Buster Keaton

Oct 03, 1895 - Feb 01, 1966 (70 years old) in Piqua, Kansas, USA

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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The Twilight Zone

Woodrow Mulligan

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The Donna Reed Show

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Route 66

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Burke's Law

Mortimer Lovely

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What's My Line?

Self

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The Colgate Comedy Hour

Self

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This Is Your Life

Self

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Sunset Boulevard

Buster Keaton

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Playhouse 90

Harrison

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Legends

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Credits

R.E.M x Buster Keaton's Sherlock Jr 2026

Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.

★ NR
Hodgepodge 2025

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Stunts: A Taste for Risk 2023

Various Roles (archive footage)

★ 9
The Real Charlie Chaplin 2021

★ 7.5
Time Travelers: Uncovering Old LA in Keaton Comedies 2020

Self (archive footage)

★ 8
Barney's Wall 2019

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
The Image Book 2018

(archive footage)

★ 6.4
Busta Keaton in COPS 2017

The Young Man (archive footage from 'Cops')

★ NR
Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 2016

★ 7
Buster Keaton: The Genius Destroyed by Hollywood 2016

Self

★ 7.8
Chaplin/Keaton: Duel of Legends 2016

(archive footage)

★ 9
Looking for Charlie: Or, the Day the Clown Died 2016

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Notfilm 2015

Self (archive footage)

★ 5
You Have to Live Somewhere 2014

(archive footage)

★ NR
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic 2011

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 7.7
Kings of Comedy: Masters of the Silent Screen 2007

(archive footage)

★ NR
The Dawn of Sound: How Movies Learned to Talk 2007

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Legends 2006

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 5
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts 2006

(archive footage)

★ NR
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM 2004

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One 2001

Various

★ 5
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two 2001

Various

★ 5
Lucille Ball: Finding Lucy 2000

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults 1999

(archive footage)

★ NR
That's Entertainment! III 1994

(archive footage)

★ 7
Funny Business 1992

(archive footage)

★ 7
Dance Crazy in Hollywood 1990

Self - Actor (archive footage)

★ 6
Buster Keaton: A Hard Act to Follow 1987

Self (archive footage)

★ 7.6
Going Hollywood: The '30s 1984

(archive footage)

★ 10
The Hollywood Clowns 1979

(archive footage)

★ NR
That's Entertainment, Part II 1976

(archive footage)

★ 6.9
It's Showtime 1976

Self (archive footage)

★ 7
Hooray for Hollywood 1976

Self (archive footage)

★ NR
The Three Stooges Follies 1974

Clarence Plunkett (archive footage)

★ NR
That's Entertainment! 1974

(archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 7.3
The Metaphysics of Buster Keaton 1970

Self (archival footage)

★ NR
4 Clowns 1970

(archive footage)

★ 7.5
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum 1966

Erronius

★ 6
The Scribe 1966

Journalist

★ 6
War Italian Style 1965

Gen. von Kassler

★ 4.8
Salute to Stan Laurel 1965

Self

★ NR
Buster Keaton Rides Again 1965

Self

★ 7.3
Film 1965

The Man

★ 7
Sergeant Deadhead 1965

Airman Blinken

★ 4
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini 1965

Bwana

★ 5.2
The Railrodder 1965

The Man

★ 6.8
Beach Blanket Bingo 1965

Buster

★ 5.8
Pajama Party 1964

Chief Rotten Eagle

★ 4.7
The Big Parade of Comedy 1964

Buster in 'The Cameraman' (archive footage)

★ 6.3
The Hollywood Palace 1964

Self

★ 4.5
The Sound of Laughter 1963

Elmer Butts

★ 2
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World 1963

Jimmy the Crook

★ 7
Burke's Law 1963

Mortimer Lovely

★ 6
The Greatest Show on Earth 1963

★ 5
30 Years of Fun 1963

(archive footage)

★ 3
The Triumph of Lester Snapwell 1963

Lester Snapwell

★ 7
There's No Business Like No Business 1963

Self

★ NR
The Great Chase 1962

★ 6.2
Simon Pure Beer 1962

Self

★ 7
Crazy Days 1962

Various (archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Langlois-Keaton à Paris 1962

Self

★ 6
The New March of Dimes Presents: The Scene Stealers 1962

Self

★ 7
The Home Owner 1961

The Home Owner

★ 7
The Devil to Pay 1960

Diablos

★ 7
Route 66 1960

★ 6.3
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1960

Lion Tamer

★ 5.8
When Comedy Was King 1960

edited from 'Cops' (archive footage)

★ 6.7
Lifetime of Comedy 1960

(archive footage)

★ 5.5
The Twilight Zone 1959

Woodrow Mulligan

★ 8.5
The Donna Reed Show 1958

★ 6.2
The Adventures of Mr. Pastry 1958

Professor

★ NR
No Time at All 1958

Harrison

★ NR
Around the World in Eighty Days 1956

Train Conductor

★ 6.6
Playhouse 90 1956

Harrison

★ 7.6
The Rosemary Clooney Show 1956

Self

★ NR
Screen Director's Playhouse 1955

Kelsey Dutton

★ 6.5
The Awakening 1954

The Man

★ 6.5
L'Incantevole nemica 1953

L'apprenti boulanger dans la pièce de théâtre

★ 7
Limelight 1952

Calvero's Partner

★ 7.9
This Is Your Life 1952

Self

★ 6.4
Paradise for Buster 1952

Buster

★ 7
The Slappiest Days of Our Lives 1951

(archive footage)

★ NR
Life with Buster Keaton 1951

★ 7
The Misadventures of Buster Keaton 1950

Buster

★ 7
The Colgate Comedy Hour 1950

Self

★ 6.8
Sunset Boulevard 1950

Buster Keaton

★ 8.3
What's My Line? 1950

Self

★ 6.9
In the Good Old Summertime 1949

Hickey

★ 6.6
You're My Everything 1949

Butler

★ 3.8
The Lovable Cheat 1949

Goulard

★ 4
A Duel to the Death 1947

The First Fisherman

★ 7
Boom in the Moon 1946

★ 4.5
God's Country 1946

Old Tarp / Mr. Boone

★ 6
She Went to the Races 1945

Bellboy (uncredited)

★ 5.5
That Night with You 1945

Sam - Short Order Cook

★ NR
That's the Spirit 1945

L.M.

★ 5
San Diego I Love You 1944

Bus Driver

★ 6.2
Take It or Leave It 1944

(archive footage) (uncredited)

★ 4
Forever and a Day 1943

Wilkins

★ 7.4
She's Oil Mine 1941

Buster Waters, plumber

★ 6.5
General Nuisance 1941

Peter Hedley Lamar Jr.

★ 6
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 1941

Self

★ NR
So You Won't Squawk 1941

Eddie

★ 6.3
His Ex Marks the Spot 1940

Buster - the husband

★ 4.3
Li'l Abner 1940

Lonesome Polecat

★ 5.8
The Villain Still Pursued Her 1940

William Dalton

★ 4.8
The Spook Speaks 1940

Buster

★ 5.2
The Taming of the Snood 1940

Buster Keaton

★ 5.3
New Moon 1940

Prisoner - 'LuLu'

★ 6.5
Pardon My Berth Marks 1940

Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy

★ 6
Nothing But Pleasure 1940

Clarence Plunkett

★ 5.8
Hollywood Cavalcade 1939

Buster Keaton

★ 5.3
Mooching Through Georgia 1939

Homer Cobb

★ 5.9
Pest from the West 1939

Sir

★ 6.8
Hollywood Hobbies 1939

Self (uncredited)

★ 5.3
Love Nest on Wheels 1937

Elmer

★ 6
Ditto 1937

The Forgotten Man

★ 5.4
Jail Bait 1937

★ 5.2
Mixed Magic 1936

Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth

★ 5.7
The Chemist 1936

Elmer Triple

★ 6
Blue Blazes 1936

Elmer

★ 5.5
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs 1936

Self

★ 1
Grand Slam Opera 1936

Elmer Butts

★ 5.8
Three on a Limb 1936

Elmer Brown

★ 5.6
The Invader 1936

Leander Proudfoot

★ 3.8
La Fiesta de Santa Barbara 1935

Self

★ 5.9
The Timid Young Man 1935

Milton

★ 5
The E-Flat Man 1935

Elmer

★ 5
Tars and Stripes 1935

Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle

★ 4.5
Hayseed Romance 1935

Elmer Dolittle

★ 6
One Run Elmer 1935

Elmer

★ 3.9
Palooka from Paducah 1935

Jim Diltz

★ 4.8
The King of the Champs-Élysées 1934

Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré

★ 5.4
Allez Oop 1934

Elmer

★ 6.3
The Gold Ghost 1934

Wally

★ 5.6
What! No Beer? 1933

Elmer J. Butts

★ 5.5
Hollywood on Parade No. A-6 1933

Self

★ 4.5
Speak Easily 1932

Professor Post

★ 5.6
The Passionate Plumber 1932

Elmer E. Tuttle

★ 6
Casanova wider Willen 1931

Reggie Irving

★ 4
Sidewalks of New York 1931

Harmon

★ 6.2
We're switching to Hollywood 1931

Self

★ 4.8
The Stolen Jools 1931

Policeman

★ 5.6
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath 1931

Reginald Irving

★ 5.2
Forward, March! 1930

★ NR
Doughboys 1930

Elmer J. Stuyvesant, Jr.

★ 6
Estrellados 1930

Canuto Cuadratin

★ NR
The Voice of Hollywood 1930

★ 3
Free and Easy 1930

Elmer

★ 6
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 1929

Self / Princess Raja

★ 5.6
Spite Marriage 1929

Elmer

★ 6.7
Tide of Empire 1929

Drunk Cowboy Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited)

★ 5.9
The Baby Cyclone 1928

Stunt Double (uncredited)

★ NR
The Cameraman 1928

Buster

★ 7.8
Steamboat Bill, Jr. 1928

William 'Willie' Canfield Jr.

★ 7.6
Character Studies 1927

Self (uncredited)

★ 6
College 1927

Ronald, The Boy

★ 6.8
Life in Hollywood No. 1 1927

Self

★ NR
The General 1926

Johnnie Gray

★ 7.9
Battling Butler 1926

Alfred Butler

★ 6.8
Go West 1925

Friendless

★ 6.9
The Iron Mule 1925

Indian (uncredited)

★ 5.8
Seven Chances 1925

James 'Jimmie' Shannon

★ 7.5
The Navigator 1924

Rollo Treadway

★ 7.1
Sherlock Jr. 1924

Projectionist / Sherlock, Jr.

★ 8.1
Our Hospitality 1923

William McKay

★ 7.5
Three Ages 1923

The Boy

★ 6.8
The Love Nest 1923

Buster Keaton

★ 6.7
The Balloonatic 1923

The Young Man

★ 6.2
Day Dreams 1922

The Young Man

★ 6.5
Seeing Stars 1922

Self

★ 4.9
The Electric House 1922

Buster

★ 6.7
The Frozen North 1922

The Bad Man

★ 6.2
The Blacksmith 1922

Blacksmith's Assistant

★ 6.6
My Wife's Relations 1922

The Husband

★ 6.1
Cops 1922

The Young Man

★ 7.2
The Paleface 1922

Little Chief Paleface

★ 6.1
The Boat 1921

The Boat Builder

★ 6.6
The Play House 1921

Orchestra / Minstrels / Dancers / Audience / Stagehand

★ 6.8
The Goat 1921

The Goat

★ 7.2
The High Sign 1921

Our Hero

★ 7.1
Hard Luck 1921

Suicidal Boy

★ 6.8
The Haunted House 1921

Bank Clerk

★ 6.6
Neighbors 1920

The Boy

★ 7.1
The Scarecrow 1920

Farmhand

★ 7.4
Convict 13 1920

Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard

★ 6.7
The Round-Up 1920

Indian (uncredited)

★ 5.8
The Saphead 1920

Bertie Van Alstyne

★ 5.8
One Week 1920

The Groom

★ 7.9
The Garage 1920

Mechanic / Fireman

★ 6
The Hayseed 1919

Manager, General Store

★ 5.8
Back Stage 1919

Stagehand

★ 6.3
The Cook 1918

The Waiter (uncredited)

★ 6.3
Good Night, Nurse! 1918

Dr. Hampton

★ 5.7
Moonshine 1918

Revenue Agent

★ 5.7
The Bell Boy 1918

Bellboy

★ 6.5
Out West 1918

Sheriff, Saloon Owner

★ 6
Coney Island 1917

Rival / Cop with Moustache

★ 5.9
Oh, Doctor! 1917

Junior Holepoke

★ 5.6
His Wedding Night 1917

Delivery boy

★ 5.5
The Rough House 1917

Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop

★ 5.6
A Reckless Romeo 1917

Blind Organ Grinder

★ 5.4
The Butcher Boy 1917

Buster

★ 6.1

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