
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.

Hello Cheyenne!

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

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The Stunt Man

The Scarecrow

The Golden Age of Comedy

The High Sign

Start Cheering

Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923

Frontier Outlaws

Billy the Kid's Range War

The Bell Boy

The Cook

Back Stage

Curses

The New Janitor

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford

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The Butcher Boy

He Did and He Didn’t

The Waiters' Ball

The Rounders

Out West

Love Nest on Wheels

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Buzzin' Around

Hell Harbor

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

King of the Bullwhip

Law and Order

Raiders of Red Gap

The Rangers' Round-Up

Fatty and Mabel Adrift

She Goes to War

Songs and Bullets

Oklahoma Terror

Overland Stagecoach

Death Rides the Plains

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Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals

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Billy the Kid in Texas

Li'l Abner

Valley of the Sun

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From Headquarters

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Sheriff of Sage Valley

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The Lone Rider Rides On

The Lone Rider in Cheyenne

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Prairie Pals

Stupid, but Brave

Spring Fever

Moonlight on the Range

Fickle Fatty's Fall

Fatty and the Broadway Stars

Pinto Rustlers

A Desert Hero

Bright Lights

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Law of the North

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