A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride Cast and Crew

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride

Plot: From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic cinematic career across the many tracks he rode along on screen: as a young man in the surge of his silent movie ascent in Our Hospitality, while making his masterpiece The General, and traversing the width of Canada on a railway speeder car as an old man in The Railrodder

Release Date: Monday, May 18 2026
Released within the last year

Genres: Documentary

Cast

Buster Keaton. Buster Keaton would have been no older than 70 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Thu, Oct 03 1895 –
Died: Tue, Feb 01 1966

Roscoe Arbuckle. Roscoe Arbuckle would have been no older than 46 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Tue, Mar 22 1887 –
Died: Thu, Jun 29 1933

Marion Mack. Marion Mack would have been no older than 87 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Tue, Apr 08 1902 –
Died: Mon, May 01 1989

Sybil Seely. Sybil Seely would have been no older than 84 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Mon, Jan 01 1900 –
Died: Tue, Jun 26 1984

Joe Keaton. Joe Keaton would have been no older than 78 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Sat, Jul 06 1867 –
Died: Sun, Jan 13 1946

Natalie Talmadge. Natalie Talmadge would have been no older than 73 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Tue, Apr 28 1896 –
Died: Thu, Jun 19 1969

Joe Roberts. Joe Roberts would have been no older than 52 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Thu, Feb 02 1871 –
Died: Sun, Oct 28 1923

Glen Cavender. Glen Cavender would have been no older than 78 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Tue, Sep 18 1883 –
Died: Fri, Feb 09 1962

Red Skelton. Red Skelton would have been no older than 84 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Fri, Jul 18 1913 –
Died: Wed, Sep 17 1997

Gerald Potterton. Gerald Potterton was 95 in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Self (Archival)'.

Birthday: Sun, Mar 08 1931

Crew

Luke Ryan. Luke Ryan was >> in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Writer, Editor'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday

Jacob Milligan. Jacob Milligan was >> in A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride as 'Producer'

Birthday: Unknown Birthday