Roscoe Arbuckle
Acting
Born March 22, 1887 · 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. I…
Known For · 40 titles
Bright Lights
Love
A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition
Wonder Dogs! Canine Stars of the Silent Era (1898-1928)
Gasoline Gus
The Sanitarium
The Chaplin Puzzle
Hollywood
The Masquerader
Character Studies
Wine
The Parrott Chase
Oh, Doctor!
A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride
The Alarm
Peeping Pete
A Desert Hero
The Casting Couch
Barnyard Flirtations
Tomalio
He Did and He Didn’t
Listen Lena
The Pullman Porter
Fatty's Jonah Day
Lovers' Post Office
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies
Fatty's Debut
Looking for Mabel Normand
Fatty's Finish
Fatty's Magic Pants
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Fatty's Wine Party
The Under-Sheriff
When Comedy Was King
A Suspended Ordeal
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
The Life of the Party
A Flirt's Mistake