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Bud Jamison

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Birthday: Feb 15, 1895

Birthplace: Vallejo, California, USA

Younger movie fans in the post-talkies era knew Bud Jamison as a familiar foil to the Three Stooges during many of their 1930s two-reelers. The native Californian jumped from vaudeville into the nascent movie-making industry that was emerging in his home state. A member of Charlie Chaplin's stock company at the Essanay Studio in 1915, the big-boned yet agile Jamison proved to be the perfect heavy opposite Chaplin, and was such a skilled performer that he was hired by numerous other comedic titans of the Silent Movie Era, including Harold Lloyd, Mack Sennett, and Hal Roach. Often cast as some kind of authority figure, by the time sound was introduced into movie-making he seamlessly transitioned into the medium, even more so given his excellent tenor singing voice. It was a skill he used to great effect in the 1941 showbiz comedy "Pot O' Gold," where he dominated in a jail cell scene over a group of other loudly singing actors. But it was in the Stooges short subjects, starting with 1934's "Woman Haters," that Jamison made his mark, particularly in 1936's classic "Disorder in the Court." Between the voluminous amounts of comic two-reelers he appeared in throughout his 29-year career, the beefy character actor appeared in about 450 motion pictures. Bud Jamison died of diabetic shock in at the age of 50.

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Filmography

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Rough on Rents Renter (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 41% Li'l Abner Hairless Joe (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet Jail Bait Police Chief (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ticket to Paradise Taxi Dispattcher (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet Alibi Bye Bye Bud Nimrod (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Home Work Unknown (Character) - 1935
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dora's Dunking Donuts Radio Station Manager (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Too Many Highballs Arresting Policeman (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Play Bridge With Your Wife Kibitzer (Character) - 1933
No Score Yet No Score Yet What Price Taxi Taxi Company Dispatcher (Character) - 1932
No Score Yet No Score Yet Match Play Bud (Character) - 1930
No Score Yet 74% The Chaser Unknown (Character) - 1928
No Score Yet No Score Yet Darwin Was Right Alexander (Character) - 1924
No Score Yet No Score Yet Dante's Inferno The Butler (Character) - 1924
No Score Yet No Score Yet Do You Love Your Wife? Unknown (Character) - 1919
No Score Yet No Score Yet Chop Suey & Co. Unknown (Character) - 1919
No Score Yet No Score Yet Don't Shove Harold's rival (Character) - 1919
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bashful Unknown (Character) - 1917
No Score Yet No Score Yet Over the Fence The Boss (Character) - 1917
No Score Yet 21% In the Park Unknown (Character) - 1915
No Score Yet 57% The Champion Bob Uppercut (Character) - 1915
No Score Yet 71% The Tramp Third Thief (Character) - 1915