Search found 17 matches: Buster Keaton

Woody Allen by a landslide, with 40. Followed by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin with 30 and 25, respectively. But those include two reelers.

My updated list, excluding directors who work is primarily known for non-experimental shorts regardless of their ratio of features to shorts, meaning that I won't count those like Dave Fleischer or George Melies, but will count Brakhage and McLaren as they are experimental, and D.W. Griffith, and Charlie Chaplin because their features are what they are known for.

Stan Brakhage 102
D.W. Griffith 64
Norman McLaren 58
Charles Chaplin 56
Jean-Luc Godard 42 (highest with mostly features)
Alfred Hitchcock 40
Werner Herzog 37
Ingmar Bergman 34
Woody Allen 34
Jan Svankmajer 32
Buster Keaton 32
Martin Scorsese 28
Peter Greenaway 26
David Lynch 22
Akira Kurosawa 22
Guy Maddin 21
Steven Spielberg 21
Hollis Frampton 21
Kurt Kren 20
John Ford 20

It's been over two years, so I got curious:

Alfred Hitchcock - 35 +5
Woody Allen - 35 +6
Buster Keaton - 32+13 Lots of shorts here
Eric Rohmer - 26+5
Martin Scorsese - 24+3
Steven Spielberg - 24+2
Fritz Lang - 24+6
Charles Chaplin - 21+5
Luis Buñuel - 20+2
Jean-Luc Godard - 20+2
Akira Kurosawa - 18+1
Tim Burton - 18+3
William Wyler - 18+5
Howard Hawks - 17+2
Ingmar Bergman - 17 Same
John Ford - 17 +2
Abbas Kiarostami - 17 +5
Edward F. Cline - 17+6
Jean Renoir - 17+1
D.W. Griffith - 16+3
Coen Bros - 16 Same
Roman Polanski - 15+1
John Huston - 14+3
Anthony Mann - 14 New
Frank Capra - 14 Same
Stanley Kubrick - 14 Same
Josef von Sternberg - 13+3
Robert Bresson - 13 Same
Billy Wilder - 13 Same
Terry Gilliam - 13 Same
Michael Powell - 13 Same
Alain Resnais - 13+3
George Cukor - 13 +1
Werner Herzog - 13 New
Robert Zemeckis - 12
Elia Kazan - 12+1
Robert Wise - 12 New
David Lean - 12+1
Steven Soderbergh - 12 New
Leo McCarey - 12 +2
Ernst Lubitsch - 12 +2
Michael Apted - 11 Same
Hayao Miyazaki - 11 New
Robert Siodmak - 11 New
Yasujiro Ozu - 11 New
Quentin Tarantino - 11 +1
Orson Welles - 11 New
Brian De Palma - 11 New
John Lasseter - 11+1
Nicholas Ray - 10 New
Gus Van Sant - 10 New
Clyde Geronimi - 10 New
Ridley Scott - 10 New
Carl Theodor Dreyer - 10 New
Sidney Lumet - 10 New
Wilfred Jackson - 10 New
Clint Eastwood - 10 New
Rob Reiner - 10 Same
Tony Scott - 10 Same
Robert Altman - 10 Same


Short film directors
Stan Brakhage - 56 +20
Chuck Jones - 30+13
Georges Méliès - 24+4
Jean Painlevé - 22+3
Hollis Frampton 22 New
Tex Avery - 21+6
Louis Lumière - 19+5
Bruce Conner - 15 Same
Edwin S. Porter - 11 New
Dave Fleischer - 11 New
Norman McLaren - 11 New
Don Hertzfeldt - 10 New
Kenneth Anger - 10 Same

Top eleven:
Director, avg rating, # of films:
Chuck Jones, 8.89, 47
Alfred Hitchcock, 6.59, 46
Woody Allen, 6.91, 44
Jean-Luc Godard, 7.41, 41
Werner Herzog, 8.00, 33
John Ford, 7.63, 32
Clint Eastwood, 5.87, 31
Buster Keaton, 7.80, 30
Fritz Lang, 7.97, 29
Martin Scorsese, 7.66, 29
Ingmar Bergman, 8.41, 29

Stan Brakhage 37 (79.51)
Alfred Hitchcock 24 (70.79)
Woody Allen 14 (76.29)
Louis Lumière 14 (51.64)
Nicholas Ray 13 (89.23)
Billy Wilder 10 (69.90)
Stanley Kubrick 9 (86.00)
Jan Svankmajer 9 (80.11)
John Ford 9 (79.56)
Wim Wenders 8 (82.88)
Ingmar Bergman 7 (90.86)
Jean-Luc Godard 7 (90.57)
Guy Maddin 7 (88.71)
Júlio Bressane 7 (81.71)
John Huston 7 (80.14)
Buster Keaton 6 (90.83)
Charles Chaplin 6 (80.00)
Martin Scorsese 6 (74.67)
Georges Méliès 6 (69.83)
Karim Ainouz 5 (91.80)
Jim Jarmusch 5 (85.00)
Fritz Lang 5 (83.60)
Orson Welles 5 (81.80)
Sidney Lumet 5 (81.20)
Quentin Tarantino 5 (79.20)
Lars von Trier 5 (76.60)
Howard Hawks 5 (75.80)
Coen bros. 5 (66.80)
Maya Deren 5 (55.80) i think i've underrated her work. need to rewatch some of it soon
Steven Spielberg 5 (45.60)

yay movies

Excluding directors who work primarily in non-experimental short films

D.W. Griffith - 57
Charles Chaplin - 54
Alfred Hitchcock - 35
Jean Luc-Godard - 34
Woody Allen - 32
Ingmar Bergman - 32
Jan Svankmajer - 31
Werner Herzog - 30
Buster Keaton - 30
Martin Scorsese - 24
David Lynch - 21
Peter Greenaway - 21
Stephen Speilberg - 20
Guy Maddin - 19
Akira Kurosawa - 18
Luis Bunuel - 18
Stanley Kubrick - 16
Coen Brothers - 14
Krzysztof Kieslowski - 14
Agnes Varda - 14

I'll update too, it's much easier now.

Alfred Hitchcock - 30 +1
Woody Allen - 29 +1
Steven Spielberg - 22 +1
Martin Scorsese - 21 +1
Eric Rohmer - 21
Buster Keaton - 19 +1
Luis Buñuel - 18 +1
Fritz Lang - 18 +3
Jean-Luc Godard - 18 +1
Akira Kurosawa - 17
Ingmar Bergman - 17 +1
Charles Chaplin - 16
Jean Renoir - 16
Coen Bros - 16 +2
Howard Hawks - 15
John Ford - 15 +2
Tim Burton - 15
Roman Polanski - 14 New
Frank Capra - 14 New
Stanley Kubrick - 14 +2
Robert Bresson - 13
William Wyler - 13 +1
Billy Wilder - 13 +1
Terry Gilliam - 13 +1
D.W. Griffith - 13
Michael Powell - 13 +1
Abbas Kiarostami - 12 +1
George Cukor - 12 +1
Robert Zemeckis - 12
John Huston - 11
Edward F. Cline - 11 +1
David Lean - 11 New
Elia Kazan - 11 New
Michael Apted - 11 New
Alain Resnais - 10 New
Leo McCarey - 10
Rob Reiner - 10 New
Ernst Lubitsch - 10
Tony Scott - 10 New
Robert Altman - 10 New
Quentin Tarantino - 10
Josef von Sternberg - 10 New
John Lasseter - 10 New

Short film directors
Stan Brakhage - 36 +6
Georges Méliès - 20 +8
Jean Painlevé - 19 +2
Chuck Jones - 17
Tex Avery - 15
Bruce Conner - 15
Louis Lumière - 14 New
Kenneth Anger - 10 New

Bojangles wrote:Scorsese 17

Coens are probably next at 10

Updated, two years later:

Martin Scorsese 26
Oliver Stone 18
Coens 16
Werner Herzog 11
Stevie Spielberg 11
Clint Eastwood 10
Buster Keaton 10
Alfie Hitchcock 10

Update. Listing only directors when I've seen at least 10 of their films.

67 John Ford
42 Charlie Chaplin
30 Akira Kurosawa
23 Alfred Hitchcock
18 Krzysztof Kieslowski
17 Steven Spielberg
17 Buster Keaton
17 Ingmar Bergman
15 Joel and Ethan Coen
13 Peter Weir
13 Tim Burton
12 Stanley Kubrick
11 Michael Apted
11 Richard Linklater
10 Robert Bresson
10 Edward F. Cline
10 Frederico Fellini
10 Luis Bunuel
10 Martin Scorcese
10 Ridley Scott

Acclaimed filmmakers such as Carl Th. Dreyer, Orson Welles, Tsai Ming-liang, Andrei Tarkovsky, Hayao Miyazaki, and Richard Donner fall just below the cutoff line.

Directors I've seen at least 15 films by:

Werner Herzog - 24
Akira Kurosawa - 24
Buster Keaton - 24
Billy Wilder - 17
Stanley Kubrick - 16
Woody Allen - 15
Alfred Hitchcock - 15