Bud Jamison
Biography
Bud Jamison was an American film actor who moved from the stage and vaudeville into movies and appeared in roughly 450 films between 1915 and 1944. Born in Vallejo, California, he put a husky build and a readiness for messy slapstick to work in silent comedies, beginning in 1915 with the Essanay stock company assembled by Charlie Chaplin. He then played hot-tempered comic foils at Hal Roach for Harold Lloyd, Stan Laurel and Snub Pollard, joined Universal's short-comedy unit in the 1920s and later worked in Mack Sennett comedies. Sound films found him settled as a dependable character comedian in authority roles. He also sang, with a tenor voice that producers called on in films such as Pot o' Gold, and at Columbia he was a foil for the Three Stooges in 38 shorts over 10 years, among them their debut Woman Haters (1934).
50years old at death
- Born Vallejo
- Died Hollywood
- Star sign: AquariusThe sign runs January 20 to February 18
- Also credited as William Jaimison
Movie Career
- Films
- 4
- Career span
- 26 years1915 to 1941
Every film, newest first
- 1941The Monster and the GirlIMDb rating 6.0
- 1936Disorder in the CourtIMDb rating 8.0
- 1916The FloorwalkerIMDb rating 6.5
- 1915The ChampionIMDb rating 6.7
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Getting ready for a role
Jamison's earliest movies cast him as a veteran policeman, detective, or other authority figure, but he looked too young for the heavy makeup to be totally convincing.
Beyond film
In 1930, Jamison and fellow comic Jimmie Adams appeared as "The Rolling Stones" in a short series of color travelogues, playing two singing vagabonds who toured the country.
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Most often with
Charles Chaplin directed two of these films. Four actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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