Roscoe Arbuckle 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 1921 and
Roscoe Conkling Bruce Bruce became editor-in-chief of the Harriet Tubman Publishing Company. He also authored a school textbook called, "Just Women," which gave a history of notable African-American women. On June 3, 1903, Bruce married Clara Washington Burrill of Washington, D.C. at the Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church. Clara was a Radcliffe and Boston University Law School graduate who was also the first woman anywhere to edit a law review. However, given her race and gender, she struggled to find work as an attorney. They had three children, Clara Josephine, Roscoe Conkling Jr. ("Bokie") and Burrill Kelso Bruce. Son, Roscoe Jr., embezzled money from