Roscoe Arbuckle

Acting · 1.0 popularity

Age

139

Movies

190

Born: March 22, 1887 – June 29, 1933
From: Smith Center, Kansas, USA

Biography

Roscoe Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 - June 29, 1933), widely known to audiences as “Fatty” Arbuckle, was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd as well as with his nephew, Al St. John. He also mentored Charlie Chaplin, Monty Banks and Bob Hope, and brought vaudeville star Buster Keaton into the movie business. Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s and one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood at the time. In one of the earliest Hollywood scandals, Arbuckle was the defendant in three widely publicized trials between November 1921 and April 1922 for the rape and manslaughter of actress Virginia Rappe. Rappe had fallen ill at a party hosted by Arbuckle at San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel in September 1921, and died four days later. A friend of Rappe accused Arbuckle of raping and accidentally killing her. The first two trials resulted in hung juries, but the third acquitted Arbuckle. The third jury took the unusual step of giving Arbuckle a written statement of apology for his treatment by the justice system. Despite Arbuckle's acquittal, the scandal largely halted his career and has mostly overshadowed his legacy as a pioneering comedian.

Works

190 films

The Chaplin Puzzle

199210.0

Love

19195.8

Character Studies

19276.2

The Alarm

1914

The Sanitarium

19105.3

Peeping Pete

19136.0

Good Night, Nurse!

19185.7

The Masquerader

19145.7

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition

19156.5

Bright Lights

1916

Gasoline Gus

19218.0

Those Country Kids

19144.1

Wine

191310.0

Days of Thrills and Laughter

19616.0

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride

2026

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

The Casting Couch

19958.3

In the Dough

19336.5

Go West

19256.9

Listen Lena

19277.0

When Comedy Was King

19606.5

Oh, Doctor!

19175.5

The Knockout

19145.8

His New Profession

19145.9

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

20208.0

Fatty’s Plucky Pup

19155.6

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

19155.4

Wonder Dogs! Canine Stars of the Silent Era (1898-1928)

2025

The Hayseed

19195.9

Fatty's Debut

1914

The Life of the Party

19205.6

Mrs. Jones' Birthday

19099.5

His Sister's Kids

191310.0

The Round-Up

19206.3

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

19155.7

Tomalio

19335.5

Barnyard Flirtations

1914

The Cook

19186.3

Hogan's Romance Upset

19155.0

My Stars

19266.3

A Small Time Act

1913

Looking for Mabel Normand

2015

The Rounders

19146.1

The Sky Pirate

1914

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

20074.3

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

1921

Ben's Kid

19098.0

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

19155.8

The Parrott Chase

2009

Alas! Poor Yorick!

19135.0

Making a Living

19145.7

So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM

20047.5

A Flirt's Mistake

19145.3

An Incompetent Hero

1914

A Desert Hero

19197.0

His Wife's Mistakes

19165.2

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

19145.3

Fatty’s Faithful Fido

19155.7

Hollywood

19239.0

A Film Johnnie

19145.5

Fatty's Flirtation

1913

His Favorite Pastime

19145.3

The Under-Sheriff

1914

The Waiters' Ball

19166.1

The Bell Boy

19186.4

Tango Tangles

19145.2

A Creampuff Romance

1916

Love and Bullets

1914

The Water Dog

19145.0

Fatty's Gift

1914

Lover's Luck

19143.9

Back Stage

19196.3

The Butcher Boy

19176.1

The Garage

19206.1

When Love Took Wings

19154.8

Zip, the Dodger

1914

A Bath House Beauty

19149.0

The Rough House

19175.5

Fatty's Magic Pants

19145.5

A Brand New Hero

1914

Rastus and the Game Cock

1913

Those Happy Days

1914

Murders of Hollywood

20035.0

Brewster's Millions

19216.5

Fatty's Wine Party

1914

Fatty at San Diego

1913

Lovers' Post Office

1914

How Old Are You?

1914

Two Old Tars

19138.0

Fatty's New Role

19155.1

He Did and He Didn’t

19166.0

A Rowboat Romance

1914

A Robust Romeo

1914

Fatty's Jonah Day

19144.5

Out West

19186.0

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

19437.5

Their Ups and Downs

1914

Coney Island

19175.9

That Little Band Of Gold

19155.1

Crazy to Marry

19217.8

Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush

20035.3

A Suspended Ordeal

1914

A Village Scandal

1915

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

19166.0

Fatty Joins the Force

19135.3

Love and Rubbish

19134.5

Stars of Yesterday

19319.0

Our Country Cousin

1914

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

19154.5

The Pullman Porter

1919

Leading Lizzie Astray

19144.4

Rebecca's Wedding Day

1914

Making It Pleasant for Him

190910.0

The Gangsters

19136.0

Bombs and Bangs

1914

His Wedding Night

19175.5

Buzzin' Around

19336.6

A Reckless Romeo

19175.4

The Woman Haters

1913

Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance

19155.4

Mother's Boy

1913

Caught in a Flue

1914

The Sea Nymphs

1914

Fatty's Finish

1914

Moonshine

19185.6

Leap Year

19245.2

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

19154.9

A Noise from the Deep

19135.5

Close Relations

19337.0

Traveling Salesman

19218.0

The Speed Kings

19134.6

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

19155.3

The Sheriff

191810.0

A Quiet Little Wedding

1913

Wished on Mabel

19155.3

The Riot

1913

A Country Hero

19175.5

Safe in Jail

19138.0

Where Hazel Met the Villain

191410.0

The Late Lamented

1917

Crazy Days

19625.8

Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts

2006

Fickle Fatty's Fall

1915

The Fast Freight

192210.0

Mabel's New Hero

19135.1

A Bandit

19135.5

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

19153.9

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

1915

Mabel’s Wilful Way

19154.9

Shotguns That Kick

1914

He Would a Hunting Go

1913

Mabel's Dramatic Career

19135.6

Fatty's Day Off

19136.0

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco

19155.5

The Chicken Chaser

1914

In the Clutches of the Gang

1914

The Gypsy Queen

1913

The Dollar-a-Year Man

19217.0

Fatty’s Reckless Fling

19154.7

The Waiters' Picnic

19135.0

When Dreams Come True

1913

A Voice from the Deep

19128.0

The Fatal Taxicab

1913

A Ride for a Bride

19137.0

Twixt Love and Fire

19149.0

Murphy's I.O.U.

1913

Passions, He Had Three

1913

Fatty Again

1914

A Scrap of Paper

19186.7

Some Nerve

1913

Professor Bean's Removal

1913

The Other Man

1916

A Rural Demon

1914

A Misplaced Foot

1914

The Little Teacher

19155.7

Camping Out

19195.0

Hey, Pop!

19329.0

Fatty and the Heiress

1914

Almost a Rescue

19137.0

That Minstrel Man

1914

The Milk We Drink

191310.0

How've You Bean?

19338.0

For the Love of Mabel

1913

Help! Help! Hydrophobia!

19138.0

Love and Courage

1913

The Telltale Light

1913

The Bank Clerk

1919

The Baggage Smasher

1914

Fatty's Wild Night

1914