Acting
Al St. John
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.
Movies with Al St. John
The General
1926
Start Cheering
1938
His Private Secretary
1933
Border Roundup
1942
The Alarm
1914
Exposed
1938
Casey Jones
1927
Good Night, Nurse!
1918
Frontier Outlaws
1944
Hell Harbor
1930
My Dog Shep
1946
Oh, Doctor!
1917
Oklahoma Terror
1939
The High Sign
1921
Love
1919
The Scarecrow
1920
Border Badmen
1945
Marked Men
1940
The Cook
1918
Lovemania
1924
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
1936
Those Country Kids
1914
Mabel's Blunder
1914
Mabel's Strange Predicament
1914
The Plumber
1914
Prairie Rustlers
1945
Riders of Destiny
1933
Jungle Heat
1927
Caught in a Cabaret
1914
Hello Cheyenne!
1928
Dead Men Walk
1943
Flaming Romance
1926
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1914
Rustlers' Hideout
1945
The Rounders
1914
The Oklahoma Cyclone
1930
Texas Justice
1942
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
1940
Call of The Yukon
1938
Special Delivery
1922
Red Pepper
1925
Marriage Rows
1931
Valley of the Sun
1942
Bridge Wives
1932
The Painted Desert
1931
Tango Tangles
1914
Riders of the Desert
1932
Fatty’s Faithful Fido
1915
Crossed Love and Swords
1915
The Butcher Boy
1917
Law of the North
1932
Valley Of Vengeance
1944
The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
1942
Li'l Abner
1940
The Daltons' Women
1950
Listen Lena
1927
Fatty’s Plucky Pup
1915
The Lone Rider Ambushed
1941
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
1976
High Spots
1927
Love Nest on Wheels
1937
The Golden Age of Comedy
1957
Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923
2016
Terrors on Horseback
1946
Billy the Kid Trapped
1942
Melody of the Plains
1937
From Headquarters
1933
Moonlight on the Range
1937
Bar 20 Rides Again
1935
Wolves of the Range
1943
She Goes to War
1929
He Did and He Didn’t
1916
The New Janitor
1914
Billy the Kid's Range War
1941
The Rough House
1917
The Sky Pirate
1914
Trail Dust
1936
Fire Away
1925
The Bell Boy
1918
Raiders of Red Gap
1943
Ghost Of Hidden Valley
1946
Fair Warning
1925
The Lone Rider and the Bandit
1942
Jesse James, Jr.
1942
King of the Bullwhip
1950
Billy the Kid Outlawed
1940
Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
1914
Western Cyclone
1943
Hogan's Romance Upset
1915
Skybound
1926
Fugitive of the Plains
1943
The Knockout
1914
Stagecoach Outlaws
1945
Knight of the Plains
1938
That Little Band Of Gold
1915
A Desert Hero
1919
His Prehistoric Past
1914
A Village Scandal
1915
A Creampuff Romance
1916
Gangster's Den
1945
Dynamite Doggie
1925
Return of the Lash
1947
His First Car
1924
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
Fuzzy Settles Down
1944
Fatty's Magic Pants
1914
The Door Knocker
1931
Devil Riders
1943
Aloha
1931
Soldiers of Misfortune
1914
Harem Scarem
1932
In the Clutches of the Gang
1914
Wild Horse Rustlers
1943
The Drifter
1944
His Wedding Night
1917
Stagecoach Express
1942
An Incompetent Hero
1914
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
1941
His Sister's Kids
1913
Wild Horse Phantom
1944
The Millionaire Kid
1936
Curses
1925
Won in a Closet
1914
Shot in the Excitement
1914
A Bird's a Bird
1915
Frontier Revenge
1948
Border Feud
1947
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
1941
Oath of Vengeance
1944
The Lone Rider Rides On
1941
Lover's Luck
1914
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
1915
His Wife's Mistakes
1916
Billy the Kid Wanted
1941
Son of Billy the Kid
1949
Coney Island
1917
Death Rides the Plains
1943
Fatty's Debut
1914
Law of the Lash
1947
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
1942
Days of Thrills and Laughter
1961
Outlaw Country
1949
Stage to Mesa City
1947
Texas Terrors
1940
Moonshine
1918
The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
1941
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
1915
The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
1941
Beyond the Law
1930
Fickle Fatty's Fall
1915
The Pullman Porter
1919
The Apache Kid
1941
The Land of Missing Men
1930
A Punch in the Nose
1926
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937
Friendly Neighbors
1940
Cattle Stampede
1943
The Iron Mule
1925
The Kid Rides Again
1943
Prairie Badmen
1946
Mabel's Married Life
1914
Billy The Kid's Round-Up
1941
The Law of 45's
1935
Fatty's New Role
1915
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
1915
The Vanishing Outpost
1951
Murder on the Yukon
1940
Thundering Gun Slingers
1944
Ghost Town Renegades
1947
Son of a Badman
1949
Buzzin' Around
1933
Songs and Bullets
1938
Bright Lights
1916
Pioneer Justice
1947
His Brother's Ghost
1945
Painted Post
1928
Out West
1918
A Face in the Fog
1936
Blazing Frontier
1943
The Star Boarder
1914
Police Court
1932
A Lawman Is Born
1937
A Country Hero
1917
That's My Meat
1931
A Missouri Outlaw
1941
Mabel's Busy Day
1914
Bombs!
1916
Shadows of Death
1945
The Waiters' Ball
1916
Overland Riders
1946
Frontier Scout
1938
The Mysterious Rider
1942
Arizona Terrors
1942
Along the Sundown Trail
1942
Law and Order
1942
Sing Cowboy Sing
1937
The Thundering Trail
1951
Crazy Days
1962
Cheyenne Takes Over
1947
The Dance of Life
1929
When Love Took Wings
1915
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
1941
High Sea Blues
1927
Outlaws of the Plains
1946
Fatty and the Broadway Stars
1915
Billy the Kid in Texas
1940
Her Birthday Present
1913
The Grab Bag Bride
1917
Speed
1919
Outlaws of Boulder Pass
1942
The Riot
1913
Law of the Saddle
1943
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
1916
The Roaming Cowboy
1937
A Reckless Romeo
1917
Fatty's Jonah Day
1914
Who Hit Me?
1926
The Other Man
1916
I'm from Arkansas
1944
Gunsmoke Trail
1938
Out of Place
1922
Lightning Raiders
1946
Hot or Cold
1928
Sheriff of Sage Valley
1942
A Noise from the Deep
1913
The Black Lash
1952
Back Stage
1919
The Garden of Weeds
1924
The Rangers' Round-Up
1938
The Renegade
1943
The Fighting Vigilantes
1947
Trouble
1920
American Beauty
1927
Life in Hollywood No. 2
1927
Prairie Pals
1942
Western Knights
1930
West of Nevada
1936
Leading Lizzie Astray
1914
Two Fresh Eggs
1930
Trigger Tom
1935
Trigger Pals
1939
Ship Ahoy
1920
Gentlemen With Guns
1946
Dead Man's Gold
1948
Honeymoon Trio
1931
Fighting Bill Carson
1945
Spring Fever
1923
Our Dare-Devil Chief
1915
Unreal News Reel No. 2
1924
Fatty's Finish
1914
Midnight Phantom
1935
Overland Stagecoach
1942
Mark of the Lash
1948
The Frontier Phantom
1952
The Stunt Man
1927
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
2006
The Lone Rider Fights Back
1941
The Fighting Deputy
1937
Stupid, but Brave
1924
The Doctored Affair
1913
A Studio Rube
1922
Public Stenographer
1934
The Love Thief
1914
Droppington's Family Tree
1915
A Scrap of Paper
1918
Mlle. Irene The Great
1931
Mother's Boy
1913
Pinto Rustlers
1936
The Anglers
1914
All Wet
1922
Camping Out
1919
His Taking Ways
1926