Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1887-03-22 (46 years old)

Deathday

1933-06-29

Place of Birth

Smith Center, Kansas, USA

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Biography

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...

Acting

1914

The Masquerader

as Film actor

1923

Hollywood

as Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

1919

Back Stage

as Stagehand

1918

The Bell Boy

as Bellboy, barber

1917

Coney Island

as Fatty

1918

1917

His Wedding Night

as Gas station employee

1914

1918

Out West

as Train Rider, Bartender

1917

The Rough House

as Mr. Rough

1919

The Hayseed

as Mailman

1920

The Garage

as Mechanic / Fireman

1918

The Cook

as The Chef

1917

The Butcher Boy

as Fatty / Saccharine

1917

Oh, Doctor!

as Dr. Fatty Holepoke

1918

Moonshine

as Revenue Agent

1914

Tango Tangles

as Clarinetist

1914

1914

The Knockout

as Pug (uncredited)

1914

His Favorite Pastime

as Shabby Drunk

1914

His New Profession

as Bartender Smoking Cigar

1914

The Rounders

as Mr. Fuller

1917

A Country Hero

as Village Blacksmith

1960

When Comedy Was King

as edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)

1921

Brewster's Millions

as Monte Brewster

1962

Crazy Days

as Various (archive footage) (uncredited)

1914

A Flirt's Mistake

as Husband (uncredited)

1915

1913

Murphy's I.O.U.

as (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

1914

Caught in a Flue

as (unconfirmed)

1914

Love and Bullets

as Film Actor (uncredited)

1914

1914

1914

1914

Our Country Cousin

as The Country Boy (unconfirmed)

1914

A Rowboat Romance

as (unconfirmed)

1914

The Sky Pirate

as The Heiress

1914

Fatty's Gift

as Fatty

1914

1914

The Baggage Smasher

as (unconfirmed)

1914

Fatty Again

as Fatty Felix

1914

A Brand New Hero

as The Tramp

1914

Bombs and Bangs

as The Farmer's Daughter

1914

1915

A Village Scandal

as Eddie - the Country Boy

1933

Buzzin' Around

as Cornelius

1913

Peeping Pete

as Pete's Wife

1913

1913

A Bandit

as Bully

1916

The Other Man

as Fatty the Tramp (dual role)

1917

The Late Lamented

as Cameo Appearance (unconfirmed)

1927

Listen Lena

as Fat man with strategically covered face (unconfirmed)

1926

My Stars

as Mailman (uncredited)

1915

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

as Finnegan's Daughter

1914

1915

1915

The Little Teacher

as Fat Unruly Student

1915

That Little Band Of Gold

as Fatty - the Husband

1915

When Love Took Wings

as Reckless Fatty

1916

1919

Love

as Fatty

1924

Leap Year

as Stanley Piper

1918

1916

His Wife's Mistakes

as The Janitor

1914

1914

Lover's Luck

as Fatty

1933

1913

1912

A Voice from the Deep

as Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)

1909

Ben's Kid

as Fatty Carter

1910

The Sanitarium

as Charley Wise

1913

Alas! Poor Yorick!

as Player in Female Costume

1913

1913

The Waiters' Picnic

as Oscar - the Waiter

1913

1913

1913

Professor Bean's Removal

as Man with Moustache

1913

Love and Courage

as The Country Boy

1913

1913

Safe in Jail

as Neighbor Woman

1913

1913

The Telltale Light

as Tom aka Fatty

1913

Mabel's Dramatic Career

as Man in Audience

1913

The Fatal Taxicab

as Mabel's Sweetheart

1913

The Riot

as Cohen - Jewish Neighborhood Leader

1913

1913

1913

1913

Mother's Boy

as Mother's Boy

1913

A Small Time Act

as Theatre Owner

1913

The Milk We Drink

as The Dairy Farmer

1913

1913

Two Old Tars

as First Old Tar

1913

Wine

as The Waiter

1913

1913

The Woman Haters

as 1st Old Tar

1913

Some Nerve

as The Jealous Man

1913

1913

His Sister's Kids

as Dr. J. Jacobs

1913

He Would a Hunting Go

as Count Chicori

1914

1914

1914

1914

The Under-Sheriff

as The Under-Sheriff

1914

Twixt Love and Fire

as The Iceman

1914

The Chicken Chaser

as The Hired Man

1914

1925

Go West

as Woman in Department Store (uncredited)

2003

Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush'

as Self (archive footage)

1917

A Reckless Romeo

as The Husband

1987

Hollywood's Hidden Secrets

as (archive footage)

1916

1932

Hey, Pop!

as Fatty

1992

The Chaplin Puzzle

as (archive footage)

1920

The Life of the Party

as Algernon Leary (as Roscoe Arbuckle)

1921

Traveling Salesman

as Bob Blake

1920

The Round-Up

as Slim Hoover

1921

The Dollar-a-Year Man

as Franklin Pinney

1921

Gasoline Gus

as Gasoline Gus

1921

Crazy to Marry

as Dr. Hobart Hupp

1922

The Fast Freight

as Ras Berry

2004

So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM

as Self (archive footage)

1961

Days of Thrills and Laughter

as Self (archive footage)

1933

Close Relations

as Wilbur Wart

1933

Tomalio

as Wilbur

1927

Character Studies

as Self (uncredited)

1914

1914

1943

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

as (archive footage)

2015

Looking for Mabel Normand

as Self (archive footage)

1915

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

as Fatty - Studio Janitor

1919

A Desert Hero

as The Sheriff, the Desert Hero

1918

1914

1916

1914

1915

Hogan's Romance Upset

as Fight Spectator

Production

1931

1918

1918

1917

1917

1919

Back Stage

as Director

1917

Coney Island

as Director

1917

Coney Island

as Story

1918

The Bell Boy

as Story

1918

The Bell Boy

as Screenplay

1918

The Bell Boy

as Director

1922

Day Dreams

as Story

1918

Out West

as Director

1918

Out West

as Writer

1919

The Hayseed

as Director

1917

1917

The Rough House

as Director

1917

The Butcher Boy

as Director

1918

Moonshine

as Story

1918

Moonshine

as Screenplay

1920

The Garage

as Director

1918

Moonshine

as Director

1917

Oh, Doctor!

as Director

1918

The Cook

as Story

1917

1918

The Cook

as Director

1917

A Country Hero

as Director

1917

1914

1914

The Sky Pirate

as Director

1914

Those Happy Days

as Director

1914

1914

1914

Fatty's Finish

as Director

1914

Love and Bullets

as Director

1914

1914

Fatty's Gift

as Director

1914

A Brand New Hero

as Director

1914

Bombs and Bangs

as Director

1914

Fatty Again

as Director

1914

1914

1915

1931

1916

1922

Special Delivery

as Director

1925

Cleaning Up

as Director

1924

His First Car

as Director

1924

His First Car

as Writer

1925

1925

The Tourist

as Director

1926

1927

Peaceful Oscar

as Director

1926

1926

1930

Si Si Senor

as Director

1931

Marriage Rows

as Director

1930

Up a Tree

as Director

1931

1930

Up a Tree

as Story

1931

Pete and Repeat

as Director

1930

Won by a Neck

as Director

1931

Ex-Plumber

as Director

1931

1931

The Back Page

as Director

1931

Ex-Plumber

as Writer

1931

That's My Line

as Director

1931

Beach Pajamas

as Writer

1931

Beach Pajamas

as Director

1931

Up Pops the Duke

as Director

1932

Bridge Wives

as Director

1932

It's a Cinch

as Director

1925

The Movies

as Director

1932

Keep Laughing

as Director

1932

Mother's Holiday

as Director

1932

Niagara Falls

as Director

1932

1931

1931

Smart Work

as Director

1931

Idle Roomers

as Director

1925

The Iron Mule

as Director

1931

That's My Meat

as Director

1931

One Quiet Night

as Director

1931

1916

1916

1915

1926

Fool's Luck

as Director

1927

The Red Mill

as Director

1915

Fatty's New Role

as Director

1914

1931

Honeymoon Trio

as Director

1916

1919

Love

as Director

1923

No Loafing

as Director

1925

Curses

as Director

1925

1917

A Reckless Romeo

as Director

1914

1914

1915

Wished on Mabel

as Director

1915

1915

1915

1916

1918

A Scrap of Paper

as Director

1925

Dynamite Doggie

as Director

1914

Lover's Luck

as Director

1914

1914

1914

1914

1927

Special Delivery

as Director

1927

1924

Lovemania

as Director

1919

Camping Out

as Writer

1914

Zip, the Dodger

as Director

1931

1925

Curses

as Writer

1926

My Stars

as Writer

1926

Fool's Luck

as Writer

1926

My Stars

as Director

1925

The Movies

as Writer

1930

The Cuckoos

as Writer

1917

1932

Gigolettes

as Director

1924

1914

1914

Fatty's Debut

as Director

1932

Anybody's Goat

as Director

1926

His Private Life

as Director

1926

Home Cured

as Director

1931

Once a Hero

as Director

1932

Hollywood Lights

as Director

1931

1932

Hollywood Luck

as Director

1915

1925

1918

The Sheriff

as Writer

1919

The Bank Clerk

as Director

1919

1919

Camping Out

as Director

1919

1919

A Desert Hero

as Director

1919

A Desert Hero

as Writer

1919

1918

The Sheriff

as Director

1914

1916

Bright Lights

as Director

1914

The Alarm

as Director

1914

The Alarm

as Writer

1914

The Water Dog

as Director

1914

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