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person_profile-Roscoe Arbuckle

Roscoe Arbuckle Died at age: 46

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Roscoe Arbuckle

Date of Birth:

Mar 22, 1887

Country of birth:

USA

Died:

Jun 29, 1933

Biography of

Roscoe 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.

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Roscoe Arbuckle

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Filmography of

Roscoe Arbuckle

Found 21 Movies in total

Disclosure

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2020

... 2016

Looking for Mabel Normand

Himself (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2015

... 2007

... 2001

... 2001

The Casting Couch

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1995

... 1992

... 1962

Days of Thrills and Laughter

archive footage ( Actor )

... 1961

When Comedy Was King

edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1960

Go West

Woman in Department Store (uncredited) ( Actor )

... 1925

Leap Year

Stanley Piper ( Actor )

Director

... 1924

Hollywood

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ( Actor )

... 1923

The Fast Freight

Ras Berry ( Actor )

... 1922

Crazy to Marry

Dr. Hobart Hupp ( Actor )

... 1921

Gasoline Gus

Gasoline Gus ( Actor )

... 1921

The Dollar-a-Year Man

Franklin Pinney ( Actor )

... 1921

Brewster's Millions

Monte Brewster ( Actor )

... 1921

The Life of the Party

Algernon Leary (as Roscoe Arbuckle) ( Actor )

... 1920

The Round-Up

Slim Hoover ( Actor )

... 1920