
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.

Fool's Luck

The Bell Boy

The Red Mill

The Cook

Back Stage

Curses

The Butcher Boy

The Waiters' Ball

He Did and He Didn’t

The Garage

Out West

Bridge Wives

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

Special Delivery

Character Studies

Coney Island

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

The Hayseed

The Iron Mule

Good Night, Nurse!

Fatty’s Faithful Fido

My Stars

Moonshine

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

Love

Fatty’s Plucky Pup

Oh, Doctor!

His Wedding Night

The Rough House

A Country Hero

The Movies

Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance

Lovemania

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco

Fatty's Magic Pants

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

A Reckless Romeo

Wished on Mabel

Fatty's New Role

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

His Wife's Mistakes

That Little Band Of Gold

His First Car

Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Camping Out

The Water Dog

Mabel’s Wilful Way

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

When Love Took Wings

Fatty’s Reckless Fling

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

Leading Lizzie Astray

Those Country Kids

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

Lover's Luck

The Lure of Hollywood

Three Hollywood Girls

Hollywood Lights

A Village Scandal

Queenie of Hollywood

A Creampuff Romance

The Tourist

Cleaning Up

That's My Line

It's a Cinch

Niagara Falls

The Fighting Dude

Dynamite Doggie

Zip, the Dodger

Stupid, but Brave

His Private Life

Home Cured

Fickle Fatty's Fall

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

The Sheriff

A Desert Hero

Bright Lights

The Alarm

Mrs. Jones' Birthday

Hey, Pop!

Hollywood

Crazy to Marry

Safe in Jail

Charlie Chaplin, le génie de la liberté

So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM

Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923

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The Bell Boy

The Cook

Back Stage

When Comedy Was King

The Butcher Boy

He Did and He Didn’t

The Waiters' Ball

The Garage

The Rounders

Out West

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

Brewster's Millions

Buzzin' Around

Peeping Pete

Ben's Kid

The Gangsters

Fatty's Day Off

Character Studies

Coney Island

Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition

The Hayseed

His New Profession

Crazy Days

The Round-Up

Good Night, Nurse!

The Masquerader

My Stars

The Little Teacher

Fatty’s Faithful Fido

The Knockout

Moonshine

Fatty's Tintype Tangle

Fatty’s Plucky Pup

Love

Oh, Doctor!

His Wedding Night

The Rough House

A Country Hero

A Bandit

Fatty’s Chance Acquaintance

A Noise from the Deep

Mabel's Dramatic Career

Days of Thrills and Laughter

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco

A Film Johnnie

Fatty's Magic Pants

Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day

Fatty Joins the Force

Wished on Mabel

A Reckless Romeo

A Flirt's Mistake

In the Dough

Fatty's New Role

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

His Wife's Mistakes

The Life of the Party

His Favorite Pastime

Mabel's New Hero

That Little Band Of Gold

Tango Tangles

A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Alas! Poor Yorick!

The Waiters' Picnic

Chaplin Today: The Gold Rush

Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One

Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two

Camping Out

The Water Dog

Hogan's Romance Upset

Mabel’s Wilful Way

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

When Love Took Wings

Leap Year

Fatty’s Reckless Fling

The Speed Kings

Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers

Love and Rubbish

Leading Lizzie Astray

Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

Those Country Kids

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

Lover's Luck

The Sanitarium

Tomalio

Murders of Hollywood

Zip, the Dodger

Stars of Yesterday

Murphy's I.O.U.

A Village Scandal

The Other Man

A Creampuff Romance

The Late Lamented

For the Love of Mabel

The Riot

The Gypsy Queen

The Fatal Taxicab

Fatty at San Diego

The Woman Haters

A Ride for a Bride

Some Nerve

He Would a Hunting Go

In the Clutches of the Gang

Twixt Love and Fire

The Chaplin Puzzle

The Dollar-a-Year Man

Traveling Salesman

Gasoline Gus

The Fast Freight

Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts

How've You Bean?

Close Relations

Happy Times and Jolly Moments

Looking for Mabel Normand

Fickle Fatty's Fall

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

The Sheriff

A Desert Hero

Bright Lights

The Alarm

Screen Snapshots (Series 1, No. 20)

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies