Roscoe Arbuckle

Acting · 0.9 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

The Alarm

1914

Bright Lights

1916

Gasoline Gus

19218.0

Peeping Pete

19136.0

The Sanitarium

19105.3

Love

19195.8

A Desert Hero

19197.0

A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride

2026

Character Studies

19276.2

Good Night, Nurse!

19185.7

Wine

191310.0

Those Country Kids

19144.1

A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition

19156.5

His Sister's Kids

191310.0

The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies

19958.0

Mrs. Jones' Birthday

19099.5

Listen Lena

19277.0

His New Profession

19145.9

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

Go West

19256.9

The Masquerader

19145.7

The Casting Couch

19958.3

An Incompetent Hero

1914

Oh, Doctor!

19175.5

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

2025

The Rounders

19146.1

When Comedy Was King

19606.5

The Knockout

19145.8

In the Dough

19336.5

Tomalio

19335.5

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

19155.4

Making a Living

19145.7

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

20074.3

The Cook

19186.3

Love and Bullets

1914

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

19155.7

A Bath House Beauty

19149.0

Fatty at San Diego

1913

Fatty’s Plucky Pup

19155.6

Barnyard Flirtations

1914

The Butcher Boy

19176.1

Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty

20208.0

He Did and He Didn’t

19166.0

Days of Thrills and Laughter

19616.0

Fatty's Debut

1914

So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM

20047.5

My Stars

19266.3

The Waiters' Ball

19166.1

The Parrott Chase

2009

The Under-Sheriff

1914

The Life of the Party

19205.6

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

1921

Zip, the Dodger

1914

A Film Johnnie

19145.5

Fatty's Wine Party

1914

The Hayseed

19195.9

Tango Tangles

19145.2

The Water Dog

19145.0

Hogan's Romance Upset

19155.0

Lovers' Post Office

1914

Lover's Luck

19143.9

Caught in a Flue

1914

His Wife's Mistakes

19165.2

Fatty’s Faithful Fido

19155.7

Hollywood

19239.0

The Sea Nymphs

1914

Fatty's Magic Pants

19145.5

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

19145.3

His Favorite Pastime

19145.3

A Small Time Act

1913

The Round-Up

19206.3

Love and Rubbish

19134.5

A Flirt's Mistake

19145.3

When Love Took Wings

19154.8

The Sky Pirate

1914

Fatty's Flirtation

1913

A Creampuff Romance

1916

Buzzin' Around

19336.6

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

19155.8

Alas! Poor Yorick!

19135.0

Brewster's Millions

19216.5

The Gangsters

19136.0

Ben's Kid

19098.0

Looking for Mabel Normand

2015

The Woman Haters

1913

Out West

19186.0

Their Ups and Downs

1914

A Brand New Hero

1914

Rastus and the Game Cock

1913

In the Clutches of the Gang

1914

Those Happy Days

1914

A Village Scandal

1915

How Old Are You?

1914

A Voice from the Deep

19128.0

The Bell Boy

19186.4

Wished on Mabel

19155.3

Two Old Tars

19138.0

Back Stage

19196.3

Making It Pleasant for Him

190910.0

Fatty's Day Off

19136.0

The Rough House

19175.5

Fatty's Gift

1914

Fatty's New Role

19155.1

The Garage

19206.1

A Suspended Ordeal

1914

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

19166.0

Leading Lizzie Astray

19144.4

The Fast Freight

192210.0

A Robust Romeo

1914

Shotguns That Kick

1914

The Pullman Porter

1919

Murders of Hollywood

20035.0

The Riot

1913

Traveling Salesman

19218.0

Fatty's Jonah Day

19144.5

Crazy to Marry

19217.8

A Rowboat Romance

1914

That Little Band Of Gold

19155.1

A Quiet Little Wedding

1913

Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush

20035.3

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

19154.5

His Wedding Night

19175.5

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

19153.9

Mabel's Dramatic Career

19135.6

Mabel's New Hero

19135.1

Fatty’s Reckless Fling

19154.7

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

19154.9

When Dreams Come True

1913

Twixt Love and Fire

19149.0

Close Relations

19337.0

The Late Lamented

1917

Where Hazel Met the Villain

191410.0

The Other Man

1916

The Gypsy Queen

1913

Leap Year

19245.2

Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance

19155.4

Our Country Cousin

1914

Fatty Joins the Force

19135.3

Safe in Jail

19138.0

A Bandit

19135.5

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

19155.3

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

19437.5

Fatty's Finish

1914

Coney Island

19175.9

Love and Courage

1913

The Dollar-a-Year Man

19217.0

Bombs and Bangs

1914

Moonshine

19185.6

Fatty and the Heiress

1914

Crazy Days

19625.8

The Sheriff

191810.0

Rebecca's Wedding Day

1914

Mother's Boy

1913

A Reckless Romeo

19175.4

A Noise from the Deep

19135.5

A Ride for a Bride

19137.0

Stars of Yesterday

19319.0

Fickle Fatty's Fall

1915

Fatty Again

1914

Mabel’s Wilful Way

19154.9

The Speed Kings

19134.6

How've You Bean?

19338.0

He Would a Hunting Go

1913

Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts

2006

Some Nerve

1913

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

1915

The Fatal Taxicab

1913

A Country Hero

19175.5

Passions, He Had Three

1913

The Little Teacher

19155.7

Almost a Rescue

19137.0

The Telltale Light

1913

Help! Help! Hydrophobia!

19138.0

The Waiters' Picnic

19135.0

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

19155.5

A Misplaced Foot

1914

The Chicken Chaser

1914

Camping Out

19195.0

Murphy's I.O.U.

1913

The Milk We Drink

191310.0

A Scrap of Paper

19186.7

A Rural Demon

1914

Hey, Pop!

19329.0

Professor Bean's Removal

1913

Fatty's Wild Night

1914

For the Love of Mabel

1913

The Baggage Smasher

1914

That Minstrel Man

1914

The Bank Clerk

1919