Bud Jamison

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location = Vallejo, California
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deathplace = Hollywood, California
yearsactive = 1915-1944
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Bud Jamison (born William Jaimison, February 15, 1894 – September 30, 1944), was an American film actor. He appeared in 450 films between 1915 and 1945.

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 Bud 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 movies arrived he well established as a reliable character comedian.

Jamison had a superb tenor singing voice, and loved to sing when the cameras were not rolling. Talking pictures 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 Bud Jamison and comic Jimmie Adams as "The Rolling Stones," two singing vagabonds seeing the country. Jamison would even be hired just for his singing, as in "Pot o' Gold" where he plays a vagrant who harmonizes in jail.

For the most part 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 first one, "Woman Haters" (in which Jamison speaks in verse, as the head of the Woman Haters Club).

Moe Howard of the Stooges fondly recalled singing barbershop harmony with Charley Chase, actor Vernon Dent, and Bud Jamison many times on movie sets.

Jamison suffered from diabetes during his later years. He became ill in mid-1944, but refused to take insulin due to his devout Christian Scientist beliefs. As a result, he went into diabetic shock and died suddenly on September 30, 1944, at age 50.

elected filmography

* "Incendiary Blonde" (1945)
* "Nob Hill" (1945)
* "Diamond Horseshoe" (1945)
* "See My Lawyer (1945)
* "She Snoops to Conquer" (1944)
* "Lost in a Harem" (1944)
* "Mrs. Parkington" (1944)
* "Casanova Brown" (1944)
* "It Happened Tomorrow" (1944)
* "Love Your Landlord" (1944)
* "Crash Goes the Hash" (1944)
* "Phony Express" (1943)
* "Hit Parade of 1943" (1943)
* "Hello Frisco, Hello" (1943)
* "I Can Hardly Wait" (1943)
* "Back From the Front" (1943)
* "Holiday Inn" (1942)
* "Sock-a-Bye Baby" (1942)
* "Three Smart Saps" (1942)
* "Pot O' Gold" (1941)
* "Dutiful But Dumb" (1941)
* "An Ache in Every Stake" (1941)
* "The Monster and the Girl" (1941)
* "All the World's a Stooge" (1941)
* "So Long, Mr. Chumps" (1941)
* "I'll Never Heil Again" (1941)
* "Slightly Honorable" (1940)
* "Little Men" (1940)
* "Li'l Abner" (1940)
* "A Plumbing We Will Go" (1940)
* "Mooching Through Georgia" (1939)
* "Pest from the West" (1939)
* "Three Little Sew and Sews" (1939)
* "A Ducking They Did Go" (1939)
* "Blondie" (1938)
* "Tassels in the Air" (1938)
* "Mutts to You" (1938)
* "Healthy, Wealthy, and Dumb" (1938)
* "Wee Wee Monsieur" (1938)
* "Termites of 1938" (1938)
* "I Am the Law" (1938)
* "Love Nest on Wheels" (1937)
* "Dizzy Doctors" (1937)
* "Jail Bait" (1937)
* "Back to the Woods" (1937)
* "Come and Get It" (1936)
* "Whoops I'm an Indian" (1936)
* "A Pain in the Pullman" (1936)
* "Disorder in the Court" (1936)
* "Grand Slam Opera" (1936)
* "Movie Maniacs" (1936)
* "On the Wrong Trek" (1936)
* "Ants in the Pantry" (1936)
* "Three Little Beers" (1935)
* "The Whole Town's Talking" (1935)
* "Hoi Polloi" (1935)
* "The E-Flat Man" (1935)
* "Uncivil Warriors" (1935)
* "The Spirit of 1976" (1935)
* "Flying Down to Zero" (1935)
* "Three Little Pigskins" (1934)
* "Wonder Bar" (1934)
* "Men in Black" (1934)
* "Woman Haters" (1934)
* "Dora's Dunking Doughnuts" (1933)
* "The Dentist" (1932)
* "His First Flame" (1927)
* "Long Pants" (1927)
* "Laughing Gas" (1920)
* "Be My Wife" (1919)
* "Don't Shove" (1919)
* "Heap Big Chief" (1919)
* "Chop Suey & Co." (1919)
* "Count Your Change" (1919)
* "A Jazzed Honeymoon" (1919)
* "Spring Fever" (1919)
* "Off the Trolley" (1919)
* "Pistols for Breakfast" (1919)
* "Ring Up the Curtain" (1919)
* "Young Mr. Jazz" (1919)
* "The Dutiful Dub" (1919)
* "Look Out Below" (1919)
* "I'm on My Way" (1919)
* "Hoots Mon!" (1919)
* "On the Fire" (1919)
* "Ask Father" (1919)
* "Hustling for Health" (1919)
* "Going! Going! Gone!" (1919)
* "Wanted - $5,000" (1919)
* "Do You Love Your Wife?" (1919)
* "She Loves Me Not" (1918)
* "Take a Chance" (1918)
* "Hear 'Em Rave" (1918)
* "Back to the Woods" (1918)
* "Nothing But Trouble" (1918)
* "Why Pick on Me?" (1918)
* "Swing Your Partners" (1918)
* "Bees in His Bonnet" (1918)
* "Two Scrambled" (1918)
* "Kicking the Germ Out of Germany" (1918)
* "Two-Gun Gussie" (1918)
* "The Non-Stop Kid" (1918)
* "It's a Wild Life" (1918)
* "Here Come the Girls" (1918)
* "Just Rambling Along" (1918)
* "No Place Like Jail" (1918)
* "Triple Trouble" (1918)
* "Step Lively" (1917)
* "Bashful" (1917)
* "Move On" (1917)
* "We Never Sleep" (1917)
* "Clubs Are Trump" (1917)
* "Love, Laughs and Lather" (1917)
* "From Laramie to London" (1917)
* "Birds of a Feather" (1917)
* "Pinched" (1917)
* "Lonesome Luke Loses Patients" (1917)
* "Over the Fence" (1917)
* "Lonesome Luke's Wild Women" (1917)
* "Lonesome Luke, Mechanic" (1917)
* "Lonesome Luke, Messenger" (1917)
* "Stop! Luke! Listen!" (1917)
* "Lonesome Luke, Plumber" (1917)
* "Lonesome Luke's Honeymoon" (1917)
* "Lonesome Luke on Tin Can Alley" (1917)
* "Lonesome Luke's Lively Life" (1917)
* "Luke Wins Ye Ladye Faire" (1917)
* "Lonesome Luke, Lawyer" (1917)
* "Luke's Trolley Troubles" (1917)
* "Luke's Busy Day" (1917)
* "Luke's Lost Liberty" (1917)
* "Luke's Shattered Sleep" (1916)
* "Luke Locates the Loot" (1916)
* "Luke's Fireworks Fizzle" (1916)
* "Burlesque on Carmen" (1916)
* "Luke, Rank Impersonator" (1916)
* "Luke's Movie Muddle" (1916)
* "Luke's Newsie Knockout" (1916)
* "Luke, Patient Provider" (1916)
* "Luke, the Gladiator" (1916)
* "Luke's Preparedness Preparations" (1916)
* "Luke, the Chauffeur" (1916)
* "Luke and the Bang-Tails" (1916)
* "Luke's Speedy Club Life" (1916)
* "Luke and the Mermaids" (1916)
* "Luke Joins the Navy" (1916)
* "Luke Does the Midway" (1916)
* "Luke's Lost Lamb" (1916)
* "Luke, Crystal Gazer" (1916)
* "Luke's Society Mixup" (1916)
* "Luke's Fatal Flivver" (1916)
* "Luke Laughs Last" (1916)
* "Police" (1916)
* "Luke's Late Lunchers" (1916)
* "Luke's Double" (1916)
* "Luke Pipes the Pippins" (1916)
* "Shanghaied" (1915)
* "By the Sea" (1915)
* "The Tramp" (1915)
* "A Jitney Elopement" (1915)
* "In the Park" (1915)
* "The Champion" (1915)
* "His Regeneration" (1915)
* "A Night Out" (1915)

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DATE OF BIRTH= 1894-2-15
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DATE OF DEATH= 1944-9-30
PLACE OF DEATH= Hollywood, California