Bud Jamison
Bud Jamison | |
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Bud Jamison | |
Born |
William Edward Jaimison February 15, 1894 Vallejo, California, U.S. |
Died |
September 30, 1944 50) Hollywood, California, U.S. | (aged
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1915–1944 |
Spouse(s) | Georgia Kathleen Holland (1921–1944) (his death) |
Bud Jamison (February 15, 1894 – September 30, 1944) was an American film actor. He appeared in 450 films between 1915 and 1944.
Career
Born in Vallejo, California, Jamison joined the ranks of stage and vaudeville performers making movies in California. Jamison's husky build and willingness to participate in messy slapstick and rowdy action guaranteed him work in silent comedies. In 1915 he was a member of Charlie Chaplin's stock company at the Essanay studio. From there he moved to the Hal Roach studio, playing hot-tempered comic foils for Harold Lloyd, Snub Pollard, and Stan Laurel. In the 1920s he joined Universal Pictures' short-comedy contingent, and later worked in Mack Sennett comedies.
In his earliest films Jamison looked too young to be totally convincing in heavy makeup as a veteran policeman, detective, or authority figure. As the years progressed, he grew into these roles, and by the time sound films arrived he was well established as a reliable character comedian.
Jamison had a superb tenor singing voice, and loved to sing when not filming. Sound movies gave producers a chance to exploit his singing, and for the rest of his career he would occasionally be called upon to vocalize in films. A brief series of color travelogues filmed in 1930, featured Jamison and comic Jimmie Adams as "The Rolling Stones," two singing vagabonds seeing the country. Jamison would be hired just for his singing, as in Pot o' Gold where he plays a vagrant who harmonizes in jail. He also sings "You'll Never Know Just What Tears Are" in The Three Stooges 1939 film A Ducking They Did Go.
Jamison continued to play cops, robbers, bosses, servants, and various professional men who clash with comedy stars. He appeared opposite Bing Crosby, W. C. Fields, and Andy Clyde in Sennett's talkies. Like other members of the two-reel-comedy community, he found work at various studios: Hal Roach (with Thelma Todd and ZaSu Pitts, and Charley Chase). Educational Pictures (with Buster Keaton), RKO Radio Pictures (with Clark & McCullough, Leon Errol, and Edgar Kennedy), and Columbia Pictures (with Keaton, Clyde, Chase, Harry Langdon, and the Three Stooges, among many others). Jamison is best known for his Columbia Stooge shorts. including their debut, Woman Haters (in which Jamison speaks in verse, as the head of the Woman Haters Club).
Moe Howard of the Stooges (who referred to Jamison as "Buddy Jamison") fondly recalled singing barbershop harmony with Charley Chase, actor Vernon Dent, and Jamison many times on movie sets.
Death
Jamison suffered from diabetes during his later years. A devout Christian Scientist, he died on September 30, 1944 at age 50 after refusing treatment for kidney cancer.[1]
He is buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, California.
Partial filmography
- A Night Out (1915)
- His Regeneration (1915)
- The Champion (1915)
- In the Park (1915)
- A Jitney Elopement (1915)
- The Tramp (1915)
- By the Sea (1915)
- Shanghaied (1915)
- Luke Pipes the Pippins (1916)
- Luke's Double (1916)
- Luke's Late Lunchers (1916)
- Police (1916)
- Luke Laughs Last (1916)
- Luke's Fatal Flivver (1916)
- Luke's Society Mixup (1916)
- Luke, Crystal Gazer (1916)
- Luke's Lost Lamb (1916)
- Luke Does the Midway (1916)
- Luke Joins the Navy (1916)
- Luke and the Mermaids (1916)
- Luke's Speedy Club Life (1916)
- Luke and the Bang-Tails (1916)
- Luke, the Chauffeur (1916)
- Luke's Preparedness Preparations (1916)
- Luke, the Gladiator (1916)
- Luke, Patient Provider (1916)
- Luke's Newsie Knockout (1916)
- Luke's Movie Muddle (1916)
- Luke, Rank Impersonator (1916)
- Burlesque on Carmen (1916)
- Luke's Fireworks Fizzle (1916)
- Luke Locates the Loot (1916)
- Luke's Shattered Sleep (1916)
- Luke's Lost Liberty (1917)
- Luke's Busy Day (1917)
- Luke's Trolley Troubles (1917)
- Lonesome Luke, Lawyer (1917)
- Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire (1917)
- Lonesome Luke's Lively Life (1917)
- Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley (1917)
- Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon (1917)
- Lonesome Luke, Plumber (1917)
- Stop! Luke! Listen! (1917)
- Lonesome Luke, Messenger (1917)
- Lonesome Luke, Mechanic (1917)
- Lonesome Luke's Wild Women (1917)
- Over the Fence (1917)
- Lonesome Luke Loses Patients (1917)
- Pinched (1917)
- Birds of a Feather (1917)
- From Laramie to London (1917)
- Love, Laughs and Lather (1917)
- Clubs Are Trump (1917)
- We Never Sleep (1917)
- Move On (1917)
- Bashful (1917)
- Step Lively (1917)
- Triple Trouble (1918)
- No Place Like Jail (1918)
- Just Rambling Along (1918)
- Here Come the Girls (1918)
- It's a Wild Life (1918)
- The Non-Stop Kid (1918)
- Two-Gun Gussie (1918)
- Kicking the Germ Out of Germany (1918)
- Two Scrambled (1918)
- Bees in His Bonnet (1918)
- Swing Your Partners (1918)
- Why Pick on Me? (1918)
- Nothing But Trouble (1918)
- Back to the Woods (1918)
- Hear 'Em Rave (1918)
- Take a Chance (1918)
- She Loves Me Not (1918)
- Do You Love Your Wife? (1919)
- Wanted - $5,000 (1919)
- Going! Going! Gone! (1919)
- Hustling for Health (1919)
- Ask Father (1919)
- On the Fire (1919)
- Hoots Mon! (1919)
- I'm on My Way (1919)
- Look Out Below (1919)
- The Dutiful Dub (1919)
- Young Mr. Jazz (1919)
- Ring Up the Curtain (1919)
- Pistols for Breakfast (1919)
- Off the Trolley (1919)
- Spring Fever (1919)
- A Jazzed Honeymoon (1919)
- Count Your Change (1919)
- Chop Suey & Co. (1919)
- Heap Big Chief (1919)
- Don't Shove (1919)
- Be My Wife (1919)
- Laughing Gas (1920)
- Dante's Inferno (1924)
- The Cyclone Rider (1924)
- Long Pants (1927)
- His First Flame (1927)
- Play Safe (1927)
- A Texas Steer (1927)
- Heart Trouble (1928)
- The Dentist (1932)
- Blue of the Night (1933)
- Dora's Dunking Doughnuts (1933)
- Woman Haters (1934)
- Men in Black (1934)
- Wonder Bar (1934)
- Three Little Pigskins (1934)
- Flying Down to Zero (1935)
- The Spirit of 1976 (1935)
- Uncivil Warriors (1935)
- The E-Flat Man (1935)
- Hoi Polloi (1935)
- The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
- Three Little Beers (1935)
- Ants in the Pantry (1936)
- On the Wrong Trek (1936)
- Movie Maniacs (1936)
- Grand Slam Opera (1936)
- Disorder in the Court (1936)
- A Pain in the Pullman (1936)
- Whoops, I'm an Indian! (1936)
- Come and Get It (1936)
- Back to the Woods (1937)
- Jail Bait (1937)
- Dizzy Doctors (1937)
- Love Nest on Wheels (1937)
- Counsel for Crime (1937)
- I Am the Law (1938)
- Termites of 1938 (1938)
- Wee Wee Monsieur (1938)
- Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb (1938)
- Mutts to You (1938)
- Tassels in the Air (1938)
- Blondie (1938)
- A Ducking They Did Go (1939)
- Three Little Sew and Sews (1939)
- Pest from the West (1939)
- Mooching Through Georgia (1939)
- A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
- Li'l Abner (1940)
- Little Men (1940)
- Slightly Honorable (1940)
- So You Won't Squawk! (1941)
- An Ache in Every Stake (1941)
- I'll Never Heil Again (1941)
- All the World's a Stooge (1941)
- The Monster and the Girl (1941)
- So Long Mr. Chumps (1941) (deleted scene)
- An Ache in Every Stake (1941)
- Dutiful But Dumb (1941)
- Pot o' Gold (1941)
- Three Smart Saps (1942)
- Even As IOU (1942)
- Sock-a-Bye Baby (1942)
- Holiday Inn (1942)
- Back From the Front (1943)
- Three Little Twirps (1943)
- I Can Hardly Wait (1943)
- Hello Frisco, Hello (1943)
- Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)
- Phony Express (1943)
- Crash Goes the Hash (1944)
- Love Your Landlord (1944)
- It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
- Casanova Brown (1944)
- Mrs. Parkington (1944)
- Lost in a Harem (1944)
- She Snoops to Conquer (1944)
- See My Lawyer (1945)
- Diamond Horseshoe (1945)
- Nob Hill (1945)
- Incendiary Blonde (1945)
- Three Dark Horses [stock photo only] (1952)
References
- ↑ Bud Jamison entry at threestooges.net Archived May 27, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
External links
- Bud Jamison at the Internet Movie Database
- Bud Jamison at Find a Grave
- Bud Jamison at threestooges.net
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