Cast

Al St. John

Acting

Cast

Al St. John

Known for

Acting

Born

1893-09-09

From

Santa Ana, California, USA

Died

1963-01-21

Also known as Alfred St. John, Al St John, Fuzzy Q. Jones

Biography

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.

Al St. John

Al St. John

Biography

Gangster's Den

Start Cheering

Border Roundup

Flaming Romance

Caught in a Cabaret

The General

Marriage Rows

Hello Cheyenne!

Texas Justice

Border Badmen

Bridge Wives

Love

Oklahoma Terror

Terrors on Horseback

Fire Away

Bright Lights

Unreal News Reel No. 2

Fair Warning

High Spots

The Plumber

The Alarm

Rustlers' Hideout

Listen Lena

Marked Men

Exposed

Prairie Rustlers

Stout Hearts But Weak Knees

Hell Harbor

Casey Jones

Trouble

Lovemania

Curses

Red Pepper

Jungle Heat

Dynamite Doggie

Stagecoach Outlaws

A Desert Hero

The Door Knocker

Who Hit Me?

Fuzzy Settles Down

He Did and He Didn’t

West of Nevada

Soldiers of Misfortune

Harem Scarem

Law and Order

Law of the North

Skybound

Hogan's Romance Upset

Fatty's Debut

Riders of the Desert

Speed

His Wife's Mistakes

Valley Of Vengeance

Mabel's Blunder

His Sister's Kids

Her Birthday Present

Frontier Outlaws

A Village Scandal

An Incompetent Hero

The Lone Rider in Cheyenne

That's My Meat

High Sea Blues

Melody of the Plains

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

The Doctored Affair

Fatty’s Plucky Pup

The Sky Pirate

The Voice of Hollywood

Love Nest on Wheels

His First Car

From Headquarters

Special Delivery

Those Country Kids

Fatty's Jonah Day

The Dance of Life

The Lone Rider Ambushed

Fatty’s Faithful Fido