
Al St. John
Born September 9, 1893 · Santa Ana, California, USA
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.
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Love

Caught in a Cabaret

Gangster's Den

Exposed

The Alarm

Border Roundup

Texas Justice

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Bridge Wives

Curses

Oklahoma Terror

His Wife's Mistakes

He Did and He Didn’t

Oh, Doctor!

A Desert Hero

Terrors on Horseback

Frontier Outlaws

The Plumber

Rustlers' Hideout

Jungle Heat

Lovemania

Stagecoach Outlaws

The Scarecrow

His First Car

Border Badmen

Valley of the Sun

A Village Scandal

Fuzzy Settles Down

Hell Harbor

The Waiters' Ball

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

Casey Jones

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

West of Nevada

Marked Men

Mabel's Blunder

Hogan's Romance Upset

Prairie Rustlers

When Love Took Wings

Riders of Destiny

The Golden Age of Comedy

The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury

Melody of the Plains

The Rounders

Riders of the Desert

Love Nest on Wheels

Li'l Abner

My Dog Shep

The Apache Kid

Mabel's Strange Predicament

Those Country Kids

A Creampuff Romance

Fatty's Magic Pants

Days of Thrills and Laughter

Tillie's Punctured Romance

Knight of the Plains

The Painted Desert

Fugitive of the Plains

Dead Men Walk

Speed

Billy the Kid's Gun Justice

Outlaw Country

The Cook

Pioneer Justice

Valley Of Vengeance

Law of the North

Call of The Yukon

The Thundering Trail

Bar 20 Rides Again

Two Fresh Eggs

Sheriff of Sage Valley

Wolves of the Range

Cattle Stampede

Back Stage

From Headquarters

Moonshine

Her Birthday Present

The Kid Rides Again

Fatty’s Faithful Fido

The Lone Rider Rides On

Good Night, Nurse!

Lightning Raiders

The Daltons' Women

Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals

The Lone Rider in Ghost Town

The Drifter

Law and Order

The High Sign

Mabel's Married Life

The Dance of Life

She Goes to War

Coney Island

Law of the Lash

The New Janitor

Dynamite Doggie

Stagecoach Express

His Private Secretary

The Garden of Weeds

The Lone Rider in Cheyenne

King of the Bullwhip

Fatty’s Plucky Pup

Death Rides the Plains

The Lone Rider Ambushed

The Knockout

Raiders of Red Gap

The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio

Songs and Bullets

Aloha

Blazing Frontier

Border Feud

Law of the Saddle

The Lone Rider and the Bandit

Return of the Lash

A Face in the Fog

Tango Tangles

Ghost Town Renegades

Arizona Terrors

The Butcher Boy

Billy the Kid Trapped

Dead Man's Gold

Billy the Kid Outlawed

Overland Riders

The Frontier Phantom

The Star Boarder

Midnight Phantom

Son of Billy the Kid

Mabel's Busy Day

Public Stenographer

Cheyenne Takes Over

Billy The Kid's Round-Up

The Rough House

Billy the Kid's Range War

Billy the Kid in Texas

Overland Stagecoach

I'm from Arkansas

Lover's Luck

A Country Hero

The Bell Boy

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

American Beauty

His Prehistoric Past

The Iron Mule

Thundering Gun Slingers

Buzzin' Around

The Vanishing Outpost

Leading Lizzie Astray

Friendly Neighbors

Trail Dust

A Reckless Romeo

Stage to Mesa City

Frontier Scout

The Other Man

Prairie Pals

Texas Terrors

Billy the Kid in Santa Fe

Beyond the Law

A Noise from the Deep

Oath of Vengeance

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

Moonlight on the Range

Prairie Badmen

Wild Horse Rustlers

That Little Band Of Gold

Fatty's New Role

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns

A Lawman Is Born

The Millionaire Kid

A Punch in the Nose

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

Devil Riders

Outlaws of Boulder Pass

The Oklahoma Cyclone

Police Court

The Law of 45's

The Black Lash

Billy the Kid Wanted

Mark of the Lash

The Fighting Vigilantes

The Mysterious Rider

Crazy Days

A Missouri Outlaw

Murder on the Yukon

Western Knights

Out West

Western Cyclone

His Wedding Night

Gunsmoke Trail

Outlaws of the Plains

The Rangers' Round-Up

Trigger Pals

Pinto Rustlers

His Brother's Ghost

Ghost Of Hidden Valley

Jesse James, Jr.

The Fighting Deputy

Shadows of Death

Son of a Badman

Along the Sundown Trail

Stupid, but Brave

Sing Cowboy Sing

Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life

Wild Horse Phantom

Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts

Frontier Revenge

Fighting Bill Carson

The Lone Rider Fights Back

Gentlemen With Guns

Bombs!

Fickle Fatty's Fall

The Riot

All Wet

The Renegade

Painted Post

In the Clutches of the Gang

Trigger Tom

Camping Out

Life in Hollywood No. 2

A Bird's a Bird

Won in a Closet

The Land of Missing Men

The Stunt Man

Spring Fever




