Roscoe Arbuckle profile
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Roscoe Arbuckle

22nd March 1887 Smith Center, Kansas, USA Acting

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.

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Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

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Crazy Days 12th July 1962 as Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
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My Stars 17th January 1926 as Mailman (uncredited)
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Go West 1st November 1925 as Woman in Department Store (uncredited)
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Hollywood 19th August 1923 as Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
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Love 1st March 1919 as Fatty
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Out West 20th January 1918 as Train Rider, Bartender
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The Riot 7th August 1913 as Cohen - Jewish Neighborhood Leader

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