Arquette Family History & Genealogy

Coco Riley Arquette was born on June 13, 2004 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California United States to Courteney Bass Cox and David Arquette. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Coco Riley Arquette.

David Arquette was born on September 7, 1971 in Bentonville, Warren County, Virginia United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember David Arquette.

Actor. He was a member of the third generation of a Hollywood family of actors. His grandparents were the vaudeville team 'Arquette and Clark', also known as the 'Funny Hebrew and the Singing Soubrette'. He was the son of Cliff Arquette, a staple on Jack Paar's 'Tonight Show' and 'Hollywood Squares', and was himself the father of a generation of actors: Rosanna, Richmond, Patricia, Alexis and David Arquette. After graduating from Hollywood High School, he went to New York to study at Lee Strasberg's Actors Studio. He returned to Los Angeles in the 1970's and would go on to appear in dozens of television shows such as 'Alice', 'Lou Grant', 'Barney Miller', 'Dallas', 'St. Elsewhere', 'Rocky Road', 'ALF', 'Matlock', 'L.A. Law', 'Seinfeld' and 'Spawn'. From 1978 through 1981, he played J.D. Pickett on 'The Waltons'. His movie credits include 'The China Syndrome' (1979), 'Off the Wall' (1983), 'Just Between Friends' (1986), 'Tango & Cash' (1989), 'Sleep with Me' (1994), 'Waiting for Guffman' (1996), 'Little Nicky' and 'Best in Show' (both 2000). Arquette, who was married to actress Brenda Denaut until her death

COMMENTS 1. Arquette was born on December 27, 1905, in Toledo, Ohio, as the son of Winifred Ethel and Charles Augustus Arquette, a vaudevillian. The eventual patriarch of the Arquette show business family, which became famous because of him, Arquette was the father of actor Lewis Arquette and the grandfather of actors Patricia, Rosanna, Alexis, Richmond, and David Arquette. 2. In his early career, Cliff was a nightclub pianist, later joining the Henry Halstead orchestra in 1923. 3. Arquette had been a busy, yet not nationally known, performer in radio, theatre, and motion pictures until 1956, when he retired from show business. 4. At one time, he was credited with performing in 13 different daily radio shows at different stations in the Chicago market, getting from one studio to the other by way of motorboats along the Chicago River through its downtown. 5. One such radio series he performed on was The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok. Arquette and Dave Willock had their own radio show, Dave and Charley, in the early 1950s as well as a television show by the same name that was on the air for three months. 6. It was when Arquette performed on the shows that he created, and inaugurated his performances as, his eventual trademark character of Charley Weaver. 7. The story that Arquette later told about his big break was that one night, in the late 1950s. he was watching The Tonight Show. 8. Host Jack Paar happened to ask the rhetorical question, “Whatever became of Cliff Arquette?” 9. That startled Arquette so much that “I almost dropped my Scotch!” 10. Arquette depicted the character of “Charley Weaver, the wild old man from Mount Idy.” 11. This characterization proved so popular that Arquette almost never again appeared in public as himself, but nearly always as Charley Weaver, complete with his squashed hat, little round glasses, rumpled shirt, broad tie, baggy pants, and suspenders. 12. “Sometimes his jokes are old, and I live in the constant fear that the audience will beat him to the punch line, but they never have. 13. And I suspect that if they ever do, he will rewrite the ending on the spot. 14. I would not like to say that all his jokes are old, although some have been found carved in stone. 15. What I want to say is that in a free-for-all ad lib session, Charley Weaver has and will beat the fastest gun alive.” 16. Arquette also appeared as Charley Weaver on the short-lived The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show on ABC from September 29 to December 29, 1962. 17. In 1960, Arquette was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contribution to radio. 18. A strange-name greeting from “Mamma,” with Weaver explaining that it related to what “Mamma always wanted me to be.”

Willard W Arquette of Yakima, Yakima County, WA was born on June 26, 1901, and died at age 92 years old on July 6, 1993.

Sophia (Arquette) Shatraw was born in 1841, and died at age 69 years old in 1910. Sophia Shatraw was buried at Saint Marys Cemetery in Brushton, Franklin County, New York United States. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Sophia (Arquette) Shatraw.

Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Linda Arquette.

Alvin J K Arquette of Kaneohe, Honolulu County, HI was born on August 5, 1924, and died at age 79 years old on January 13, 2004. Alvin Arquette was buried at Hawaii State Veterans Cemetery Section 153-J Site 8 Kamehameha Highway, in Kaneohe.

Cecile L Arquette of Sabattus, Androscoggin County, ME was born on June 25, 1915, and died at age 83 years old on April 10, 1999. Cecile Arquette was buried at Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery Section G Row 11 Site 23 Box 916a - Old Belgrade Road, in Augusta.

Lionel F Arquette of Gibsonville, Guilford County, NC was born on June 25, 1932, and died at age 68 years old on March 16, 2001.

Melvin R Arquette of Morenci, Lenawee County, MI was born on October 6, 1935, and died at age 67 years old on February 13, 2003.

Leonard B Arquette of Lake Charles, Calcasieu County, LA was born on April 22, 1929, and died at age 78 years old on October 8, 2007.

John Atratonenti Arquette was born on August 29, 1903, and died at age 59 years old on December 12, 1962. John Arquette was buried at Long Island National Cemetery Section 2H Site 3463 2040 Wellwood Avenue, in Farmingdale, Ny. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember John Atratonenti Arquette.

Gerald E Arquette of Lewiston, Androscoggin County, ME was born on January 13, 1925, and died at age 66 years old on August 26, 1991.

Gladys M Arquette of Epping, Rockingham County, NH was born on October 14, 1914, and died at age 74 years old on September 18, 1989.

Robert A Arquette was born on June 6, 1930, and died at age 46 years old on June 10, 1976. Robert Arquette was buried at Bay Pines National Cemetery Section MA Site 63 P.o. Box 477, in Bay Pines, Fl. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Robert A Arquette.

Wilfred Arquette of San Gabriel, Los Angeles County, CA was born on March 10, 1903, and died at age 68 years old in May 1971.

Fred E Arquette Jr of Sabattus, Androscoggin County, ME was born on March 27, 1918, and died at age 60 years old on September 17, 1978. Fred Arquette was buried at Maine Veterans' Memorial Cemetery Section G Row 11 Site 22 Box 916a - Old Belgrade Road, in Augusta.

Steven Joseph Arquette was born on June 16, 1954, and died at age 38 years old on May 10, 1993. Steven Arquette was buried at Ft. Custer National Cemetery Section 11 Site 435 15501 Dickman Road - No. Entrance Svc Maintenance Bldg, in Augusta, Mi. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Steven Joseph Arquette.

Mitchell Arquette of New York was born on September 20, 1893, and died at age 72 years old in January 1966.