Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Smith Center, Kansas, USA, 1887-03-22

Died: 1933-06-29

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1909	Ben's Kid	Fatty Carter	60
2	1909	Mrs. Jones' Birthday		100
3	1909	Making It Pleasant for Him		100
4	1910	The Sanitarium	Charley Wise	35
5	1912	A Voice from the Deep	Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)	70
6	1913	Murphy's I.O.U.	(uncredited) (unconfirmed)	0
7	1913	Alas! Poor Yorick!	Player in Female Costume	50
8	1913	The Gangsters	Cop	60
9	1913	Passions, He Had Three	Henry	0
10	1913	Help! Help! Hydrophobia!	Jim Brown	80
11	1913	The Waiters' Picnic	Oscar - the Waiter	50
12	1913	Peeping Pete	Pete's Wife	60
13	1913	A Bandit	Bully	55
14	1913	For the Love of Mabel	Suitor	0
15	1913	Rastus and the Game Cock	Spectator	0
16	1913	Safe in Jail	Neighbor Woman	80
17	1913	The Telltale Light	Tom aka Fatty	0
18	1913	Love and Rubbish	Fat Boy	50
19	1913	A Noise from the Deep	Bob	55
20	1913	Love and Courage	The Country Boy	0
21	1913	Professor Bean's Removal	Man with Moustache	0
22	1913	The Riot	Cohen - Jewish Neighborhood Leader	0
23	1913	Almost a Rescue	Jimmie	0
24	1913	Mabel's New Hero	Fatty	49
25	1913	Fatty's Day Off	Fatty	60
26	1913	Mabel's Dramatic Career	Man in Audience	55
27	1913	The Gypsy Queen	Fatty	0
28	1913	The Fatal Taxicab	Mabel's Sweetheart	0
29	1913	When Dreams Come True	The Man	0
30	1913	Mother's Boy	Mother's Boy	0
31	1913	Two Old Tars	First Old Tar	0
32	1913	A Quiet Little Wedding	Fatty	0
33	1913	The Speed Kings	Masher	42
34	1913	Fatty at San Diego	Fatty	0
35	1913	The Milk We Drink	The Dairy Farmer	0
36	1913	A Small Time Act	Theatre Owner	0
37	1913	Wine	The Waiter	0
38	1913	Fatty Joins the Force	Fatty	54
39	1913	The Woman Haters	1st Old Tar	0
40	1913	A Ride for a Bride	Fatty	0
41	1913	His Sister's Kids	Dr. J. Jacobs	0
42	1913	Fatty's Flirtation	Fatty	0
43	1913	Some Nerve	The Jealous Man	0
44	1913	He Would a Hunting Go	Count Chicori	0
45	1914	How Old Are You?		0
46	1914	Fatty's Wild Night		0
47	1914	A Misplaced Foot	Fatty	0
48	1914	The Under-Sheriff	The Under-Sheriff	0
49	1914	A Flirt's Mistake	Husband (uncredited)	54
50	1914	In the Clutches of the Gang	Cop	0
51	1914	Rebecca's Wedding Day	Rebecca	0
52	1914	The Water Dog	Fatty	50
53	1914	A Robust Romeo	Fatty	0
54	1914	Twixt Love and Fire	The Iceman	0
55	1914	A Film Johnnie	Self (uncredited)	54
56	1914	Tango Tangles	Clarinetist	50
57	1914	His Favorite Pastime	Shabby Drunk	52
58	1914	A Rural Demon		0
59	1914	Barnyard Flirtations	The Cop	0
60	1914	The Chicken Chaser	The Hired Man	0
61	1914	A Bath House Beauty	Fatty	0
62	1914	Where Hazel Met the Villain	Fatty	0
63	1914	A Suspended Ordeal	The Cop	0
64	1914	The Alarm		0
65	1914	Our Country Cousin	The Country Boy (unconfirmed)	0
66	1914	The Knockout	Pug (uncredited)	57
67	1914	Fatty and the Heiress	Fatty	0
68	1914	Fatty's Finish	Fatty	0
69	1914	Love and Bullets	Film Actor (uncredited)	0
70	1914	A Rowboat Romance	(unconfirmed)	0
71	1914	The Sky Pirate	The Heiress	0
72	1914	Those Happy Days	Fatty	0
73	1914	That Minstrel Man	Belle	0
74	1914	Those Country Kids	Fatty	44
75	1914	Caught in a Flue	(unconfirmed)	0
76	1914	Fatty's Gift	Fatty	0
77	1914	The Masquerader	Film actor	56
78	1914	His New Profession	Bartender Smoking Cigar	58
79	1914	The Baggage Smasher	(unconfirmed)	0
80	1914	A Brand New Hero	The Tramp	0
81	1914	The Rounders	Mr. Fuller	61
82	1914	Lover's Luck	Fatty	45
83	1914	Bombs and Bangs	The Farmer's Daughter	0
84	1914	Fatty's Debut	Fatty	0
85	1914	Fatty Again	Fatty Felix	0
86	1914	Their Ups and Downs	Fatty	0
87	1914	Zip, the Dodger	Zip	0
88	1914	Lovers' Post Office	Fatty	0
89	1914	An Incompetent Hero	Fatty	0
90	1914	Fatty's Jonah Day	Fatty	45
91	1914	Fatty's Wine Party	Fatty	0
92	1914	The Sea Nymphs	Fatty	0
93	1914	Leading Lizzie Astray	Fatty	42
94	1914	Shotguns That Kick	Fatty	0
95	1914	Fatty's Magic Pants	Fatty	54
96	1914	Fatty and Minnie He-Haw	Fatty	50
97	1915	Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day	Fatty	56
98	1915	Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life	Roscoe	55
99	1915	Mabel, Fatty and the Law	Fatty	43
100	1915	Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition	Fatty	59
101	1915	Fatty's New Role	Fatty	52
102	1915	Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life	Fatty	49
103	1915	Hogan's Romance Upset	Fight Spectator	50
104	1915	A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition	Himself	50
105	1915	Fatty’s Reckless Fling	Fatty	47
106	1915	Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance	Fatty	55
107	1915	That Little Band Of Gold	Fatty - the Husband	51
108	1915	Fatty’s Faithful Fido	Fatty	57
109	1915	When Love Took Wings	Reckless Fatty	48
110	1915	Wished on Mabel	Fatty	52
111	1915	Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco	Himself	55
112	1915	Mabel’s Wilful Way	Fatty	49
113	1915	Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers	Finnegan's Daughter	45
114	1915	The Little Teacher	Fat Unruly Student	57
115	1915	Fatty’s Plucky Pup	Fatty	56
116	1915	Fatty's Tintype Tangle	Fatty	56
117	1915	Fickle Fatty's Fall	Fatty	0
118	1915	A Village Scandal	Eddie - the Country Boy	0
119	1915	Fatty and the Broadway Stars	Fatty - Studio Janitor	0
120	1916	Fatty and Mabel Adrift	Fatty	61
121	1916	He Did and He Didn’t	The Doctor	61
122	1916	Bright Lights	Fatty	0
123	1916	His Wife's Mistakes	The Janitor	52
124	1916	The Other Man	Fatty the Tramp (dual role)	0
125	1916	The Waiters' Ball	The Cook	61
126	1916	A Creampuff Romance		0
127	1917	The Butcher Boy	Fatty / Saccharine	61
128	1917	A Reckless Romeo	The Husband	54
129	1917	The Rough House	Mr. Rough	55
130	1917	His Wedding Night	Gas station employee	55
131	1917	The Late Lamented	Cameo Appearance (unconfirmed)	0
132	1917	Oh, Doctor!	Dr. Fatty Holepoke	56
133	1917	Coney Island	Fatty	58
134	1917	A Country Hero	Village Blacksmith	50
135	1918	Out West	Train Rider, Bartender	60
136	1918	The Bell Boy	Bellboy, barber	65
137	1918	Moonshine	Revenue Agent	57
138	1918	Good Night, Nurse!	Fatty	55
139	1918	The Cook	The Chef	62
140	1918	A Scrap of Paper	Fatty	50
141	1918	The Sheriff	Cook	0
142	1919	Camping Out		50
143	1919	The Pullman Porter		0
144	1919	Love	Fatty	56
145	1919	The Bank Clerk		0
146	1919	A Desert Hero	The Sheriff, the Desert Hero	0
147	1919	Back Stage	Stagehand	63
148	1919	The Hayseed	Mailman	59
149	1920	The Garage	Mechanic / Fireman	61
150	1920	The Round-Up	Slim Hoover	60
151	1920	The Life of the Party	Algernon Leary (as Roscoe Arbuckle)	52
152	1921	Brewster's Millions	Monte Brewster	60
153	1921	Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)	Himself	0
154	1921	The Dollar-a-Year Man	Franklin Pinney	0
155	1921	Traveling Salesman	Bob Blake	0
156	1921	Gasoline Gus	Gasoline Gus	0
157	1921	Crazy to Marry	Dr. Hobart Hupp	85
158	1922	The Fast Freight	Ras Berry	0
159	1923	Hollywood	Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle	70
160	1924	Leap Year	Stanley Piper	48
161	1925	Go West	Woman in Department Store (uncredited)	69
162	1926	My Stars	Mailman (uncredited)	57
163	1927	Listen Lena	Fat man with strategically covered face (unconfirmed)	60
164	1927	Character Studies	Self (uncredited)	60
165	1931	Stars of Yesterday	Self	0
166	1932	Hey, Pop!	Fatty	90
167	1933	Buzzin' Around	Cornelius	60
168	1933	How've You Bean?		0
169	1933	Close Relations	Wilbur Wart	0
170	1933	In the Dough	Slim	53
171	1933	Tomalio	Wilbur	20
172	1943	Happy Times and Jolly Moments	(archive footage)	0
173	1960	When Comedy Was King	edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)	67
174	1961	Days of Thrills and Laughter	Self (archive footage)	55
175	1962	Crazy Days	Various (archive footage) (uncredited)	58
176	1987	Hollywood's Hidden Secrets	(archive footage)	0
177	1992	The Chaplin Puzzle	(archive footage)	0
178	2001	Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two	Various	50
179	2001	Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One	Various	50
180	2003	Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'	Self (archive footage)	54
181	2004	So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM	Self (archive footage)	70
182	2006	Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts	(archive footage)	0
183	2007	Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema	Self (archive footage)	49
184	2015	Looking for Mabel Normand	Self (archive footage)	0
185	2016	Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923		70

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

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