Biography: life and films
Buster Keaton was an American actor whose birth name was Joseph Frank Keaton. He was born in Piqua, Kansas, USA on 4th October 1895 and died in Los Angeles, California, USA on 1st February 1966, aged 70.His best films as an actor include Sherlock Jr. (1924), Donald Crisp's The Navigator (1924), Seven Chances (1925), Edward Sedgwick's Spite Marriage (1929) and Charles Chaplin's Limelight (1952), and whose best work as a film director include Our Hospitality (1923), Sherlock Jr. (1924) and The General (1927).
Buster Keaton appeared in 66 films, directed 16 films (including 1 short) and scripted 14 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Edward Sedgwick (9 films), Robert Youngson (4), (3), William Asher (2), Salvador de Alberich (2), Robert Z. Leonard (2), Malcolm St. Clair (2), Edward F. Cline (2), Edward Buzzell (2), Claude Autant-Lara (2) and Charles Reisner (2).
His most frequent genres include: comedy (57 films), comedy-romance (9), comedy-drama (8), drama (6), Documentary (6), Western (4), romance (3) and War (3).
Our average rating for Buster Keaton over all films is: 3.0
Filmography
Key: a = actor; d = director; w = writer
The Round-Up (1920) [a]
The Saphead (1920) [a]
Our Hospitality (1923) [a,d]
Three Ages (1923) [a,d,w]
The Navigator (1924) [a,d]
Go West (1925) [a,d,w]
Seven Chances (1925) [a,d]
Battling Butler (1926) [a,d]
College (1927) [a,d]
The General (1927) [a,d,w]
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) [a,d]
The Cameraman (1928) [a,d]
Spite Marriage (1929) [a,d]
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) [a]
De frente, marchen (1930) [a]
Doughboys (1930) [a]
Estrellados (1930) [a]
Free and Easy (1930) [a]
Buster se marie (1931) [a]
Casanova wider Willen (1931) [a]
Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931) [a]
Sidewalks of New York (1931) [a]
Wir schalten um auf Hollywood (1931) [a]
Le Plombier amoureux (1932) [a]
Speak Easily (1932) [a]
The Passionate Plumber (1932) [a]
What! No Beer? (1933) [a]
Le Roi des Champs-Élysées (1934) [a]
The Invader (1935) [a]
Too Hot to Handle (1938) [w]
Hollywood Cavalcade (1939) [a,d]
Quick Millions (1939) [w]
Go West (1940) [w]
Li'l Abner (1940) [a]
The Villain Still Pursued Her (1940) [a]
San Diego I Love You (1944) [a]
Take It or Leave It (1944) [a]
She Went to the Races (1945) [a,w]
That Night with You (1945) [a]
That's the Spirit (1945) [a]
Easy to Wed (1946) [d,w]
God's Country (1946) [a]
Cynthia (1947) [w]
A Southern Yankee (1948) [w]
In the Good Old Summertime (1949) [a,d,w]
The Lovable Cheat (1949) [a]
You're My Everything (1949) [a]
The Misadventures of Buster Keaton (1950) [a]
Excuse My Dust (1951) [d,w]
Limelight (1952) [a]
L'Incantevole nemica (1953) [a]
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) [a]
When Comedy Was King (1960) [a]
The Great Chase (1962) [a]
30 Years of Fun (1963) [a]
Pajama Party (1964) [a]
The Big Parade of Comedy (1964) [a]
Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) [a]
Buster Keaton Rides Again (1965) [a]
How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965) [a]
Sergeant Dead Head (1965) [a]
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966) [a]
Due marines e un generale (1966) [a]
4 Clowns (1970) [a]
Hooray for Hollywood (1975) [a]
The Golden Age of Buster Keaton (1975) [a]
Buster's Bedroom (1991) [a]
Hugo (2011) [a]
The best of American film noir
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
The very best American film comedies
