What was the first name of the silent film comedian Fatty'Arbuckle?
"Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition Fatty and Mabel at the San Diego Exposition is a 1915 American silent black-and-white short comedy film, directed by Fatty Arbuckle and starring Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. It was produced by Keystone Studios. Fatty (Roscoe Arbuckle) and Mabel (Mabel Normand) are a married couple visiting the Exposition. Fatty gets in trouble by flirting with a passing woman (Minta Durfee) while Mabel shops. He chases the woman into a hula pavilion and makes approaches to the dancers. He is accosted by both Mabel and the woman's husband; eventually the police are called to"
"1920s, Avery later played supporting roles in low-budget Westerns such as ""The Rambling Ranger"" and ""Western Rover"". On July 23, 1926, Avery was found dead in his Los Angeles home. Per the Department of Health of Los Angeles his cause of death was acute dilation of the heart. Contrary to popular belief he did not commit suicide. Charles Avery Charles Avery (May 28, 1873 – July 23, 1926) was an American silent-film actor, film director, and screenwriter. One of the original seven Keystone Kops, Avery directed Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle in thirty-one comedies while at Keystone Studios. He was born Charles"
"m) above the ground. In 1995, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being ""culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant."" It has been shown on Turner Classic Movies. Fatty's Tintype Tangle Fatty's Tintype Tangle is a 1915 comedy short film (2 reel). A man (Fatty), tired of his mother-in-law's henpecking, leaves home in anger and sits on a park bench, where a photographer takes a picture of him sitting next to a married woman, whose husband is not pleased. Conflict ensues. The movie stars Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle (who also"
"even today, has mostly overshadowed his legacy as a pioneering comedian. Following the trials, his films were banned and he was publicly ostracized. Although the ban on his films was lifted within a year, Arbuckle only worked sparingly through the 1920s. He later worked as a film director under the pseudonym William Goodrich. He was finally able to return to acting in 1932, making short two-reel comedies for Warner Bros. Arbuckle died in his sleep of a heart attack in 1933 at the age of 46, reportedly on the same day he signed a contract with Warner Bros. to make"
"without any reason, when he was about to destroy the house the manager is informed that the real patient was captured somewhere else. Alas! Poor Yorick! Alas! Poor Yorick! is a 1913 American short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle. The film's title is taken from the Shakespeare play ""Hamlet"". The film was both written and directed by Colin Campbell, and was released on April 21, 1913. A mental patient, who in his mind is an amazing actor, escapes from a psychiatric hospital. Every theater manager in town is notified and the first man that causes suspicion is Montgomery Irving, a"
"Alas! Poor Yorick! Alas! Poor Yorick! is a 1913 American short comedy film featuring Fatty Arbuckle. The film's title is taken from the Shakespeare play ""Hamlet"". The film was both written and directed by Colin Campbell, and was released on April 21, 1913. A mental patient, who in his mind is an amazing actor, escapes from a psychiatric hospital. Every theater manager in town is notified and the first man that causes suspicion is Montgomery Irving, a poor actor in disgrace who honestly looks and acts crazy. He applies for the position, but he doesn't understand why he is arrested"
"veteran stunt dog did not appear again on screen after his work with Keaton in ""The Scarecrow"" in 1920. A scandal that rocked Arbuckle's personal and professional life in 1921 may have also affected Luke's career and be another reason for his apparent retirement from performing. The public closely identified Luke with Fatty, whose own acting career tragically ended as a result of the noted scandal. Arbuckle's films were effectively banned from theaters for a while, and some things even associated with the former star were shunned by moviegoers and the media as well. Whatever the reasons for Luke's absence"
"Fatty's Plucky Pup Fatty's Plucky Pup is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. A print of the film survives. Fatty plays a somewhat lazy young man who disrupts his mother's life by causing a fire by smoking in bed, then ruins laundry day by dropping it in the mud. He has two loves of his life, the girl next door Lizzie and his dog Luke. After showcasing his lack of talents helping his mother, he is able to save Luke from the dog catchers and express his love for Lizzie through a hole in"
"him to the cafe where Mabel and Fatty are still sitting. Fights commence with slaps, flailing purses, and police nightsticks being wildly applied. The film ends with Fatty being pummeled by the cops and his wife and Mabel leading her husband away by his ear. Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day is a 1915 American silent comedy short or ""one-reeler"" directed by Fatty Arbuckle and co-starring Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. This short begins with Mabel toiling in the kitchen, handwashing clothes while her shiftless husband lies in bed in the adjacent room and refuses to assist"
"Charles Avery Charles Avery (May 28, 1873 – July 23, 1926) was an American silent-film actor, film director, and screenwriter. One of the original seven Keystone Kops, Avery directed Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle in thirty-one comedies while at Keystone Studios. He was born Charles Avery Bradford in Chicago, Illinois. His sister Charlotte was also an actress, as was his mother Marie Stanley. His father was a playwright. He started acting in the theatre, playing the title role in ""Charley's Aunt"", and the part of Pegleg Hopkins in the adaptation of ""David Harum"" which had William H. Crane in the lead role."
"surrounding the Arbuckle scandal, yet it contains nothing resembling the documented facts of the case. In Ken Russell's 1977 biopic ""Valentino"", Rudolph Nureyev as a pre-movie star Rudolph Valentino dances in a nightclub before a grossly overweight, obnoxious, and hedonistic celebrity called ""Mr. Fatty"" (played by William Hootkins), a caricature of Arbuckle rooted in the public view of him created in popular press coverage of the Rappe rape trial. In the scene, Valentino picks up starlet Jean Acker (played by Carol Kane) off a table in which she is sitting in front of Fatty and dances with her, enraging the"
"Virginia Rappe Virginia Rappe (; July 7, 1895 – September 9, 1921) was an American model and silent film actress. She worked mostly in small bit parts, and is best known for her death after attending a party with actor Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle, who was accused of complicity in her death, though ultimately exonerated. Virginia Caroline Rappe was born in Chicago, Illinois to an unwed mother, Mabel Rappe, who died when Virginia was 11. Virginia was then raised by her grandmother in Chicago. At age 14, she began working as a commercial and art model. In 1916, Rappe relocated to"
"Fatty's Tintype Tangle Fatty's Tintype Tangle is a 1915 comedy short film (2 reel). A man (Fatty), tired of his mother-in-law's henpecking, leaves home in anger and sits on a park bench, where a photographer takes a picture of him sitting next to a married woman, whose husband is not pleased. Conflict ensues. The movie stars Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle (who also directed), Louise Fazenda, Edgar Kennedy, Minta Durfee and Frank Hayes. Arbuckle performs several feats of dexterity in the first few minutes and, near the end, runs and bounces on 17 closely spaced apparent telephone wires over 20 feet (6"
"""The Balloonatic"". However, the name ""Fatty"" 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"". Arbuckle discouraged anyone from addressing him as ""Fatty"" off-screen, and when they did so his usual response was, ""I've got a name, you know."" On September 5, 1921, Arbuckle took a break from his hectic film schedule and, despite suffering from second-degree burns to both buttocks from an accident on set, drove to San Francisco with two friends, Lowell Sherman and Fred"
"and his Jitney Bus"" in 1915. The petroleum scientist and Director of Universal Oil Products, Gustav Erloff, was nicknamed Gasoline Gus from 1915. Gasoline Gus Gasoline Gus is a 1921 American comedy film directed by James Cruze and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Prints held at Gosfilmofond archive in Russia and Cinematheque Belgique. Gasoline Gus is an early 20th century popular culture figure who also appeared in cartoon strips and a record single, both of which precede the film. The comic strip was written by O.P. Williams and was syndicated by the Philadelphia North American between 1913 and 1914. Gasoline Gus was"
"with the commission of a crime."" Nevertheless, Arbuckle's reputation and career were ruined because of the scandal. The case has been examined by scholars and historians over the years and is still speculated about today, and a number of detailed books about the case have analyzed the incident and subsequent trials. Virginia Rappe Virginia Rappe (; July 7, 1895 – September 9, 1921) was an American model and silent film actress. She worked mostly in small bit parts, and is best known for her death after attending a party with actor Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle, who was accused of complicity in"
"Unable to work in films under his own name, Arbuckle eventually became a director using the alias William Goodrich. 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. Another tale credited friend Buster Keaton, an inveterate punster, with suggesting that Arbuckle become a director under the pseudonym ""Will B. Good"". The pun being a bit too obvious, Arbuckle adopted the more formal alias ""William Goodrich"". Keaton himself told this story during a recorded interview with film historian"
"Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day Mabel and Fatty's Wash Day is a 1915 American silent comedy short or ""one-reeler"" directed by Fatty Arbuckle and co-starring Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. This short begins with Mabel toiling in the kitchen, handwashing clothes while her shiftless husband lies in bed in the adjacent room and refuses to assist her. She even throws a pan of water on him, but he still refuses to help. Next door it is wash day too for Fatty, who glumly scrubs clothes as his wife, like Mabel's spouse, carps at him from the bedroom and is unwilling to"
"to correct her bow-legs (genu varum). It came out in the investigation that a decade earlier he had performed weight loss surgeries on Shattuck, Sophie Tucker and several other celebrities of the day. Shattuck was among the more than two hundred mourners who attended Fatty Arbuckle's funeral in New York in July 1933. During the remainder of her life, Shattuck would periodically return to the stage and on occasion perform in radio productions. In 1935, Hollywood reporter Alan McElwain listed her among a group of once-popular performers working at the time for $7.50 a-day as a movie bit player. Shattuck"
"Buster Keaton Joseph Frank Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), known professionally as Buster Keaton, was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression which earned him the nickname ""The Great Stone Face"". Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's ""extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929"" when he ""worked without interruption"" on a series of films that make him ""the greatest actor-director in the history of the movies"". His career declined afterward with a loss"
"A listing for a home video does not automatically mean that the title is still available for viewing. All of these films were made in sound, and are extant. Al St. John's association with his uncle, Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle, was central to his film career. Arbuckle first brought St. John to the Keystone set in 1913; over the years to follow, Arbuckle routinely employed St. John in playing rubes, rivals and other parts in support of his popular ""Fatty"" character. When Arbuckle left Keystone in early 1917 to form the Comique Comedy unit at Paramount, he and St. John were"
"Good Night, Nurse! Good Night, Nurse! is a 1918 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, and directed by, and starring Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton. The action centers in a sanitarium Arbuckle's character was involuntarily brought to by his wife to be operated on by Keaton's character for alcoholism. A drunken Arbuckle walks the streets on a depressing, rainy night, too drunk to realize that he is being soaked by the rain. He is repeatedly denied entry to a drug store due to his drunken state and is forced to remain in the rain. He befriends a"
"death Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle, in a highly-publicized series of trials, was accused, and later acquitted, of manslaughter. Born in Sambir, Austria-Hungary (now Ukraine), Lehrman emigrated to the United States in December 1906 and although he is best remembered as a film director, he began his career as an actor in a 1909 Biograph Studios production directed by D. W. Griffith. He gained the nickname ""Pathé,"" reportedly because he told Biograph he had been sent there from Europe to have a job by France's Pathé Frères. While the executive at Biograph may not have believed him, they nevertheless gave him his"
"Love (1919 film) Love is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Prints of the film survive in collections. As summarized in a magazine, Fatty (Arbuckle) meets Winnie (Westover) after rescuing her father Frank (Hayes) from a well at their farm and is smitten with her. Fatty is dismissed and leaves, however, as Frank wants Winnie to marry Al Clove (St. John). Fatty returns to the farm in the disguise of a hired girl so that he can be near his beloved, but finds he must fend off the flirtations of her father Frank. Winnie's"
"of the hats during his career. Keaton observed that during his silent period, such a hat cost him around two dollars; at the time of his interview, he said, they cost almost $13. The hat is currently sold online for $75. Buster Keaton Joseph Frank Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966), known professionally as Buster Keaton, was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. He was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression which earned him the nickname ""The Great Stone Face""."
"the Keystone Cops. In the closing shot Fatty, Lizzie and Luke embrace in a joint kiss (and lick). Fatty's Plucky Pup Fatty's Plucky Pup is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. A print of the film survives. Fatty plays a somewhat lazy young man who disrupts his mother's life by causing a fire by smoking in bed, then ruins laundry day by dropping it in the mud. He has two loves of his life, the girl next door Lizzie and his dog Luke. After showcasing his lack of talents helping his mother, he is"
"The Traveling Salesman (1921 film) The Traveling Salesman is a 1921 American comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle. It is based on a 1908 play, ""The Traveling Salesman"", by James Grant Forbes. A 1916 film of the play starred Frank McIntyre who had also starred in the play. A print of ""The Traveling Salesman"" with German intertitles survives at the George Eastman House. As described in a film publication, Bob Blake (Arbuckle), a travelling salesman, is the victim of a practical joke and gets off the train before his intended destination of Grand River. Bob is drenched in the pouring rain"
"physical size, Arbuckle was remarkably agile and acrobatic. Director 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 ""pie in the face"", a comedy cliché that has come to symbolize silent-film-era comedy itself. The earliest known pie thrown in film was in the June"
"Bill Cosby William Henry Cosby Jr. (; born July 12, 1937) is an American former stand-up comedian, actor, musician, author, and convicted sex offender. Cosby began his career as a stand-up comic at the hungry i in San Francisco during the 1960s. He then landed a starring role in the television show ""I Spy"", followed by his own sitcom ""The Bill Cosby Show"", which ran for two seasons from 1969 to 1971. In 1972, using the Fat Albert character developed during his stand-up routines, Cosby created, produced, and hosted the animated comedy television series ""Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids"""
"significant numbers. These were mainly focused on visual humor, including slapstick and burlesque. In America, prominent clown-style actors of the silent era include Charlie Chaplin (although he was born in England), Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Oliver Hardy (of Laurel and Hardy) (Stan Laurel being British), Fatty Arbuckle, the Marx Brothers and other names were significant in the first decades of American cinema humor. Many early film directors in the US were born elsewhere. This is true of one of the most noted early comedy directors in Hollywood, Billy Wilder. However, American born directors like Howard Hawks, Preston Sturges and"
"His Wedding Night His Wedding Night is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle. It also features Buster Keaton and Al St. John Arbuckle plays a drug store clerk, soda jerk, and gas station attendant, who can be both lazy and dishonest. After he mixes a soda for one customer with elaborate gestures and juggling of utensils, he attends the perfume counter, where another customer has been indulging herself with a free sample. After he confronts her, he is distracted while an African American customer steps up to the counter. When"
"1916 and November 12, 1917, the United States Motion Picture Corporation produced and released twenty-seven Black Diamond Comedies. ""Black Diamond"" referred to anthracite coal, deposits of which had made Wilkes-Barre and the surrounding area a center of the mining industry and contributed to the region's wealth. The one-reel silent films were the first comedies distributed by Paramount Pictures, which was then based in New York. Paramount advertised these comedies widely in 1917, sometimes alongside those of Fatty Arbuckle, another Paramount comic artist. The films often followed a comic character named Susie, portrayed by USMPC’s leading lady Leatrice Joy, through mishaps"
"Jack Earle Jacob Rheuben Erlich (July 3, 1906 – July 18, 1952), professionally credited as Jack Earle, was an American silent film actor and sideshow performer. Due to acromegalic gigantism, Earle was one of the world's tallest humans at the time of his death, standing at 8 ft 6 1/2in tall. For 14 years, he traveled with Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, then became a salesman. He is referenced in Tom Waits's song ""Get Behind The Mule"". He was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1906, the son of Jewish immigrants. He was born at a weight of less"