Maclyn Arbuckle

Arbuckle, Maclyn (1863–1931), actor. Born in San Antonio, Texas, he gave up a burgeoning law career to try his hand at acting. After making his debut in 1888 in Shreveport, Louisiana, he spent several seasons touring before making his New York bow in 1900, calling attention to himself the next year as the Earl of Rockingham in Under Two Flags. Arbuckle portrayed Antonio in The Merchant of Venice (1901) but found his true métier as the folksy, wise George Washington Skipper in Skipper and Co., Wall Street (1903). His most memorable role was Jim Hackler in The County Chairman, a part that kept him busy for the next four seasons. Thereafter he met with varying degrees of success depicting similar homespun characters in The Round Up (1907), The Circus Man (1909), and The New Henrietta (1915). In 1919 he headed a road company of The Better'Ole, and, before retiring, the pudgy, friendly miened actor participated in two all‐star revivals mounted by The Players, playing Anthony Absolute in The Rivals (1923) and Stingo in She Stoops To Conquer (1924).