Al St. John
Acting
🎂 1893-09-09
​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.
Cast credits(271)
Officer on Horseback (uncredited)
1926
archive footage
1957
Bert - Henchman
1933
Buck
1931
Townsman Finding Kate's Body
1943
Singer (uncredited)
1914
Fuzzy Jones
1942
Fuzzy
1947
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Holdup Man (uncredited)
1918
Boarder (uncredited)
1914
Cop in Park / Prisoner in Derby (uncredited)
1915
Skid
1932
Keystone Kop (uncredited)
1914
Flophouse Bum
1938
Bearded Man Hurrying to Wedding
1942
Fuzzy
1938
Tom - Garage Owner
1933
Alum
1917
Man with Motorbike (uncredited)
1920
Surgeon's Assistant
1918
Joe Smithpan
1940
Studio Janitor
1915
Guest in Convict Costume (uncredited)
1914
1913
Station Master
1938
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Cop
1914
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Jailbird
1932
Morgue Attendant (uncredited)
1936
Fuzzy Jones
1944
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1944
The Bartender
1916
Bunion
1930
Policeman
1914
City Gent
1917
Detainee Touching Cigarette Pack (uncredited)
1933
Cook
1917
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Fuzzy Jones
1941
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Bozo
1929
Deputy Sheriff
1946
Mr. Reddy
1914
The Burglar
1914
Fuzzy
1938
A Bosom Friend
1915
Fuzzy Jones
1944
Slim - A Ranger
1932
Dog Catcher (uncredited)
1915
Fuzzy
1941
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1941
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
1914
Sword Swallower
1915
Bicycle Messenger
1916
Sheriff Fuzzy
1949
Self (archive footage)
1961
1919
The Bad Man
1919
Al
1933
Elevator boy
1914
1914
Waiter
1927
Stage Guard Dangle
1941
(archive footage)
1976
The Bum
1924
Andy Jones / Jonathan Fuzzy Jones
1945
Slim
1930
Fatty's Rival
1914
Elmer
1934
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1950
Mabel's Brother
1914
Bellhop / Waiter
1914
Fuzzy Jones
1942
Fuzzy Jones
1941
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Fuzzy Jones
1944
The Squire's Son
1915
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Boxer - Pug's Rival / Desk Sergeant / Cop (uncredited)
1914
Fuzzy
1940
Fuzzy Jones
1947
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1945
Fuzzy Martin
1938
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Al
1936
Fuzzy
1940
Rival employee
1917
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Old Friend of Fatty's Wife
1917
Old Friend of Fatty's Wife (uncredited)
1917
Fuzzy Jones
1945
Dusty Jenkins
1942
Bellboy (uncredited)
1914
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1941
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Wild Bill Hickup
1918
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1949
Man in Pool Hall
1913
Man On Beach
1921
Al
1931
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1944
Hank Stoner
1942
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Waiter (uncredited)
1915
1916
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1945
Mack
1936
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1950
Cinco
1935
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1944
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
1914
Fuzzy Jones
1946
Fuzzy
1941
Fuzzy Jones
1945
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Fatty's Rival
1914
1913
Smokey
1940
Uncle Billy
1937
The Bounding Burglar
1916
Al Adams
1927
Gimpy - a thug
1940
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1945
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Fuzzy Jones
1945
Fuzzy Jones
1945
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1952
Sailor
1931
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
1915
2016
Fuzzy Jones
1941
The Office Boy
1916
The Engineer
1925
Desk Clerk
1918
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1948
Cop
1913
Gang Leader's Accomplice
1915
Crandall - Lawyer (uncredited)
1942
Walla Walla Wiggins
1936
Fuzzy
1937
Doc Jones
1944
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
Al 'Fuzzy' St. John
1947
Elmer
1936
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1941
Fuzzy
1941
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1951
Radio Officer Jones
1935
Himself
1927
1914
Stub Macey
1935
Hiram Perkins' Son
1916
Gambler
1917
Fatty's Rival
1915
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1948
The Crown Prince
1918
The Door Knocker
1931
Caveman
1914
Fuzzy Jones
1937
Al Smith
1932
1926
Party Guest (uncredited)
1914
Fuzzy
1939
Stagehand
1919
Joe
1938
Buttonshoe Bill
1925
Fuzzy
1937
Frosty Larson
1940
Fuzzy Jones
1942
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1947
Matthews
1936
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
1913
Pop Sawyer
1942
Eli Root
1937
Dan Willoughby
1941
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1948
Delivery Boy (uncredited)
1914
Fuzzy
1938
Fuzzy Jones
1944
Bill Smithers
1940
1930
1922
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
Duke Evans
1937
Hardtack
1942
Bill
1929
1926
1925
Al Clove - Fatty's Rival (uncredited)
1919
The Pretty Girl's Boyfriend
1917
1927
Fuzzy Jones
1941
1924
Mountain Man
1918
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1952
Nat Barlow
1924
Stoney Martin
1935
Cafe Patron / Bouncer (uncredited)
1914
Buckshot
1930
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1951
The Villain
1917
Uncle Jed
1937
The Newlywed Husband
1931
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1942
1914
Cop
1913
Hank Perkins, Fatty's Rival
1915
Fuzzy Glass
1939
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
Lead Cop (uncredited)
1915
(archive footage)
2006
Fuzzy Jones
1940
Waiter
1915
Cop (uncredited)
1915
Whiney Roberts
1938
Various (archive footage) (uncredited)
1962
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
1930
Joe Nimble
1928
Tom Katt
1925
1923
1st Camping Husband
1924
Zip Coon
1928
Fuzzy
1937
Fuzzy
1941
Second Row Fight Spectator (uncredited)
1915
1932
1922
1914
Bill Brown
1927
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1943
1922
1919
1914
The Boy
1926
1914
1920
Al
1930
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1949
1922
Fuzzy Q. Jones
1946
1931
Al
1925
1914
1916
Al
1926
The Waiter
1916
Butcher Boy
1915
1928
Jay Walker
1925
1919
The Daughter's Suitor
1914
1920
(unconfirmed)
1914
Second-Unit Director
1927
The Clerk
1927
1931
Al
1926
Man on stationary bicycle
1924
