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Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle, also known as Fatty Arbuckle (March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933), was an American silent film comedian, director, and screenwriter. Arbuckle is noted as one of the most popular actors of his era, but he is best remembered for a heavily publicized criminal prosecution that ended his career. Although he was acquitted by a jury with a written apology, the trial's scandal ruined the actor, who would not appear on screen again for another 10 years. Image File history File links Arbuckle-Roscoe. ... Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (465x640, 40 KB) Summary source: http://lcweb2. ... is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... Smith Center is a city located in Smith County, Kansas. ... Official language(s) English[2] Capital Topeka Largest city Wichita Area Ranked 15th - Total 82,277 sq mi (213,096 kmÂ²) - Width 211 miles (340 km) - Length 417 miles (645 km) - % water 0. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic - President George Walker Bush (R) - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York, New York and NYC redirect here. ... is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A silent film is a film which has no accompanying soundtrack. ... For the documentary about Jerry Seinfeld, see Comedian (film). ...

Early life and career

Born in Smith Center, Kansas, to Mollie and William Goodrich Arbuckle, he had several years of Vaudeville experience, including work at Idora Park in Oakland, California. One of his earliest mentors was comedian Leon Errol. He began his film career with the Selig Polyscope Company in July 1909. Arbuckle appeared sporadically in Selig one-reelers until 1913, moved briefly to Universal Pictures and became a star in producer-director Mack Sennett's Keystone Cops comedies. Smith Center is a city located in Smith County, Kansas. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Idora Park was a victorian era trolley park in North Oakland, California from the 1890s until the late 1920s. ... Oakland redirects here. ... Leonce Errol Simms (July 3, 1881 - October 12, 1951) was a comedian and actor popular in the 1940s. ... The Selig Polyscope Company was an American motion picture company founded in 1896 in Chicago, Illinois by William Selig. ... Universal Pictures is the main motion picture production/distribution arm of Universal Studios, a subsidiary of NBC Universal. ... Mack Sennett (1880 - 1960) Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 â€“ November 5, 1960) was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. ... The Keystone Cops in a typical pose. ...

Arbuckle was also a talented singer. After Enrico Caruso heard him sing he urged the comedian to "give up this nonsense you do for a living, with training you could become the second greatest singer in the world". For the song Caruso by Lucio Dalla, see Caruso (song). ...

On August 6, 1908 he married Araminta Estelle Durfee (1889-1975), the daughter of Charles Warren Durfee and Flora Adkins. Durfee starred in many early comedy films under the name Minta Durfee, often with Arbuckle. is the 218th day of the year (219th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1908 (MCMVIII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar). ...

Screen comedian

Despite his massive physical size, Arbuckle was remarkably agile and acrobatic. Mack Sennett, when recounting his first meeting with Arbuckle, noted that he "skipped up the stairs as lightly as Fred Astaire"; and, "without warning went into a feather light step, clapped his hands and did a backward somersault as graceful as a girl tumbler". His comedies are noted as rollicking and fast-paced, have many chase scenes, and feature sight gags. Arbuckle was fond of the famous "pie in the face," a comedy cliché that has come to symbolize silent-film-era comedy itself. The earliest known use of this gag was in the June 1913 Keystone one-reeler A Noise from the Deep, starring Arbuckle and frequent screen partner Mabel Normand. (Note, the first known "pie in the face" on-screen is in Ben Turpin's Mr. Flip in 1909. However, the oldest known thrown "pie in the face" is Normand's). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Mack Sennett (1880 - 1960) Mack Sennett (January 17, 1880 â€“ November 5, 1960) was an innovator of slapstick comedy in film. ... Fred Astaire (May 10, 1899 â€“ June 22, 1987), born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska,[1] was an American film and Broadway stage dancer, choreographer, singer and actor. ... In comedy, a Sight Gag is anything which conveys its humour visually, often without words being used at all. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ... Ben Turpin (1869-1940) Ben Turpin (center) with two Mack Sennett Studios bathing beauties Ben Turpin (September 19, 1869 - July 1, 1940) was a comedian, best remembered for his work in silent films. ...

While Normand is said to have thrown the first pie on-screen, a Hollywood legend of uncertain provenance recounts that Arbuckle created this gag after encountering Pancho Villa's army on the Rio Grande during a Vaudeville appearance in El Paso. While the Arbuckles were picnicking on the river, they and Villa's men playfully threw fruit at each other across the river. Roscoe is said to have knocked one of the men off his horse with a bunch of bananas, to Pancho's extreme amusement.^{[citation needed]} For the Filipino boxer, see Francisco Guilledo. ...

In 1914 Paramount Pictures made the then-unheard of offer of $1,000 a day/25% of all profits/complete artistic control to make movies with them. The movies were so lucrative and popular that in 1918 they offered Arbuckle a 3-year/$3 million contract. Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American motion picture production and distribution company, based in Hollywood, California. ...

Arbuckle disliked his screen nickname, which he had been given because of his substantial girth. However, the name Fatty (big buster) identifies the character that Arbuckle portrayed on-screen (usually, a naive hayseed) -- not Arbuckle himself. When Arbuckle portrayed a female, the character was named "Miss Fatty" (as in the film Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers). Hence, Arbuckle discouraged anyone from addressing him as "Fatty" off-screen. Miss Fattys Seaside Lovers is a 1915 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. ...

Buster Keaton

Arbuckle gave Buster Keaton his first film-making work in his 1917 short, The Butcher Boy. They soon became screen partners, with deadpan Buster soberly assisting wacky Roscoe in his crazy adventures. When Arbuckle was promoted to feature films, Keaton inherited the short-subject series, which launched his own career as a comedy star. Arbuckle and Keaton's close friendship never wavered, even when Arbuckle was beset by tragedy at the zenith of his career, and through the depression and downfall that followed. In his autobiography Keaton described Arbuckle's playful nature and his love of practical jokes, including several elaborately constructed schemes the two successfully pulled off at the expense of various Hollywood studio heads and stars. Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 â€“ February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. ... See also: 1916 in film 1917 1918 in film years in film film Events Technicolor is introduced Top grossing films Cleopatra Movies released Movies released in 1917 include: The Adventurer, a Charlie Chaplin short. ... The Butcher Boy is a 1917 short comedy film starring Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in his first film appearance. ...

Charlie Chaplin

After English actor Charlie Chaplin joined Keystone Studios in 1914, Arbuckle mentored him. Chaplin's most famous character, "the Tramp", was created after Chaplin "borrowed" Arbuckle's trademark balloon pants, boots and tiny hat. Charles Chaplin redirects here. ... The Keystone / Mack Sennett studios Keystone Studios was an early movie studio founded in Glendale, California in 1912 as the Keystone Pictures Studio by Mack Sennett with backing from Adam Kessel and Charles O. Bauman, owners of the New York Motion Picture Company. ...

The Scandal

At the height of his career, Arbuckle was under contract to Paramount Studios for $1 million a year -- the first multi-year/multi-million dollar deal paid by a Hollywood studio. ^[1] He worked hard for the money, filming three feature films simultaneously. On September 3, 1921 Arbuckle took a break from his hectic film schedule and drove to San Francisco with two friends, Lowell Sherman (an actor/director) and cameraman Fred Fischbach. The three checked into the St. Francis Hotel, decided to have a party, and invited several women to their suite. During the carousing, a 26-year-old aspiring actress named Virginia Rappe became seriously ill and was examined by the hotel doctor, who concluded her symptoms were mostly caused by intoxication. Signed Roscoe Arbuckle Fan Card This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... Signed Roscoe Arbuckle Fan Card This image is in the public domain in the United States and possibly other jurisdictions. ... The Paramount Pictures logo used from 1988 to 1989. ... ... is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1921 (MCMXXI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar). ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Lowell Sherman (October 11, 1885 San Francisco - December 28, 1934 Hollywood, California) was an American actor and director. ... Virginia Rappe Virginia Rappe (pronounced []) (September 19, 1895 - September 9, 1921) was an American silent film actress. ...

Rappe died three days later of peritonitis caused by a ruptured bladder. Rappe's companion at the party, Maude Delmont, claimed before a grand jury that Arbuckle had somehow pierced Rappe's bladder while raping her. Rappe's manager Al Semnacker (at a later press conference) accused Arbuckle of using a piece of ice to simulate sex with her, which led to the injuries. By the time the story was reported in newspapers, the object had 'evolved' into being a Coca-Cola or Champagne bottle, instead of a piece of ice. In fact, witnesses testified that Arbuckle rubbed the ice on Rappe's stomache to ease her abdominal pain. Arbuckle was confident that he had nothing to be ashamed of, and denied any wrongdoing. Delmont later made a statement (incriminating Arbuckle) to the police, in an attempt to extort money from Arbuckle's attorneys; but, the matter soon spun out of her control. In the American common law legal system, a grand jury is a type of jury which determines if there is enough evidence for a trial. ... The wave shape (known as the dynamic ribbon device) present on all Coca-Cola cans throughout the world derives from the contour of the original Coca-Cola bottles. ... Champagne is often consumed as part of a celebration Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of wine to effect carbonation. ...

Roscoe Arbuckle's career is cited by many film historians as one of the great tragedies of Hollywood. His trial was a major media event and stories in William Randolph Hearst's nationwide newspaper chain were written with the intent of making Arbuckle appear guilty. The resulting scandal destroyed both his career and his personal life. Morality groups called for Arbuckle to be sentenced to death, and studio executives ordered Arbuckle's industry friends (whose careers they controlled) to not publicly speak up for him. Charlie Chaplin was in England at the time. Buster Keaton did make a public statement in support of Arbuckle, calling Roscoe one of the kindest souls he had known. Film actor William S. Hart, who never worked with Arbuckle, made public statements which presumed that Arbuckle was guilty. ... For other people named William Randolph Hearst, see William Randolph Hearst (disambiguation) William Randolph Hearst I (April 29, 1863 â€“ August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate. ... Charles Chaplin redirects here. ... Wiliam Surrey Hart Movie poster for Harts 1916 western The Aryan in which he played a white (Anglo-Saxon) member of a Mexican gang, having turned against his own people. ...

The prosecutor was San Francisco District Attorney Mathew Brady, who was determined to get a conviction as he was planning to use the case in his campaign to run for governor. To this end, Brady made public pronouncements of Arbuckle’s guilt, and pressured witnesses to make false statements. During the hearing and despite the judge threatening a motion to dismiss the case, Brady refused to allow the only witness accusing Arbuckle, Maude Delmont, to take the stand and testify. Delmont had a long criminal record with convictions for racketeering, bigamy, fraud and extortion. The defense had also gotten hold of a letter from Delmont admitting to a plan to extort Arbuckle. Along with Delmont’s constantly changing story, for her to testify would have ended any chance of going for trial. In his summation, the judge demolished every bit of the prosecution's evidence, and harangued Brady for producing such a flimsy case. The judge found no evidence of rape, but decided that Arbuckle could be tried for manslaughter. This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

The first trial: What evidence the prosecution presented was often greeted with laughter from the courtroom; the spectators stood and cheered for Arbuckle after he testified. The jury returned deadlocked with a 10 - 2 not guilty verdict, and a mistrial was declared. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Mistrial. ...

The second trial: The same evidence was presented, but this time one of the witnesses, Zey Prevon, testified that the district attorney had forced her to lie. Another witness who claimed Arbuckle had bribed him turned out to be an escaped prisoner charged with assaulting an 8 year old girl; plus, fingerprint experts testified that the case's fingerprint evidence was faked. The defence was so convinced of an acquittal that Arbuckle was not called to testify. However, the jury interpreted the refusal to let Arbuckle testify as a sign of guilt. It returned deadlocked with a 10 - 2 guilty verdict -- another mistrial was declared.

The third trial: By this time Arbuckle's films had been banned, and newspapers had been filled for seven months with alleged stories of Hollywood orgies, murder, sexual perversity and lies about Arbuckle's case. Maude Delmont was touring the country giving one-woman shows as "The woman who signed the murder charge against Arbuckle", and lecturing on the evils of Hollywood. This time, it took the jury a mere 6 minutes to return a unanimous not guilty verdict; five of those were taken to write a statement of apology. Unfortunately, public opinion had long-since been turned strongly against Arbuckle; six days after the verdict, the censorship board banned Roscoe Arbuckle from ever working in U.S. movies again. ...

The Arbuckle case was one of four major Paramount-related scandals of the period. In 1920 Olive Thomas died after drinking a large quantity of medication meant for her husband (matinee idol Jack Pickford) which she had mistaken for water. In 1922 the murder of director William Desmond Taylor effectively ended the careers of actresses Mary Miles Minter and former Arbuckle screen partner Mabel Normand and in 1923 actor/director Wallace Reid's drug addiction resulted in his death. The scandals caused by these tragedies rocked Hollywood, leading major studios to include morality clauses in contracts. Olive Thomas (20 October 1894, Charleroi, Pennsylvania â€“ 10 September 1920 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American silent film actress and socialite. ... John Charles Smith (August 18, 1896 - January 3, 1933) was a Canadian-born American actor. ... William Desmond Taylor William Desmond Taylor (born William Cunningham Deane-Tanner) (April 26, 1872 â€“ February 1, 1922) was an actor, successful US film director of silent movies and a popular figure in the growing Hollywood film colony of the 1910s and early 1920s. ... Mary Miles Minter (April 1, 1902 - August 4, 1984) was a U.S. film actor in silent films. ... Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ... Wallace Reid Wallace Reid, born April 15, 1891 in St. ...

Owing to the scandal, most exhibitors declined to show Arbuckle's latest films. Ironically, one of the few feature-length films known to survive is Leap Year, one of two finished films Paramount withheld the release of, amid the scandal. It was eventually released in Europe, but was never theatrically released in the United States or Britain. Leap Year is a 1921 comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. ...

Aftermath

On January 27, 1925 he divorced Araminta Estelle Durfee in Paris. She had charged desertion. Arbuckle married Doris Deane on May 16, 1925. is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 136th day of the year (137th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Arbuckle tried returning to moviemaking, but industry resistance to distributing his pictures lingered after his acquittal; he retreated into alcoholism. In the words of his first wife, "Roscoe only seemed to find solace and comfort in a bottle." Alcoholism is the consumption of, or preoccupation with, alcoholic beverages to the extent that this behavior interferes with the drinkers normal personal, family, social, or work life, and may lead to physical or mental harm. ...

Buster Keaton attempted to help Arbuckle by giving him work on Keaton's films. Arbuckle wrote the story for a Keaton short called "Daydreams." Arbuckle allegedly co-directed scenes in Keaton's Sherlock, Jr., but it is unclear how much of this footage remained in the film's final cut. Arbuckle also directed a number of comedy shorts under the pseudonym William Goodrich for Educational Pictures, which featured lesser-known comics of the day. He is said to have helped Bob Hope early in his career with a crucial job referral. Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 â€“ February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. ... Daydreaming redirects here. ... Sherlock, Jr. ... Educational Pictures (or Educational Film Exchanges, Inc. ... Bob Hope, KBE (May 29, 1903 â€“ July 27, 2003), born Leslie Townes Hope, was an English-Born American entertainer who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio and television, in movies, and in performing tours for U.S. Military personnel, well known for his good natured humor and career longevity. ...

In 1929 Doris Deane sued for divorce in Los Angeles, charging desertion and cruelty. On June 21, 1931 Roscoe married Addie Oakley Dukes McPhail (later Addie Oakley Sheldon, 1906-2003) in Erie, Pennsylvania. Shortly before this marriage, Arbuckle signed a contract with Jack Warner to star in six two-reel Vitaphone short comedies under his own name. Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area City 1,290. ... is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1931 (MCMXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Addie McPhail (15 July 1905 â€“ 14 April 2003), was an American film actress. ... â€œErieâ€ redirects here. ... This article is about Jack Warner, the head of Warner Brothers. ... The Warner Brothers Vitaphone logo. ...

The six Vitaphone shorts, filmed in Brooklyn, constitute the only recordings of his voice. Silent-film comedian Al St. John (Arbuckle's nephew) and actors Lionel Stander and Shemp Howard appeared with Arbuckle. The films were very successful in America, although when Warner Brothers attempted to release the first one ("Hey, Pop!") in the UK, the British film board cited the 10-year-old scandal and refused to grant an exhibition certificate. Alfred St. ... Lionel Stander & Freeway Lionel Jay Stander (January 11, 1908 â€“ November 30, 1994) was an American character actor in movies, radio, theater and television. ... Samuel Shemp Howard / (Horwitz) (March 17, 1895 â€“ November 22, 1955) was part of the Three Stooges comedy team. ...

Roscoe Arbuckle had finished filming the last of the two-reelers on June 28, 1933; the next day he was signed by Warner Brothers to make a feature-length film. At last, Arbuckle's professional reputation was restored, and he was welcomed back into the world he loved. He reportedly said, "This is the best day of my life." The exhilaration may have been too much for him: he died that night of congestive heart failure. He was 46. He was cremated and his ashes scattered in the Pacific Ocean. is the 179th day of the year (180th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Warner Bros. ... Congestive heart failure (CHF), also called congestive cardiac failure (CCF) or just heart failure, is a condition that can result from any structural or functional cardiac disorder that impairs the ability of the heart to fill with or pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body. ...

William Goodrich pseudonym

According to author David Yallop in The Day the Laughter Stopped (a biography of Arbuckle with special attention to the scandal and its aftermath), Arbuckle's father's full name was William Goodrich Arbuckle. A persistent but unsupported legend credited Keaton, an inveterate punster, with suggesting that Arbuckle become a director under the alias "Will B. Good." The pun being too obvious, Arbuckle adopted the more formal pseudonym "William Goodrich". David Anthony Yallop (born 1937 London) is a British author who writes chiefly about unsolved crimes. ...

Yallop's book also states that Roscoe Arbuckle was extremely large and heavy even at birth and that William Goodrich Arbuckle did not believe the child was his own offspring; this disbelief led him to name the child after a politician whom he despised: Roscoe Conkling. Roscoe Conkling (October 30, 1829–April 18, 1888) was a United States politician from New York. ...

Legacy

Many of Arbuckle's films, including the feature Life of the Party, survive only as worn prints with foreign-language inter-titles. Little or no effort was made to preserve original negatives and prints during Hollywood's first two decades. By the early 21st century some of Arbuckle's short subjects (particularly those co-starring Chaplin or Keaton) had been restored, released on DVD and even screened theatrically. Arbuckle's early influence on American slapstick comedy is widely cited. DVD (also known as Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) is a popular optical disc storage media format. ...

Director Kevin Connor will helm the Roscoe Arbuckle feature film, THE LIFE OF THE PARTY, as reported by the website Dark Horizons. Preston Lacy will portray Arbuckle and Chris Kattan will play Buster Keaton. Kevin Connor can refer to: Kevin Connor (director), a film and television director based in Hollywood Kevin Connor (artist), an Australian artist Kevin Connor (Boston College). ... Dark Horizons is a science fiction centric website owned and written by Garth Franklin of Sydney, Australia. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Christopher Lee Kattan (born October 19, 1970) is an American comedian, best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. ... Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 â€“ February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. ...

The 1975 James Ivory film The Wild Party has been repeatedly but incorrectly cited as a film dramatization of the Arbuckle/Rappe scandal. In fact it is loosely based on the 1920s poem by Joseph Moncure March. In this film, James Coco portrays a heavy-set silent-film comedian named Jolly Grimm whose career is on the skids, but who is desperately planning a comeback. Raquel Welch portrays his mistress, who ultimately goads him into shooting her. This film may have been inspired by misconceptions surrounding the Arbuckle scandal, yet it bears almost no resemblance to the documented facts of the case. There are two famous individuals named James Ivory: James Ivory (mathematician) James Ivory (director) This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... // Original Text The Wild Party, a classic epic poem, is Joseph Moncure Marchs first published work. ... Joseph Moncure March, American poet/essayist (born July 27, 1899 New York, New York) (death February 14, 1977 Los Angeles, California). ... James Coco (March 21, 1930â€“February 25, 1987) was an American character actor. ... Jo Raquel Tejada (born September 5, 1940), best known by her stage name Raquel Welch, is an American actress who reached fame during the 1960s. ...

In April and May of 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City exhibited most of the surviving Arbuckle films.
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Filmography

The Gangsters. 1913. Approx. 10 min.
Fatty’s New Role. 1915. Approx. 10 min.
The Waiter’s Ball. 1916. With Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
A Noise from the Deep. 1913. With Mabel Normand. Approx. 10 min.
Mabel’s New Hero. 1913. With Mabel Normand. Approx. 10 min.
His Sister’s Kids. 1913. With Minta Durfee. Approx. 10 min.
A Flirt’s Mistake. 1914. With Edgar Kennedy. Approx.10 min.
A Bath House Beauty. 1914. With Minta Durfee. Approx. 10 min.
Those Country Kids. 1914. With Mabel Normand. Approx. 10 min.
The Rounders. 1914. With Charles Chaplin. Approx. 10 min.
Lover’s Luck. 1914. With Minta Durfee. Approx. 10 min.
Fatty’s Jonah Day. 1914. With Norma Nichols. Approx. 10 min.
Mabel and Fatty's Simple Life (Fatty and Mabel's Simple Life). 1915. With Mabel Normand. Approx. 20 min.
Wished on Mabel. 1915. With Mabel Normand. Approx. 10 min.
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life (Fatty and Mabel's Married Life). 1915. With Mabel Normand. Approx. 10 min.
Miss Fatty’s Seaside Lovers. 1915. With Harold Lloyd. Approx. 10 min.
Fatty’s Tintype Tangle. 1915. With Louise Fazenda, Edgar Kennedy. Approx. 20 min.
Fatty’s Reckless Fling. 1915. Approx. 10 min.
Fatty’s Faithful Fido. 1915. With Luke the dog. Approx. 10 min.
That Little Band of Gold. 1915. With Mabel Normand, Ford Sterling. Approx. 20 min.
He Did and He Didn't. 1916. With Mabel Normand. Approx. 20 min.
Fatty and Mabel Adrift. 1916. With Mabel Normand. Approx. 30 min.
His Wife’s Mistake. 1916. With Minta Durfee. Approx. 20 min.
A Reckless Romeo. 1917. With Al St. John. Approx. 20 min
The Butcher Boy. 1917. With Buster Keaton, Al St. John. (Keaton's first film) Approx. 20 min.
The Rough House. 1917. With Buster Keaton. Approx. 20 min.
His Wedding Night. 1917. With Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
Coney Island. 1917. With Buster Keaton, Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
Out West. 1918. With Buster Keaton, Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
Moonshine. 1918. With Buster Keaton, Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
Scraps of Paper. 1918. With Al St. John. Approx. 5 min.
Good Night, Nurse. 1918. With Buster Keaton, Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
The Cook. 1918. With Buster Keaton, Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
The Hayseed. 1919. With Buster Keaton, Jack Coogan, Sr. Approx. 20 min.
The Round-Up. 1920. With Tom Forman, Jean Acker, Wallace Beery. Approx. 70 min.
Camping Out. 1919. With Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
Love. 1919. With Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
The Life of the Party. 1920. With Viora Daniel, Roscoe Karns. Approx. 50 min.
These are the film appearances as an actor of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle: // Early years Bens Kid (1909) (1909) Making It Pleasant for Him (1909) The Sanitarium (1910) A Voice from the Deep (1912) 1913 Help! Help! Hydrophobia! Safe in Jail Alas! Poor Yorick! The Foreman of the Jury The... Alfred St. ... A Noise from the Deep is a 1913 comedy short starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle. ... Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ... Minta Durfee (October 1, 1889-September 9, 1975) was a silent film actress from Los Angeles, California. ... Edgar Kennedy (b. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... For the Jamaican musician named Charlie Chaplin, see Charlie Chaplin (singer). ... Mabel Normand Mabel Normand (November 10, 1892 - February 23, 1930) was a US film actress, who was a popular comedienne in silent films. ... Harold Clayton Lloyd (April 20, 1893 â€“ March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and director, most famous for his silent comedies. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion, because: empty page If you disagree with its speedy deletion, please explain why on its talk page or at Wikipedia:Speedy deletions. ... He Did and He Didnt is a 1916 comedy starring Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. ... Fatty and Mabel Adrift is a 1916 Keystone short comedy film starring Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Al St. ... The Butcher Boy is a 1917 short comedy film starring Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton in his first film appearance. ... Buster Keaton (born Joseph Frank Keaton, October 4, 1895 â€“ February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker. ... The Rough House is a 1917 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. ... His Wedding Night is a 1917 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. ... Coney Island (1917), also known as Fatty at Coney Island, is a short silent film comedy written and directed by Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, and starring Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. ... Out West is a 1918 short comedy film, a satire on contemporary westerns, starring Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, and Al St. ... Revenue men at the site of moonshine stills, Kentucky, 1911 or earlier For other uses, see Moonshine (disambiguation). ... Good Night, Nurse! is a 1918 short comedy film directed by Roscoe Arbuckle. ... The Cook is a 1918 silent film staring Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. ... The Hayseed is a 1919 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. ... The Round-Up is a 1920 Western film starring Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle and Wallace Beery. ... Jean Acker (October 23, 1893â€“August 16, 1978) was an American film actress with a career dating from the silent film era through the 1950s, though she was perhaps most notorious as the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino. ... Wallace Beery (April 1, 1885 â€“ April 15, 1949) was an Academy Award-winning American actor, best known for his portrayal of Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934) as well as more than 200 other movie roles over a 36-year span. ...

DIRECTED BY ROSCOE ARBUCKLE AS "WILLIAM GOODRICH"
Special Delivery. 1922. With St. John, Vernon Dent. Approx. 20 min.
No Loafing. 1923. With Poodles Hanneford, Joe Roberts. (a surviving fragment of a two-reel short) Approx. 8 min.
Stupid But Brave. 1924. With Al St. John, George Davis. Approx. 20 min.
The Movies. 1925. With Lloyd Hamilton. Approx. 20 min.
Curses. 1925. With Al St. John, Bartine Burkett. Approx. 20 min.
The Iron Mule. 1925. With Al St. John. Approx. 20 min.
Dynamite Doggie. 1925. With Al St. John, Pete the pup. Approx. 20 min.
His Private Life. 1926. With Lupino Lane, George Davis. Approx. 20 min.
Home Cured. 1926. With Johnny Arthur, Virginia Vance. Approx. 20 min.
Fool’s Luck. 1926. With Lupino Lane, George Davis. Approx. 20 min.
My Stars. 1926. With Johnny Arthur, Virginia Vance. Approx. 20 min.
Special Delivery. 1927. With Eddie Cantor, Jobyna Ralston, William Powell. Approx. 60 min.
Bridge Wives. 1932. With Al St. John, Fern Emmett. Approx. 10 min.
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Hey, Pop! 1932. With Billy Hayes. Approx. 20 min.
Close Relations. 1933. With Charles Judels, Harry Shannon, Shemp Howard. Approx. 20 min.
Buzzin’ Around. 1933. With Al St. John, Pete the Pup. Approx. 20 min.
How’ve You Bean? 1933. With Fritz Hubert. Approx. 20 min.
In the Dough. 1933. With Lionel Stander, Shemp Howard. Approx. 20 min.
Tomalio. 1933. With Charles Judels. Approx. 20 min.

Cultural references

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Early life and career

Screen comedian

Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin

The Scandal

Aftermath

William Goodrich pseudonym

Legacy

Filmography

Cultural references

Media

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Further reading

Selected coverage in The New York Times

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Screen comedian

Buster Keaton

Charlie Chaplin

The Scandal

Aftermath

William Goodrich pseudonym

Legacy

Filmography

Cultural references

Media

See also

Further reading

Selected coverage in The New York Times

References

External links

Early life and career