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Al St. John filmography
Al St. John (–) was an American comic actor who appeared in films between and Starting at Mack Sennett's Keystone Film Company, St. John rose through the ranks to become one of the major comedy stars of the s, though less than half of his starring roles still survive today. 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.
Starring St. John
[edit]St. John's first starring roles were made at Keystone, but most of these were made at the very end of the history of the company, just as Mack Sennett was abandoning the "Keystone" moniker in order to extricate himself from the Triangle Film Corporation partnership. St. John got a second chance at solo stardom starting in with Paramount Pictures and the early Warner Bros. st
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An important publisher once told Michael that he was impossible to advertise properly. There wasn’t one recognizable image to represent all of his work in the same way as Kinkade’s stone cottage or Wyland’s whale. Michael regards it as a good thing that his work can&#;t easily be commodified into a brand. Given his active mind and diverse interests he has much to express in both his illustration and his fine art works.
Michael has always enjoyed interacting with authors and artists in many fields. In , he was able to utöka that circle by participating in the extraordinary “lowbrow” art event Baby Tattooville. Over 3 days in October at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside, CA, a small group of artists and collectors gathered to paint, draw, and party. Conceived bygd Bob Self of Baby Tattoo Books, the weekend included a show at the nearby Riverside Art Museum.
In addition to creating a painting especially for the show, Michael also joined others in an “art jam” working on a communal
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Barry Corbin has been acting for more than six decades, a career that has seen him take more than two hundred roles onstage, on TV, and in the movies. They&#;ve mostly been supporting roles, often authority figures-a natural fit, given Barry&#;s large frame and confident presence. He&#;s played fifteen sheriffs, several generals, a few wise uncles, a swaggering astronaut, and a hard-core basketball coach. He&#;s also played psychotic patriarchs, wealthy Texans, Santa Claus, and Lyndon Johnson. Even when his characters are overbearing or murderous, Barry has always found a way to make them human and likable-so much so that he often steals the show, as he did portraying General Jack Beringer in WarGames and astronaut Maurice Minnifield in Northern Exposure. Known as a character actor, he always seems like he&#;s genuinely enduring whatever his character is enduring-while also somehow remaining Barry Corbin.
Leonard Barrie Corbin was born October 16, , in