Buster Keaton
Age: 70 | From: Piqua, Kansas, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1895-10-04 02:20:14
Death: 1966-02-01 02:20:14
Aliases: The Great Stone Face , Joseph Frank Keaton , 버스터 키튼 , バスター・キートン , Keaton
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Piqua, Kansas, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 119
TV Involvements: 6
Most Famous Work
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". Keaton 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. Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies."Orson Welles stated that Keaton's The General is the greatest comedy ever made, the greatest Civil War film ever made, and perhaps the greatest film ever made. A 2002 worldwide poll by Sight & Sound ranked Keaton's The General as the 15th best film of all time. Three other Keaton films received votes in the magazine's survey: Our Hospitality, Sherlock, Jr., and The Navigator.
Most Famous Work
Sherlock Jr.
(1924) Producer
The General
(1926) Screenplay
Our Hospitality
(1923) Producer
Seven Chances
(1925) Producer
The Cameraman
(1928) Director
College
(1927) Director
The Navigator
(1924) Producer
The High Sign
(1921) WriterActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | N/A | |
| 2020 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2019 | Himself (archival footage) | |
| 2018 | (film archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2016 | N/A | |
| Self | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| Himself (archive footage) | ||
| 2015 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2014 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2011 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 2007 | N/A | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 2006 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Buster (archive footage) | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| Himself | ||
| 2004 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2001 | Various | |
| Various | ||
| 1994 | (archive footage) | |
| 1992 | (archive footage) | |
| 1990 | Lui-même | |
| Self - Actor (archive footage) | ||
| 1987 | Self (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1984 | (archive footage) | |
| 1979 | (archive footage) | |
| 1976 | (archive footage) | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1974 | (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1970 | (archive footage) | |
| 1966 | Erronius | |
| Journalist | ||
| 1965 | Gen. von Kassler | |
| Self | ||
| Himself | ||
| The Man | ||
| Airman Blinken | ||
| Bwana | ||
| The Man | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1964 | Chief Rotten Eagle | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| Self - Sketch Actor | ||
| 1963 | Elmer Butts | |
| Jimmy the Crook | ||
| Mortimer Lovely | ||
| N/A | ||
| N/A | ||
| Lester Snapwell | ||
| Himself | ||
| 1962 | Himself | |
| N/A | ||
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1961 | Himself / The Home Owner | |
| 1960 | Diablos | |
| N/A | ||
| Lion Tamer | ||
| edited from 'Cops' (archive footage) | ||
| (archive footage) | ||
| 1959 | Woodrow Mulligan | |
| 1958 | N/A | |
| Professor | ||
| 1956 | Train Conductor | |
| Self | ||
| 1955 | Kelsey Dutton | |
| 1954 | The Man | |
| 1953 | L'apprenti boulanger dans la pièce de théâtre | |
| 1952 | Calvero's Partner | |
| Self | ||
| Buster | ||
| 1951 | (archive footage) | |
| N/A | ||
| 1950 | Buster | |
| Self | ||
| Buster Keaton | ||
| Self - Mystery Guest | ||
| 1949 | Hickey | |
| Butler | ||
| Goulard | ||
| 1948 | Self | |
| Self - audience bow | ||
| 1947 | The First Fisherman | |
| 1946 | N/A | |
| Old Tarp / Mr. Boone | ||
| 1945 | Bellboy (uncredited) | |
| Sam - Short Order Cook | ||
| L.M. | ||
| 1944 | Bus Driver | |
| Himself | ||
| 1943 | Wilkins | |
| 1941 | Buster Waters, plumber | |
| Peter Hedley Lamar Jr. | ||
| Self | ||
| Eddie | ||
| 1940 | Buster - the husband | |
| N/A | ||
| Lonesome Polecat | ||
| William Dalton | ||
| Buster | ||
| Prisoner - 'LuLu' | ||
| Buster Keaton | ||
| Elmer - Newspaper Copyboy | ||
| Clarence Plunkett | ||
| 1939 | Buster Keaton | |
| Homer Cobb | ||
| Sir | ||
| Himself | ||
| 1937 | Elmer | |
| The Forgotten Man | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1936 | Elmer 'Happy' Butterworth | |
| Elmer Triple | ||
| Elmer | ||
| Himself | ||
| Elmer Butts | ||
| Elmer Brown | ||
| Leander Proudfoot | ||
| 1935 | Self | |
| Milton | ||
| Elmer | ||
| Apprentice Seaman Elmer Doolittle | ||
| Elmer Dolittle | ||
| Elmer | ||
| Jim Diltz | ||
| 1934 | Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré | |
| Elmer | ||
| Wally | ||
| 1933 | Elmer J. Butts | |
| Self | ||
| 1932 | Professor Post | |
| Elmer E. Tuttle | ||
| 1931 | Reggie Irving | |
| Harmon | ||
| Self | ||
| Policeman | ||
| Reginald Irving | ||
| 1930 | N/A | |
| Elmer | ||
| Canuto Cuadratin | ||
| N/A | ||
| Elmer | ||
| 1929 | Self / Princess Raja | |
| Elmer | ||
| Drunk Cowboy Thrown Out of Saloon (uncredited) | ||
| 1928 | Stunt Double (uncredited) | |
| Buster | ||
| William 'Willie' Canfield Jr. | ||
| 1927 | Himself (uncredited) | |
| Ronald, The Boy | ||
| Self | ||
| 1926 | Johnny Gray | |
| Alfred Butler | ||
| 1925 | Friendless | |
| Indian (uncredited) | ||
| James 'Jimmie' Shannon | ||
| 1924 | Rollo Treadway | |
| Sherlock, Jr. | ||
| 1923 | William McKay | |
| The Boy | ||
| Buster Keaton | ||
| The Young Man (as 'Buster' Keaton) | ||
| 1922 | The Young Man | |
| Himself | ||
| Buster | ||
| The Bad Man | ||
| Blacksmith's Assistant | ||
| The husband | ||
| The Young Man | ||
| Little Chief Paleface | ||
| 1921 | The Boat Builder | |
| Orchestra / Minstrels / Dancers / Audience / Stagehand | ||
| The Goat | ||
| Our Hero | ||
| Suicidal Boy | ||
| Bank Clerk | ||
| 1920 | The Boy | |
| Farmhand | ||
| Golfer Turned Prisoner, Guard | ||
| Indian (Uncredited) | ||
| Bertie Van Alstyne | ||
| The Groom | ||
| Mechanic / Fireman | ||
| 1919 | Manager, general store | |
| Stagehand | ||
| 1918 | The Waiter (uncredited) | |
| Dr. Hampton | ||
| Revenue Agent | ||
| Bellboy | ||
| Sheriff, saloon owner | ||
| 1917 | Rival / Cop with Moustache | |
| Junior Holepoke | ||
| Delivery boy | ||
| Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop | ||
| Blind Organ Grinder | ||
| Buster | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
Crew
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Thanks | |
| 1949 | Additional Writing | |
| 1926 | Stunts | |
| 1923 | Stunts | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Writing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1939 | Story | |
| Writer | ||
| Writer | ||
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| 1936 | Writer | |
| 1926 | Screenplay | |
| 1925 | Story | |
| 1923 | Writer | |
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| 1922 | Writer | |
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| 1921 | Writer | |
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| 1920 | Writer | |
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| 1917 | Writer | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Directing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Director | |
| Director | ||
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| 1929 | Director | |
| 1928 | Director | |
| 1927 | Director | |
| 1926 | Director | |
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| 1925 | Director | |
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| 1924 | Director | |
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| 1923 | Director | |
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| 1922 | Director | |
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| 1921 | Director | |
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| 1920 | Director | |
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| 1917 | Director | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Production
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1932 | Producer | |
| 1930 | Producer | |
| 1929 | Producer | |
| 1926 | Producer | |
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| 1925 | Producer | |
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| 1924 | Producer | |
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| 1923 | Producer | |
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| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
Editing
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1926 | Editor | |
| 1925 | Editor | |
| 1924 | Editor | |
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| 1922 | Editor | |
| 1920 | Editor | |
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| 1918 | Editor | |
| Year | Role | Movie/Tv |