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Known For
Directing
Birthday
October 3, 1895
Died
February 1, 1966
Place of Birth
Piqua, Kansas, USA
Also Known As
- The Great Stone Face
- Joseph Frank Keaton
- 巴斯特·基顿
- باستر کیتون
Buster Keaton
1.2 Popularity
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
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Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
R.E.M x Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr
2026
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Hodgepodge
2025
9.0
Various Roles (archive footage)
Stunts: A Taste for Risk
2023
7.5
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
8.0
Self (archive footage)
Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies
2020
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Barney's Wall
2019
6.3
(archive footage)
The Image Book
2018
0.0
The Young Man (archive footage from 'Cops')
Busta Keaton in COPS
2017
7.0
Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923
2016
7.8
Self
Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood
2016
Credits
R.E.M x Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr
as Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
2026
0.0
Hodgepodge
as Self (archive footage)
2025
0.0
Stunts: A Taste for Risk
as Various Roles (archive footage)
2023
9.0
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2021
7.5
Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies
as Self (archive footage)
2020
8.0
Barney's Wall
as Self (archive footage)
2019
0.0
The Image Book
as (archive footage)
2018
6.3
Busta Keaton in COPS
as The Young Man (archive footage from 'Cops')
2017
0.0
Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923
2016
7.0
Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood
as Self
2016
7.8
Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends
as (archive footage)
2016
9.0
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died
as Self (archive footage)
2016
0.0
Notfilm
as Self (archive footage)
2015
5.0
You Have to Live Somewhere
as (archive footage)
2014
0.0
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2011
7.7
🎬
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen
as (archive footage)
2007
0.0
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The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk
as Self (archive footage)
2007
7.0
Legends
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2006
5.0
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
as (archive footage)
2006
0.0
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
as Self (archive footage)
2004
7.0
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One
as Various
2001
5.0
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two
as Various
2001
5.0
🎬
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy
as Self (archive footage)
2000
0.0
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
as (archive footage)
1999
0.0
That's Entertainment! III
as (archive footage)
1994
7.0
Funny Business
as (archive footage)
1992
7.0
Dance Crazy in Hollywood
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
1990
6.0
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow
as Self (archive footage)
1987
7.6
Going Hollywood: The '30s
as (archive footage)
1984
10.0
The Hollywood Clowns
as (archive footage)
1979
0.0
That's Entertainment, Part II
as (archive footage)
1976
6.9
It's Showtime
as Self (archive footage)
1976
7.0
Hooray for Hollywood
as Self (archive footage)
1976
0.0
The Three Stooges Follies
as Clarence Plunkett (archive footage)
1974
0.0
That's Entertainment!
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1974
7.4
🎬
The Metaphysics of Buster Keaton
as Self (archival footage)
1970
0.0
4 Clowns
as (archive footage)
1970
7.5
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
as Erronius
1966
6.0
The Scribe
as Journalist
1966
6.0
War Italian Style
as Gen. von Kassler
1965
4.8
🎬
Salute to Stan Laurel
as Self
1965
0.0
Buster Keaton Rides Again
as Self
1965
7.3
Film
as The Man
1965
7.0
Sergeant Deadhead
as Airman Blinken
1965
4.0
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini
as Bwana
1965
5.2
The Railrodder
as The Man
1965
6.8
Beach Blanket Bingo
as Buster
1965
5.8
Pajama Party
as Chief Rotten Eagle
1964
4.7
The Big Parade of Comedy
as Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)
1964
6.3
The Hollywood Palace
as Self
1964
4.5
The Sound of Laughter
as Elmer Butts
1963
2.0
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
as Jimmy the Crook
1963
7.0
Burke's Law
as Mortimer Lovely
1963
6.0
🎬
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
5.0
30 Years of Fun
as (archive footage)
1963
3.0
The Triumph of Lester Snapwell
as Lester Snapwell
1963
7.0
There's No Business Like No Business
as Self
1963
0.0
The Great Chase
1962
6.2
Simon Pure Beer
as Self
1962
7.0
Crazy Days
as Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
5.8
Langlois-Keaton à Paris
as Self
1962
6.0
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers
as Self
1962
7.0
The Home Owner
as The Home Owner
1961
7.0
The Devil to Pay
as Diablos
1960
7.0
Route 66
1960
6.3
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
as Lion Tamer
1960
5.8
When Comedy Was King
as edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)
1960
6.7
Lifetime of Comedy
as (archive footage)
1960
5.5
The Twilight Zone
as Woodrow Mulligan
1959
8.5
The Donna Reed Show
1958
6.2
The Adventures of Mr. Pastry
as Professor
1958
0.0
No Time at All
as Harrison
1958
0.0
Around the World in 80 Days
as Train Conductor
1956
6.6
Playhouse 90
as Harrison
1956
7.6
🎬
The Rosemary Clooney Show
as Self
1956
0.0
Screen Director's Playhouse
as Kelsey Dutton
1955
6.5
The Awakening
as The Man
1954
6.5
L'Incantevole nemica
as L'apprenti boulanger dans la pièce de théâtre
1953
7.0
Limelight
as Calvero's Partner
1952
7.9
This Is Your Life
as Self
1952
6.4
Paradise for Buster
as Buster
1952
7.0
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives
as (archive footage)
1951
0.0
Life with Buster Keaton
1951
7.0
The Misadventures of Buster Keaton
as Buster
1950
7.0
The Colgate Comedy Hour
as Self
1950
6.8
Sunset Boulevard
as Buster Keaton
1950
8.3
What's My Line?
as Self
1950
6.9
In the Good Old Summertime
as Hickey
1949
6.6
You're My Everything
as Butler
1949
3.8
The Lovable Cheat
as Goulard
1949
4.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
A Duel to the Death
as The First Fisherman
1947
7.0
Boom in the Moon
1946
4.5
God's Country
as Old Tarp / Mr. Boone
1946
6.0
She Went to the Races
as Bellboy (uncredited)
1945
5.5
That Night with You
as Sam - Short Order Cook
1945
0.0
That's the Spirit
as L.M.
1945
5.0
San Diego I Love You
as Bus Driver
1944
6.2
Take It or Leave It
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
1944
4.0
Forever and a Day
as Wilkins
1943
7.4
She's Oil Mine
as Buster Waters, plumber
1941
6.5
General Nuisance
as Peter Hedley Lamar Jr.
1941
6.0
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
as Self
1941
0.0
So You Won't Squawk
as Eddie
1941
6.3
His Ex Marks the Spot
as Buster - the husband
1940
4.3
Li'l Abner
as Lonesome Polecat
1940
5.8
Li'l Abner
1940
5.8
The Villain Still Pursued Her
as William Dalton
1940
4.8
The Spook Speaks
as Buster
1940
5.2
The Taming of the Snood
as Buster Keaton
1940
5.3
New Moon
as Prisoner - 'LuLu'
1940
6.5
Pardon My Berth Marks
as Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy
1940
6.0
Nothing But Pleasure
as Clarence Plunkett
1940
5.8
Hollywood Cavalcade
as Buster Keaton
1939
5.3
Mooching Through Georgia
as Homer Cobb
1939
5.9
Pest from the West
as Sir
1939
6.8
Hollywood Hobbies
as Self (uncredited)
1939
5.3
Love Nest on Wheels
as Elmer
1937
6.0
Ditto
as The Forgotten Man
1937
5.4
Jail Bait
1937
5.2
Mixed Magic
as Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth
1936
5.7
The Chemist
as Elmer Triple
1936
6.0
Blue Blazes
as Elmer
1936
5.5
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
as Self
1936
1.0
Grand Slam Opera
as Elmer Butts
1936
5.8
Three on a Limb
as Elmer Brown
1936
5.6
The Invader
as Leander Proudfoot
1936
3.8
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara
as Self
1935
5.9
The Timid Young Man
as Milton
1935
5.0
The E-Flat Man
as Elmer
1935
5.0
Tars and Stripes
as Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle
1935
4.4
Hayseed Romance
as Elmer Dolittle
1935
6.0
One Run Elmer
as Elmer
1935
3.9
Palooka from Paducah
as Jim Diltz
1935
4.8
The King of the Champs-Élysées
as Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré
1934
5.4
Allez Oop
as Elmer
1934
6.3
The Gold Ghost
as Wally
1934
5.6
What! No Beer?
as Elmer J. Butts
1933
5.5
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6
as Self
1933
4.5
Speak Easily
as Professor Post
1932
5.6
The Passionate Plumber
as Elmer E. Tuttle
1932
6.0
Casanova wider Willen
as Reggie Irving
1931
4.0
Sidewalks of New York
as Harmon
1931
6.1
We're switching to Hollywood
as Self
1931
4.8
The Stolen Jools
as Policeman
1931
5.6
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
as Reginald Irving
1931
5.2
Forward, March!
1930
0.0
Doughboys
as Elmer J. Stuyvesant, Jr.
1930
6.0
Estrellados
as Canuto Cuadratin
1930
0.0
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The Voice of Hollywood
1930
3.0
Free and Easy
as Elmer
1930
6.0
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
as Self / Princess Raja
1929
5.6
Spite Marriage
as Elmer
1929
6.7
Tide of Empire
as Drunk Cowboy Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)
1929
5.9
The Baby Cyclone
as Stunt Double (uncredited)
1928
0.0
The Cameraman
as Buster
1928
7.8
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
as William 'Willie' Canfield Jr.
1928
7.6
Character Studies
as Self (uncredited)
1927
6.0
College
as Ronald, The Boy
1927
6.7
Life in Hollywood No. 1
as Self
1927
0.0
The General
as Johnnie Gray
1926
7.9
Battling Butler
as Alfred Butler
1926
6.8
Go West
as Friendless
1925
6.9
The Iron Mule
as Indian (uncredited)
1925
5.8
Seven Chances
as James 'Jimmie' Shannon
1925
7.5
The Navigator
as Rollo Treadway
1924
7.1
Sherlock Jr.
as Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.
1924
8.1
Our Hospitality
as William McKay
1923
7.5
Three Ages
as The Boy
1923
6.8
The Love Nest
as Buster Keaton
1923
6.7
The Balloonatic
as The Young Man
1923
6.2
Day Dreams
as The Young Man
1922
6.5
Seeing Stars
as Self
1922
4.9
The Electric House
as Buster
1922
6.7
The Frozen North
as The Bad Man
1922
6.2
The Blacksmith
as Blacksmith's Assistant
1922
6.6
My Wife's Relations
as The Husband
1922
6.2
Cops
as The Young Man
1922
7.2
The Paleface
as Little Chief Paleface
1922
6.1
The Boat
as The Boat Builder
1921
6.5
The Play House
as Orchestra / Minstrels / Dancers / Audience / Stagehand
1921
6.8
The Goat
as The Goat
1921
7.2
The High Sign
as Our Hero
1921
7.1
Hard Luck
as Suicidal Boy
1921
6.8
The Haunted House
as Bank Clerk
1921
6.6
Neighbors
as The Boy
1920
7.1
The Scarecrow
as Farmhand
1920
7.4
Convict 13
as Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard
1920
6.7
The Round-Up
as Indian (uncredited)
1920
5.8
The Saphead
as Bertie Van Alstyne
1920
5.7
One Week
as The Groom
1920
7.9
The Garage
as Mechanic / Fireman
1920
6.1
The Hayseed
as Manager, General Store
1919
5.8
Back Stage
as Stagehand
1919
6.4
The Cook
as The Waiter (uncredited)
1918
6.3
Good Night, Nurse!
as Dr. Hampton
1918
5.7
Moonshine
as Revenue Agent
1918
5.6
The Bell Boy
as Bellboy
1918
6.5
Out West
as Sheriff, Saloon Owner
1918
6.0
Coney Island
as Rival / Cop with Moustache
1917
5.9
Oh, Doctor!
as Junior Holepoke
1917
5.6
His Wedding Night
as Delivery boy
1917
5.6
The Rough House
as Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop
1917
5.5
A Reckless Romeo
as Blind Organ Grinder
1917
5.4
The Butcher Boy
as Buster
1917
6.1