Description: Joseph Frank Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), known professionally as Buster Keaton, was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.
Years active: 1898–1966
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The Butcher Boy (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.
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The Rough House (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
Roscoe, his wife and his mother-in-law run a seaside resort. Buster plays a gardener who puts out a fire started by Roscoe, then a delivery boy who fights with the cook St. John, then a cop.
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His Wedding Night (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
In a drugstore Al and Roscoe are rivals for Alice. Roscoe slings melons and operates the gas pump. Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice, begins modeling it, is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.
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Oh Doctor! (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.
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Coney Island (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
Roscoe tries to dump his wife so he can enjoy the beach attractions. Buster arrives with Alice, who is taken away from him by Al, who loses her to Roscoe. Bathing beauties and Keystone Kops abound.
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A Country Hero (Short 1917)
( 1917 )
This was the film debut of Joe Keaton, Buster's dad. In one scene he kicks each of the principals into a horse trough. Roscoe owns a blacksmith shop and Joe a garage in the town of Jazzville. They are rivals for schoolteacher Alice but join forces against new arrival Al. Buster performs at a village ball.
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Out West (Short 1918)
( 1918 )
After escaping from a marauding group of Indians, a wandering bartender teams up with a saloon owner, only to find themselves up against a ruthless outlaw who is after an unprotected Salvation Army girl. Can they beat him at his own game?
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The Bell Boy (Short 1918)
( 1918 )
At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.
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Moonshine (Short 1918)
( 1918 )
A feud between the moonshiners ends with the arrival of revenue agents. They search for the secret hideaway where the mountain people prepare illegal alcohol but end up in deep trouble that only a little movie magic can save them from.
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Good Night, Nurse! (Short 1918)
( 1918 )
Roscoe's wife wants him committed to the No Hope Sanitarium for a cure from drink. He is greeted by blood spattered, cleaver-wielding Buster and a barely clad female patient. He eats a thermometer and must be rushed into surgery.
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The Cook (Short 1918)
( 1918 )
Chaos reigns at an upscale restaurant as a cook and a waiter juggle their responsibilities.
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Back Stage (Short 1919)
( 1919 )
Working their fingers to the bone to prepare the set for an upcoming performance, the enthusiastic stagehands, Roscoe and Buster, find themselves on stage when the cast quits. However, is will alone enough to earn a big round of applause?
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The Hayseed (Short 1919)
( 1919 )
Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.
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The Garage (Short 1920)
( 1920 )
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
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One Week (Short 1920)
( 1920 )
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
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Convict 13 (Short 1920)
( 1920 )
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
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Neighbors (Short 1920)
( 1920 )
A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
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The 'High Sign' (Short 1921)
( 1921 )
A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
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The Goat (Short 1921)
( 1921 )
A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.
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The Play House (Short 1921)
( 1921 )
After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.
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The Boat (Short 1921)
( 1921 )
Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.
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Seeing Stars (Short 1922)
A rare film from First National set a gala celebrity banquet and promoting the releases of several then upcoming films including The Pilgrim (1923), The Balloonatic (1923) and Day Dreams (1922).
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Cops (Short 1922)
( 1922 )
A series of mishaps leads to a young man being chased by a big city's entire police force.
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Day Dreams (Short 1922)
( 1922 )
A sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart.
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The Balloonatic (Short 1923)
( 1923 )
A hapless amusement park attendant finds his runaway balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
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Three Ages
( 1923 )
The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.
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Our Hospitality
( 1923 )
A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
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Sherlock Jr.
( 1924 )
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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The Love Nest (Short 1923)
In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.
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The Navigator
( 1924 )
Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
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Seven Chances
( 1925 )
A man learns that he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7PM that evening.
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Go West
( 1925 )
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
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Battling Butler
( 1926 )
A love-struck weakling must pretend to be boxer in order to gain respect from the family of the girl he loves.
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The General
( 1927 )
After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
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College
( 1927 )
Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.
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Steamboat Bill, Jr.
( 1928 )
The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
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The Cameraman
( 1928 )
Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
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Spite Marriage
( 1929 )
An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
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Free and Easy
( 1930 )
A bumbling manager tries to get a small town beauty contest winner into the movies.
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Estrellados
( 1930 )
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet.
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Doughboys
( 1930 )
A naive and wealthy young man seeks to impress a girl and then unwittingly signs up for army service.
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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
( 1931 )
A man tries passing off a socially awkward fellow as a Casanova in the hopes of marrying off his would be sister-in-law.
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The Stolen Jools (Short 1931)
( 1931 )
The boys and a Los Angeles police detective investigate the theft of actress Norma Shearer's jewelry.
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Wir schalten um auf Hollywood
( 1931 )
Austrian reporter Paul visits the MGM Studio backlot and records his interviews with Buster Keaton, Joan Crawford etc. For a German radio program. Adolphe Menjou even rehearses and performs a lengthy sketch in German.
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Sidewalks of New York
( 1931 )
A dim-witted slumlord tries to reform a gang of urban boys (and impress an attractive young woman) by transforming their rough neighborhood into a more decent place.
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Casanova wider Willen
( 1931 )
Jonny wants to marry Evelyn, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Anna, gets married first. Literally by accident he meets bill poster Reggie and tries every trick in the book to couple him with Anna.
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Buster se marie
( 1931 )
This is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's 1931 comedy Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931).
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The Passionate Plumber
( 1932 )
To make her lover jealous, a beautiful socialite passes off a bumbling plumber as her paramour.
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Speak Easily
( 1932 )
A timid professor inherits a large sum of money and decides to fund a terrible musical.
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Le plombier amoureux
( 1932 )
This is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's The Passionate Plumber (1932).
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What-No Beer?
( 1933 )
Two men decide to cash in on the end of Prohibition by selling watered down beer.
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The Gold Ghost (Short 1934)
( 1934 )
Dumped by his girlfriend, Buster drives west and winds up in a ghost town called Vulture City, where he appoints himself sheriff.
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Allez Oop! (Short 1934)
( 1934 )
When Buster's girlfriend falls for a trapeze artist, Buster tries to beat him at his own game.
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Palooka from Paducah (Short 1935)
( 1935 )
A hillbilly family, hard-hit by the end of Prohibition, decide to set the biggest brother up as a professional wrestler.
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One Run Elmer (Short 1935)
( 1935 )
Elmer owns a gas station out in the California desert. Soon he has a business rival in Jim, who opens up another station, and is also trying to steal Elmer's girlfriend. She plays both rivals against the other and, because she is a baseball fan, both Elmer and Jim try to show each other up in the big local baseball game.
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Hayseed Romance (Short 1935)
( 1935 )
Elmer Doolittle, a hired hand on a farm, encounters some complications in his romancing and believes he will have to marry the farm-owner aunt of Molly, the pretty girl he loves. Further complications arise when a heavy rainstorm keeps the household up all night as the water breaks through and drenches them in their beds. Comes the day of the "shotgun" wedding and Bus...Read all
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Tars and Stripes (Short 1935)
( 1935 )
Elmer Doolittle (Buster Keaton), an apprentice seaman doing training at the U. S. Navy's San Diego Training Station, can't seem to keep out of trouble or the brig. Most of his problems derive from the fact that the girlfriend, Dorothy (Dorothea Kent), of Gunners Mate Richard Mack (Vernon Dent)take a liking to Elmer.
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The E-Flat Man (Short 1935)
( 1935 )
Elmer and his girlfriend run away to elope and spend their trip trying to dodge the police who are on their trail after they mistakenly make their getaway in a police car.
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The Timid Young Man (Short 1935)
( 1935 )
A man who has sworn off women and a woman who has sworn off men must find their budding relationship threatened by aggressive romantic rivals.
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The Invader
( 1936 )
A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
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Three on a Limb (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
A Scoutmaster falls for a beautiful young carhop, but finds that a beefy traffic cop is also courting her--and he doesn't want any competition.
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Grand Slam Opera (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price... by dancing and juggling!
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Blue Blazes (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
Buster becomes a fireman, but unfortunately not a particularly good one. He has a chance to prove himself, however, when three women are trapped in a burning building.
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Mixed Magic (Short 1936)
( 1936 )
A professional magician, "The Great Spumoni", fires his male assistant and his female assistant insists that he hire another one. The young man he hires turns out to have no aptitude whatsoever for a magic act. Complications ensue.
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Jail Bait (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
Buster agrees to pose as a murderer to throw off the police while his room mate, a reporter, searches for the real killer.
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Ditto (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
Buster, an ice delivery man, falls for one of his customers, not knowing she has a twin sister living next door.
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Love Nest on Wheels (Short 1937)
( 1937 )
Elmer, the eldest son in a family of hillbillies who manage a hotel, attempts to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure.
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So You Won't Squawk? (Short 1941)
( 1941 )
A notorious racketeer mistakes night club janitor Buster for "Louie the Wolf," another gangster who is presumed to have been "disposed of."
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General Nuisance (Short 1941)
( 1941 )
A millionaire joins the Army to be near a pretty nurse. He is mistaken for a visiting General but is soon brought down to earth. He then is responsible for some aerial acrobatics in a runaway plane.
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She's Oil Mine (Short 1941)
( 1941 )
Plumber Buster is challenged to a duel when he comes between an oil heiress and her jealous lover.
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God's Country
( 1946 )
Lee Preston, aka Leland Bruce (Robert Lowery), kills a man in self defense but flees to the redwood country when the law makes it a murder charge. There he meets Lynn O'Malley (Helen Gilbert, the niece of "Sandy" McTavish (William Farnum) who runs the trading post. Lee learns the reason why this is good trapping country is because the timber barons across the lake are...Read all
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El moderno Barba Azul
( 1946 )
An American soldier marooned in Mexico is mistaken for a wife-butchering serial killer.
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Un duel à mort
( 1952 )
On the the bank of a peaceful river, two fishermen are... fishing! An idyllic scene indeed. At least until their lines get intertwined. At one of their two ends, a single fish! But whose end? Which of the two contenders is the legal owner of the aquatic vertebrate? To resolve the dispute, the two men decide to fight a pistol duel.
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Piglet : Just saw a highlight of this new drama. Looks like it could be worth watching.