Catalan; Valencian (ca-ES)

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Roscoe Arbuckle (Smith Center, Kansas, 24 de març de 1887 - Hollywood, Califòrnia, 29 de juny de 1933), conegut pel seu sobrenom Fatty, fou un actor i director cinematogràfic estatunidenc de la primera generació de cinema còmic nord-americà.

English (en-US)

Name

Roscoe 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 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.

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Name
Biography

Roscoe Conkling „Fatty“ Arbuckle (* 24. März 1887 in Smith Center, Kansas; † 29. Juni 1933 in New York City, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Regisseur. Seinen Spitznamen „Fatty“, (zu Deutsch: Dickerchen), den er wegen seiner ausladenden Figur bekam, hasste er, verwendete ihn aber als Künstlernamen. Fatty Arbuckle war einer der großen Stars des Stummfilms.

Er arbeitete u. a. zusammen mit Buster Keaton, mit dem er eng befreundet war, sowie mit Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy und Bing Crosby.

1921, auf dem Höhepunkt seines Ruhms, wurde er jedoch des Mordes an der aufstrebenden Schauspielerin Virginia Rappe bezichtigt. Der darauf folgende Arbuckle-Skandal beendete mit einem Gerichtsprozess seine Karriere frühzeitig und kostete ihn trotz Freispruchs seine Reputation. Im Zusammenhang mit dem Skandal wurde ganz Hollywood, besonders von der Hearst-Presse, als Sündenpfuhl angeprangert. Die Kritik zeigte Wirkung, und die Filmstudios unterwarfen sich im folgenden Jahr einer institutionalisierten freiwilligen Selbstkontrolle, die die Moral in Hollywood-Filmen überwachen sollte.

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