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The Misfit (1924)
Character: The Drill Master
THE MISFIT - starring Clyde Cook, with Blanche Payson and Joe Roberts. A rarely-seen silent comedy short. Henpecked hubby Clyde totes groceries and paints floors for his wifey, escaping at last...by joining the U.S. Marines. The basic training sequence was shot at the Buster Keaton studios; this may be "Big" Joe Roberts' final screen role.
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The Primitive Lover (1922)
Character: 'Roaring' Bill Rivers
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
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The Scarecrow (1920)
Character: Farmhand (uncredited)
Two farmhands compete for the love of the farmer's daughter.
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The High Sign (1921)
Character: Leader of Buzzards
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.
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Our Hospitality (1923)
Character: Joseph Canfield
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
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Three Ages (1923)
Character: The Girl's Father
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
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The Electric House (1922)
Character: Millionaire
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
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The Love Nest (1923)
Character: Captain of the Whaler
In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he's caught by pirates.
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The Blacksmith (1922)
Character: Blacksmith
Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.
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Convict 13 (1920)
Character: The Crazed Prisoner
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
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The Haunted House (1921)
Character: Bank Cashier
A bank teller becomes involved with a hold-up, counterfeiters and a theatrical troupe posing as spooks in a haunted house.
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The Play House (1921)
Character: Actor / Stage Manager (uncredited)
Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.
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Day Dreams (1922)
Character: The Mayor
In order to impress the father of a girl he is keen on, a young man goes to the city in search of work. In his letters home he writes of his various jobs which her imagination expands into much nobler ones than those that he is actually attempting.
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The Goat (1921)
Character: Police Chief
A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.
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One Week (1920)
Character: Piano Mover (uncredited)
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
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My Wife's Relations (1922)
Character: Brother
Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.
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The Frozen North (1922)
Character: The Driver
A mix of guns and mistaken identity leads to chaos in this satirical parody of William S. Hart's melodramatic westerns, finding Buster in the frozen north - "the last stop on the subway".
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Neighbors (1920)
Character: Her Father (uncredited)
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.
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
Character: Buzz Saw Brannigan (uncredited)
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
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Cops (1922)
Character: Police Chief (uncredited)
Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.
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The Paleface (1922)
Character: The Indian Chief
A butterfly collector unwittingly wanders into an Indian encampment while chasing a butterfly, but the tribe has resolved to kill the first white man who enters their encampment because white oil tycoons are trying to force them from their land.
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Hard Luck (1921)
Character: Lizard Lip Luke
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.
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