Actor filmography
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton in 1939 This is a list of films by the American actor, comedian, and filmmaker Buster Keaton.
Short films
Starring Roscoe Arbuckle, featuring Buster Keaton
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
April 23, 1917 | The Butcher Boy | | | Buster | First film role |
June 25, 1917 | The Rough House | Yes | Yes | Gardener / Delivery Boy / Cop | Co-directed and co-written by Roscoe Arbuckle |
August 20, 1917 | His Wedding Night | | | Delivery boy | — |
September 30, 1917 | Oh Doctor! | | | Junior Holepoke | — |
October 29, 1917 | Coney Island | | | Rival / Cop with mustache | — |
December 10, 1917 | A Country Hero | | | Vaudeville artist | Lost film |
January 20, 1918 | Out West | | | Sheriff / Saloon owner | — |
March 18, 1918 | The Bell Boy | | | Bellboy | — |
May 13, 1918 | Moonshine | | | Revenue agent | — |
July 6, 1918 | Good Night, Nurse! | | | Dr. Hampton / Woman with umbrella | — |
September 15, 1918 | The Cook | | | Waiter | — |
September 7, 1919 | Back Stage | | | Stagehand | — |
October 26, 1919 | The Hayseed | | | Manager, general store | — |
January 11, 1920 | The Garage | | | Mechanic / Fireman | — |
Starring Buster Keaton under Buster Keaton Productions
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
September 1, 1920 | One Week | Yes | Yes | The groom | — |
October 27, 1920 | Convict 13 | Yes | Yes | Golfer turned prisoner / Guard | — |
December 22, 1920 | Neighbors | Yes | Yes | The boy | — |
December 22, 1920 | The Scarecrow | Yes | Yes | Farmhand | — |
February 10, 1921 | The Haunted House | Yes | Yes | Bank clerk | — |
March 14, 1921 | Hard Luck | Yes | Yes | Suicidal boy | — |
April 12, 1921 | The High Sign | Yes | Yes | Our hero | — |
May 18, 1921 | The Goat | Yes | Yes | Buster Keaton | — |
October 6, 1921 | The Playhouse | Yes | Yes | Audience / Orchestra / Mr. Brown – First Minstrel / Second Minstrel / Interlocutors / Stagehand | — |
November 10, 1921 | The Boat | Yes | Yes | The boat builder | — |
January 1922 | The Paleface | Yes | Yes | Little Chief Paleface | — |
March 1922 | Cops | Yes | Yes | The young man | — |
May 1922 | My Wife's Relations | Yes | Yes | The husband | — |
July 21, 1922 | The Blacksmith | Yes | Yes | Blacksmith's assistant | — |
August 28, 1922 | The Frozen North | Yes | Yes | The bad man | — |
October 16, 1922 | The Electric House | Yes | Yes | Buster Keaton | — |
November 1922 | Day Dreams | Yes | Yes | The young man | Distributed by First National Pictures |
January 22, 1923 | The Balloonatic | Yes | Yes | The young man | — |
March 1923 | The Love Nest | Yes | Yes | Buster Keaton | — |
Starring Buster Keaton for Educational Pictures
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
March 16, 1934 | The Gold Ghost | | Yes | Wally | — |
May 25, 1934 | Allez Oop | | Yes | Elmer | — |
January 11, 1935 | Palooka from Paducah | | | Jim Diltz | — |
February 22, 1935 | One Run Elmer | | | Elmer | — |
March 15, 1935 | Hayseed Romance | | | Elmer Dolittle | — |
May 3, 1935 | Tars and Stripes | | Yes | Apprentice seaman Elmer Doolittle | — |
August 9, 1935 | The E-Flat Man | | | Elmer | — |
October 25, 1935 | The Timid Young Man | | | Milton | — |
January 3, 1936 | Three on a Limb | | | Elmer Brown | — |
February 21, 1936 | Grand Slam Opera | Yes | Yes | Elmer Butts | — |
August 21, 1936 | Blue Blazes | | Yes | Elmer | — |
October 9, 1936 | The Chemist | | | Elmer Triple | — |
November 20, 1936 | Mixed Magic | | Yes | Elmer "Happy" Butterworth | — |
January 8, 1937 | Jail Bait | | | Office Boy | — |
February 12, 1937 | Ditto | | | The forgotten man | — |
March 26, 1937 | Love Nest on Wheels | | Yes | Elmer | — |
Starring Buster Keaton for Columbia Pictures
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
June 16, 1939 | Pest from the West | Yes | | Sir | — |
August 11, 1939 | Mooching Through Georgia | Yes | | Homer Cobb | — |
January 19, 1940 | Nothing But Pleasure | | | Clarence Plunkett | — |
March 22, 1940 | Pardon My Berth Marks | | | Elmer – Newspaper Copyboy | — |
June 28, 1940 | The Taming of the Snood | | | Buster Keaton | — |
September 20, 1940 | The Spook Speaks | | | Buster | — |
December 13, 1940 | His Ex Marks the Spot | | | Buster – the husband | — |
February 21, 1941 | So You Won't Squawk | | | Eddie | — |
September 18, 1941 | General Nuisance | | | Peter Lamar – Jr. | — |
November 20, 1941 | She's Oil Mine | | | Buster Waters, plumber | — |
Starring Buster Keaton for independent producers
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
October 15, 1952 | Paradise for Buster | | | Buster | Industrial film short for John Deere & Co. |
1960 | The Devil to Pay | | | Diablos | Industrial film short for the National Association of Wholesalers |
1963 | There's No Business Like No Business | | | | Industrial film short for Maremont Exhaust and the Gabriel Shocks Division of the Arvin Corporation |
1963 | The Triumph of Lester Snapwell | | | Lester Snapwell | Industrial film short for the Eastman Kodak Company |
1965 | The Fall Guy | | | The Fall Guy | Industrial film short for U.S. Steel |
January 8, 1965 | Film | | | The Man | — |
October 2, 1965 | The Railrodder | | | The Man | National Film Board of Canada film travelogue to promote travel in Canada. |
January 8, 1966 | The Scribe | | | Journalist | Industrial film short for the Construction Safety Association of Ontario |
Directed by (but not featuring) Buster Keaton for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
February 26, 1938 | Life in Sometown, USA | | Yes | | — |
May 28, 1938 | Hollywood Handicap | | Yes | | — |
September 10, 1938 | Streamlined Swing | | Yes | | — |
With Buster Keaton in featured or cameo roles
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
1922 | Seeing Stars | | | Himself | — |
April 12, 1925 | The Iron Mule | | | Indian | — |
April 4, 1931 | The Stolen Jools | | | Policeman | — |
December 7, 1935 | La Fiesta de Santa Barbara | | | Himself | — |
August 6, 1936 | Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs | | | Himself | — |
May 3, 1939 | Hollywood Hobbies | | | Himself | — |
Feature films
Starring Buster Keaton for Metro Pictures
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
October 18, 1920 | The Saphead | Yes | | Bertie 'The Lamb' Van Alstyne | — |
Starring Buster Keaton under Buster Keaton Productions
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
September 24, 1923 | Three Ages | | Yes | The Boy | Co-directed with Edward F. Cline |
November 19, 1923 | Our Hospitality | | Yes | Willie McKay | Co-directed with John G. Blystone |
May 11, 1924 | Sherlock Jr. | | Yes | Projectionist / Sherlock Jr. | — |
October 13, 1924 | The Navigator | | Yes | Rollo Treadway | Co-directed with Donald Crisp |
March 15, 1925 | Seven Chances | | Yes | James Shannon | — |
November 1, 1925 | Go West | Yes | Yes | Friendless | — |
September 19, 1926 | Battling Butler | | Yes | Alfred Butler | — |
December 31, 1926[1](Tokyo)
| The General | Yes | Yes | Johnnie Gray | Co-written and directed with Clyde Bruckman |
September 27, 1927 | College | | Yes | Ronald | Co-directed with James W. Horne |
May 20, 1928 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. | | Yes | William Canfield Jr. | Co-directed with Charles Reisner |
Starring Buster Keaton for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
September 22, 1928 | The Cameraman | | Yes | Buster | Co-directed with Edward Sedgwick |
April 6, 1929 | Spite Marriage | | Yes | Elmer Gantry | Co-directed with Edward Sedgwick |
March 22, 1930 | Free and Easy | | | Elmer | — |
July 7, 1930 | Estrellados | | | Canuto Cuadratin | Spanish-language version of Free and Easy |
August 30, 1930 | Doughboys | | | Elmer | — |
January 23, 1931 | De frente...marchen | | | Canuto de la Montera | Spanish-language version of Doughboys |
February 28, 1931 | Parlor, Bedroom and Bath | | | Reginald Irving | — |
September 26, 1931 | Sidewalks of New York | | | Harmon | — |
October 19, 1931 | Casanova wider Willen | | | Reggie Irving | German-language version of Parlor, Bedroom and Bath |
December 23, 1931 | Buster se marie | | | Reggie | French-language version of Parlor, Bedroom and Bath |
February 6, 1932 | The Passionate Plumber | | | Elmer E. Tuttle | — |
August 13, 1932 | Speak Easily | | | Professor Post | — |
December 30, 1932 | Le plombier amoureux | | | Elmer Tuttle | French-language version of The Passionate Plumber |
February 10, 1933 | What! No Beer? | | | Elmer J. Butts | — |
Starring Buster Keaton for independent producers
With Buster Keaton in featured or cameo roles
Release date | Title | Credited as | Notes |
Writer | Director | Role |
October 10, 1920 | The Round-Up | | | Indian | Uncredited |
December 23, 1928 | Brotherly Love | | | Barber | Uncredited, appearance is speculative |
April 23, 1929 | Tide of Empire | | | Drunk thrown out of bar | Uncredited |
June 20, 1929 | The Hollywood Revue of 1929 | | | Himself / Princess Raja | — |
Unreleased, scheduled for September 1930 | The March of Time | | | Caveman | — |
November, 1931 | Wir schalten um auf Hollywood | | | Himself | Truncated German language only version of The March of Time |
October 13, 1939 | Hollywood Cavalcade | | | Himself | — |
July 19, 1940 | New Moon | | | Prisoner – 'LuLu' | — |
October 11, 1940 | The Villain Still Pursued Her | | | William Dalton | — |
November 1, 1940 | Li'l Abner | | | Lonesome Polecat | — |
March 26, 1943 | Forever and a Day | | | Wilkins | — |
September 29, 1944 | San Diego, I Love You | | | Bus Driver | — |
June 1, 1945 | That's the Spirit | | | L.M. | — |
September 28, 1945 | That Night with You | | | Sam | — |
November 4, 1945 | She Went to the Races | | | Bellboy | — |
March 15, 1946 | God's Country | | | Mr. Boone aka Old Tarp | — |
July 25, 1946 | Easy to Wed | Yes | Yes | | Uncredited |
April 13, 1949 | Take Me Out to the Ball Game | Yes | | | Uncredited |
May 11, 1949 | The Lovable Cheat | | | Goulard | — |
July 29, 1949 | In the Good Old Summertime | Yes | Yes | Hickey | — |
August 1949 | You're My Everything | | | Butler | — |
August 10, 1950 | Sunset Boulevard | | | Himself | — |
October 23, 1952 | Limelight | | | Calvero's Partner | — |
June 14, 1953 | The Enchanting Enemy | | | Buster | — |
October 17, 1956 | Around the World in 80 Days | | | Train Conductor – San Francisco to Fort Kearney | — |
August 3, 1960 | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | | | Lion Tamer | — |
November 7, 1963 | It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World | | | Jimmy the Crook | — |
November 11, 1964 | Pajama Party | | | Chief Rotten Eagle | — |
April 14, 1965 | Beach Blanket Bingo | | | Buster | — |
July 14, 1965 | How to Stuff a Wild Bikini | | | Bwana | — |
August 18, 1965 | Sergeant Deadhead | | | Airman Blinken | — |
December 2, 1965 | War Italian Style | | | General von Kassler | — |
October 16, 1966 | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | | | Erronius | Final film role, released posthumously |
Television appearances (incomplete)
- The Ed Wynn Show, (1949) as Buster
- The Buster Keaton Show, KKTV (1950) as Buster
- Life with Buster Keaton, KKTV (1951) as Buster
- Douglas Fairbanks Presents, episode "The Awakening" (1954) as The Man
- Screen Directors Playhouse, episode "The Silent Partner" (1955) as Kelsey Dutton
- The Rosemary Clooney Show, (1956) as Keystone Policeman
- Circus Time, Buster Keaton (1957)
- What's My Line? 09/01/1957 (Episode # 378) (Season 9, Ep 1) as Mystery Guest[2]
- The Donna Reed Show (1957) episode "A Very Merry Christmas" as Charlie
- Milky Way, Buster Keaton TV Commercial (1961)
- The Twilight Zone, episode "Once Upon a Time" (1961) as Woodrow Mulligan the Janitor
- Candid Camera, episode "In the Diner" (1962)
- The Scene Stealers, Buster Keaton and Ed Wynn (1962).
- Route 66, in "Journey to Nineveh" (1962) as Jonah Butler, the town jinx[3]
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, in episode "Think Mink" (1963) as Si Willis
- Burke's Law, (1964) as Buster
- Cleopatra Skit, (1964) Buster Keaton on Hollywood Palace
- Buster Keaton and Lucille Ball, in comedy to salute Stan Laurel (1965) as Buster
- Alka Seltzer, TV advertisement, (1966) as Buster
- Ford Van, TV advertisement, (1966) as Buster
References
- ^ "BFI: The General". bfi.org. Archived from the original on October 22, 2012. Retrieved December 6, 2010.
- ^ "What's My Line?: EPISODE #378". TV.com.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Keaton, Buster; Samuels, Charles (1960). My Wonderful World of Slapstick. Doubleday. ISBN 0306801787.
External links
- Buster Keaton filmography at IMDb
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