Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
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.
Known For
Acting
1914
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1923
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1919
asStagehand
1918
asBellboy, barber
1917
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1918
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1917
asGas station employee
1914
asZip
1918
asTrain Rider, Bartender
1917
asMr. Rough
1919
asMailman
1920
asMechanic / Fireman
1918
asThe Chef
1917
asFatty / Saccharine
1917
asDr. Fatty Holepoke
1918
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1914
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1914
asSelf
1914
asPug (uncredited)
1914
asShabby Drunk
1914
asBartender Smoking Cigar
1914
asMr. Fuller
1915
asFatty
1917
asVillage Blacksmith
1931
asSelf
1916
asFatty
1960
asedited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
1915
asFatty
1921
asMonte Brewster
1962
asVarious (archive footage) (uncredited)
1914
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1913
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1915
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1914
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1913
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1914
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asThe Cop
1914
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1914
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asThe Heiress
1914
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asBelle
1914
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asThe Tramp
1914
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1933
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1915
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1914
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1924
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1914
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1918
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1916
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1914
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1914
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1933
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1913
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1912
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asFatty Carter
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1913
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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1914
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asThe Cop
1925
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2003
asSelf (archive footage)
1917
asThe Husband
1916
asThe Cook
1932
asFatty
1992
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2007
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1920
asAlgernon Leary (as Roscoe Arbuckle)
1921
asBob Blake
1920
asSlim Hoover
1921
asFranklin Pinney
1921
asGasoline Gus
1921
asDr. Hobart Hupp
1922
asRas Berry
2004
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2006
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1961
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1933
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1933
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1927
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1914
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1914
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2016
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2015
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1915
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1915
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2001
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2001
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1915
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1918
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1914
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1914
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1921
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