
October 3, 1895
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American comic actor, filmmaker, producer and writer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname The Great Stone Fa…

A screenwriter develops a dangerous relationship with a faded film star determined to make a triumphant return.

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 ene...

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.

A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

A fading comedian and a suicidally despondent ballet dancer must look to each other to find purpose and hope in their lives.

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

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.

A man learns that he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7PM that evening.

Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.

A wily Roman slave schemes to earn his freedom by romantically uniting his master with a courtesan. But matters get complicated and he ends up dragging in his neighbors around him, leading to chaos.

A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.

The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.

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.

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.

A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.

In turn-of-the century America, Andrew and Veronica are co-workers in a music shop who dislike one another during business hours but unwittingly carry on an anonymous romance through the mail.

A love-struck weakling must pretend to be boxer in order to gain respect from the family of the girl he loves.

A bank clerk ends up in a seemingly haunted house that is actually a thieves' hideout.

Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.

Nothing but silence. Nothing but a revolutionary song. A story in five chapters like the five fingers of a hand.

Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.

A sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart.

Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.

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.

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.

By accident, Buster and an intimidating woman end up married.

Chaos reigns at an upscale restaurant as a cook and a waiter juggle their responsibilities.

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.

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.

Frankie, on naval-reserve duty in Tahiti, doesn't trust Dee Dee to stay faithful, so he hires Bwana, a witch doctor, to help. Bwana conjures up a floating bikini, "stuffs" it with Cassandra, and sends her to distract advertising e...

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.

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.