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
Patrick Roscoe Patrick Roscoe Patrick Roscoe is a Canadian novelist, short story writer and actor. Roscoe was born to Canadian parents on the Spanish island of Formentera and grew up in Tanzania, England, Port Hardy, Victoria and Vancouver. Roscoe moved from Canada to California in 1981. He later lived in Toronto, Seville, and Madrid. His first book, "Beneath the Western Slopes", was released by Stoddart in 1987. "Birthmarks", published in 1990, was noted for its unconventional subject matter, addressing themes of loneliness, desperation and survival among prostitutes, gay men and drug addicts who were living on the margins of conventional society. On