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
Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. He was also a grand nephew of Roscoe Conkling, who was a Congressman and Senator from New York and boss of the state's Republican political machine. Coxe's great-grandfather was abolitionist minister Samuel Hanson Cox. Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. Alfred Conkling Coxe Jr. (May 7, 1880 – December 21, 1957) was a United States federal judge. He was born in Utica, New York on May 7, 1880. He received an A.B. from Yale University in 1901 then attended Cornell Law School. He was in private practice in Utica from 1903 to 1905, and in New York City from 1905 to 1929.