Al St. John

🎂 Data nașterii: 1893-09-09 (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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Al St. John

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Arizona Terrors

Mabel's Busy Day

Charlot, noul îngrijitor

The Voice of Hollywood

Back Stage

The Bell Boy

Coney Island

Good Night, Nurse!

His Wedding Night

The High Sign

A Punch in the Nose

The Garden of Weeds

Sing Cowboy Sing

Billy the Kid Trapped

Soldiers of Misfortune

The Anglers

The Love Thief

Stout Hearts But Weak Knees

The Plumber

Mabel, Fatty and the Law

Stagecoach Outlaws

Fuzzy Settles Down

Out West

The Rough House

Sperietoarea de ciori

Love Nest on Wheels

The Butcher Boy

Oh, Doctor!

Moonshine

The Cook

The Knockout

Mabel's Married Life

Charlot si Fatty cheflii

Charlot, om preistoric

Mabel's Blunder

A Country Hero

The Kid Rides Again

Bridge Wives

The Iron Mule

Along the Sundown Trail

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

Won in a Closet

Frontier Scout

Devil Riders

Crazy Days

Lightning Raiders

Billy the Kid's Range War

Fatty's Finish

Fatty's Debut

Law of the Lash

A Village Scandal

His Brother's Ghost

Buzzin' Around

Trigger Tom

Midnight Phantom

The Law of 45's

Two Fresh Eggs

The Land of Missing Men

Hell Harbor

Curses

Harem Scarem

The Other Man

A Creampuff Romance

The Grab Bag Bride

Special Delivery

His First Car

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

Fighting Bill Carson

Marriage Rows

Honeymoon Trio

Overland Riders

Mlle. Irene The Great

That's My Meat

The Stunt Man

Those Country Kids

Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life

Fatty’s Faithful Fido

Trouble