Buster Keaton filmography

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Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton in 1939

This is a list of films by the American actor, comedian, and filmmaker Buster Keaton .

Contents

Short films

Starring Roscoe Arbuckle, featuring Buster Keaton

Release dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
April 23, 1917 The Butcher Boy BusterFirst film role
June 25, 1917 The Rough House YesYesGardener / Delivery Boy / CopCo-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 artistLost 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 dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
September 1, 1920 One Week YesYesThe groom
October 27, 1920 Convict 13 YesYesGolfer turned prisoner / Guard
December 22, 1920 Neighbors YesYesThe boy
December 22, 1920 The Scarecrow YesYesFarmhand
February 10, 1921 The Haunted House YesYesBank clerk
March 14, 1921 Hard Luck YesYesSuicidal boy
April 12, 1921 The High Sign YesYesOur hero
May 18, 1921 The Goat YesYesBuster Keaton
October 6, 1921 The Playhouse YesYesAudience / Orchestra / Mr. Brown – First Minstrel / Second Minstrel / Interlocutors / Stagehand
November 10, 1921 The Boat YesYesThe boat builder
January 1922 The Paleface YesYesLittle Chief Paleface
March 1922 Cops YesYesThe young man
May 1922 My Wife's Relations YesYesThe husband
July 21, 1922 The Blacksmith YesYesBlacksmith's assistant
August 28, 1922 The Frozen North YesYesThe bad man
October 16, 1922 The Electric House YesYesBuster Keaton
November 1922 Day Dreams YesYesThe young manDistributed by
First National Pictures
January 22, 1923 The Balloonatic YesYesThe young man
March 1923 The Love Nest YesYesBuster Keaton

Starring Buster Keaton for Educational Pictures

Release dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
March 16, 1934 The Gold Ghost YesWally
May 25, 1934 Allez Oop YesElmer
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 YesApprentice 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 YesYesElmer Butts
August 21, 1936 Blue Blazes YesElmer
October 9, 1936 The Chemist Elmer Triple
November 20, 1936 Mixed Magic YesElmer "Happy" Butterworth
January 8, 1937 Jail Bait Office Boy
February 12, 1937 Ditto The forgotten man
March 26, 1937 Love Nest on Wheels YesElmer

Starring Buster Keaton for Columbia Pictures

Release dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
June 16, 1939 Pest from the West YesSir
August 11, 1939 Mooching Through Georgia YesHomer 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 dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
October 15, 1952 Paradise for Buster BusterIndustrial film short for John Deere & Co.
1960 The Devil to Pay DiablosIndustrial 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 SnapwellIndustrial film short for the Eastman Kodak Company
1965 The Fall Guy The Fall GuyIndustrial 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 JournalistIndustrial film short for the Construction Safety Association of Ontario

Directed by (but not featuring) Buster Keaton for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
February 26, 1938 Life in Sometown, USA Yes
May 28, 1938 Hollywood Handicap Yes
September 10, 1938 Streamlined Swing Yes
Release dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
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 dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
October 18, 1920 The Saphead YesBertie 'The Lamb' Van Alstyne

Starring Buster Keaton under Buster Keaton Productions

Release dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
September 24, 1923 Three Ages YesThe BoyCo-directed with Edward F. Cline
November 19, 1923 Our Hospitality YesWillie McKayCo-directed with John G. Blystone
May 11, 1924 Sherlock Jr. YesProjectionist / Sherlock Jr.
October 13, 1924 The Navigator YesRollo TreadwayCo-directed with Donald Crisp
March 15, 1925 Seven Chances YesJames Shannon
November 1, 1925 Go West YesYesFriendless
September 19, 1926 Battling Butler YesAlfred Butler
December 31, 1926 [1] (Tokyo)
The General YesYesJohnnie GrayCo-written and directed with Clyde Bruckman
September 27, 1927 College YesRonaldCo-directed with James W. Horne
May 20, 1928 Steamboat Bill, Jr. YesWilliam Canfield Jr.Co-directed with Charles Reisner

Starring Buster Keaton for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Release dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
September 22, 1928 The Cameraman YesBusterCo-directed with Edward Sedgwick
April 6, 1929 Spite Marriage YesElmer GantryCo-directed with Edward Sedgwick
March 22, 1930 Free and Easy Elmer
July 7, 1930 Estrellados Canuto CuadratinSpanish-language version of Free and Easy
August 30, 1930 Doughboys Elmer
January 23, 1931De frente...marchenCanuto de la MonteraSpanish-language version of Doughboys
February 28, 1931 Parlor, Bedroom and Bath Reginald Irving
September 26, 1931 Sidewalks of New York Harmon
October 19, 1931Casanova wider WillenReggie IrvingGerman-language version of Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
December 23, 1931Buster se marieReggieFrench-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, 1932Le plombier amoureuxElmer TuttleFrench-language version of The Passionate Plumber
February 10, 1933 What! No Beer? Elmer J. Butts

Starring Buster Keaton for independent producers

Release dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
December 11, 1934 Le Roi des Champs-Élysées Buster Garner / Jim le Balafré
January 2, 1936 The Invader Leander Proudfoot
August 2, 1946 El Moderno Barba Azul GI / PrisonerAlso known as A Modern Bluebeard and Boom in the Moon
October 30, 1965 Buster Keaton Rides Again HimselfDocumentary about the making of The Railrodder
Release dateTitleCredited asNotes
WriterDirectorRole
October 10, 1920 The Round-Up IndianUncredited
December 23, 1928 Brotherly Love BarberUncredited, appearance is speculative
April 23, 1929 Tide of Empire Drunk thrown out of barUncredited
June 20, 1929 The Hollywood Revue of 1929 Himself / Princess Raja
Unreleased, scheduled for September 1930 The March of Time Caveman
November, 1931Wir schalten um auf HollywoodHimselfTruncated 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 YesYesUncredited
April 13, 1949 Take Me Out to the Ball Game YesUncredited
May 11, 1949 The Lovable Cheat Goulard
July 29, 1949 In the Good Old Summertime YesYesHickey
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 ErroniusFinal film role; released posthumously

Television appearances (incomplete)

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