Roscoe Arbuckle
Acting
Born March 22, 1887 · 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 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.
Directed (133)
It's a Cinch
1932
Niagara Falls
1932
Gigolettes
1932
Hollywood Lights
1932
Mother's Holiday
1932
Hollywood Luck
1932
Bridge Wives
1932
Keep Laughing
1932
Anybody's Goat
1932
Moonlight and Cactus
1932
Smart Work
1931
Idle Roomers
1931
The Tamale Vendor
1931
Once a Hero
1931
Queenie of Hollywood
1931
One Quiet Night
1931
That's My Meat
1931
Take 'em and Shake 'em
1931
Beach Pajamas
1931
Up Pops the Duke
1931
Honeymoon Trio
1931
That's My Line
1931
The Lure of Hollywood
1931
The Back Page
1931
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
1931
Crashing Hollywood
1931
Ex-Plumber
1931
Pete and Repeat
1931
Marriage Rows
1931
Three Hollywood Girls
1931
Up a Tree
1930
Won by a Neck
1930
Si Si Senor
1930
Character Studies
1927
Special Delivery
1927
Peaceful Oscar
1927
The Red Mill
1927
One Sunday Morning
1926
His Private Life
1926
Fool's Luck
1926
Home Cured
1926
My Stars
1926
The Fighting Dude
1925
Cleaning Up
1925
The Movies
1925
The Tourist
1925
Curses
1925
The Iron Mule
1925
Dynamite Doggie
1925
Lovemania
1924
Stupid, but Brave
1924
His First Car
1924
No Loafing
1923
Special Delivery
1922
The Garage
1920
The Hayseed
1919
Back Stage
1919
A Desert Hero
1919
The Bank Clerk
1919
Love
1919
The Pullman Porter
1919
Camping Out
1919
The Sheriff
1918
A Scrap of Paper
1918
The Cook
1918
Good Night, Nurse!
1918
Moonshine
1918
The Bell Boy
1918
Out West
1918
A Country Hero
1917
Coney Island
1917
Oh, Doctor!
1917
His Wedding Night
1917
The Rough House
1917
A Reckless Romeo
1917
The Butcher Boy
1917
A Creampuff Romance
1916
The Waiters' Ball
1916
His Wife's Mistakes
1916
Bright Lights
1916
He Did and He Didn’t
1916
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
1916
Fatty and the Broadway Stars
1915
A Village Scandal
1915
Fickle Fatty's Fall
1915
Fatty's Tintype Tangle
1915
Fatty’s Plucky Pup
1915
Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers
1915
Mabel’s Wilful Way
1915
Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco
1915
Wished on Mabel
1915
When Love Took Wings
1915
Fatty’s Faithful Fido
1915
That Little Band Of Gold
1915
Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance
1915
Fatty’s Reckless Fling
1915
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
1915
Fatty's New Role
1915
Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition
1915
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
1915
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
1915
Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day
1915
Fatty and Minnie He-Haw
1914
Fatty's Magic Pants
1914
Shotguns That Kick
1914
Leading Lizzie Astray
1914
Fatty's Wine Party
1914
Fatty's Jonah Day
1914
An Incompetent Hero
1914
Lovers' Post Office
1914
Zip, the Dodger
1914
Their Ups and Downs
1914
Fatty Again
1914
Fatty's Debut
1914
Bombs and Bangs
1914
Lover's Luck
1914
A Brand New Hero
1914
Fatty's Gift
1914
Those Country Kids
1914
That Minstrel Man
1914
Those Happy Days
1914
The Sky Pirate
1914
A Rowboat Romance
1914
Love and Bullets
1914
Fatty's Finish
1914
Fatty and the Heiress
1914
The Alarm
1914
A Suspended Ordeal
1914
Where Hazel Met the Villain
1914
A Bath House Beauty
1914
The Chicken Chaser
1914
Barnyard Flirtations
1914
The Water Dog
1914
Acting (188)
Charlie Chaplin, The Genius of Liberty
2020
Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923
2016
Looking for Mabel Normand
2015
The Parrott Chase
2009
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
2007
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
2006
So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM
2004
Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush
2003
Murders of Hollywood
2003
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One
2001
Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two
2001
The Chaplin Puzzle
1992
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Crazy Days
1962
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
When Comedy Was King
1960
Happy Times and Jolly Moments
1943
Tomalio
1933
In the Dough
1933
Close Relations
1933
How've You Bean?
1933
Buzzin' Around
1933
Hey, Pop!
1932
Stars of Yesterday
1931
Character Studies
1927
Listen Lena
1927
My Stars
1926
Go West
1925
