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Al St. John (also credited as Al Saint John and "Fuzzy" St. John; September 10, 1892 – January 21, 1963) was an early American motion-picture comedian. He was a nephew of silent film star Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle , with whom he often performed on screen.
With the advent of sound drastically changing and curtailing the two-reel comedy format, St. John diversified, creating a second career for himself as a comic sidekick in Western films and ultimately developing the character of "Fuzzy Q. Jones", for which he is best known in posterity.
Movie legend has it that the "Fuzzy" nickname occurred during the Fred Scott singing westerns at Spectrum in the 1930s. Apparently the producers were trying to hire Fuzzy Knight, but something happened and St. John was brought in to fulfill the sidekick duties.
- September 10, 1893
- January 21, 1963
At the end of his career he joined the traveling Western Revues as his famous sidekick character Fuzzy Q. Jones. On the Official Al St. John YouTube channel you can find rare films from St....
Buster Crabbe - The Mysterious Rider - Al "Fuzzy" St. John. Audio Video. 20.6K subscribers.
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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 ...
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Fuzzy Settles Down: Directed by Sam Newfield. With Buster Crabbe, Falcon, Al St. John, Patti McCarty. Wishing to settle down, Fuzzy uses his reward money to buy a newspaper. He then raises money for the new telegraph line. When it is stolen, Barlowe incites the towns people to hang him.
