Jesse Fuller

Jesse Fuller was born on Mar 12, 1896 in USA. Jesse Fuller's big-screen debut came with The Thief of Bagdad directed by Raoul Walsh in 1924, strarring (uncredited). Jesse Fuller is known for The Thief of Bagdad directed by Raoul Walsh, Douglas Fairbanks stars as The Thief of Bagdad and Snitz Edwards as The Thief's Evil Associate. The upcoming new movie Jesse Fuller plays is The Great White Hope which will be released on Oct 16, 1970.

Blues singer/musician Jesse Fuller was born in Jonesboro, GA, in 1896. He learned to play guitar as a youth, but didn't really embark on a career as a professional musician until he was in his 50s. In his 30s he drifted across the US and wound up in Los Angeles, where he got a succession of odd jobs--including a stint as a movie extra--and then headed upstate towards the San Francisco Bay area. He sang and performed at parties and on street corners there, until in 1951--at age 55--he decided to become a full-time musician. In 1954 he wrote what would become his best-known tune, "San Francisco Bay Blues". He combined his ability to play a variety of musical instruments and to sing and became a one-man band, playing a 12-string guitar, a "fotdella"--a homemade bass that used piano strings and was played with a foot pedal--a cymbal, a harmonica and a kazoo, and basically turned himself into a one-man jug band. In 1955 he cut an album, "Folk Blues: Working on the Railroad with Jesse Fuller". His heyday was in the 1960s and 1970s. He toured extensively--including Europe--and played at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival in addition to a host of other blues and folk festivals around the country, and became a staple on the college coffeehouse circuit. He died in Oakland, CA, in 1976.