Al St. John

Born: 1893-09-10 Santa Ana, California, USA

Died: 1963-01-21

​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 ...