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John Forrest "Fuzzy" Knight (May 9, 1901 – February 23, 1976) was an American film and television actor. He was also a singer, especially in his early career. He appeared in more than 180 films between 1928 and 1967, usually as a cowboy hero's comic sidekick.
He attended nearby West Virginia UniversityCorneau, Ernest. Hall of Fame of Western Film Stars. Christopher Publishing, 1969, p. 235 where he was a member of Sigma Nu fraternity, a cheerleader and law student. He wrote a pep song, "Fight Mountaineers," which is still frequently used by the Mountaineer Marching Band 90 years later. He also wrote the melody for a WVU song titled "To Thee Our Alma Mater," with words by fellow graduate David A. Christopher. He formed his own band in college and played drums, eventually leaving school to perform in vaudeville and in big bands such as Irving Aaronson's and George Olsen's.Fuzzy Knight obituary, Variety, March 3, 1976
Eventually his musical and comedy skills took him to New York, where he appeared in Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1927 and on Broadway theatre in Here's Howe and Ned Wayburn's Gambols.Internet Broadway Database http://ibdb.com/person.php?id=67987 He was billed under his nickname Fuzzy (given him because of his peculiarly soft voice).
While touring with bands, Knight came to Hollywood and appeared in several musical short films for MGM and Paramount between 1928 and 1932. Mae West gave him his first notable film role in She Done Him Wrong, and he went on to play in many dozens of films over the next 30 years. By the 1940s, he was primarily playing in Western movies and was voted one of the Top Ten Money-Making Stars in Westerns in 1940.
Knight became famous to a new generation when he co-starred as Buster Crabbe's sidekick (using his own name as Private Fuzzy Knight)
He died in his sleep at the Motion Picture Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, and was survived by his wife, actress Patricia Ryan (née Thelma de Long). He was buried in Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in Burbank, California.
(2025). 9780786464777, McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers. ISBN 9780786464777 on the 1955 television series Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion. In semi-retirement thereafter, Knight continued to make occasional appearances in films and TV shows through 1967.
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1929 Night Parade Party Guest Uncredited 1932 Fighting For Justice Playing himself Song singer at piano Hell's Highway Society Red Vanity Street Drunk Uncredited Speed Demon Lefty 1933 The Billion Dollar Scandal Piano Entertainer Uncredited She Done Him Wrong Rag Time Kelly Under the Tonto Rim Tex Sunset Pass Willy Willard Her Bodyguard Danny Dare This Day and Age Max To the Last Man Jeff Morley Sitting Pretty Stock Clerk Uncredited 1934 Moulin Rouge Eddie Come On Marines! Wimpy The Last Round-Up Charles Bunko McGee I Hate Women Cookie Smith Operator 13 Pvt. Sweeney The Cat's-Paw Stuttering Gangster The Girl from Missouri Photographer with O'Sullivan Uncredited Belle of the Nineties Comedian She Had to Choose Wally Behold My Wife! Photographer Uncredited Night Alarm Dinner Club Comedian Music in the Air Nick 1935 Home on the Range Cracker George White's 1935 Scandals Sam Fogel Uncredited Vagabond Lady Swan - Man with Pat Uncredited Dizzy Dames Buzz The Murder Man 'Buck' Hawkins Danger Ahead Fred Klein Delicatessen Owner (singer/pianist) Trails of the Wild Mountie Windy Cameron Wanderer of the Wasteland Deputy Scott The Old Homestead Lem Hot Off the Press Bars of Hate Montague Mary Burns, Fugitive Dance hall attendant 1936 The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Tater Song of the Trail Pudge Rio Grande Romance Elmer Palm Springs Ranch Hand Uncredited, off screen credit And Sudden Death Steve Bartlett Wildcat Trooper Constable Pat O'Hearne - RCMP Kelly of the Secret Service Lefty Hogan Sea Spoilers Hogan The Plainsman Dave Song of the Gringo Zony With Love and Kisses Butch Silks and Saddles Bottsie Botsworth 1937 Her Husband Lies Ears Norris Uncredited The Gold Racket Scotty Summers Mountain Justice Clem Biggers Mountain Music Amos Burnside Flying Fists Spider County Fair Whitey the Trainer Courage of the West Hank Givens First of four as the comic sidekick of Bob Baker Quick Money Peter Piper Potter Amateur Crook Jape - Gas-Station Attendant The Singing Outlaw Longhorn Second with Bob Baker 1938 Everybody's Doing It Softy's Henchman Uncredited Where the West Begins Buzz - Jack's Sidekick Border Wolves Clem Barrett The Last Stand Pepper Joy of Living Sideshow Pianist & Singer Uncredited Spawn of the North Lefty Jones The Cowboy and the Lady Buzz 1939 Union Pacific Cookie The Oregon Trail Deadwood Hawkins Serial Desperate Trails Cousin Willie Strong Oklahoma Frontier Frosty Chip of the Flying U "Weary" 1940 Remember the Night Bandleader at Barn Dance Uncredited West of Carson City Banjo My Little Chickadee Cousin Zeb Boss of Bullion City Burt Pennypacker Johnny Apollo Cellmate Riders of Pasco Basin Luther Bad Man from Red Butte Spud Son of Roaring Dan Tick Belden Brigham Young Pete Ragtime Cowboy Joe Joe Bushberry Law and Order Deadwood 1941 Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie Lem Fielding Horror Island Stuff Oliver The Cowboy and the Blonde Skeeter Law of the Range Chap The Shepherd of the Hills Mr. Palestrom Rawhide Rangers Porky Blake Man from Montana Deputy Grubby Badlands of Dakota Hurricane Harry The Masked Rider Patches McQuilt New York Town Gus Nelson Arizona Cyclone Muleshoe Fighting Bill Fargo Scoop 1942 Stagecoach Buckaroo Clem Clemmons Butch Minds the Baby Wyoming Bill Juke Girl Ike Harper Lady in a Jam Govt. Man's Cabbie Uncredited The Silver Bullet Wild Bill Jones Boss of Hangtown Mesa Dr. J. Wellington Dingle Deep in the Heart of Texas "Happy" T. Snodgras Apache Trail Juke Little Joe, the Wrangler Little Joe Smith The Old Chisholm Trail Alvin Pendergast 1943 Tenting Tonight on the Old Camp Ground Si Dugan He's My Guy Sparks Cheyenne Roundup Cal Calkins Raiders of San Joaquin Eustace Clairmont Frontier Law Ramblin' Rufe Randel The Lone Star Trail Angus MacAngus Arizona Trail 'Kansas' Cobb Corvette K-225 Cricket 1944 Marshal of Gunsmoke Glowworm Johnson Oklahoma Raiders Banjo Bonner Hi, Good Lookin'! Joe Smedley The Great Alaskan Mystery 'Grit' Hartman Serial, Chs. Cowboy and the Senorita Fuzzy Boss of Boomtown Corporal 'Chatter' Box Take It Big Cowboy Joe Trigger Trail Echo Allergic to Love Charlie Trail to Gunsight Horatius Van Sickle The Singing Sheriff Fuzzy Riders of the Santa Fe Bullseye Johnson The Old Texas Trail H. Pinkerton 'Pinky' Pinkley 1945 Frisco Sal Hallelujah Song of the Sarong Pete McGillicutty Beyond the Pecos Barnacle Pete Finnegan Swing Out, Sister Clutch Trail to Vengeance Hungry Huggins Renegades of the Rio Grande Ranger Trigger Bidwell Alternative title: Bank Robbery Bad Men of the Border Mortimer P. Rockabye Jones Code of the Lawless Bonanza Featherstone Senorita from the West Rosebud Frontier Gal Fuzzy 1946 Girl on the Spot Bim Gun Town Ivory Her Adventurous Night Cudgeons Lawless Breed Tumbleweed Rustler's Round-Up Pinkerton J. 'Pinky' Pratt Gunman's Code Bosco O'Toole 1947 The Egg and I Cab Driver 1948 Adventures of Gallant Bess Woody 1949 Down to the Sea in Ships Lern Sykes Uncredited Rimfire Porky Hodges Feudin' Rhythm Horseshoe Apache Chief Sergeant Nevada 1950 Hostile Country Deacon Hall Marshal of Heldorado The Mayor Crooked River Deacon Colorado Ranger Deacon Hills of Oklahoma Jiggs Endicott West of the Brazos Judge Deacon Fast on the Draw Deacon 1951 Texas - U. S. Marshal Canyon Raiders Texas Milburn Skipalong Rosenbloom Sneaky Pete Alternative title: Square Shooter Nevada Badmen Texas Stagecoach Driver Texas McGillicudy Show Boat Trocadero Piano Player Uncredited Gold Raiders Sheriff Honeychile Ice Cream Vendor Lawless Cowboys Horace Greeley Smithers Stage to Blue River Texas 1952 Night Raiders Tex Rancho Notorious The Barber Uncredited Rodeo Jazbo Davis Oklahoma Annie Larry The Gunman Blinkey Kansas Territory Cap Fargo Tad Sloan Feudin' Fools Traps 1953 Topeka Pop Harrison Vigilante Terror Strummer Jones Geraldine Song Plugger Uncredited 1956 The Naked Hills Pitch Man 1958 The Notorious Mr. Monks Tom 1959 These Thousand Hills Jacob Smith Uncredited 1965 The Bounty Killer Captain Luther 1966 Waco Telegraph Operator 1967 Hostile Guns Buck 1950–1951 The Gene Autry Show Sagebrush - Sidekick 4 episodes 1955–1957 Captain Gallant of the Foreign Legion Pvt. Fuzzy Knight 33 episodes 1959 The Man and the Challenge Burro Charlie 1 episode 1960 Outlaws Isaac Miller 1 episode 1962 The Tall Man Johnny Red 1 episode The Joey Bishop Show Charles Porter 2 episodes
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