Buster Keaton
American motion picture director, motion picture producer, motion picture producers and director, comedian, actor · United States · Directors · Lived 1895 to 1966 · aged 70
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Something wrong?He fell down stairs, rode trains through collapsing bridges, and stood motionless as the front of a house dropped around him - and through it all, his face never moved. That stone mask and those perfectly timed stunts made Keaton silent comedy's most precise daredevil.
A life in dates
The Hollywood PalaceSeries1963
Burke's LawSeries, Mortimer Lovely
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldFilm, 1963Jimmy the Crook1960“Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?”In their wordsInterview with Studs Terkel (1960)
Route 66Series, 19601959Academy Honorary AwardAward1958
The Donna Reed ShowSeries1956
Playhouse 90Series, Harrison
Around the World in 80 DaysFilm, 1956Train Conductor1955
Screen Director's PlayhouseSeries, Kelsey Dutton1952“If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.”In their wordsAs "Calvero's Partner" in Limelight (1952)1950
The Colgate Comedy HourSeries
Sunset BoulevardFilm, 1950Buster Keaton1948
The Ed Sullivan ShowSeries1929
Spite MarriageFilm, Director, Producer1928
Steamboat Bill, Jr.Film, Director, Writer1926
Battling ButlerFilm, Director, Producer1925
Go WestFilm, Director, Writer1924
Sherlock Jr.Film, Director, Producer1922
CopsFilm, Director, Writer1921“Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit.”In their wordsOctober 1921Interview in Motion Picture (October 1921) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton"“Our hero came from Nowhere - he wasn't going Anywhere and he got kicked off Somewhere.”In their wordsThe High Sign (1921, co-written with Edward F. Cline)
Hard LuckFilm, 1921Director, Writer1920“A picture without falls is as bad as Niagara in the same fix.”In their wordsDecember 1920Interview in Picture-Play magazine (December 1920) "Six Interviews with Buster Keaton"1918
Good Night, Nurse!Film, Dr. Hampton1917
The Rough HouseFilm, Director, Writer1914“We used to get arrested every other week - that is, the old man would get arrested.”In their words4 December 1914On his underage working in stage shows, in The Detroit News (4 December 1914)1895Born4 October 1895Also in Deutsch
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In their own words 6
, Charlie Chaplin and I would have a friendly contest: Who could do the feature film with the least subtitles?
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window.
Marriage is fine as an institution, but bad as a habit.
Filmography 40
TBThe Image Book
TEThat's Entertainment!
AFA Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the ForumIWIt's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad WorldADAround the World in 80 Days
LILimelightSBSunset BoulevardSMSpite Marriage
TCThe CameramanSJSteamboat Bill, Jr.
COCollege
TGThe GeneralBBBattling Butler
SCSeven ChancesGWGo WestSJSherlock Jr.
TNThe Navigator
OHOur Hospitality
TAThree Ages
TBThe Balloonatic
TNThe Love NestCOCops
TBThe Blacksmith
THThe Electric House
MRMy Wife's Relations
TPThe Paleface
DDDay Dreams
TGThe Goat
THThe Haunted HouseHLHard Luck
THThe Play House
TBThe Boat
TSThe High Sign
OWOne Week
TSThe Scarecrow
NENeighbors
COConvict 13
TCThe CookGNGood Night, Nurse!THThe Rough House314 credits on file
Television 16
LELegends
FBFunny Business
BFBuster Keaton: A Hard Act to FollowTPThe Hollywood PalaceBLBurke's LawRORoute 66
TZThe Twilight ZoneTSThe Donna Reed ShowPLPlayhouse 90SPScreen Director's Playhouse
TLThis Is Your Life
WLWhat's My Line?THThe Colgate Comedy HourTSThe Ed Sullivan ShowAwards
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Joseph Frank Keaton grew up in vaudeville, touring with his family's act before he could read. In the early 1920s, working with producer Joseph M. Schenck and director Edward F. Cline, he turned out a string of short comedies - One Week, The Playhouse, Cops, The Electric House - that built his reputation for physical invention. He scaled up to features, and between 1924 and 1928 released Sherlock Jr., The General, Steamboat Bill, Jr., and The Cameraman, films that critics would later call untouchable. Then he signed with MGM in 1928, surrendered creative control, and watched it all collapse: his first marriage ended, the drinking started, and by 1933 the studio fired him. He clawed back in the 1940s, remarried Eleanor Norris, and spent his final decades doing cameos and television, collecting an honorary Oscar in 1959. Orson Welles called The General the greatest comedy ever made, possibly the greatest film, period.
In common with Buster
Charlie ChaplinAlso in Limelight (1952)
Frank SinatraAlso in Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Spencer TracyAlso in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Peter LorreAlso in Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
William HoldenAlso in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Peter FalkAlso in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.