Roscoe Arbuckle "Middle Man". Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Starting at the Selig Polyscope Company he eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked with Mabel Normand and Harold Lloyd. He mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s, and soon became one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood, signing a contract in 1920 with Paramount Pictures for US$1 million (equivalent to approximately $ in dollars). Between November
Patrick Roscoe book in a decade. Stephen Henighan discusses Roscoe as one of a group of writers whose stories "eschew historical participation in favour of a turning inward or a retreat into a kind of eternal present." In 1996, he won a Western Magazine Award for his short story "The Last Casanova of Regina", originally published in "Grain". In 2008, he was one of 10 finalists in the Okanagan Short Story Contest. He won first place in the short-story division of CBC Radio's literary competition in 1990. Patrick Roscoe Patrick Roscoe is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and actor. Roscoe was