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 (also known as Mrs. Steele; born 27 January 1814; died 1890) became an accomplished author, with works such as "The American Gentleman's Guide To Politeness and Fashion", "Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington" (Auburn, N. Y., 1851-1853), "Isabel; or, Trials of the Heart" and a translation of Florian's "History of the Moors of Spain". Roscoe Conkling studied law and became a powerful United States Senator and Republican political boss from New York. Conkling's grandson Alfred Conkling Coxe, Sr. also served as U.S. district court judge in the Northern District of New York, and later a judge on the