Roscoe Arbuckle "Middle Man". 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
Roscoe Simmons Roscoe Simmons Roscoe Conkling Simmons (June 20, 1881 – April 27, 1951) was an American orator, journalist, and political activist. The nephew of Booker T. Washington, he is noted as the first African-American columnist employed by the "Chicago Tribune" and for his longtime influence in the United States Republican Party. Simmons was born in Mississippi in 1881 and named after New York Republican congressman Roscoe Conkling. The nephew of Booker T. Washington through Washington's third wife Margaret, when he was 12 years old Washington secured a job for him as an office boy to U.S. Senator Mark Hanna, a millionaire