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Roscoe Arbuckle
Sign in to saveAlso known as Fatty Arbuckle, Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, William Goodrich, Fatty
American actor, director and comedian
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1887
- Died
- 1933
- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Vitaphone comedy collection
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Smith Center, Kansas, USA
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…
Known for
- A Brave Engineer: Buster Keaton's Last Ride — Self (Archival)2026
- Wonder Dogs! Canine Stars of the Silent Era (1898-1928)2025
- Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty — archive footage2020
- Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-19232016
- Looking for Mabel Normand — Self (archive footage)2015
- The Parrott Chase — (archive footage) (uncredited)2009
- Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema — Self (archive footage)2007
- Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts — (archive footage)2006
- So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM — Self (archive footage)2004
- Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush — Self (archive footage)2003
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Development of Autoantibodies before the Clinical Onset of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
· 2003 · cited 2,211x
- Neurocognition in patients with brain metastases treated with radiosurgery or radiosurgery plus whole-brain irradiation: a randomised controlled trial
· 2009 · cited 2,075x
- A Randomized Controlled Trial of Fluorouracil Plus Leucovorin, Irinotecan, and Oxaliplatin Combinations in Patients With Previously Untreated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
· 2004 · cited 1,821x
- Effective Surgical Adjuvant Therapy for High-Risk Rectal Carcinoma
· 1991 · cited 1,474x
- Daily Well-Being: The Role of Autonomy, Competence, and Relatedness
· 2000 · cited 1,423x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “I don't believe there is any finer mission on earth than just to make people laugh.”
- “No price is too high to pay for a good laugh.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle , ( 1887-03-24 ) March 24, 1887, Smith Center, Kansas , U.S.
- Died
- June 29, 1933 (1933-06-29) (aged 46), New York City, U.S.
- Other names
- Fatty Arbuckle, William Goodrich
- Occupations
- Actor director screenwriter comedian
- Years active
- 1904–1933
- Spouses
- Minta Durfee ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1908 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1925 ) Doris Deane ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1925 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1929 ) Addie McPhail ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1932 )
- Relatives
- Andrew Arbuckle (cousin), Maclyn Arbuckle (cousin), Al St. John (nephew)
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Fatty Arbuckle ad from The Film Daily, 1932 Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (/ˈɑːrbʌkəl/; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, 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, signing a contract in 1920 with Paramount Pictures for $1 million a year (equivalent to $16.1 million in 2025).
Arbuckle was the defendant in three widely publicized trials between November 1921 and April 1922 for the rape and manslaughter of 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 trial acquitted Arbuckle. The third jury took the unusual step of giving Arbuckle a written statement of apology for his treatment by the justice system.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roscoe Arbuckle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.