Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton

Date of Birth: 04 Oct 1895

Country: USA

Biography: Known as "The Great Stone Face", Keaton was one of silent film's most famous comedians.

Total Credits at Criticker: 130 (Actor), 40 (Director), 28 (Writer)

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    The General
    When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single handedly and straight through enemy lines.
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    Steamboat Bill, Jr.
    The son of a riverboat captain joins his father's crew.
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    Cops
    Cops (1922) - Short Film
    A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force. (imdb)
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    The Goat
    The Goat (1921) - Short Film
    A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the evil badguy. (imdb)
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    The Electric House
    Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home. He installs lots of fanciful gadgets... (imdb)
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    Three Ages
    The misadventures of Buster in three seperate historical periods. (imdb)
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    Go West
    A young man who doesn't find a job in his small hometown, tries his luck in New York, but is overwelmed by the life of the city...
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    A Night at the Opera
    A sly business manager and two wacky friends of two opera singers help them achieve success while humiliating their stuffy and snobbish enemies. (imdb)
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    The Play House
    The Play House (1921) - Short Film
    The opening scene, a dream sequence prior to the vaudeville routines which follow, is what makes this film famous. In it Keaton plays everyone in a theatre simultaneously (through multiple exposures). He is the band leader, all its members, the dancers on the stage and everyone in the audience. (imdb)
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    The Paleface
    The Paleface (1922) - Short Film
    Evil oil barons have given the Indians one day to vacate their land. The Indian chief tells his braves to kill the first white man they see. Buster shows up chasing a butterfly. Later he keeps moving the stake to which he is tied and at which he is to be burned. He becomes one of the tribe and helps them with their fight. (imdb)
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    The Scarecrow
    The Scarecrow (1920) - Short Film
    Farmhands Keaton and Roberts share a cottage full of mechanical devices for making life easy. They are rivals for the farmer's daughter. Keaton , disguised as a scarecrow, causes troubles for his rival and the farmer. When Keaton stoops to tie his shoe, the girl accepts what she thinks is his kneeling proposal. (imdb)
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    The Love Nest
    The Love Nest (1923) - Short Film
    Buster bids goodbye to Virginia and all women, sailing away in his "Cupid." Later, without food or water, he is taken on board "The Love Nest" which has a very mean captain. A crewman who spills coffee on the captain's hand is thrown overboard. So is anyone else who bothers the captain. (imdb)
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    Convict 13
    Convict 13 (1920) - Short Film
    Buster is playing golf with Sybil when he gets knocked out. An escaped prisoner changes clothes with him. Buster goes to prison and learns that he is to be hanged. He changes clothes with a guard just as prisoner Roberts attacks all the guards. (imdb)
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    Daydreams
    Daydreams (1922) - Short Film
    Buster goes away to the city to prove to his girl's father he can succeed. He writes her of his various jobs which she glorifies in her imagination. She sees a surgeon, he is a vet's assistant; she sees him cleaning up on Wall Street, he's really a janitor. (imdb)
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    The Balloonatic
    The Balloonatic (1923) - Short Film
    Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe is about go over a waterfall. (imdb)
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    The Boat
    The Boat (1921) - Short Film
    Buster's handmade boat, The Damfino, is finished and is, of course, too large to get through the basement door. When he drives off with it in tow, the side of his house, then the whole thing, collapses. At the harbor he rides the boat out only to have it sink beneath him. The rest is a series of adventures he and his family have with the restored boat. (imdb)
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    Neighbors
    Neighbors (1920) - Short Film
    The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings. (imdb)
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    The Haunted House
    Buster is a bank clerk. Overturned glue gets everything, mostly the money, stuck to everything else. When robbers show up he can't "stick 'em up" because his hands are stuck in his pockets. The robbers' hideout is a haunted house designed to scare off police. (imdb)
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    One Week
    One Week (1920) - Short Film
    Buster and Sybil exit a chapel as newlyweds. Among the gifts is a portable house you easily put together in one week. It doesn't help that Buster's rival for Sybil switches the numbers on the crates containing the house parts. (imdb)
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    The \
    The 'High Sign' (1921) - Short Film
    Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices. (imdb)
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    Hard Luck
    Hard Luck (1921) - Short Film
    Buster tries various ways of killing himself before being drawn into hunting, fishing and kidnapping.
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    Tales of Manhattan
    An actor, Paul Orman, is accidentally told that his new, custom made tail coat has been cursed and it will bring misfortune to all who wear it. As the 4 succeeding wearers of the coat discover, misfortune can often lead to truth. (imdb)
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    The Frozen North
    The gold fields of Alaska are the setting for this Selig actioner (which was actually filmed in Colorado). While a prospector searches for the yellow stuff in the snowy wastes, a false friend misinforms the prospector's wife that her husband has been killed. Two years later, the "widow" marries for a second time, unaware that she's now a bigamist. (AllMovie)
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    The Blacksmith
    The Blacksmith (1922) - Short Film
    Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results. (imdb)
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    My Wife\
    When a large Irish woman falsely accuses Buster of breaking a window he is hauled before a Polish judge who speaks no English and assumes they are there to be married. She takes her new husband home to meet her four gorilla-like brothers. (imdb)
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    The Rough House
    The Rough House (1917) - Short Film
    Roscoe, his wife and his mother-in-law run a seaside resort. Buster plays a gardener who puts out a fire started by Roscoe.. (imdb plot summary)
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    She Went to the Races
    Strapped for cash, a group of scientists attempt to put their expertise to use by betting on horse races. Thing's get complicated when one of them falls in love with the owner of a race horse.
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    Grand Slam Opera
    Elmer Butts is a contestant in a radio amateur hour show hoping to win the first price... by dancing and juggling! (imdb)
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