Roscoe Arbuckle
American actor, director and comedian · United States · On the map · Actors · Lived 1887 to 1933 · aged 46
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle 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.
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Character StudiesFilm, Director1925
Go WestFilm, Woman in Department Store (uncredited)1924
Leap YearFilm, Stanley Piper1920
The GarageFilm, Director1919
Back StageFilm, Director1918
Good Night, Nurse!Film, Director, Writer1917
A Reckless RomeoFilm, Director, Writer1915
Fatty and Mabel's Simple LifeFilm, Director1914
A Film JohnnieFilm1913
Fatty Joins the ForceFilm, Fatty1887Born24 March 1887Known for
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Go West 1925
Day Dreams 1922
Back Stage 1919
The Cook 1918
The Bell Boy 1918
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Buster Keaton Roscoe directed Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Charlie Chaplin Directed The Masquerader and His New Profession
Mack Sennett Produced The Masquerader and His New Profession
Mabel Normand Roscoe directed The Alarm (1914)
Adolph Zukor Produced Hollywood and Brewster's Millions
Jesse Louis Lasky Produced Brewster's Millions and The Round-Up
Alice Lake Roscoe directed Coney Island and A Country Hero
Charley Chase Roscoe directed Fatty's Magic Pants (1914)
Edgar Kennedy Roscoe directed Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
Al St. John Roscoe directed The Butcher Boy and Coney Island
James Cruze Directed Hollywood and Leap Year
Alice Davenport Also in Tango Tangles and A Noise from the Deep
George Nichols Directed A Film Johnnie and His Favorite Pastime
Hank Mann Also in Tango Tangles and A Film Johnnie
Monty Banks Roscoe directed Love and The Sheriff
Charles Avery Directed The Knockout and Hogan's Romance Upset
Harry McCoy Roscoe directed The Garage (1920)
Molly Malone Roscoe directed Back Stage and The Garage
Frank Hayes Roscoe directed Love and Fatty's Tintype Tangle
Glen Cavender Roscoe directed The Cook (1918)- Joe Bordeaux Roscoe directed The Butcher Boy and Coney Island
Lloyd Hamilton Roscoe directed The Movies (1925)
Nick Cogley Also in A Bandit and A Noise from the Deep
Johnny Arthur Roscoe directed The Tourist and My Stars
Roscoe ArbucklePartners
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Fatty Arbuckle ad from The Film Daily, 1932
Arbuckle with his and Minta Durfee's dog Luke, c. 1919
Hand-tinted photograph of Arbuckle, c. 1915
Frequent co-star Mabel Normand
Arbuckle's nephew Al St. John (right) with Buster Keaton and Arbuckle in Out West (1918)
Ad for The Hayseed (1919) with Arbuckle holding his dog Luke![This 1922 Vanity Fair caricature by Ralph Barton[22] shows the famous people who, he imagined, left work each day in Hollywood; use cursor to identify individual figures.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/RalphBartonExtract.jpg/500px-RalphBartonExtract.jpg)
This 1922 Vanity Fair caricature by Ralph Barton[22] shows the famous people who, he imagined, left work each day in Hollywood; use cursor to identify individual figures.Awards
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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.
