Then there's the one named people like St. John or St. John or St. John or St. John or St. John or St. John, or people with St. John as a first name like St. John Alexander and St. John Barned-Smith and St. John Bowman and St. John Carlberg and St. John Colon and St. John Curzon and St. John Deakins and St. John DeZilva and St. John Erhard and St. John Erskine and St. John Ervine and St. John Frizell and St. John Gore and St. John Green and St. John Hankin and St. John Jazzband and St. John MacNeil and St. John McKay and St. John Myers and St. John O'Rorke and St. John O'Rorke and St. John Requejo and St. John Requejo II and St. John Springett and St. John Stephen and St. John Stuart and St. John Terrell and St. John the Apostle and St. John Wolf. So what to do with a guy like St. Johnny? Well, those of you who've met him know he's more than deserving of his own category... but he's not an auteur, so you'll have to go to a different blog for that... just checked. It's a band! Well, they're good, just not Teenage Fanclub good. Almost forgot! Leave us not forget the next generation of St. Johns, like Terry Lee St. John Jr. and... oh, I guess that's it.
And yet, not an auteur in the bunch! Which brings us to a feller named Al St. John. Sadly, he now resides in the big DGA in the proverbial sky, but once he was kinduva big deal here on Earth! I mean, look at that résumé! Over 300 acting credits! Bizzy busy guy! He's got his OWN WEB SITE, for Gawd'z Zake! And someone's even paid to keep the domain name and everything! It doesn't default to CenturyLink or some such, like soooooo many others do these days. He was one of the original Keystone Kops and... oh, I guess that explains a lot. He was a nephew of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. Whelp, it's like that one poet laureate said: Carl Laemmle has a large faemmle... better to see the documentary about it. But back to Al St. John. His directing career was during that Golden Age during the silent... sorry, the Silent Era. Hollywood seems to have a "Golden Age" every few decades or so, but surely Al got in at the right time, when it seemed like they'd let anyone do anything, and sound didn't add an extra dimension to everything yet. Al's last directorial effort is 1925's Service. No, he apparently had more fun in front of the camera, and at some point acquired the nickname "Fuzzy." Other than the occasional A Face in the Crowd... the Fog, he wound up playing a character named "Fuzzy" Q. Jones quite a lot. Quite a cutie! I mean, he's no "Broncho Billy" Anderson, but so few are; that guy was a dynamo. But yeah, "Fuzzy" Q. Jones. Wonder if that's where L. Q. Jones got his name.
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