Biography
American vaudevillian Eddie Fetherstone (sometimes spelled Fetherston) started popping up in films around 1925. A perfect "working-stiff" type (he usually wore cap and overalls on screen), Fetherstone became a favorite of star comedian
Harold Lloyd, appearing in the Lloyd talkies
Movie Crazy (1932),
Cat's Paw (1934) and
The Milky Way (1936). Elsewhere, Fetherston played dozens of bit roles as reporters, cabbies and crooks. Larger roles came his way in such "B"'s as Republic's
Sky Bandits and in the two-reel efforts of
The Three Stooges,
Buster Keaton and
Harry Langdon at Columbia. Eddie Fetherstone can currently be seen on TV on an annual basis, playing a bank teller in
Frank Capra's
It's a Wonderful Life (1946). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide