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The Pullman Porter (1919)
Character: N/A
The Pullman Porter is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
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My Stars (1926)
Character: Mailman (uncredited)
Johnny tries hard to impress his girl, but she seems to be much more interested in movie stars.
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Mabel's Dramatic Career (1913)
Character: Man in Audience
A young man falls in love with his mother's kitchen maid, Mabel. But his mother objects strongly, and arranges for him to meet another young woman whom she considers more suitable. Mabel confronts the young woman, and is dismissed from her position. Later, when the young man learns about the new career that Mabel has found, he begins to act in an agitated and unpredictable manner.
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A Flirt's Mistake (1914)
Character: Husband (uncredited)
When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.
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In the Dough (1933)
Character: Slim
A cafeteria owner has problems with gangsters and gets more trouble by hiring 'Fatty' Arbuckle and chef.
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Fatty Joins the Force (1913)
Character: Fatty
Fatty rescues the daughter of the police commisioner and is given a job as an officer as a reward, but its not all its cracked up to be!
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Character Studies (1927)
Character: Self (uncredited)
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down during each supposed makeover, up pops the actual celebrity (Keaton, Lloyd, Arbuckle, Valentino, Fairbanks, Coogan) he appears to have been making himself up as.
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Those Country Kids (1914)
Character: Fatty
Those Country Kids is a 1914 short comedy film starring Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand, and directed by Fatty Arbuckle.[1]
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Fatty's Magic Pants (1914)
Character: Fatty
'Fatty' is looking forward to attending a formal occasion. But in order to go, he has to be properly dressed, and he encounters unexpected difficulties in getting himself ready.
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Mabel’s Wilful Way (1915)
Character: Fatty
Mabel sneaks away from her parents for some mischievous fun at the fairgrounds with a pair of impromptu suitors.
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Mabel, Fatty and the Law (1915)
Character: Fatty
When Mabel catches her husband flirting with their maid, it leads to a sharp dispute. As part of making up, the couple decide to take a walk to the park. Nearby, another married couple have just had a similar domestic squabble, and they too go to the park together. But at the park, all parties involved find it difficult to avoid getting themselves into further trouble.
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The Little Teacher (1915)
Character: Fat Unruly Student
The new school teacher fresh from the city struggles with her unruly bumpkin students, while she awaits the arrival of her fiancé.
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That Little Band Of Gold (1915)
Character: Fatty - the Husband
A happy young couple become engaged, and soon afterwards they are married. But after their marriage, the husband begins to stay out carousing with his friends, leaving his wife at home with her mother. Then, when the three of them go to the opera together, the husband spots one of his friends in another box. Soon the domestic difficulties reach their peak.
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Fatty’s Reckless Fling (1915)
Character: Fatty
Left alone by his wife, Fatty joins a poker game across the hall from his apartment and is left to face the law when the game is raided by police. He is given shelter by a neighbor, Mrs. Kennedy, leading to suspicions that they are romantically involved.
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When Love Took Wings (1915)
Character: Reckless Fatty
Three men in love with the same woman contend with each other and with her father, until one of them takes her on an airplane in an attempt to elope with her.
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Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life (1915)
Character: Fatty
When a woman's husband leaves town, she begins to see odd things happening in her house. Afraid that gangsters are after her, she becomes increasingly anxious.
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Fatty’s Plucky Pup (1915)
Character: Fatty
Four bad men have kidnapped Fatty's girlfriend and plan to kill her. Fatty's dog knows where she is, but Fatty doesn't and he was crying. However the dog came back to get Fatty, and they and the Keystone Cops went to rescue her.
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Fatty’s Faithful Fido (1915)
Character: Fatty
Fatty and Al are Minta's suitors. After Fatty sics his dog on him, Al marks Fatty for roughing up by two thugs, but the plan backfires.
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Listen Lena (1927)
Character: Fat man with strategically covered face (unconfirmed)
Al St John loves Lena, but he also loves to sleep. Will he get out of bed soon enough to take Lena from his dull rival, so he can have an argument with the girl where he cries "LISTEN, LENA"? Or will he roll back over, and later get busted by a mean cop for sleepwalking in his bed clothes?
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Mabel's New Hero (1913)
Character: Fatty
Fatty rescues Mabel twice: first, from the unwelcome attentions of a masher, then from a runaway observation balloon.
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A Bandit (1913)
Character: Bully
Willy is a rather effeminate young man, and is abused by the town bully. He suspects that the bully is a coward at heart, so disguises himself as a bandit and shoots up the town.
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Fatty and Minnie He-Haw (1914)
Character: Fatty
Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tepee, woos him and finally, in desperation, Fatty agrees to marry her. While the tribe is preparing for the marriage ceremony, Fatty attempts to escape but is caught.
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A Scrap of Paper (1918)
Character: Fatty
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle confronts the Kaiser in his headquarters, and tells him that he will be be defeated by "scraps of paper," i.e. War Bonds.
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Fatty's Jonah Day (1914)
Character: Fatty
Fatty's Jonah Day is a 1914 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
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Hey, Pop! (1932)
Character: Fatty
Roscoe Arbuckle loses his job to protect a young boy from the orphanage.
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How've You Bean? (1933)
Character: N/A
Roscoe gets into a lot of wacky troubles, some involving a misplaced box of Mexican Jumping Beans.
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Tomalio (1933)
Character: Wilbur
Roscoe runs afoul of a demented Mexican general.
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Close Relations (1933)
Character: Wilbur Wart
Roscoe believes he is in line to receive a large inheritance, but the reality is considerably more psychopathic-- no, nuts.
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Making It Pleasant for Him (1909)
Character: N/A
A comedy drama which clearly portrays the adventures of a country chap who falls into the hands of the servants of his city cousin, who has instructed them to make it pleasant for him.
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The Sanitarium (1910)
Character: Charley Wise
A young man transforms his uncle's palatial residence into a sanitarium only to end up paying back the money his patients gave him.
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A Voice from the Deep (1912)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Percy and Harold are rivals and both take the object of their affections for an outing.
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The Gangsters (1913)
Character: Cop
An amusing burlesque of gang fighters. The police go after them, one by one, and each guardian of the peace is caught and despoiled of his clothing and compelled to return to the station.
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Passions, He Had Three (1913)
Character: Henry
Henry is a big, fat country boy with three passions. He likes eggs, milk and girls. He steals the eggs from the nests, sucks their contents, and refills the shells with water. When the family sit down to breakfast and the shells are broken the crime is discovered and Farmer Jones places a big bear trap, covered with straw, in front of the nests.
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Help! Help! Hydrophobia! (1913)
Character: Jim Brown
The professor does not approve of his daughter's suitor. His disapproval is so marked that it is finally noticed by said swain, Tim Brown, when he is kicked out of the house by the father of his lady love, and he resolves to be careful in the future and not be subjected to further indignities.
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The Waiters' Picnic (1913)
Character: Oscar - the Waiter
Louis, the chef and Oscar, the head waiter, are in love with Mabel the pretty cashier. The Waiters' picnic is held, and Mabel is the cause of much trouble between Louis and Oscar.
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Safe in Jail (1913)
Character: Neighbor Woman
Safe in jail is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Edgar Kennedy.
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The Telltale Light (1913)
Character: Tom aka Fatty
The Telltale Light is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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Love and Rubbish (1913)
Character: Fat Boy
Love and Rubbish is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Charles Avery.
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A Noise from the Deep (1913)
Character: Bob
Mabel and Roscoe love each other, but her father likes another boy. A rather sissified young man. Roscoe and Mabel stages an accident.
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Love and Courage (1913)
Character: The Country Boy
Love and Courage is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.
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Almost a Rescue (1913)
Character: Jimmie
Almost a Rescue is a 1913 movie starring Donald MacDonald and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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The Riot (1913)
Character: Cohen - Jewish Neighborhood Leader
When a girl delivering expensive garments loses them to some Irish shanty town kids, her boss, a Jewish clothier, is livid and a fight breaks out. Soon the melee spreads to the whole neighborhood with brick throwing merging into bomb throwing, with the sides on clearly ethnic lines.
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Fatty's Day Off (1913)
Character: Fatty
Fatty's Day Off is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
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The Gypsy Queen (1913)
Character: Fatty
The Gypsy Queen is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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The Fatal Taxicab (1913)
Character: Mabel's Sweetheart
The Fatal Taxicab is a 1913 movie starring Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling.
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When Dreams Come True (1913)
Character: The Man
A husband who has spent a convivial night is sleeping off the effects in bed while his devoted wife ministers for him.
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Mother's Boy (1913)
Character: Mother's Boy
Mother's Boy is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Alice Davenport.
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Two Old Tars (1913)
Character: First Old Tar
Two old tars, retired from service, live alone in a cottage by the sea. They sail along on an even keel, until a buxom and comely widow projects herself on the scene when one old tar breaks one of their unwritten laws and falls in love with her. The other old fellow objects strenuously.
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A Quiet Little Wedding (1913)
Character: Fatty
The scene is laid for a quiet little wedding. The guests are waiting for Fatty and an ancient maid to be made one. Fatty's rival appears and breaks up the wedding. A lemon meringue pie battle ensues, with the rival the victor. He carries the bride away. A most sensational and ludicrous finish is when he sees Fatty at the foot of a precipitous cliff. In a fit of rage he throws the bride from the top of the cliff at him, who lands unscathed in Fatty's arms.
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Fatty at San Diego (1913)
Character: Fatty
Fatty induces wife to let him take a day off to go to the celebration at San Diego. He has a wonderful time, flirting with the girls, breaking up a parade, fighting the police force and falling into the fountain with him, escapes, and with the crowd after him, leaps into the river. Here he rescues a little boy and becomes a hero. He goes home to wife in a bedraggled condition, tells of rescue and is set upon a pedestal. Wife, as a reward, takes him to the movies at night and sees husband flirting and fighting in the fountain, where some enterprising cameraman caught him. That explaining, as she thought, the bedraggled state in which he arrived home, she turns and beats him all the way home.
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A Small Time Act (1913)
Character: Theatre Owner
A Small Time Act is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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Wine (1913)
Character: The Waiter
Wine is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Ford Sterling.
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The Woman Haters (1913)
Character: 1st Old Tar
The Woman Haters is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Nick Cogley.
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His Sister's Kids (1913)
Character: Dr. J. Jacobs
His Sister's Kids is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Minta Durfee.
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Some Nerve (1913)
Character: The Jealous Man
Some Nerve is a 1913 movie starring Ford Sterling and Dot Farley.
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A Misplaced Foot (1914)
Character: Fatty
A Misplaced Foot is a 1914 movie starring Mabel Normand and Roscoe Arbuckle.
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The Under-Sheriff (1914)
Character: The Under-Sheriff
The Under-Sheriff is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and George Nichols.
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A Robust Romeo (1914)
Character: Fatty
A Robust Romeo is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Emma Bell Clifton.
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A Rural Demon (1914)
Character: N/A
A Rural Demon is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Eva Nelson.
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The Chicken Chaser (1914)
Character: The Hired Man
The Chicken Chaser is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Charles Avery.
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A Bath House Beauty (1914)
Character: Fatty
Roscoe is a family man at the seaside, lumbered with a shrewish wife and an extremely annoying young son. He meets up with a charming young lady in a bathing costume, and the two of them break into a charming and delightful dance. Unfortunately, the bathing beauty has a husband with pistols...
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Fatty's Debut (1914)
Character: Fatty
Fatty's Debut is a 1914 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
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Fatty's Wine Party (1914)
Character: Fatty
Fatty's Wine Party is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
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The Bank Clerk (1919)
Character: N/A
The Bank Clerk is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
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An Incompetent Hero (1914)
Character: Fatty
Fatty's flirting with neighbor Kennedy's wife, and he isn't happy about it. Al's a crook, Minta's a maid and Fatty gets caught in a chase through the house while Edgar's shooting at him.
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The Sea Nymphs (1914)
Character: Fatty
Fatty, his wife and mother-in-law are on a ferry to Catalina Island for an outing. So are Mabel and her father. Mabel and Fatty flirt with each other, and Fatty tosses her father overboard, thinking he is another suitor. The boat docks and the two go their separate ways. Mack Swain tries to pick Mabel up, too. All go to rent bathing suits, Fatty locks Mack in a dressing room with mother-in-law. Fatty and Mabel feed a large fish to a seal at the water's edge, and then engage in some graceful and comic diving. Swain, Avery, Durfee and Davenport see them diving and corner them...everyone's relationship to each other is revealed. —Ben Model, ben@silentclowns.com
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The Alarm (1914)
Character: N/A
A Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle & Mabel Normand comedy short. The film is considered lost.
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Lovers' Post Office (1914)
Character: Fatty
A short comedy in which two lovers post their letters in a box in a tree. The old man gets wise and sets a snare, by which he catches Fatty's hand. The girl releases the snare and Fatty hooks the old man by the leg.
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Fatty Again (1914)
Character: Fatty Felix
Fatty experiences several reverses of fortunes in this boarding house story. He is first ejected for failure to pay his board. He then fixes up a postal card offering himself a handsome salary and is warmly welcomed back by the girl's parents. When the truth becomes known that he is really a sideshow barker, they again turn on him.
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Crazy Days (1962)
Character: Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
Narrator Hughie Green tells "jokes" over clips of old silent films. Including greats such as Fatty Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and more.
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Chaplin Today: 'The Gold Rush' (2003)
Character: Self (archive footage)
African filmmaker Idrissa Ouedraogo (YAABA) discusses the influence that Charlie Chaplin has been on his work, along with archival footage of interviews with several of Chaplin's co-stars.
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The Chaplin Puzzle (1992)
Character: (archive footage)
This rare two part documentary focuses on Charlie Chaplin's development at Keystone and Essanay. It concludes with a director's cut of the film Police (1916). The series is narrated by none other than Burgess Meredith.
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He Did and He Didn’t (1916)
Character: The Doctor
A doctor, very much in love with his beautiful wife, comes to suspect that her visiting childhood friend Jack is more than just a friend. Jack's intentions are honorable, but everything he does tends to show his actions in a suspicious light, especially when burglars invade the house and Jack and the wife are caught together in their nightclothes.
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Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915)
Character: Himself
Frequent comedy co-stars Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand take viewers on a tour of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Attractions shown include the U.S. Battleship "Oregon", the Australian convict ship "Success" (complete with such punishment devices as a flogging rack and a spiked Iron Maiden), the world's tallest flagpole (251 feet), the Court of Abundance, the Court of the Universe (with sunken garden) and the Tower of Jewels. Fatty and Mabel also visit Frisco's still-under-construction City Hall, accompanied by Frisco's then-Mayor James Rolph Jr. Also appearing in the film is opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
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So Funny It Hurt: Buster Keaton & MGM (2004)
Character: Self (archive footage)
A Turner Classic Movies (TCM) documentary about Keaton's discontented relationship with MGM and the events that eventually led to his career downfall.
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When Comedy Was King (1960)
Character: edited from 'Fatty & Mabel Adrift' (archive footage)
A compilation featuring comedic stars of the silent era including Fatty Arbuckle, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Charley Chase, and Laurel and Hardy.
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Ben's Kid (1909)
Character: Fatty Carter
Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.
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Bright Lights (1916)
Character: Fatty
The manager of a small town hotel installs a cabaret in an attempt to achieve the standard set by restaurants in the large cities. His effort is ludicrous because of the fact that his talent is all recruited from the help in the hotel. Roscoe, the cook, is forced to appear in a dress suit and when Al St. John appears from the bar there is a lively rivalry between the two for the applause of the crowd. Mabel, the waitress, vies with a professional dancer from the city. Into this setting comes William Jefferson, a polished sharper, who takes the innocent Mabel by storm.
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The Hayseed (1919)
Character: Mailman
Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, steals $300 while being observed by Buster.
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Alas! Poor Yorick! (1913)
Character: Player in Female Costume
A mentally deranged sanatorium patient imagines that he is the world's greatest actor.
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His Wedding Night (1917)
Character: Gas station employee
Al and Roscoe, employees at a gas station, are rivals for Alice. When Buster delivers a wedding gown for Alice and begins modeling it, he is mistaken for Alice and is kidnapped by Al.
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Fatty's Tintype Tangle (1915)
Character: Fatty
Hubby and wifey are in love, but he's henpecked by her mother. A nip of whiskey gives him Dutch courage, and he storms out, declaring he won't be a domestic slave anymore. He heads for a park bench where a photographer mistakes him for a seated woman's sweetheart. The tintype of the two of them falls into the hands of the woman's husband, whose jealous rage frightens our hero. He abruptly leaves town, telling wifey he'll be away on business. Wifey doesn't need her house while he's away, so, unknown to hubby, she moves in with mom and rents the house to the couple from the park. When our hero returns home sooner than expected, the renter has another attack of jealousy.
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The Garage (1920)
Character: Mechanic / Fireman
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
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Oh, Doctor! (1917)
Character: Dr. Fatty Holepoke
Roscoe is a doctor who falls in love with a pretty woman whose boyfriend, in turn, falls in love with Roscoe's wife's jewelry.
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Love (1919)
Character: Fatty
"Fatty", a poor good hearted farm boy is deeply in love with Winifred, a farmer's daughter. A rich neighbor offers the farmer a large plot of land if Winifred marries his slow witted son Al. "Fatty" has less then one day to save heartbroken Winifred from the rushed ceremony.
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A Village Scandal (1915)
Character: Eddie - the Country Boy
Hitchcock comes to a small town, where the chickens and pigs run about the streets as numerous as the people. His purpose is to amuse and entertain the populace by wonderful feats of magic and sleight-of-hand. His plans are all set awry by his sudden infatuation for Flora Zabelle, who plays the hotel waitress and sweetheart of Fatty Arbuckle.
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Leap Year (1924)
Character: Stanley Piper
A young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle, and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives advice on marriage to his girlfriends.
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Tango Tangles (1914)
Character: Clarinetist
In a dance hall, two members of the orchestra and a tipsy dancer fight over the hat check girl.
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His Wife's Mistakes (1916)
Character: The Janitor
Roscoe begins work on his new job as janitor of the Shortacre Building in New York. While performing his duties he enters the offices of a broker, I. Steele. The broker is out, but his wife, who knows that her husband expects a rich customer in with a check for $10,000 to close an option, mistakes Roscoe for this Mr. R.U. Stout of Showme, Missouri. Thinking to be of assistance to her husband in his business, Mrs. Steele is very affable and finally invites the supposed Mr. Stout to go to luncheon with her. Steele returns with the necessary papers and is told by his office boy that his wife has gone to a gay café with the new janitor.
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The Rounders (1914)
Character: Mr. Fuller
Two drunks fight with their wives and then go out and get even drunker.
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Miss Fatty's Seaside Lovers (1915)
Character: Finnegan's Daughter
When a rich 'mothball magnate' checks into a hotel with his family, the mashers come out of the woodwork to woo his daughter (Fatty Arbuckle). The scene shifts to the beach where the buxom heiress becomes stranded on a rock, where she is sunbathing, when the tide comes in; An hilarious rescue effort ensues.
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Go West (1925)
Character: Woman in Department Store (uncredited)
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
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Brewster's Millions (1921)
Character: Monte Brewster
Monte Brewster learns that he has inherited $10 million from his late grandfather, but then learns that he must spend $2 million in less than a year and remain unmarried to inherit the rest of the money.
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The Knockout (1914)
Character: Pug (uncredited)
To show his girl how brave he is, Pug challenges the champion to a fight. Charlie referees, trying to avoid contact with the two monsters.
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Hollywood (1923)
Character: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her longtime boyfriend back in Centerville. Despite seeing major movie stars around every corner, and knocking on every casting office door in town, at the end of her first day she is still unemployed. To her horror, when she arrives back at their hotel, she finds that Grandpa has been cast in a movie by William DeMille and quickly becomes a star during the ensuing weeks. Her family, worried that Angela and Grandpa are getting into trouble, come to Hollywood to drag them back home. In short order Aunt, Grandma, brother, boyfriend and even the parrot become superstars, but Angela is still unemployed...
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The Other Man (1916)
Character: Fatty the Tramp (dual role)
Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage. Father and mother are willing, but decide to give Roscoe a scare before accepting him for a son-in-law. Father assumes a gruff attitude but melts at the right time and Roscoe departs in high glee to prepare for a masked ball at which the engagement is to be announced. Irene jokes him about his size but he warns her that he will fool her by the mystery of his disguise. On the way home in his automobile Roscoe drives over a cliff and is taken to a hospital. There he is, out of his mind, as the guests begin to assemble at the ball.
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Moonshine (1918)
Character: Revenue Agent
A feud between the Owens and the Gillettes ends when the last remaining Gillette is killed, but new trouble erupts for the mountain folk with the arrival of a U.S. revenue agent and his assistant.
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The Waiters' Ball (1916)
Character: The Cook
Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.
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The Fast Freight (1922)
Character: Ras Berry
Unreleased in America, this was one of Arbuckle's last starring roles in a feature film.
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Camping Out (1919)
Character: N/A
Camping Out is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. Fatty is the suffering spouse who comes home every night to an empty house and a neglectful wife. His wife is furious when she discovers Fatty is cheating on her with a neglected wife.
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Days of Thrills and Laughter (1961)
Character: Self (archive footage)
An appreciative, uncritical look at silent film comedies and thrillers from early in the century through the 1920s.
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Out West (1918)
Character: Train Rider, Bartender
The story involves Arbuckle coming to the western town of Mad Dog Gulch after being thrown off a train and chased by Indians. He teams up with gambler/saloon owner Bill Bullhum, in trying to keep the evil Wild Bill Hickup away from Salvation Army girl, Salvation Sue. Fatty and Buster have a series of adventures trying to beat St. John, until they discover his one weakness: his ticklishness.
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Crazy to Marry (1921)
Character: Dr. Hobart Hupp
A doctor who believes he can cure criminals takes on a big challenge.
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A Reckless Romeo (1917)
Character: The Husband
Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.
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A Desert Hero (1919)
Character: The Sheriff, the Desert Hero
A Desert Hero is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.
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Gasoline Gus (1921)
Character: Gasoline Gus
Based on the comic strip character and his auto obsessed life.
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Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life (1915)
Character: Roscoe
Fatty is a farm hand at Mabel's father's place. He and Mabel love each other, but dad wants to marry Mabel off to the landowner's son in exchange for tearing up the mortgage. When Mabel and Fatty find out dad's plan, they elope, pursued by dad, the hopeful suitor, and the local constables.
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Peeping Pete (1913)
Character: Pete's Wife
This early Keystone has Pete spying on his neighbor's wife through one of those little knotholes in a fence. The neighbor (Sterling) notices and chases him all over town with sheriff and family close behind. Fatty Arbuckle plays the peeper's wife(!).
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Buster Keaton The Shorts Collection 1917-1923 (2016)
Character: N/A
Includes all 32 of Keaton's extant silent shorts (thirteen of which were produced under the tutelage of comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle) These 2K restorations onto Blu-Ray promise to be the definitive representation of Keaton's early career.
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His Favorite Pastime (1914)
Character: Shabby Drunk
A very plastered fella follows a pretty woman home, and proceeds to make a nuisance of himself.
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Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume One (2001)
Character: Various
A collection of five silent comedy shorts co-starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, and produced by their own Comique Film Company: THE BELL BOY (1918), THE BUTCHER BOY (1917), OUT WEST (1918), MOONSHINE (1918), and THE HAYSEED (1919). Volume One of a two-volume DVD series from Kino Video. Musical score by the Alloy Orchestra.
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Arbuckle & Keaton, Volume Two (2001)
Character: Various
A collection of five silent comedy shorts co-starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton, and produced by their own Comique Film Company: BACK STAGE (1919), GOOD NIGHT, NURSE! (1918), CONEY ISLAND (1918), THE ROUGH HOUSE (1918), and THE GARAGE (1920). Volume Two of a two-volume DVD series from Kino Video. Musical score by the Alloy Orchestra.
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Good Night, Nurse! (1918)
Character: Fatty
Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himself as a nurse to effect his escape.
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The Cook (1918)
Character: The Chef
In an attempt at greater efficiency, the chef and waiter of a fancy oceanside restaurant wreak havoc in the establishment. Adding to the complications is the arrival of a robber.
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The Butcher Boy (1917)
Character: Fatty / Saccharine
Customers and clerks frolic in a general store. Roscoe walks out of the freezer wearing a fur coat, then does some clever cleaver tossing. In Buster's film debut he buys a pail of molasses.
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A Country Hero (1917)
Character: Village Blacksmith
Fatty plays a village blacksmith in “Jazzville,” an imaginary rural village. There is a rivalry between Fatty and Cy Klone, the garage owner, over the affections of a pretty schoolteacher. A city chap unites the two rivals when he tries to steal the girl. An annual village ball features amateur talent in vaudeville stunts with Keaton as a wriggling Fatima who charms a long black stocking from a cigar box like a snake. The film is presumed lost.
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The Rough House (1917)
Character: Mr. Rough
Living under the same roof with his newly-wed wife and his mother-in-law, a careless Mr Rough sets the nuptial bedroom on fire, as the residence's cook tries to woo the maid who only has eyes for the charming delivery boy. As one thing leads to another, Mr Rough ends up preparing dinner for a pair of duplicitous guests, when, clearly, he should be staying out of the kitchen. Does Mrs Rough know the visitors' true intentions? But, above all, how will this disastrous dinner party at the Rough house end?
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A Glimpse of the San Diego Exposition (1915)
Character: Himself
In 1915-16, San Diego's Balboa Park was the scene of an exposition to mark completion of the Panama Canal. This film takes us through the exposition: from the Cabrillo bridge and a panoramic view of the site, to the facades of the California Building, Horticultural Building, Panama Canal Exhibit, and the reproduction of the locks at Gatuna. We see tourists on the isthmus and a crowd outside the Panama Film Company's exhibit of how movies are made. We watch the feeding of fish at the laguna, and we end at the Plaza de Panama where toddlers are surrounded by pigeons. Fatty Arbuckle makes a brief appearance outside the Panama Film exhibit. Titles give us each structure's cost.
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Traveling Salesman (1921)
Character: Bob Blake
A practical joke makes a man get off before his intended stop, leading to all sorts of trouble.
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The Speed Kings (1913)
Character: Masher
Race-car drivers pursue Mabel Normand, whose father has a clear favorite.
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Coney Island (1917)
Character: Fatty
Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.
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A Film Johnnie (1914)
Character: Self (uncredited)
The Tramp, a film Johnnie (someone who loiters near theaters or studios to meet stars or get a job), attempts to meet his favorite movie actress at the Keystone Studio, but does not win friends there.
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The Masquerader (1914)
Character: Film actor
Charlie plays an actor who bungles several scenes and is kicked out. He returns convincingly dressed as a lady and charms the director, but Charlie never makes it into the film.
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The Life of the Party (1920)
Character: Algernon Leary (as Roscoe Arbuckle)
An attorney is thrust into wild adventures by an attractive young woman.
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The Bell Boy (1918)
Character: Bellboy, barber
At the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.
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The Water Dog (1914)
Character: Fatty
The Water Dog is a 1914 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
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Back Stage (1919)
Character: Stagehand
Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.
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Buzzin' Around (1933)
Character: Cornelius
Fatty invents a liquid with flubber-like properties which makes objects resilient and unbreakable. Unfortunately, in his rush to get out of the house to demonstrate his invention, he unknowingly grabs a jar of moonshine instead of the jar which holds his wonder liquid. To make matters worse, as he drives to the demonstration, a football-sized beehive falls from a tree onto the cargo bed of his truck . . .
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Mrs. Jones' Birthday (1909)
Character: N/A
If all husbands have had similar experiences, it is too bad to harrow them up with the telling of this story. If they have not, perhaps it will be a warning to them to watch very carefully the birthdays and see that some appropriate gift is at home in time for the event. Not wait, as poor Jones did, until the fateful day arrives, and then have a series of unfortunate accidents overtake one and prevent him presenting the present he intended.
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Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema (2007)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines the rampant sexuality of early Hollywood through movie clips and reminiscences by stars of the era. Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Marlene Dietrich and others relate tales of the artistic freedom that led to the draconian Production Code, which governed content from 1934 to 1968. Diane Lane narrates.
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Fatty and the Broadway Stars (1915)
Character: Fatty - Studio Janitor
Fatty and the Broadway Stars is a 1915 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.
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Wished on Mabel (1915)
Character: Fatty
Mabel, in the park with her mother, sees her boyfriend and asks him to join them.
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The Sheriff (1918)
Character: Cook
Roscoe Arbuckle plays a Douglas Fairbanks fan who becomes a rotund version of his hero. As "The Sheriff", he must rescue abducted schoolteacher Betty Compson.
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The Round-Up (1920)
Character: Slim Hoover
A lovesick sheriff protects his town, embroiled in a feud between a crafty bandit leader and the family of the prospector he stole from.
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Murphy's I.O.U. (1913)
Character: (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
Murphy, the cop, gives his I. O. U. to the money-lender. Pressed for payment, he gives up his wife's jewelry. She thinks she has been robbed and reports the matter to the police lieutenant. Amusing complications result in which Murphy's duplicity is exposed, and his wife administers punishment for his offense.
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