uncredited)
That's Entertainment! (1974)
Movie
Self
Double Headed Eagle: Hitler's Rise to Power 1918-1933 (1973)
Movie
James Shannon, from Seven Chances
4 Clowns (1970)
Movie
Various Characters
The Great Stone Face (1968)
Movie
Erronius
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
Movie
The Reporter
The Scribe (1966)
Movie
Gen. von Kassler
War Italian Style (1965)
Movie
Self
Salute to Stan Laurel (1965)
Movie
Self
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965)
Movie
The Man
Film (1965)
Movie
Airman Blinken
Sergeant Deadhead (1965)
Movie
Bwana
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965)
Movie
4.33
The Man
The Railrodder (1965)
Movie
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Movie
4.27
Chief Rotten Eagle
Pajama Party (1964)
Movie
4
(archive footage)
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964)
Movie
Self - Sketch Actor
The Hollywood Palace (1964)
TV
Self
Breathdeath (1963)
Movie
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
The Greatest Show on Earth (1963)
TV
ArchiveFootage
30 Years of Fun (1963)
Movie
Lester Snapwell
The Triumph of Lester Snapwell (1963)
Movie
Himself
There's No Business Like No Business (1963)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
The Great Chase (1962)
Movie
Himself
Simon Pure Beer (1962)
Movie
Various
Crazy Days (1962)
Movie
ArchiveFootage
Return of the General (1962)
Movie
Self
Langlois-Keaton à Paris (1962)
Movie
Self
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers (1962)
Movie
The Home Owner
The Home Owner (1961)
Movie
Diablos
The Devil To Pay (1960)
Movie
Route 66 (1960)
TV
Lion Tamer
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960)
Movie
Edited from 'Cops'
When Comedy Was King (1960)
Movie
(archive footage)
Lifetime of Comedy (1960)
Movie
Woodrow Mulligan
The Twilight Zone (1959)
TV
8
The Donna Reed Show (1958)
TV
6
Professor
The Adventures of Mr. Pastry (1958)
Movie
Harrison
No Time at All (1958)
Movie
Train Conductor
Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)
Movie
4.67
Self
The Rosemary Clooney Show (1956)
TV
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
Self
This Is Your Life (1952)
TV
Buster
Paradise for Buster (1952)
Movie
Director
Excuse My Dust (1951)
Movie
(archive footage)
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives (1951)
Movie
BK
Life with Buster Keaton (1951)
Movie
Buster
The Misadventures of Buster Keaton (1950)
Movie
Self
The Colgate Comedy Hour (1950)
TV
Buster Keaton
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Movie
5.25
Self - Mystery Guest
What's My Line? (1950)
TV
Self
The Ed Wynn Show (1949)
TV
Hickey / Additional Writing
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Movie
Butler
You're My Everything (1949)
Movie
Goulard
The Lovable Cheat (1949)
Movie
Self / Self - audience bow
The Ed Sullivan Show (1948)
TV
6
Writer
Cynthia (1947)
Movie
Le premier pêcheur
A Duel to the Death (1947)
Movie
Actor
Boom in the Moon (1946)
Movie
Director
Easy to Wed (1946)
Movie
Mr. Boone aka Old Tarp
God's Country (1946)
Movie
Writer
She Went to the Races (1945)
Movie
Sam - Short Order Cook
That Night with You (1945)
Movie
L.M.
That's the Spirit (1945)
Movie
Bus Driver
San Diego I Love You (1944)
Movie
Himself
Take It or Leave It (1944)
Movie
Wilkins
Forever and a Day (1943)
Movie
Buster Waters - Plumber
She's Oil Mine (1941)
Movie
Peter Hedley Lamar Jr.
General Nuisance (1941)
Movie
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 (1941)
Movie
Eddie
So You Won't Squawk (1941)
Movie
Buster - the Husband
His Ex Marks the Spot (1940)
Movie
Writer
Go West (1940)
Movie
1
Lonesome Polecat
Li'l Abner (1940)
Movie
William Dalton
The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940)
Movie
Buster
The Spook Speaks (1940)
Movie
Buster Keaton
The Taming of the Snood (1940)
Movie
Prisoner - 'LuLu'
New Moon (1940)
Movie
Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy
Pardon My Berth Marks (1940)
Movie
Clarence Plunkett
Nothing But Pleasure (1940)
Movie
Writer
At the Circus (1939)
Movie
3.5
Director
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939)
Movie
Writer
Quick Millions (1939)
Movie
Homer Cobb
Mooching Through Georgia (1939)
Movie
Sir
Pest from the West (1939)
Movie
Writer
The Jones Family in Hollywood (1939)
Movie
Himself
Hollywood Hobbies (1939)
Movie
Writer
Too Hot to Handle (1938)
Movie
Director
Streamlined Swing (1938)
Movie
Director
Hollywood Handicap (1938)
Movie
Director
Life in Sometown, U.S.A. (1938)
Movie
Elmer
Love Nest on Wheels (1937)
Movie
The Forgotten Man
Ditto (1937)
Movie
Office Boy
Jail Bait (1937)
Movie
Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth
Mixed Magic (1936)
Movie
Elmer Triple
The Chemist (1936)
Movie
Elmer Whipple
Blue Blazes (1936)
Movie
Himself
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs (1936)
Movie
Elmer Butts
Grand Slam Opera (1936)
Movie
Elmer Brown
Three on a Limb (1936)
Movie
Leander Proudfoot
The Invader (1936)
Movie
Self
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara (1935)
Movie
Writer
A Night at the Opera (1935)
Movie
4.29
Milton
The Timid Young Man (1935)
Movie
Elmer
The E-Flat Man (1935)
Movie
Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle
Tars and Stripes (1935)
Movie
Elmer Dolittle
Hayseed Romance (1935)
Movie
Elmer
One Run Elmer (1935)
Movie
Jim Diltz
Palooka from Paducah (1935)
Movie
Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré
The King of the Champs-Élysées (1934)
Movie
Elmer
Allez Oop (1934)
Movie
Wally
The Gold Ghost (1934)
Movie
Elmer J. Butts
What! No Beer? (1933)
Movie
Self
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 (1933)
Movie
Elmer E. Tuttle
Plumber in love (1932)
Movie
Professor Timothy Z. Post
Speak Easily (1932)
Movie
Elmer E. Tuttle
The Passionate Plumber (1932)
Movie
Reggie Irving
Casanova wider Willen (1931)
Movie
Harmon
Sidewalks of New York (1931)
Movie
Reggie
Buster se marie (1931)
Movie
Self
We're switching to Hollywood (1931)
Movie
Policeman
The Stolen Jools (1931)
Movie
6
Reginald Irving
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
Movie
Canuto de la Montera
Forward, March! (1930)
Movie
Elmer J. Stuyvesant Jr.
Doughboys (1930)
Movie
Canuto Cuadratin
Estrellados (1930)
Movie
Self
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 21 (1930)
Movie
The Voice of Hollywood (1930)
Movie
Elmer Butts
Free and Easy (1930)
Movie
Self / Princess Raja
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929)
Movie
6
Elmer Edgemont
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
The Cameraman (1928)
Movie
William Canfield Jr.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Movie
4.87
Self
Character Studies (1927)
Movie
The Boy
College (1927)
Movie
Self
Life in Hollywood No. 1 (1927)
Movie
Johnny Gray / Screenplay / Director / Editor / Producer / Stunts
The General (1926)
Movie
5.12
Alfred Butler -posing as Battling Butler
Battling Butler (1926)
Movie
Friendless
Go West (1925)
Movie
Indian (uncredited)
The Iron Mule (1925)
Movie
James Shannon
Seven Chances (1925)
Movie
4.93
Rollo Treadway
The Navigator (1924)
Movie
2.67
Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
Movie
5.06
Willie McKay - 21 Years Old
Our Hospitality (1923)
Movie
4.86
The Boy
Three Ages (1923)
Movie
Buster Keaton / Director / Writer
The Love Nest (1923)
Movie
The Young Man
The Balloonatic (1923)
Movie
The Young Man
Day Dreams (1922)
Movie
The Waiter
Seeing Stars (1922)
Movie
Buster
The Electric House (1922)
Movie
The Bad Man
The Frozen North (1922)
Movie
Blacksmith's Assistant
The Blacksmith (1922)
Movie
The Husband
My Wife's Relations (1922)
Movie
The Young Man
Cops (1922)
Movie
Little Chief Paleface
The Paleface (1922)
Movie
The Boat Builder
The Boat (1921)
Movie
Audience / Orchestra / Mr. Brown - First Minstrel
The Play House (1921)
Movie
6
The Goat
The Goat (1921)
Movie
Our Hero
The High Sign (1921)
Movie
Suicidal Boy / Director / Writer
Hard Luck (1921)
Movie
Bank Clerk
The Haunted House (1921)
Movie
The Boy
Neighbors (1920)
Movie
Farmhand
The Scarecrow (1920)
Movie
Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard
Convict 13 (1920)
Movie
6
Indian (Uncredited)
The Round-Up (1920)
Movie
Bertie Van Alstyne
The Saphead (1920)
Movie
The Groom
One Week (1920)
Movie
Buster - The Assistant
The Garage (1920)
Movie
Manager, General Store
The Hayseed (1919)
Movie
Stagehand
Back Stage (1919)
Movie
Assistant Chef
The Cook (1918)
Movie
Dr. Hampton / Woman with Umbrella
Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
Movie
Revenue Agent
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
The Rough House (1917)
Movie
Blind Organ Grinder
A Reckless Romeo (1917)
Movie
Buster
The Butcher Boy (1917)
Movie
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Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1895-10-03
Deathday1966-02-01 (70 years old)
Birth NameJoseph Frank Keaton
Birth PlacePiqua, United States of America
Height165-centimeter
RelationshipsEleanor Keaton (1940-01-01 - 1966-01-01), Natalie Talmadge (1921-05-31 - 1932-07-25)
ChildrenRobert Talmadge Keaton, Joseph Talmadge Keaton
FatherJoe Keaton
MotherMyra Keaton
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
ResidencesBeverly Hills, United States of America
Also Known AsThe Great Stone Face, Joseph Frank Keaton, 버스터 키튼, バスター・キートン, Keaton, 巴斯特·基顿
Awardsstar on Hollywood Walk of Fame, Academy Honorary Award
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