George Goforth

born: 24 October 1886 Bloomfield, Missouri, United States of America

died: 27 January 1951 Los Angeles, California, United States of America (heart attack, age 64)

Heavyset American actor. Billing himself in Standard Casting Directory ads as an "Athletic Fat Man," he weighed anywhere from 325 to 400 pounds during the 1910s and 1920s (by 1942, he was a more "svelte" 215).

Real namne: George Arthur Goforth Height: 5'10½" (Standard); 5'8" (WWII draft reg. card)

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1926 The Nickel-Hopper Dance hall patron 1927 Are Brunettes Safe? Man with soda bottle 1927 Jewish Prudence Accident scene extra 1927 Do Detectives Think? Juror Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/sources/LDQ6-PR7 (family tree, FamilySearch.org) https://archive.org/details/sedalia-democrat-1926-12-05/page/n8/mode/1up?q=%22george+a+goforth%22 (Sedalia Democrat, 05 Dec 1926) https://archive.org/details/sikeston-standard-1926-12-21/page/n11/mode/1up?q=%22george+a+goforth%22 (Sikeston Standard, 21 Dec 1926) https://archive.org/details/stand-cast-dir-oct-1927/page/n87/mode/1up?q=%22george+goforth%22 (The Standard Casting Directory, Oct 1927-Jan 1928) Robert Demoss (cast list provided for The Nickel-Hopper) Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research; identification in all films) This page was last updated on: 22 February 2026