1895 - 1966
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American actor, comedian and director. He is best known for his silent film work, in which his trademark was physical comedy accompanied by a stoic, deadpan expression that earned him the nickname "The Great Stone Face".Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929" when he "worked without interruption" as having made him "the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies". In 1996, Entertainment Weekly recognized Keaton as the seventh-greatest film director, writing that "More than Chaplin, Keaton understood movies: He knew they consisted of a four-sided frame in which resided a malleable reality off which his persona could bounce. A vaudeville child star, Keaton grew up to be a tinkerer, an athlete, a visual mathematician; his films offer belly laughs of mind-boggling physical invention and a spacey determination that nears philosophical grandeur." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked him as the 21st-greatest male star of classic Hollywood cinema.Working with independent producer Joseph M. Schenck and filmmaker Edward F. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Buster Keaton has received more than 7,241,832 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 75 in 2019). Buster Keaton is the 111th most popular actor (down from 88th in 2019), the 212th most popular biography from United States (down from 183rd in 2019) and the 56th most popular American Actor.
Buster Keaton is most famous for his silent comedy films.
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Among actors, Buster Keaton ranks 111 out of 9,996. Before him are Ben Affleck, Henry Fonda, Christopher Reeve, Mel Gibson, Charlton Heston, and Jean Gabin. After him are Jean-Claude Van Damme, Monica Bellucci, Olivia de Havilland, John Travolta, Keanu Reeves, and Donald Sutherland.
1972 - Present
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 105
1905 - 1982
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 106
1952 - 2004
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 107
1956 - Present
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 108
1923 - 2008
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 109
1904 - 1976
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 110
1895 - 1966
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 111
1960 - Present
HPI: 71.28
Rank: 112
1964 - Present
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 113
1916 - 2020
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 114
1954 - Present
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 115
1964 - Present
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 116
1935 - Present
HPI: 70.99
Rank: 117
Among people born in 1895, Buster Keaton ranks 6. Before him are George VI, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Carl Orff, Juan Perón, and Richard Sorge. After him are Jiddu Krishnamurti, Anna Freud, J. Edgar Hoover, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Wilm Hosenfeld, and Nikolai Yezhov. Among people deceased in 1966, Buster Keaton ranks 6. Before him are Walt Disney, André Breton, Georges Lemaître, Alberto Giacometti, and Anna Akhmatova. After him are Ken Miles, Sergei Korolev, Peter Debye, Jean Arp, Sepp Dietrich, and Sayyid Qutb.
1895 - 1952
HPI: 77.75
Rank: 1
1895 - 1918
HPI: 74.89
Rank: 2
1895 - 1982
HPI: 74.68
Rank: 3
1895 - 1974
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 4
1895 - 1944
HPI: 71.83
Rank: 5
1895 - 1966
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 6
1895 - 1986
HPI: 71.26
Rank: 7
1895 - 1982
HPI: 70.72
Rank: 8
1895 - 1972
HPI: 70.52
Rank: 9
1895 - 1978
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 10
1895 - 1952
HPI: 70.26
Rank: 11
1895 - 1940
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 12
1901 - 1966
HPI: 81.85
Rank: 1
1896 - 1966
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 2
1894 - 1966
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 3
1901 - 1966
HPI: 71.54
Rank: 4
1889 - 1966
HPI: 71.40
Rank: 5
1895 - 1966
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 6
1918 - 1966
HPI: 70.43
Rank: 7
1906 - 1966
HPI: 70.33
Rank: 8
1884 - 1966
HPI: 70.16
Rank: 9
1886 - 1966
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 10
1892 - 1966
HPI: 69.33
Rank: 11
1906 - 1966
HPI: 68.99
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, Buster Keaton ranks 212 out of 18,182. Before him are Edward Thorndike (1874), Jesse Owens (1913), Mel Gibson (1956), Philip K. Dick (1928), Charlton Heston (1923), and Coen brothers (null). After him are J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904), Quentin Tarantino (1963), Miles Davis (1926), James Brown (1933), Frank Zappa (1940), and Edwin McMillan (1907).
1874 - 1949
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 206
1913 - 1980
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 207
1956 - Present
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 208
1928 - 1982
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 209
1923 - 2008
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 210
HPI: 71.35
Rank: 211
1895 - 1966
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 212
1904 - 1967
HPI: 71.29
Rank: 213
1963 - Present
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 214
1926 - 1991
HPI: 71.27
Rank: 215
1933 - 2006
HPI: 71.24
Rank: 216
1940 - 1993
HPI: 71.19
Rank: 217
1907 - 1991
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 218
Among actors born in United States, Buster Keaton ranks 56. Before him are Alec Baldwin (1958), Ben Affleck (1972), Henry Fonda (1905), Christopher Reeve (1952), Mel Gibson (1956), and Charlton Heston (1923). After him are John Travolta (1954), Tommy Lee Jones (1946), Orson Welles (1915), Cameron Diaz (1972), Spencer Tracy (1900), and Peter Falk (1927).
1958 - Present
HPI: 71.61
Rank: 50
1972 - Present
HPI: 71.57
Rank: 51
1905 - 1982
HPI: 71.52
Rank: 52
1952 - 2004
HPI: 71.41
Rank: 53
1956 - Present
HPI: 71.38
Rank: 54
1923 - 2008
HPI: 71.36
Rank: 55
1895 - 1966
HPI: 71.30
Rank: 56
1954 - Present
HPI: 71.04
Rank: 57
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.92
Rank: 58
1915 - 1985
HPI: 70.88
Rank: 59
1972 - Present
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 60
1900 - 1967
HPI: 70.83
Rank: 61
1927 - 2011
HPI: 70.65
Rank: 62