These films are listed in the order in which they were made, not in the order in which they were released. Where possible, credits are as they appear on-screen.
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: April 23, 1917. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Al St. John, Josephine Stevens, Buster Keaton, Arthur Earle, Agnes Neilson, Luke.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: June 25, 1917. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Al St. John, Buster Keaton, Alice Lake, Agnes Neilson.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: August 20, 1917. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Al St. John, Buster Keaton, Alice Mann.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: September 19, 1917. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Mann.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: October 29, 1917. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Mann.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: December 13, 1917. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Joe Keaton.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: January 20, 1918. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Al St. John, Alice Lake, Joe Keaton.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: March 18, 1918. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Joe Keaton, Charles Dudley.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: May 13, 1918. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Charles Dudley.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: July 8, 1918. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Kate Price.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: September 15, 1918. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Glen Cavender.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: August 20, 1919. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Molly Malone, Jack Coogan, Charles A. Post.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: October 26, 1919. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Molly Malone, Jack Coogan, Luke.)
A Paramount-Arbuckle Comedy presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Famous Players-Lasky. Release Date: January 11, 1920. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Fatty Arbuckle. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton, Molly Malone, Harry McCoy, Daniel Crimmins, Luke.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Director: Buster Keaton. Production: Comique. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: April 12, 1921. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Ingram B. “Cupid” Pickett, Al St. John.
Presented by Marcus Loew. Supervisor: Winchell Smith. Director: Herbert Blaché. Based upon the play The New Henrietta by Winchell Smith and Victor Mapes, adapted from The Henrietta by Bronson Howard. Scenario: June Mathis. Photography: Harold Wenstrom. Production and Distribution: Metro. Release Date: October 18, 1920. Length: 7 reels. Cast: William H. Crane, Buster Keaton, Odette Tyler, Carol Holloway, Irving Cummings, Jack Livingston, Beulah Booker, Edward Connelly, Edward Jobson, Edward Alexander.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: September 1, 1920. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: October 27, 1920. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton, Eddie Cline.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: December 22, 1920. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton, Eddie Cline, Luke.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: January 3, 1921. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton, Eddie Cline.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: February 10, 1921. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Eddie Cline.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: March 16, 1921. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Bull Montana.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Mal St. Clair. Writers: Buster Keaton, Mal St. Clair. (Uncredited: Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell.) Production: Comique. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: May 18, 1921. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Mal St. Clair, Eddie Cline, Jean Havez.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman.) Production: Comique. Distribution: First National. Release Date: October 6, 1921. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman.) Production: Comique. Distribution: First National. Release Date: November 1921. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Sybil Seely, Eddie Cline.)
Producers: Jack Cohn, Louis Lewyn. Production: CBC Film Sales. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: January 5, 1922.
note: Keaton appears in views of the Talmadge sisters and their husbands.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman.) Production: Comique. Distribution: First National. Release Date: January 1922. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox.)
Production and Distribution: First National. Release Date: February 1922. Length: 1 reel. Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Norma Talmadge, Constance Talmadge, Jackie Coogan, Anita Stewart.
note: Keaton impersonates a waiter during a banquet at Los Angeles’ Ambassador Hotel at which the stars have united to form the Independent Screen Artists’ Guild.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman.) Production: Comique. Distribution: First National. Release Date: March 1922. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Eddie Cline.)
Producers: Jack Cohn, Louis Lewyn. Production: CBC Film Sales. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: April 27, 1922. Keaton appears with Norma and Constance Talmadge.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman, Thomas J. Gray.) Production: Comique. Distribution: First National. Release Date: May 1922. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Kate Price, Joe Roberts, Monte Collins.)
Producers: Jack Cohn, Louis Lewyn. Production: CBC Film Sales. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: July 2, 1922.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Mal St. Clair. Writers: Buster Keaton, Mal St. Clair. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman.) Production: Comique. Distribution: First National. Release Date: July 1922. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts.)
Producers: Jack Cohn, Louis Lewyn. Production: CBC Film Sales. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: July 30, 1922.
note: Keaton appears with Bull Montana.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman, Thomas J. Gray.) Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: First National. Release Date: August 1922. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Bonnie Hill, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, Eddie Cline.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman.) Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: First National. Release Date: October 1922. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Roscoe Arbuckle.) Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Roscoe Arbuckle, Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman.) Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: First National. Release Date: November 1922. Length: 3 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Renée Adorée, Joe Keaton, Joe Roberts, Eddie Cline.)
Producers: Jack Cohn, Louis Lewyn. Production: CBC Film Sales. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: December 17, 1922.
note: Keaton appears with Norma Talmadge.
Producers: Jack Cohn, Louis Lewyn. Production: CBC Film Sales. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: January 28, 1923.
note: Keaton appears with the Talmadge family.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Director: Buster Keaton. Writer: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman.) Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: First National. Release Date: March 1923. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Joe Roberts.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Writers: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. (Uncredited: Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman.) Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: First National. Release Date: January 1923. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton. (Uncredited: Phyllis Haver.)
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline. Story: Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman. Photography: Elgin Lessley, William C. McGann. Technical Director: Fred Gabourie. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: September 24, 1923. Length: 6 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Lillian Lawrence, Joe Roberts, Horace Morgan, Blanche Payson, Lionel Belmore.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Jack Blystone. Story: Jean Havez, Clyde Bruckman, Joseph Mitchell. Photography: Elgin Lessley, Gordon Jennings. Lighting: Denver Harmon. Art Director: Fred Gabourie. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: November 19, 1923. Length: 7 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Roberts, Ralph Bushman, Craig Ward, Monte Collins, Joe Keaton, Kitty Bradbury, Buster Keaton, Jr.
Producers: Jack Cohn, Louis Lewyn. Production: CBC Film Sales. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: December 16, 1923.
note: Keaton appears with Wallace Beery.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Director: Buster Keaton. Story: Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman. Photography: Elgin Lessley, Byron Houck. Art Director: Fred Gabourie. Electrician: Denver Harmon. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: Metro. Release Date: April 21, 1924. Length: 5 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Ward Crane, Erwin Connelly, Jane Connelly, Ford West, Horace Morgan.
Producer: Jack Cohn. Production: CBC Film Sales. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: September 15, 1924.
note: Keaton appears with the Talmadge family.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton. Story: Clyde Bruckman, Joseph Mitchell, Jean Havez. Photography: Elgin Lessley, Byron Houck. Technical Director: Fred Gabourie. Electrician: Denver Harmon. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn. Release Date: October 13, 1924. Length: 6 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom, Clarence Burton, H. M. Clugston, Noble Johnson.
Producer: Jack Cohn. Production: CBC Film Sales. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: November 1, 1924.
note: Keaton appears with Joseph Schenck and Norma Talmadge.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Director: Buster Keaton. Adapted from the play by Roi Cooper Megrue. Screen Version: Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez, Joseph Mitchell. Photography: Elgin Lessley, Byron Houck. Art Director: Fred Gabourie. Electrician: Denver Harmon. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn. Release Date: March 16, 1925. Length: 6 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer, Frankie Raymond, Erwin Connelly, Jules Cowles.
Distribution: Educational Pictures. Release Date: November 20, 1927. Length: 1 reel. Cast: Carter De Haven, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Roscoe Arbuckle, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, Jackie Coogan.
note: In this privately produced novelty reel, Carter De Haven offers “a few makeup impressions of the world’s greatest screen stars.” The subject of each “impression” appears briefly in De Haven’s place to put over the illusion, with ten-year-old Jackie Coogan’s appearance finally giving the joke away.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Written and Directed by Buster Keaton, “Assisted by Lex Neal.” Scenario: Raymond Cannon. Photography: Elgin Lessley, Bert Haines. Art Director: Fred Gabourie. Electrical Effects: Denver Harmon. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: October 25, 1925. Length: 7 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers, Ray Thompson, Brown Eyes.
Producer-Director: Ralph Staub. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: May 1, 1926.
note: Keaton appears with Norma Talmadge.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Director: Buster Keaton. Based upon the musical Battling Butler by Stanley Brightman, Austin Melford, and Douglas Furber, adapted for Broadway as Battling Butler by Ballard MacDonald. Screen Adaptation: Paul Gerard Smith, Al Boasberg, Charles H. Smith, Lex Neal. Photography: J. D. Jennings, Bert Haines. Technical Director: Fred Gabourie. Electrical Effects: Ed Levy. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: August 22, 1926. Length: 7 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O’Neil, Walter James, Bud Fine, Francis McDonald, Mary O’Brien, Tom Wilson, Eddie Borden.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Directors: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman. Writers: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman. Adaptation: Al Boasberg, Charles Smith. Photography: Dev Jennings, Bert Haines. Lighting Effects: Denver Harmon. Technical Director: Fred Gabourie. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: United Artists. Release Date: February 5, 1927. Length: 8 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom, Charles Smith, Frank Barnes, Joe Keaton, Mike Donlin, Tom Nawn.
note: This film was inspired by the book The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Supervisor: Harry Brand. Director: James W. Horne. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Story: Carl Harbaugh, Bryan Foy. Photography: Dev Jennings, Bert Haines. Editor: Sherm Kell. Lighting Effects: Jack Lewis. Technical Director: Fred Gabourie. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: United Artists. Release Date: September 10, 1927. Length: 6 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin, Snitz Edwards, Carl Harbaugh, Sam Crawford, Florence Turner.
Presented by Joseph M. Schenck. Director: Charles F. Reisner. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Story: Carl Harbaugh. Photography: Dev Jennings, Bert Haines. Technical Director: Fred Gabourie. Production: Buster Keaton Productions. Distribution: United Artists. Release Date: May 12, 1928. Length: 7 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron, Tom Lewis, Tom McGuire.
Supervisor: Edgar J. Mannix. Director: Edward Sedgwick. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Story: Clyde Bruckman, Lew Lipton. Continuity: Richard Schayer. Titles: Joe Farnham. Settings: Fred Gabourie. Photography: Elgin Lessley, Reggie Lanning. Editor: Hugh Wynn. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: September 22, 1928. Length: 8 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracy, Harry Gribbon.
Supervisor: Irving Thalberg. (Uncredited: Lawrence Weingarten.) Director: Edward Sedgwick. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Story: Lew Lipton. Adaptation: Ernest S. Pagano. Continuity: Richard Schayer. Titles: Robert E. Hopkins. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Photography: Reggie Lanning. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: September 22, 1928. Length: 8 reels. Cast: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams, William Bechtel, John Byron.
Supervisor: Harry Rapf. Director: Charles F. Reisner. Dances and Ensembles: Sammy Lee. Dialogue: Al Boasberg, Robert E. Hopkins. Photography: John Arnold, Irving G. Ries, Maximilian Fabian. Editors: William S. Gray, Cameron K. Wood. Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons, Richard Day. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: November 23, 1929. Running time: 130 minutes. Cast: John Gilbert, Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, William Haines, Joan Crawford, Buster Keaton, Bessie Love, Marie Dressler, Cliff Edwards, Charles King, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Polly Moran. Masters of Ceremonies: Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny.
Supervisor: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Edward Sedgwick. Dances: Sammy Lee. Scenario: Richard Schayer. Adaptation: Paul Dickey. Dialogue: Al Boasberg. Photography: Leonard Smith. Editor: William LeVanway. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: March 22, 1930. Running Time: 93 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton; Anita Page; Trixie Friganza; Robert Montgomery; Fred Niblo; Edgar Dearing; Gwen Lee; John Miljan; Lionel Barrymore; William Haines; William Collier, Sr.; Dorothy Sebastian; Karl Dane; David Burton.
note: This film was also released in a six-reel silent version.
Estrellados (Spanish version of Free and Easy) Supervisor: George E. Kann. Director: Salvador de Alberich. Adaption and Dialogue: Salvador de Alberich. Cast: Buster Keaton, Raquel Torres, Don Alverado, Juan De Homs, Maria Calvo, Carlos Villarias.
Buster Rutschet ins Filmland (German version of Free and Easy) Dialogue: Heinrich Fraenkel.
Chi Non Cerca Trova (Italian version of Free and Easy).
Producer-Director: Louis Lewyn. Production: Tec-Art. Distribution: Tiffany. Length: 11 minutes. 1 reel. Release date: April 18, 1930. Keaton appears with Raquel Torres.
Producer-Director: Ralph Staub. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: May 21, 1930.
Supervisor: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Edward Sedgwick. Dances: Sammy Lee. Story: Al Boasberg, Sidney Lazarus. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Scenario: Richard Schayer. Dialogue: Al Boasberg, Richard Schayer. Songs: Edward Sedgwick, Howard Johnson, Joseph Meyer. Photography: Leonard Smith. Editor: William LeVanway. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: August 30, 1930. Running Time: 81 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Sally Eilers, Cliff Edwards, Edward Brophy, Victor Potel, Arnold Korff, Frank Mayo, Pitzy Katz, William Steele, Edward Sedgwick.
De Frente, Marchen (Spanish version of Doughboys) Supervisor: George E. Kann. Director: Salvador de Alberich. Adaption and Dialogue: Salvador de Alberich. Cast: Buster Keaton, Conchita Montenegro, Juan de Landa, Romualdo Tirado.
Producer-Director: Louis Lewyn. Production: Tec-Art. Distribution: Tiffany. Length: 10 minutes. Release Date: January 19, 1931. Keaton plays a brief scene at a new supper club in Culver City. Kenneth Harlan, Raquel Torres, Arthur Lake, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, June Clyde, and Monte Blue also appear.
Supervisor: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Edward Sedgwick. (Uncredited: Buster Keaton.) Based upon the play by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan. Dialogue Continuity: Richard Schayer. Additional Dialogue: Robert E. Hopkins. Photography: Leonard Smith. Editor: William LeVanway. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: February 28, 1931. Running Time: 73 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Cliff Edwards, Dorothy Christy, Joan Peers, Sally Eilers, Natalie Moorhead, Edward Brophy, Walter Merrill, Sidney Bracy.
Buster se Marie (French version of Parlor, Bedroom and Bath) Supervisor: George E. Kann. Directors: Edward Brophy, Claude Autant-Lara. Adaption: Ivan Noe. Cast: Buster Keaton, Andre Luguet, Francoise Rosay, Jeanne Hebling, Andre Berley, Rolla Norman, Mona Goya, Lya Lys, George Davis.
Casanova Wider Willen (German version of Parlor, Bedroom and Bath) Supervisor: George E. Kann. Directors: Edward Brophy, Paul Morgan. Dialogue: Paul Morgan. Cast: Buster Keaton, Paul Morgan, Egon von Jordan, Marion Lessing, Francoise Rosay, Leni Stengel, Gerda Mann, Karla G, George Davis, Wolfgang Zilzer.
Supervisor: E. K. Nadel. Director: William McGann. Production: National Variety Artists (by arrangement and cooperation with Chesterfield Cigarettes). Distribution: National Screen Service. Release Date: April 1, 1931. Running Time: 19 minutes. Cast: Wallace Beery; Buster Keaton; Edward G. Robinson; Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy; Polly Moran; Norma Shearer; Joan Crawford; William Haines; Victor McLaglen; Edmund Lowe; El Brendel; Warner Baxter; Irene Dunne; Bert Wheeler; Robert Woolsey; Richard Dix; Gary Cooper; Maurice Chevalier; Loretta Young; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; Bebe Daniels; Ben Lyon; Barbara Stanwyck; Frank Fay; Jack Oakie; Fay Wray.
Supervisor: George E. Kann. Director: Frank Reicher. Manuscript and Dialogue: Paul Morgan. Photography: Ray Binger. Editor: Adrienne Fazan. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: July 1931. Running Time: 66 minutes. Cast: Paul Morgan, Buster Keaton, Ramon Novarro, Nora Gregor, Oscar Straus, Adolphe Menjou, Heinrich George, Dodge Sisters, John Gilbert, Egon Von Jordan, Albertina Rasch Ballet.
note: In studio records, this film is identified as the German version of the unreleased March of Time.
Supervisor: Lawrence Weingarten. Directors: Jules White, Zion Myers. Story: George Landy, Paul Gerard Smith. Dialogue: Robert E. Hopkins, Eric Hatch. Photography: Leonard Smith. Editor: Charles Hochberg. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: September 26, 1931. Running Time: 70 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton; Anita Page; Cliff Edwards; Frank Rowan; Norman Phillips, Jr.; Frank LaRue; Oscar Apfel; Syd Saylor; Clark Marshall.
Buster Hat Nichts Zu Lachen (German version of Sidewalks of New York)
Buster Millionnaire (French version of Sidewalks of New York)
Supervisor: Pete Smith. Directors: Jules White, Zion Myers. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: October 3, 1931. Running Time: 9 minutes. Cast: Fred Cady, Larry “Buster” Crabbe, Jennie Cramer, Joy Crew, Oliver Hatch.
note: According to M-G-M records, Keaton devoted one day to this short, in which he is briefly seen.
Producer: Louis Lewyn. Production: Tec-Art. Distribution: Tiffany. Length: 1 reel. Release date: December 20, 1931.
note: Keaton appears with Gilbert Roland.
Supervisor: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Edward Sedgwick. Based upon the play Her Cardboard Lover by Jacques Deval. Adaptation: Laurence E. Johnson. Dialogue: Ralph Spence. Photography: Norbert Brodine. Editor: William S. Gray. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: February 6, 1932. Running Time: 73 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Polly Moran, Irene Purcell, Gilbert Roland, Mona Maris, Maude Eburne, Henry Armetta, Paul Porcasi, Jean Del Val, August Tollaire.
Le Plombier Amoureux (French version of The Passionate Plumber) Director: Claude Autant-Lara. Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Polly Moran, Jeannette Ferney, Barbara Leonard.
Wer Andern Keine Liebe Gönnt (German version of The Passionate Plumber)
Chi La Dura La Vince (Italian version of The Passionate Plumber)
Producer-Director: Ralph Staub. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: April 18, 1932.
Supervisor: Lawrence Weingarten. Director: Edward Sedgwick. Based upon the novel by Clarence Budington Kelland. Dialogue Continuity: Ralph Spence, Laurence E. Johnson. Photography: Harold Wenstrom. Editor: William LeVanway. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: August 13, 1932. Running Time: 80 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Ruth Selwyn, Thelma Todd, Hedda Hopper, William Pawley, Sidney Toler, Lawrence Grant, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy.
Producer-Director: Ralph Staub. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: January 6, 1933.
Producer-Director: Louis Lewyn. Production: Louis Lewyn Productions. Distribution: Paramount. Length: 10 minutes. Release Date: January 13, 1933.
note: Keaton and Lew Cody are seen in and around Keaton’s land yacht.
Supervisors: Frank Davis, Lou Edelman. Director: Edward Sedgwick. Story: Robert E. Hopkins. Screenplay: Carey Wilson. Additional Dialogue: Jack Cluett. Photography: Harold Wenstrom. Editor: Frank Sullivan. Art Director: Cedric Gibbons. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: February 10, 1933. Running Time: 70 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Jimmy Durante, Rosco Ates, Phyllis Barry, John Miljan, Henry Armetta, Edward Brophy, Charles Dunbar, Charles Giblyn.
Producer-Director: Louis Lewyn. Production: Louis Lewyn Productions. Distribution: Paramount. Length: 12 minutes. Release Date: July 28, 1933. Keaton sings a duet with Marion Mack and introduces a pageant of movieland couples that includes Mr. and Mrs. Warner Baxter, William Powell and Carole Lombard, and George Barnes and Joan Blondell.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Ewart Adamson, Nick Barrows. Adaptation and Continuity: Ernest Pagano, Charles Lamont. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: Fox. Release Date: March 16, 1934. Running Time: 21 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Warren Hymer, Dorothy Dix, Joe Young, William Worthington, Lloyd Ingraham, Leo Willis.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Ernest Pagano, Ewart Adamson. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: Fox. Release Date: May 25, 1934. Running Time: 20 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, George Lewis, Harry Myers, the Flying Escalantes.
Producer: Seymour Nebenzal. Associate Producer: John Blochert. Director: Max Nosseck. Scenario: Arnold Lipp. Dialogue: Yves Mirande. Photography: Robert Le Febvre. Art Director: Jacques-Laurent Atthalin. Production: Nero Film. Distribution: S.A.F. Paramount. Release Date: December 1934. Running Time: 70 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Paulette Dubost, Madeline Guitty, Lucien Callamand, Jacques Dumesnil, Pierre Piérade, Gaston Dupray, Raymond Blot, Colette Darfeuil.
Producer: Sam Spiegel. Director: Adrian Brunel. Story: Buster Keaton. Screenplay: Edwin Greenwood. Photography: Eugen Schuefftan, Eric L. Gross. Editor: Dan Birt. Art Director: James Elder Wills. Production: British & Continental Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. Release Date: January 1936. Running Time: 61 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Lupita Tovar, Esme Percy, Lyn Harding, A. Malandrinos, Hilda Moreno, Clifford Heatherley, Webster Booth.
note: This film was distributed in the United States by J. H. Hoffberg Co. under the title An Old Spanish Custom.
Carambola D’Amore (Dubbed Italian version of The Invader)
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Glen Lambert. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: Fox. Release Date: January 11, 1935. Running Time: 20 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Myra Keaton, Joe Keaton, Louise Keaton, Dewey Robinson, Bull Montana.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Glen Lambert. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: Fox. Release Date: February 22, 1935. Running Time: 19 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Lona André, Dewey Robinson, Harold Goodwin.
Producer-Director: Harriet Parsons. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: March 15, 1935.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Charles Lamont. Dialogue and Continuity: Glen Lambert. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: Fox. Release Date: March 15, 1935. Running Time: 20 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Jane Jones, Dorothea Kent.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Charles Lamont. Adaptation: Ewart Adamson. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: Fox. Release Date: May 3, 1935. Running Time: 20 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Vernon Dent, Dorothea Kent, Jack Shutta.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Glen Lambert, Charles Lamont. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: Fox. Release Date: August 9, 1935. Running Time: 20 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Dorothea Kent, Broderick O’ Farrell, Charles McAvoy, Si Jenks, Fern Emmett, Jack Shutta.
Producer-Director: Mack Sennett. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: October 25, 1935. Running Time: 20 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Lona André, Stanley J. Sandford, Kitty McHugh, Harry Bowen.
Producer-Director: Louis Lewyn. Photography: Ray Rennahan (Technicolor). Production: Louis Lewyn Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: December 7, 1935. Running Time: 19 minutes. Narrator: Pete Smith. Cast: Eduardo Durant’s Fiesta Orchestra and the Spanish Troubadours, Warner Baxter, Ralph Forbes, Buster Keaton, Andy Devine, Irvin S. Cobb, Joe Morrison, Ted Healy, Leo Carillo, the Fanchonettes, Garland Sisters, Kirby and De Gage, Dude Ranch Wranglers.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Vernon Smith. Photography: Gus Peterson. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: January 3, 1936. Running Time: 18 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Lona André, Harold Goodwin, Grant Withers, Barbara Bedford, John Ince, Fern Emmett, Phyllis Crane.
Producer: Louis Lewyn. Director: Roy Rowland. Dialogue: John Krafft. Photography: Allen Davey, Aldo Ermini (Technicolor). Production: Louis Lewyn Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: January 11, 1936. Running Time: 20 minutes. Cast: Edmund Lowe, the Fanchonettes, Hollywood Ingénues, Downey Sisters, Frances Langford, Walter Huston, Betty Furness, Jackie Coogan, Betty Grable, Buster Keaton, Johnny Weissmuller.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Buster Keaton, Charles Lamont. Photography: Gus Peterson. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: February 21, 1936. Running Time: 21 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Diana Lewis, Harold Goodwin, John Ince, Melrose Coakley, Bud Jamison.
Producer: Al Christie. Director: Raymond Kane. Story: David Freedman. Photography: George Webber. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: August 21, 1936. Running Time: 19 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Marlyn Stuart, Donald McBride, Earl Gilbert, Herman Lieb.
note: This was the first of three shorts Keaton filmed for Educational in New York.
Producer-Director: Al Christie. Story: David Freedman. Photography: George Webber. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: October 9, 1936. Running Time: 19 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Marlyn Stuart, Donald McBride, Earl Gilbert, Herman Lieb.
Producer: Al Christie. Director: Raymond Kane. Story: Arthur Jarrett, Marcy Klauber. Photography: George Webber. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: November 20, 1936. Running Time: 17 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Eddie Lambert, Marlyn Stuart, Eddie Hall, Jimmie Fox, Walter Fenner, Pass Le Noir.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Paul Gerard Smith. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: January 8, 1937. Running Time: 19 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Harold Goodwin, Mathew Betz, Bud Jamison, Betty Andre, Louise Keaton.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Paul Gerard Smith. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: February 12, 1937. Running Time: 17 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Gloria Brewster, Barbara Brewster, Harold Goodwin, Lynton Brent, Al Thompson, Bob Ellsworth.
Producer-Director: Harriet Parsons. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: February 19, 1937. Keaton is seen attending the world premiere of M-G-M’s Camille in Palm Springs.
Producer: E. H. Allen. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: William Hazlett Upson. Adaptation: Paul Gerard Smith. Photography: Dwight Warren. Production: Educational Pictures. Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: March 26, 1937. Running Time: 18 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Myra Keaton, Al St. John, Lynton Brent, Diana Lewis, Bud Jamison, Louise Keaton, Harry Keaton.
Producer: Jack Chertok. Director: Buster Keaton. Screenplay: Carl Dudley, Richard Murphy. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: February 26, 1938. Running Time: 11 minutes. Narrator: Carey Wilson. Cast: Francis X. Bushman, Betty Blythe, King Baggot, Philips Smalley, Jules Cowles.
Producer: Louis Lewyn. Director: Buster Keaton. Production: Louis Lewyn Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: May 28, 1938. Running Time: 10 minutes. Cast: The Original Sing Band.
Producer: Louis Lewyn. Director: Buster Keaton. Screenplay: Marion Mack. Dialogue: John Krafft. Production: Louis Lewyn Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: September 10, 1938. Running Time: 9 minutes. Cast: The Original Sing Band.
Producer-Director: Harriet Parsons. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: November 20, 1938.
note: Keaton appears in this entry on how and why publicity photos are made.
Producer: Louis Lewyn. Director: George Sidney. Story and Screenplay: Morey Amsterdam. Production: Louis Lewyn Productions. Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: May 3, 1939. Running Time: 10 minutes. Cast: Joyce Compton, Sally Payne, William Benedict.
note: Keaton is seen as a team member in the annual leading men versus comedians baseball game.
Associate Producer: John Stone. Director: Malcolm St. Clair. Story: Joseph Hoffman, Buster Keaton. Screenplay: Harold Tarshis. Photography: Edward Snyder. Editor: Fred Allen. Art Directors: Richard Day, Mark-Lee Kirk. Production and Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: June 2, 1939. Running Time: 61 minutes. Cast: Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Ken Howell, George Ernest, June Carlson, Florence Roberts, Billy Mahan.
Producer: Jules White. Director: Del Lord. Screenplay: Clyde Bruckman. Photography: Henry Freulich. Editor: Charles Nelson. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: June 16, 1939. Running Time: 18 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Lorna Gray, Gino Corrado, Richard Fiske.
Producer-Director: Jules White. Screenplay: Clyde Bruckman. Photography: John Stumar. Editor: Arthur Seid. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: August 11, 1939. Running Time: 19 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Monty Collins, Jill Martin, Bud Jamison.
Associate Producer: John Stone. Director: Malcolm St. Clair. Story: Joseph Hoffman, Buster Keaton. Screenplay: Joseph Hoffman, Stanley Rauh. Photography: Lucien Andriot. Editor: Harry Reynolds. Art Directors: Richard Day, Albert Hogsett. Production and Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: August 25, 1939. Running Time: 60 minutes. Cast: Jed Prouty, Spring Byington, Ken Howell, George Ernest, June Carlson, Florence Roberts, Billy Mahan.
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck. Associate Producer: Harry Joe Brown. Directors: Irving Cummings, Malcolm St. Clair. Based upon an idea by Lou Breslow. Story: Hilary Lynn, Brown Holmes. Screenplay: Ernest Pascal. Photography: Ernest Palmer, Allen M. Davey (Technicolor). Editor: Walter Thompson. Art Directors: Richard Day, Wiard B. Ihnen. Production and Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: October 13, 1939. Running Time: 96 minutes. Cast: Alice Faye, Don Ameche, J. Edward Bromberg, Alan Curtis, Stuart Erwin, Donald Meek, George Givot, Eddie Collins, Buster Keaton, Ben Turpin, Chester Conklin, Hank Mann, Jed Prouty, Snub Pollard, Al Jolson, Mack Sennett.
Producer-Director: Jules White. Screenplay: Clyde Bruckman. Photography: Henry Freulich. Editor: Arthur Seid. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: January 19, 1940. Running Time: 17 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Appleby, Beatrice Blinn.
Producer-Director: Jules White. Screenplay: Clyde Bruckman. Photography: Benjamin Kline. Editor: Mel Thorsen. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: March 22, 1940. Running Time: 18 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Appleby, Richard Fiske, Vernon Dent.
Producer-Director: Ralph Staub. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: March 29, 1940. A survey of sports venues around Los Angeles that are favored by the stars.
note: Keaton, in a running gag, is seen as a spectator at all of them.
Producer-Director: Jules White. Screenplay: Ewart Adamson, Clyde Bruckman. Photography: Henry Freulich. Editor: Mel Thorsen. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: June 28, 1940. Running Time: 16 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Elsie Ames, Dorothy Appleby.
Producer-Director: Jules White. Screenplay: Ewart Adamson, Clyde Bruckman. Photography: Henry Freulich. Editor: Mel Thorsen. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: September 20, 1940. Running Time: 18 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Elsie Ames, Don Beddoe, Dorothy Appleby.
Producer: Harold B. Franklin. Director: Edward Cline. Screenplay: Elbert Franklin. Additional Dialogue: Ethel La Blanche. Photography: Lucien Ballard. Editor: Arthur Hilton. Art Director: Louis Rachmil. Production: Franklin-Blank Productions. Distribution: RKO-Radio. Release Date: October 11, 1940. Running Time: 67 minutes. Cast: Hugh Herbert, Anita Louise, Alan Mowbray, Buster Keaton, Joyce Compton, Richard Cromwell, Billy Gilbert, Margaret Hamilton, Diane Fisher, Charles Judels.
Associate Producer: Herman Schlom. Director: Albert S. Rogell. Based upon the United Features comic by Al Capp. Story: Al Capp. Screenplay: Charles Kerr, Tyler Johnson. Additional Dialogue: Ethel La Blanche. Photography: Harry Jackson. Editors: Otto Ludwig, Donn Hayes. Art Director: Ralph Berger. Production: Vogue Pictures. Distribution: RKO-Radio. Release Date: November 1, 1940. Running Time: 78 minutes. Cast: Granville Owen, Martha O’Driscoll, Mona Ray, Johnnie Morris, Buster Keaton, Billie Seward, Kay Sutton, Maude Eburne, Johnny Arthur, Walter Catlett.
Producer-Director: Jules White. Screenplay: Felix Adler. Photography: Benjamin Kline. Editor: Mel Thorsen. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: December 13, 1940. Running Time: 18 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Elsie Ames, Matt McHugh, Dorothy Appleby.
Producers: Del Lord, Hugh McCollum. Director: Del Lord. Screenplay: Elwood Ullman. Photography: Benjamin Kline. Editor: Arthur Seid. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: February 21, 1941. Running Time: 16 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Matt McHugh, Eddie Fetherston.
Producer-Director: Ralph Staub. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Length: 1 reel. Release Date: August 15, 1941.
note: At a pool party hosted by Milton Berle, Keaton schools Joan Davis in the art of pie throwing.
Producer-Director: Jules White. Screenplay: Felix Adler, Clyde Bruckman. Photography: Benjamin Kline. Editor: Jerome Thoms. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: September 18, 1941. Running Time: 17 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Elsie Ames, Dorothy Appleby, Monty Collins.
Producer-Director: Jules White. Screenplay: Felix Adler. Photography: Benjamin Kline. Editor: Jerome Thoms. Production and Distribution: Columbia. Release Date: November 20, 1941. Running Time: 17 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Elsie Ames, Monty Collins, Eddie Laughton.
Producers and Directors: Rene Clair, Edmund Goulding, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Lloyd, Victor Saville, Robert Stevenson, Herbert Wilcox. Written by Charles Bennett, C. S. Forrester, Lawrence Hazard, and others. Editors: Elmo Williams, George Crone. Production: Anglo-American Productions. Distribution: RKO-Radio. Release Date: March 26, 1943. Running Time: 104 minutes. Cast: Victor McLaglen, Herbert Marshall, Ray Milland, Anna Neagle, Claude Rains, Jessie Matthews, Charles Laughton, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Buster Keaton, Anna Lee, Patric Knowles, Edward Everett Horton, Ida Lupino, Brian Aherne, Merle Oberon, Nigel Bruce, Elsa Lanchester, Roland Young, Robert Cummings, Donald Crisp.
Producers: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano. Director: Reginald Le Borg. Story: Ruth McKenney, Richard Bransten. Screenplay: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano. Photography: Hal Mohr. Editor: Charles Maynard. Art Directors: John B. Goodman, Alexander Golitzen. Production and Distribution: Universal. Release Date: September 29, 1944. Running Time: 85 minutes. Cast: Jon Hall, Louise Allbritton, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, Buster Keaton, Irene Ryan.
Producers: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano. Director: Charles Lamont. Story: Arnold Belgard. Screenplay: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano. Photography: Charles Van Enger. Editor: Fred R. Feitshans, Jr. Art Directors: John B. Goodman, Richard H. Riedel. Production and Distribution: Universal. Release Date: June 1, 1945. Running Time: 93 minutes. Cast: Jack Oakie, Peggy Ryan, June Vincent, Gene Lockhart, Johnny Coy, Andy Devine, Arthur Treacher, Irene Ryan, Buster Keaton, Victoria Horne, Edith Barrett.
Executive Producer: Howard Benedict. Producers: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano. Director: William A. Seiter. Story: Arnold Belgard. Screenplay: Michael Fessier, Ernest Pagano. Photography: Charles Van Enger. Editor: Fred R. Feitshans, Jr.; Charles Maynard. Art Directors: John B. Goodman, Martin Obzina. Alexander Golitzen. Production and Distribution: Universal. Release Date: September 28, 1945. Running Time: 84 minutes. Cast: Franchot Tone, Susanna Foster, David Bruce, Louise Allbritton, Jacqueline de Wit, Irene Ryan, Buster Keaton, Howard Freeman, Barbara Sears, Teddy Infuhr.
Producer: Frederick Stephani. Director: Willis Goldbeck. Story: Alan Friedman, De Vallon Scott. Screenplay: Lawrence Hazard. Photography: Charles Salerno. Editor: Adrienne Fazan. Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons, Preston Ames. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: November 1945. Running Time: 86 minutes. Cast: James Craig, Frances Gifford, Ava Gardner, Edmund Gwenn, Sig Ruman, Reginald Owen, J. W. Kerrigan, Charles Halton, Chester Clute, Frank Orth.
note: Keaton appears in a cameo as a bellhop.
Producer: William B. David. Director: Robert Tansey. Screenplay: Robert Tansey. Photography: Marcel LePicard (Cinecolor). Editor: George McGuire. Art Director: Ed Jewel. Production: Action Pictures. Distribution: Screen Guild. Release Date: April 1946. Running Time: 62 minutes. Cast: Robert Lowrey, Helen Gilbert, William Farnum, Buster Keaton, Stanley Andrews, Trevor Bardette, Si Jenks, Estelle Zarco, Juan Reyes, Al Ferguson.
Producer: Pete Smith. Director: Buster Keaton. Screenplay: Dave O’Brien, Lew Harris. Editor: J. J. Durant, Jr. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: May 18, 1946. Running Time: 10 minutes. Narrator: Pete Smith.
note: Keaton directed a running gag in which Dave O’Brien learns how to saddle, mount, and ride a horse.
Producer: Alejandro Salkind. Director: Jaime Salvador. Story: Victor Trivas. Screenplay: Jaime Salvador. Photography: Agustin Jimenez. Editor: Rafael Ceballor. Production: Alsa Films S.A. First U.S. Showing: December 1949. Running Time: 98 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Angel Garasa, Virginia Serret, Fernando Soto, Luis C. Barreiro, Jorge Mondragon, Oscar Pulido, Jose Elias Moreno.
note: A dubbed sixty-nine-minute version of this film was released to the home video market in 1985 under the title Boom in the Moon.
Producers: René Bianco, Louis Lefait. Director: Pierre Blondy. Photography: Jacques Isnard. Music: Georges Van Parys. Production: Azur Films. Distribution: Les Films Cristal. Released 1948. Running Time: 24 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Antonin Berval.
note: Keaton developed this scene, inspired by the dueling sequence in Passionate Plumber, into a stage act for his 1947 engagement at the Cirque Médrano. This film is essentially a record of that act.
Producer: Joseph Pasternak. Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Musical Sequences Directed by Robert Alton. Story: Miklos Laszlo, Samson Raphaelson. Screenplay: Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich, Ivan Tors. Photography: Harry Stradling (Technicolor). Editor: Adrienne Fazan. Art Directors: Cedric Gibbons, Randall Duell. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: July 29, 1949. Running Time: 102 minutes. Cast: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S. Z. “Cuddles” Sakall, Spring Byington, Clinton Sundberg, Buster Keaton, Marcia Van Dyke.
Producer: Lamar Trotti. Director: Walter Lang. Story: George Jessel. Screenplay: Lamar Trotti, Will H. Hays, Jr. Photography: Arthur E. Arling (Technicolor). Editor: James Watson Webb, Jr. Art Directors: Lyle Wheeler, Leland Fuller. Production and Distribution: 20th Century-Fox. Release Date: August 1949. Running Time: 94 minutes. Cast: Dan Dailey, Anne Baxter, Anne Revere, Stanley Ridges, Shari Robinson, Henry O’Neill, Selena Royle, Alan Mowbray, Robert Arthur.
note: Keaton plays a self-referential cameo as a butler.
Producers: Richard Oswald, Edward Lewis. Associate Producer: Rosario Castagna. Director: Richard Oswald. Based upon the play Le Faiseur by Honoré de Balzac. Adaptation: Edward Lewis, Richard Oswald. Photography: Paul Ivano. Editor: Douglas Bagier. Art Director: Boris Leven. Production: Skyline Pictures. Distribution: Film Classics. Release Date: May 11, 1949. Running Time: 74 minutes. Cast: Charlie Ruggles, Peggy Ann Garner, Richard Ney, Buster Keaton, Curt Bois, Alan Mowbray, Iris Adrian, Ludwig Donath, Fritz Feld, John Wengraf, Otto Waldis, Edna Holland, Minerva Urecal, Helen Servis, Jody Gilbert, Judith Trafford.
Producer: Charles Brackett. Director: Billy Wilder. Screenplay: Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, D. M. Marshman, Jr. Photography: John F. Seitz. Editors: Doane Harrison, Arthur Schmidt. Art Directors: Hans Dreier, John Meehan. Production and Distribution: Paramount. Release Date: August 1950. Running Time: 110 minutes. Cast: William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Fred Clark, Lloyd Gough, Jack Webb, Cecil B. DeMille, Hedda Hopper, Buster Keaton, H. B. Warner, Franklyn Farnum, Ray Evans, Jay Livingston.
Director: Charles Chaplin. Screenplay: Charles Chaplin. Photography: Karl Struss. Editor: Joe Inge. Art Director: Eugene Lourie. Production: Celebrated Films. Distribution: United Artists. Release Date: February 6, 1953. Running Time: 143 minutes. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Nigel Bruce, Buster Keaton, Sydney Chaplin, Norman Lloyd, Andre Eglevsky, Melissa Hayden, Marjorie Bennett.
Supervisors: H. M. Railsback, G. M. Rohrbach. Director: Del Lord. Story: J. P. Prindle, John Grey, Hal Goodwin. Photography: J. J. La Fleur, Robert Sable. Editor: William Minnerly. Art Director: Edward C. Jewell. Production: Wilding Picture Productions. Distribution: John Deere and Company. First Regional Showings: November 1952. Running Time: 38 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton.
note: This film was the feature attraction at numerous John Deere Day events staged for farmers and their families throughout the Midwest.
Producer: Carl K. Hittleman. Director: Arthur Hilton. Screenplay: Harold Goodwin. Photography: Jackson Rose. Production: Crown Pictures International. Distribution: British Lion Film Corp. Release Date: July 1953. Running Time: 63 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Marcia Mae Jones, Harold Goodwin, Eleanor Keaton.
Producers: Dario Sabatello, Jules Borkon. Director: Claudio Gora. Story: Vittorio Metz, Marcello Marchesi. Screenplay: Edoardo Anton, Jean Bernard-Luc. Photography: Leonida Barboni. Editor: Stefano Canzio. Music: Raffaele Gervasio. Production: Orso Film (Rome), Lambor Films (Paris). Distribution: CEI-Incom. Release Date: December 10, 1953. Running Time: 87 minutes. Cast: Silvana Pampanini, Robert Lamoureux, Carlo Campanini, Ugo Tognazzi, Pina Renzi, Buster Keaton, Nyta Dover, Giuseppe Porelli, Nando Bruno.
note: Keaton performs an abbreviated version of a scene he originally developed for American TV, and which became his Italian stage act. As an onlooker in a bakery, Buster tries his hand at working with bread dough.
Producer: Michael Todd. Associate Producer: William Cameron Menzies. Director: Michael Anderson. (Uncredited: John Farrow, Michael Todd.) Based upon the novel by Jules Verne. Screenplay: James Poe, John Farrow, S. J. Perelman. Photography: Lionel Lindon (Todd-AO/Technicolor). Art Directors: James Sullivan, Ken Adams. Editors: Gene Ruggiero, Howard Epstein. (Uncredited: Paul Weatherwax.) Production: Michael Todd Co. Distribution: United Artists. World Premiere: October 17, 1956. Running Time: 178 minutes. Cast: David Niven, Cantinflas, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine, Finlay Currie, Robert Morley, Ronald Squire, Basil Sydney, Noël Coward, Sir John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, Harcourt Williams, Martine Carol, Fernandel, Charles Boyer, Evelyn Keyes, José Greco and Troupe, Gilbert Roland, Luis Dominguin, Cesar Romero, Alan Mowbray, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Melville Cooper, Reginald Denny, Ronald Colman, Robert Cabal, Charles Coburn, Peter Lorre, George Raft, Red Skelton, Marlene Dietrich, John Carradine, Frank Sinatra, Buster Keaton, Col. Tim McCoy, Joe E. Brown, Andy Devine, Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Jack Oakie, Beatrice Lillie, Glynis Johns, Hermione Gingold, John Mills, Edward R. Murrow.
Producers: Robert Smith, Sidney Sheldon. Director: Sidney Sheldon. Screenplay: Sidney Sheldon, Robert Smith. Technical Advisor: Buster Keaton. Photography: Loyal Griggs. Editor: Archie Marshek. Art Directors: Hal Pereira, Carl Anderson. Production and Distribution: Paramount. Release Date: May 1957. Running Time: 87 minutes. Cast: Donald O’Connor, Ann Blyth, Rhonda Fleming, Peter Lorre, Larry Keating, Richard Anderson, Dave Willock, Claire Carleton, Larry White, Jackie Coogan.
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. Director: Michael Curtiz. Based upon the novel by Mark Twain. Screenplay: James Lee. Photography: Ted McCord (Cinemascope/MetroColor). Editor: Frederic Steinkamp. Art Directors: George W. Davis, McClure Capps. Production and Distribution: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Release Date: June 17, 1960. Running Time: 107 minutes. Cast: Eddie Hodges, Archie Moore, Tony Randall, Patty McCormack, Neville Brand, Buster Keaton, Judy Canova, Mickey Shaughnessy, Andy Devine, Josephine Hutchinson, Finlay Currie, Royal Dano, John Carradine, Sterling Holloway.
Director: Herb Skoble. Script and Editing: Cummins-Betts. Video: Del Ankers, Fritz Roland. Art Directors: Peter Masters, Joseph W. Swanson. Production: Education Research Films/Rodel Productions, Inc. Distribution: National Association of Wholesalers. First Regional Showings: March 1960. Running Time: 27 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Ralph Dunn, Ruth Gillette, Marion Morris, John Rodney.
note: While this film was made with television in mind, it was more commonly shown to business and service groups, particularly chambers of commerce, to highlight the role of wholesaling in the “jet age of distribution.”
Director: Joe Parker. Script: Joe Parker. Photography: Leo Tover (color). Editor: Basil Wrangell. Narrator: Bob Hawk. Production: Skirball Productions. Distribution: John F. Long Company. First Showings: 1962. Running Time: 22 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton.
note: Made in 1961, this film showcases model homes in Arizona developer John F. Long’s master planned community of Maryvale.
Producer: Edward A. Gollin. Director: Harold Daniels. Script: Peter Farrow, Diane Lampert. Songs: Sammy Fain, Diane Lampert. Photography: Lee Garmes (Eastman Color). Editor: Dave Nicholson. Production: Am-Can Productions. Distribution: Universal. Cast: Bert Lahr; Buster Keaton; Eddie Foy, Jr.; Dion; Jennifer Billingsley; Roselle Bain; Jan Miner.
note: Filmed at Toronto International Film Studios, Kleinburg, during March–April 1962, this musical-comedy feature was never completed.
Producer-Director: Stanley Kramer. Screenplay: William Rose, Tania Rose. Photography: Ernest Laszlo (Ultra Panavision, Technicolor). Editors: Frederick Knudtson, Robert C. Jones, Gene Fowler, Jr. Production: Casey Productions, Inc. Distribution: United Artists. Release Date: November 7, 1963 (Roadshow), July 25, 1964 (General). Running Time: 190 minutes (Roadshow), 161 minutes (General). Cast: Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Ethel Merman, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn, Phil Silvers, Terry-Thomas, Jonathan Winters, Edie Adams, Dorothy Provine, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Jim Backus, Ben Blue, Joe E. Brown, Alan Carney, Chick Chandler, Barrie Chase, Lloyd Corrigan, William Demarest, Selma Diamond, Peter Falk, Andy Devine, Norman Fell, Paul Ford, Stan Freeberg, Louise Glenn, Leo Gorcey, Sterling Holloway, Marvin Kaplan, Edward Everett Horton, Buster Keaton, Don Knotts, Charles Lane, Mike Mazurki, Charles McGraw, Cliff Norton, ZaSu Pitts, Carl Reiner, Madlyn Rhue, Roy Roberts, Arnold Stang, Nick Stewart, The Three Stooges, Sammee Tong, Jesse White, Jimmy Durante.
Director: James Calhoun. Production and Distribution: Eastman Kodak. First Regional Showings: May 1963. Running Time: 21 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Sigrid Nelsson, Nina Varela.
note: Made in Rochester, New York, this film, covering photographic advances from the year 1868 to the present day, introduces the Kodak Instamatic line of cameras.
Production: Interlock, Inc. Distribution: Maremont Corp. First Showings: 1964. Running Time: 15 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton.
note: Aimed at encouraging new business for mufflers and shock absorbers in the auto aftermarket, this film casts Keaton as a service station attendant who misses out on obvious sales opportunities.
Producer: Barney Rosset. Director: Alan Schneider. Screenplay: Samuel Beckett. Photography: Boris Kaufman. Editor: Sidney Meyers. Art Director: Burr Smidt. Production: Evergreen Theatre. First Public Showing: September 4, 1965. Running Time: 17 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Nell Harrison, James Karen, Susan Reed.
Producers: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff. Co-Producer: Anthony Carras. Director: Don Weis. Screenplay: Louis M. Heyward. Photography: Floyd Crosby (Pathécolor). Editors: Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman. Art Director: Daniel Haller. Production and Distribution: American International. Release Date: November 11, 1964. Running Time: 85 minutes. Cast: Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Elsa Lanchester, Harvey Lembeck, Jesse White, Jody McCrea, Ben Lessy, Donna Loren, Susan Hart, Bobbi Shaw, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Lamour, Don Rickles, Frankie Avalon.
Producer: Julian Biggs. Director: Gerald Potterton. Screenplay: Gerald Potterton. Photography: Robert Humble (Eastman Color). Music: Eldon Rathburn. Editors: Jo Kirkpatrick, Gerald Potterton. Production and Distribution: National Film Board of Canada. Release Date: October 1965. Running Time: 25 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton.
Director: Darrel Bateman. Production: Evans Sight and Sound Productions. Distribution: United States Steel. First Showings: 1965. Cast: Buster Keaton, Bob Dahl.
note: This is apparently one of two industrial shorts Keaton made in 1964 for U.S. Steel in Salt Lake City. Paul E. Gierucki of CineMuseum, LLC, has confirmed their existence with actor Bob Dahl, but no prints have surfaced.
First Showings: 1965. Length: 2 reels. Cast: Olan Soule, Joe E. Brown, Buster Keaton, Jackie Joseph, Johnny Carson, Ed McMahon, Fritz Feld, Alvy Moore.
note: Intended strictly for Anheuser-Busch sales meetings, this film features an impressive array of TV personalities in brief cameos, including Keaton in a new one-minute Budweiser commercial. A recent discovery by Richard M. Roberts, who also rescued The Home Owner from certain extinction.
Producers: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff. Co-Producer: Anthony Carras. Director: William Asher. Screenplay: William Asher, Leo Townsend. Photography: Floyd Crosby (Pathécolor). Editors: Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman. Art Director: Howard Campbell. Production and Distribution: American International. Release Date: April 15, 1965. Running Time: 98 minutes. Cast: Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello, Deborah Walley, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Jody McCrea, Donna Loren, Marta Kristen, Linda Evans, Timothy Carey, Don Rickles, Paul Lynde, Buster Keaton, Earl Wilson, Bobbi Shaw.
Producers: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff. Co-Producer: Anthony Carras. Director: William Asher. Screenplay: William Asher, Leo Townsend. Photography: Floyd Crosby (Pathécolor). Editors: Fred Feitshans, Eve Newman. Art Director: Howard Campbell. Production and Distribution: American International. Release Date: July 14, 1965. Running Time: 90 minutes. Cast: Annette Funicello, Dwayne Hickman, Brian Donlevy, Harvey Lembeck, Beverly Adams, John Ashley, Jody McCrea, Len Lesser, Bobbi Shaw, Marianne Gaba, Irene Tsu, Buster Keaton, Mickey Rooney, Frankie Avalon.
Producers: James H. Nicholson, Samuel Z. Arkoff. Co-Producer: Anthony Carras. Director: Norman Taurog. Screenplay: Louis M. Heyward. Photography: Floyd Crosby (Pathécolor). Editors: Ronald Sinclair, Eve Newman, Fred Feitshans. Art Director: Howard Campbell. Production and Distribution: American International. Release Date: August 18, 1965. Running Time: 90 minutes. Cast: Frankie Avalon, Deborah Walley, Cesar Romero, Fred Clark, Gale Gordon, Harvey Lembeck, John Ashley, Buster Keaton, Reginald Gardiner, Pat Buttram, Eve Arden, Romo Vincent, Donna Loren, Bobbi Shaw, Dwayne Hickman.
Producer: Fulvio Lucisano. Director: Luigi Scattini. Story: Fulvio Lucisano. Screenplay: Franco Castellano, Pipolo. Photography: Fausto Zuccoli (Technicolor). Production: Italian International Films. Distribution: American International. Release Date: January 11, 1967. Running Time: 94 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Martha Hyer, Fred Clark, Tommaso Alvieri, Barbara Loy, Alessandro Sperli, Alfredo Adami, Ennio Antonelli, Renato Chiantoni, Willy Colombini, Consalvo Dell’arti.
note: The Italian version of this film was released in 1966 under the title Due Marines e un Generale (Two Marines and a General).
Producer: Melvin Frank. Director: Richard Lester. Based upon the musical by Burt Shevelove, Larry Gelbart, and Stephen Sondheim. Screenplay: Melvin Frank, Michael Pertwee. Photography: Nicolas Roeg (Color by De Luxe). Editor: John Victor Smith. Executive Art Director: Syd Cain. Production: Quadrangle Films S.A. Distribution: United Artists. Release Date: October 16, 1966. Running Time: 97 minutes. Cast: Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers, Buster Keaton, Michael Crawford, Jack Gilford, Annette Andre, Michael Hordern, Leon Greene, Roy Kinnear.
Executive Producers: Raymond Walters, James Collier. Producers: Ann and Kenneth Heeley-Ray. Director: John Sebert. Screenplay: Paul Sutherland, Clifford Braggins. Photography: Mike Lente (color). Editor: Kenneth Heeley-Ray. Production: Film-Tele Productions. Distribution: Construction Safety Associations of Ontario. First Showings: May 1966. Running Time: 29 minutes. Cast: Buster Keaton, Cecil Linder.
note: Made in Toronto in October 1965, this was Keaton’s final film appearance.