If you are a fan of either silent comedy or B-westerns than you are probably familiar with Al St. John. As the nephew of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, he was a regular presence in the comic's classic comedy shorts, including those featuring Buster Keaton. In the talkie era, he would appear often in B-westerns as a comic-relief character named Fuzzy Q. Jones. As this character he would appear in films starring such B-western stars as Bob Livingston, Buster Crabbe, Bob Steele, Fred Scott, Jack Randall and Lash La Rue.
The following is a 1920 article from Motion Picture Magazine about Al St. John. If you have trouble reading the following article, click on the pages and use your touch screen to zoom in. If you don't have a touch screen click here.
Here is a classic short film featuring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Buster Keaton and Al St. John, The Butcher Boy (1917)
Here is a classic B-western featuring Al St. John in the title role, Fuzzy Settles Down (1944), also starring Buster Crabbe.
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