Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Acting
🎂 1887-03-22
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.
Cast credits(187)
1988
2003
Self (archive footage)
2007
Man in Audience
1913
Self (uncredited)
1927
(archive footage)
1987
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
1923
Himself
1921
edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
1960
Fatty
1918
Self (archive footage)
2004
Eddie - the Country Boy
1915
Stagehand
1919
Self (archive footage)
2015
Count Chicori
1913
1919
Wilbur
1933
Self (archive footage)
2003
Bob Blake
1921
Wilbur Wart
1933
Masher
1913
Fatty
1914
Fatty
1913
Slim Hoover
1920
1909
Self (archive footage)
1961
(archive footage)
1943
1933
Monte Brewster
1921
Fatty
1932
The Cook
1916
Jimmie
1913
Fatty
1913
The Tramp
1914
The Man
1913
Fatty / Saccharine
1917
Shabby Drunk
1914
Ras Berry
1922
Man with Moustache
1913
Mr. Rough
1917
1914
Slim
1933
1914
The Husband
1917
Woman in Department Store (uncredited)
1925
The Chef
1918
Neighbor Woman
1913
Cornelius
1933
Gas station employee
1917
Clarinetist
1914
1st Old Tar
1913
Dr. Hobart Hupp
1921
Dr. Fatty Holepoke
1917
Fatty
1914
(archive footage)
1992
Rebecca
1914
Tom aka Fatty
1913
Himself
1915
Fatty
1914
Fatty
1916
The Jealous Man
1913
Train Rider, Bartender
1918
Mailman
1919
The Sheriff, the Desert Hero
1919
Self
1931
Suitor
1913
Bellboy, barber
1918
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Pete's Wife
1913
The Doctor
1916
Fight Spectator
1915
Fatty
1915
Fatty
1913
Player in Female Costume
1913
Fat Boy
1913
Mr. Fuller
1914
Fatty
1913
Dr. J. Jacobs
1913
Charley Wise
1910
Village Blacksmith
1917
Fatty
1914
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1912
The Heiress
1914
Fatty
1914
1909
Cop
1914
Bartender Smoking Cigar
1914
Cohen - Jewish Neighborhood Leader
1913
Fatty
1914
The Janitor
1916
Fatty
1915
First Old Tar
1913
Algernon Leary (as Roscoe Arbuckle)
1920
Fatty
1913
Fatty
1914
Fatty
1914
The Cop
1914
Oscar - the Waiter
1913
Fat Unruly Student
1915
Fatty
1914
Revenue Agent
1918
Henry
1913
Roscoe
1915
Fatty
1915
Fatty
1915
Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
Cook
1918
Pug (uncredited)
1914
Fatty
1918
2016
Cop
1913
Himself
1915
Mabel's Sweetheart
1913
Fatty Carter
1909
1914
The Hired Man
1914
Gasoline Gus
1921
Franklin Pinney
1921
The Cop
1914
Bob
1913
Fatty - Studio Janitor
1915
Fatty
1914
Fatty
1915
Fatty - the Husband
1915
Fatty
1915
The Country Boy
1913
1919
1916
Various
2001
Film actor
1914
1914
Mechanic / Fireman
1920
Fatty
1914
Jim Brown
1913
Fatty
1914
Fatty
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Fatty
1917
Fatty
1916
Stanley Piper
1924
Fatty
1915
Finnegan's Daughter
1915
Fatty
1914
Fatty
1914
Bully
1913
Fatty
1915
Fatty
1914
Fatty
1915
Self
1914
The Iceman
1914
The Dairy Farmer
1913
Fatty
1913
Fatty
1914
Mailman (uncredited)
1926
The Country Boy (unconfirmed)
1914
Various
2001
Fatty
1913
Belle
1914
Fatty
1914
The Under-Sheriff
1914
Spectator
1913
Reckless Fatty
1915
Fatty
1914
Fatty the Tramp (dual role)
1916
Fatty
1915
Mother's Boy
1913
Fatty
1915
Cameo Appearance (unconfirmed)
1917
(unconfirmed)
1914
Fatty
1914
Film Actor (uncredited)
1914
Fatty
1914
The Waiter
1913
(unconfirmed)
1914
The Farmer's Daughter
1914
Fat man with strategically covered face (unconfirmed)
1927
Fatty
1915
Husband (uncredited)
1914
(archive footage)
2006
Fatty
1914
(unconfirmed)
1914
Theatre Owner
1913
Zip
1914
Fatty
1913
Fatty Felix
1914
Fatty
1915
(uncredited) (unconfirmed)
1913
Fatty
1914
Directing (133)
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Writing (36)
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1931
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