Al St. John
Acting
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Al St. John (September 10, 1893 – January 21, 1963) in his persona of Fuzzy Q. Jones basically defined the role and concept of "comical sidekick" to cowboy heroes from 1930 to 1951. St. John also created a character, "Stoney," in the first of a continuing Western film series, The Three Mesquiteers, that was later played (at a low point in his own career) by John Wayne. Born in Santa Ana, California, St. John entered silent films around 1912 and soon rose to co-starring and starring roles in short comic films from a variety of studios. His uncle, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, may have helped him in his early days at Mack Sennett Studios, but talent kept him working. He was slender, sandy-haired, handsome and a remarkable acrobat. St. John frequently appeared as Arbuckle's mischievously villainous rival for the attentions of leading ladies like Mabel Normand, and worked with Arbuckle and Charles Chaplin in The Rounders (1914). The most critically praised film from St. John's period with Arbuckle remains Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916) with Normand. The name Fuzzy originally belonged to a different actor, John Forrest “Fuzzy“ Knight, who took on the role of cowboy sidekick before St. John. As the studio first intended to hire Knight for the western series but then gave the role to St. John instead, he took on the nickname of his rival for his screen character. In most of his films, screen time was set aside for St. John to do a sort of solo comedy act, emphasizing amazing pratfalls and acrobatics. He might "find" a bicycle on a fairground set, and do an astonishing sequence of acrobatic stunts on the cycle, or he might try to capture a rat, bat, skunk, gopher, or bug with hilarious and chaotic consequences. Another stunt which he used in nearly every Western was virtually his trademark: he would mount his horse in apparently the standard manner, but somehow wind up sitting facing backward, and often would ride off with the hero in this unusual orientation. When Crabbe left PRC (according to interviews, in disgust at their increasingly low budgets), St. John was paired with new star Lash LaRue. Ultimately, St. John made more than 80 Westerns as Fuzzy. His last film was released in 1952. From that time on until his death in 1963 in Lyons, Georgia, he made personal appearances at fairs and rodeos, and travelled with the Tommy Scott Wild West Show. Altogether, Al St. John acted in 346 movies, spanning four decades from 1912 to 1952. Description above from the Wikipedia article Al St. John, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Knockout
as Boxer - Pug's Rival / Desk Sergeant / Cop (uncredited)
Age 20 (now 69)
Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
as (archive footage)
Age 112 (now 69)
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
as (archive footage)
Age 82 (now 69)
Days of Thrills and Laughter
as Self (archive footage)
Age 67 (now 69)
His Brother's Ghost
as Andy Jones / Jonathan Fuzzy Jones
Age 51 (now 69)
Along the Sundown Trail
as Crandall - Lawyer (uncredited)
Age 49 (now 69)
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
as Fuzzy Q. Jones
Age 48 (now 69)
Valley of the Sun
as Bearded Man Hurrying to Wedding (uncredited)
Age 48 (now 69)
The Lone Rider and the Bandit
as Fuzzy Q. Jones
Age 48 (now 69)
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
as Fuzzy Q. Jones
Age 47 (now 69)
The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
as Fuzzy Jones
Age 47 (now 69)
From Headquarters
as Detainee Touching Cigarette Pack (uncredited)
Age 40 (now 69)
Unreal News Reel No. 2
as Man on stationary bicycle
Age 30 (now 69)
Hogan's Romance Upset
as Second Row Fight Spectator (uncredited)
Age 21 (now 69)
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
as Lead Cop (uncredited)
Age 21 (now 69)
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
as Cop in Park / Prisoner in Derby (uncredited)
Age 21 (now 69)
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
as The Squire's Son
Age 21 (now 69)
Tillie's Punctured Romance
as Keystone Kop (uncredited)
Age 21 (now 69)
Leading Lizzie Astray
as Cafe Patron / Bouncer (uncredited)
Age 21 (now 69)
The Knockout
as Boxer - Pug's Rival / Desk Sergeant / Cop (uncredited)
Age 20 (now 69)
Mabel's Strange Predicament
as Bellboy (uncredited)
Age 20 (now 69)
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Also Known As
Alfred St. John, Al St John, Fuzzy Q. Jones, 'Fuzzy' St. John, Al "Fuzzy' St. John, Al 'Fuzzy' St. John, Al Fuzzy St. John, Al {Fuzzy} St. John, Al. 'Fuzzy' St. John, Fuzzy St. John, Al 'Fuzzy' St.John, Al Fuzzy St.John, Al St.John, Fuzzy St.John, Al {Fuzzy} St.John , Альфред Сент-Джон, Аль Ст. Джон
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