Al St. John
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
The General
Officer on Horseback (uncredited)
1926
Film
Start Cheering
Station Master
1938
Film
The Cook
Holdup Man (uncredited)
1918
Film
Tango Tangles
Guest in Convict Costume (uncredited)
1914
Film
The Knockout
Boxer - Pug's Rival / Desk Sergeant / Cop (uncredited)
1914
Film
Oklahoma Terror
Fuzzy Glass
1939
Film
Curses
Buttonshoe Bill
1925
Film
Cattle Stampede
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Listen Lena
Al Adams
1927
Film
Public Stenographer
Elmer
1934
Film
Police Court
Skid
1932
Film
Painted Post
Joe Nimble
1928
Flaming Romance
Al
1926
Film
Arizona Terrors
Hardtack
1942
Film
Bridge Wives
Al Smith
1932
Film
Crazy Days
Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
Film
Oh, Doctor!
Gambler
1917
Film
Speed
1919
Film
Bright Lights
The Bartender
1916
Film
Western Knights
Al
1930
Film
Trigger Pals
Fuzzy
1939
Film
Good Night, Nurse!
Surgeon's Assistant
1918
Film
Love
Al Clove - Fatty's Rival (uncredited)
1919
Film
Pinto Rustlers
Mack
1936
Film
Prairie Rustlers
Fuzzy Jones
1945
Film
Aloha
Sailor
1931
Film
Camping Out
1919
Film
Border Badmen
Fuzzy Jones
1945
Film
The Rounders
Bellhop / Waiter
1914
Film
Overland Stagecoach
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Film
Love Nest on Wheels
Uncle Jed
1937
Film
Thundering Gun Slingers
Doc Jones
1944
Film
All Wet
1922
Red Pepper
Tom Katt
1925
Film
Friendly Neighbors
Smokey
1940
Film
Frontier Outlaws
Fuzzy Jones
1944
Film
A Village Scandal
Sword Swallower
1915
Film
Spring Fever
1923
Film
Bombs!
Bicycle Messenger
1916
Film
Mabel's Strange Predicament
Bellboy (uncredited)
1914
Film
Mabel's Married Life
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1914
The Roaming Cowboy
Fuzzy
1937
Film
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Keystone Kop (uncredited)
1914
Film
Caught in a Cabaret
Singer (uncredited)
1914
Film
The Alarm
1914
Film
Stagecoach Outlaws
Fuzzy Jones
1945
Film
The Renegade
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Film
Texas Justice
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Film
Hello Cheyenne!
Zip Coon
1928
Film
Billy the Kid Trapped
Fuzzy Jones
1942
Film
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
1936
Film
Marked Men
Gimpy - a thug
1940
Film
The Painted Desert
Buck
1931
Film
Terrors on Horseback
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Film
Midnight Phantom
Radio Officer Jones
1935
Film
Oath of Vengeance
Fuzzy Jones
1944
Film
Riders of Destiny
Bert - Henchman
1933
Film
His Private Secretary
Tom - Garage Owner
1933
Film
Devil Riders
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Film
Border Roundup
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Film
Billy the Kid's Gun Justice
Fuzzy
1940
Honeymoon Trio
The Newlywed Husband
1931
Film
Back Stage
Stagehand
1919
Film
The Plumber
1914
Film
Law of the Saddle
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Film
The New Janitor
Elevator boy
1914
Film
The Scarecrow
Man with Motorbike (uncredited)
1920
Film
The Butcher Boy
Alum
1917
Film
Dead Men Walk
Townsman Finding Kate's Body
1943
Film
From Headquarters
Detainee Touching Cigarette Pack (uncredited)
1933
Film
Outlaw Country
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1949
Film
Murder on the Yukon
Bill Smithers
1940
High Sea Blues
Bill Brown
1927
Film
The Kid Rides Again
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Film
Gunsmoke Trail
Fuzzy
1938
Film
Stagecoach Express
Dusty Jenkins
1942
Film
The Lone Rider and the Bandit
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Film
Valley Of Vengeance
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1944
Film
His Brother's Ghost
Andy Jones / Jonathan Fuzzy Jones
1945
Film
Shadows of Death
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1945
Film
The Rough House
Cook
1917
Film
Pioneer Justice
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Film
Son of a Badman
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1949
Film
The Lone Rider Rides On
Fuzzy
1941
Film
Billy the Kid's Range War
Fuzzy
1941
Film
Dead Man's Gold
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1948
Film
Law and Order
Fuzzy Jones
1942
Film
Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch
(archive footage)
1976
Special Delivery
1922
Film
Raiders of Red Gap
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Film
Days of Thrills and Laughter
Self (archive footage)
1961
Film
Mabel's Busy Day
Policeman
1914
Film
Billy the Kid in Santa Fe
Fuzzy Jones
1941
Film
Trail Dust
Al
1936
The Voice of Hollywood
1930
Film
Frontier Revenge
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1948
Film
Fatty’s Faithful Fido
Fatty's Rival
1915
Film
The Riot
Man in Pool Hall
1913
Film
Billy the Kid in Texas
Fuzzy
1940
Film
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Uncle Billy
1937
Film
The High Sign
Man On Beach
1921
Film
Exposed
Flophouse Bum
1938
Film
The Golden Age of Comedy
archive footage
1957
Film
Moonshine
Mountain Man
1918
Film
Billy the Kid Wanted
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1941
Film
Trigger Tom
Stub Macey
1935
Film
Gentlemen With Guns
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Film
Law of the North
Jailbird
1932
Fire Away
1925
Film
Lightning Raiders
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Film
Buzzin' Around
Al
1933
Film
Out West
Wild Bill Hickup
1918
Film
Those Country Kids
Mr. Reddy
1914
Film
Along the Sundown Trail
Crandall - Lawyer (uncredited)
1942
Film
A Face in the Fog
Elmer
1936
Film
Valley of the Sun
Bearded Man Hurrying to Wedding (uncredited)
1942
Film
My Dog Shep
Deputy Sheriff
1946
Marriage Rows
Al
1931
Film
Songs and Bullets
Fuzzy Martin
1938
Film
Ghost Of Hidden Valley
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Film
Won in a Closet
1914
Film
The Star Boarder
Boarder (uncredited)
1914
Film
Fuzzy Settles Down
Fuzzy Jones
1944
Film
Texas Terrors
Frosty Larson
1940
Film
Fugitive of the Plains
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Film
The Black Lash
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1952
Film
A Bird's a Bird
1915
Film
Billy the Kid Outlawed
Fuzzy Jones
1940
Film
His Prehistoric Past
Caveman
1914
Film
Cheyenne Takes Over
Al 'Fuzzy' St. John
1947
Film
Bar 20 Rides Again
Cinco
1935
Film
Blazing Frontier
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Film
Li'l Abner
Joe Smithpan
1940
Film
Overland Riders
Fuzzy Jones
1946
Film
The Daltons' Women
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1950
Film
Sheriff of Sage Valley
Fuzzy Jones
1942
Film
The Waiters' Ball
The Waiter
1916
Film
Knight of the Plains
Fuzzy
1938
Film
The Dance of Life
Bozo
1929
Film
The Garden of Weeds
Nat Barlow
1924
Film
Frontier Scout
Whiney Roberts
1938
The Doctored Affair
1913
Film
His Wedding Night
Rival employee
1917
Film
Border Feud
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Film
Coney Island
Old Friend of Fatty's Wife
1917
Film
Coney Island
Old Friend of Fatty's Wife (uncredited)
1917
Film
Melody of the Plains
Fuzzy
1937
Film
The Lone Rider in Frontier Fury
Fuzzy
1941
Film
The Lone Rider in Ghost Town
Fuzzy
1941
Film
Mabel and Fatty’s Married Life
Lead Cop (uncredited)
1915
Film
Gangster's Den
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1945
Film
The Fighting Deputy
Fuzzy
1937
Film
Western Cyclone
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Crossed Love and Swords
A Bosom Friend
1915
Film
Law of the Lash
Fuzzy
1947
Film
The Mysterious Rider
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Film
Mabel, Fatty and the Law
Cop in Park / Prisoner in Derby (uncredited)
1915
The Door Knocker
The Door Knocker
1931
Film
Fatty and Mabel’s Simple Life
The Squire's Son
1915
Film
Billy the Kid's Smoking Guns
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
The Grab Bag Bride
The Villain
1917
Film
The Millionaire Kid
Matthews
1936
Film
The Bell Boy
Desk Clerk
1918
Film
The Drifter
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1944
Film
The Other Man
1916
Film
Wolves of the Range
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Film
The Vanishing Outpost
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1951
Film
Billy The Kid's Fighting Pals
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1941
Film
Return of the Lash
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Film
West of Nevada
Walla Walla Wiggins
1936
Film
Casey Jones
Jock MacTavish
1927
Film
Life in Hollywood No. 2
Himself
1927
Film
King of the Bullwhip
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1950
Film
Billy The Kid's Round-Up
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1941
Film
Mabel's Blunder
Mabel's Brother
1914
Film
American Beauty
Waiter
1927
Who Hit Me?
Al
1926
Film
A Missouri Outlaw
Dan Willoughby
1941
Film
The Fighting Vigilantes
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Film
Prairie Pals
Hank Stoner
1942
Film
In the Clutches of the Gang
Cop
1914
Film
Call of The Yukon
Joe
1938
Film
The Rangers' Round-Up
Fuzzy
1938
Film
Jesse James, Jr.
Pop Sawyer
1942
Film
A Country Hero
City Gent
1917
Film
The Lone Rider Ambushed
Fuzzy Jones
1941
Film
A Lawman Is Born
Eli Root
1937
Film
Wild Horse Rustlers
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Film
The Thundering Trail
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1951
Film
Rustlers' Hideout
Fuzzy Jones
1945
Film
Fair Warning
Jay Walker
1925
Film
I'm from Arkansas
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1944
Film
Hell Harbor
Bunion
1930
Film
The Lone Rider in Cheyenne
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Film
Outlaws of Boulder Pass
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Film
Moonlight on the Range
Fuzzy Jones
1937
Trouble
1920
Film
Ghost Town Renegades
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Film
She Goes to War
Bill
1929
Film
Fatty and the Broadway Stars
Studio Janitor
1915
Ship Ahoy
1920
Film
Riders of the Desert
Slim - A Ranger
1932
Film
Stage to Mesa City
Fuzzy Jones
1947
Film
Stupid, but Brave
The Bum
1924
Film
Wild Horse Phantom
Fuzzy Jones
1944
Film
Prairie Badmen
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Film
Sing Cowboy Sing
Duke Evans
1937
Film
The Law of 45's
Stoney Martin
1935
Film
The Iron Mule
The Engineer
1925
Film
Outlaws of the Plains
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Film
Mark of the Lash
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1948
Film
Son of Billy the Kid
Sheriff Fuzzy
1949
The Anglers
1914
Film
Leading Lizzie Astray
Cafe Patron / Bouncer (uncredited)
1914
His Taking Ways
1926
Film
The Apache Kid
Stage Guard Dangle
1941
Film
Fatty's Magic Pants
Party Guest (uncredited)
1914
Film
The Land of Missing Men
Buckshot
1930
Film
He Did and He Didn’t
The Bounding Burglar
1916
Film
Lovemania
1924
Film
Dynamite Doggie
Al
1925
Film
A Desert Hero
The Bad Man
1919
Film
Death Rides the Plains
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Mother's Boy
Cop
1913
The Love Thief
1914
Film
A Noise from the Deep
1913
Our Dare-Devil Chief
Gang Leader's Accomplice
1915
Film
Shot in the Excitement
The Daughter's Suitor
1914
Film
The Oklahoma Cyclone
Slim
1930
Film
Two Fresh Eggs
1930
Film
When Love Took Wings
Hank Perkins, Fatty's Rival
1915
Film
A Reckless Romeo
The Pretty Girl's Boyfriend
1917
Film
The Lone Rider Fights Back
Fuzzy Jones
1941
Film
The Stunt Man
Second-Unit Director
1927
His Sister's Kids
Cop
1913
Film
Her Birthday Present
1913
A Scrap of Paper
The Crown Prince
1918
Film
That Little Band Of Gold
Waiter (uncredited)
1915
Film
The Frontier Phantom
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1952
Droppington's Family Tree
Waiter
1915
A Studio Rube
1922
Film
Fatty and Mabel Adrift
Hiram Perkins' Son
1916
That's My Meat
1931
Film
The Lone Rider Crosses the Rio
Fuzzy Jones
1941
Film
Fighting Bill Carson
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1945
The Sky Pirate
1914
Harem Scarem
1932
An Incompetent Hero
The Burglar
1914
High Spots
The Clerk
1927
Film
His Wife's Mistakes
The Office Boy
1916
Film
Hogan's Romance Upset
Second Row Fight Spectator (uncredited)
1915
Film
Jungle Heat
1927
Film
Fatty's New Role
Cop (uncredited)
1915
Film
His First Car
1st Camping Husband
1924
Fatty's Debut
(unconfirmed)
1914
Film
Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection 1917-1923
2016
Skybound
The Boy
1926
Film
A Punch in the Nose
1926
Film
Fatty’s Plucky Pup
Dog Catcher (uncredited)
1915
Film
Lover's Luck
Fatty's Rival
1914
Stout Hearts But Weak Knees
1914
Fatty's Finish
1914
Hot or Cold
1928
Film
Fickle Fatty's Fall
Butcher Boy
1915
Out of Place
1922
Soldiers of Misfortune
1914
Fatty's Jonah Day
Fatty's Rival
1914
Film
Buster Keaton: From Silents to Shorts
(archive footage)
2006
Mlle. Irene The Great
1931
Film
A Creampuff Romance
Al
1916
The Pullman Porter
1919
Unreal News Reel No. 2
Man on stationary bicycle
1924