Actor

Joe Keaton

July 6, 1867 · Terre Haute, Indiana, USA

Joseph Hallie Keaton (July 6, 1867 – January 13, 1946) was an American vaudeville performer and silent film actor. He was the father of actor Buster Keaton and appeared with his son in several films. Keaton was born a few miles south of Terre Haute, Indiana, to Libbie Jane and Joseph Francis Keaton IV. Leaving home in 1889, the year of the Land Rush, he homesteaded in the Oklahoma territory for a time, securing a claim three and a half miles northwest of Edmond.

Notable work

7.9
The General (1926)
as Union General
8
Sherlock Jr. (1924)
as The Girl's Father / Man on Film Screen
7.5
Our Hospitality (1923)
as The Engineer

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