Actors from Kansas: Buster Keaton, Dennis Hopper, Roscoe Arbuckle, Hattie McDaniel, Don Johnson, Louise Brooks, Cassandra Peterson, R. Lee Ermey, Edward Asner, Annette Bening, Dianne Wiest, ZaSu Pitts, Rob Riggle, Kirstie Alley, Vivian Vance, Paul Rudd

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 88. Chapters: Buster Keaton, Dennis Hopper, Roscoe Arbuckle, Hattie McDaniel, Don Johnson, Louise Brooks, Cassandra Peterson, R. Lee Ermey, Edward Asner, Annette Bening, Dianne Wiest, ZaSu Pitts, Rob Riggle, Kirstie Alley, Vivian Vance, Paul Rudd, Jason Sudeikis, Kari Wahlgren, Eugene Pallette, Hugh Beaumont, Tom Kane, Daphne Blunt, Dee Wallace, Del Close, Neal Jones, Vera Miles, Max Showalter, Claire Windsor, Eric Stonestreet, Kathryn Eames, Richard Thorpe, Scott Foley, Sarah Lancaster, Shirley Knight, Kendall Schmidt, Billy Drago, Roscoe Born, John Quade, Bill Farmer, Helen Foster, Jayne Houdyshell, Marj Dusay, William Shockley, James Reynolds, John Lehr, Dwight Frye, Ruby Dandridge, Michael McMillian, Kelli McCarty, Phyllis Haver, Jack Colvin, Milburn Stone, George Murdock, Lyle Waggoner, Kevin Schmidt, Doro Merande, Tamara Feldman, Brandon Adams, Lila Leeds, Lois Smith, Steve Brodie, Norma Terris, Travis Schuldt, Lucinda Dickey, Terri Treas, Don C. Harvey, Sheila Ryan, Bill Allen, Sara Sothern, Jeff Yagher, Alan Fudge, Chuck Bowman, Gregg Binkley, Candy Loving, Dennis Hayden, Kendall McComas, Will Tiao, Thelma Hill, Lyle Tayo, Kelie McIver, Marcia Rodd, Aneta Corsaut, Gerry Bamman, Cynthia Sikes, Roy Glenn, Darren E. Burrows, Mary Howard de Liagre, Byron Stewart, Lafayette Russell, Todd Bosley, Laurel Goodwin, Monica Young, Laura Kirk, Lucy Payton, Shannon Collis, Fred Meyers, Grace Benham, Eric Robinson. Excerpt: 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. He 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 to make $1 million a year in 1918. In 1921, Arbuckle threw a party at San Francisco' s St Francis hotel during the Labor Day weekend. Bit player Virginia Rappe became ill at the party and died days later. Soon, Arbuckle was accused of raping and accidentally killing Rappe, enduring three widely publicized trials for manslaughter. His films were subsequently banned and he was publicly ostracized. Though he was acquitted by a jury and received a written apology, the trial's scandal has mostly overshadowed his legacy as a pioneering comedian. Though the ban on his films was eventually lifted, Arbuckle only worked sparingly through the 1920s. In 1932 he began a successful comeback, which he briefly enjoyed before his death in 1933. Born in Smith Center, Kansas, one of nine children born to Mollie and William Goodrich Arbuckle who were of Scottish descent. Roscoe Arbuckle weighed in excess of 13 lb (6 kg) at birth and as both parents had slim builds this resulted in his father not believing the child was his own offspring. This disbelief led him to name the child after a politician (and notorious philanderer) whom he despised, Republican senator Roscoe Conkling. The birth was traumatic for Mollie and resulted in chronic health problems which contributed to her death 12 years later. Arbuckle had a "wonderful" singing voice and was extremely agile. At the age of eight his mother encouraged him to perform in theatres which he enjoyed until she died in 1899 when he was 12. His father, who had always tre