Roscoe Arbuckle a feature film. Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle was born on March 24, 1887, in Smith Center, Kansas, one of nine children of Mary E. "Mollie" Gordon (d. February 19, 1898) and William Goodrich Arbuckle. He weighed in excess of at birth and, as both parents had slim builds, his father believed the child was not his. Consequently, he named the baby after a politician (and notorious philanderer) whom he despised, Republican senator Roscoe Conkling of New York. The birth was traumatic for Mollie and resulted in chronic health problems that contributed to her death 12 years later. When Arbuckle was nearly
Al Taylor (actor) from Cheyenne". The Internet Movie Database lists his final performance in the 1948 film serial, "Dangers of the Canadian Mounted". Al Taylor (actor) Al Taylor (August 8, 1887 - March 2, 1951) was an American character actor during the silent and sound film eras. Born in Boston in 1887, Taylor began in films with a small role in the 1926 silent film, "The Fighting Cheat", starring Wally Wales and Jean Arthur. During his career he appeared in over 200 films, mostly in small, uncredited roles. The vast majority of his roles were in Westerns, such as "The Lawless Nineties" (1936),