W.C. Fields actor
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William Claude Dukenfield was the eldest of five children born to Cockney immigrant James Dukenfield and Philadelphia native Kate Felton. He went to school for four years, then quit to work with his father selling vegetables from a horse cart. At eleven, after many fights with his alcoholic father (who hit him on the head with a shovel), he ran away from home. For a while he lived in a hole in the ground, depending on stolen food and clothing. He was often beaten and spent nights in jail. His first regular job was delivering ice. By age thirteen he was a skilled pool player and juggler. It was then, at an amusement park in Norristown PA, that he was first hired as an entertainer. There he developed the technique of pretending to lose the things he was juggling. In 1893 he was employed as a juggler at Fortescues Pier, Atlantic City. When business was slow he pretended to drown in the ocean (management thought his fake rescue would draw customers). By nineteen he was billed as The Distinguished Comedian and began opening bank accounts in every city he played. At age twenty-three he opened at the Palace in London and played with Sarah Bernhardt at Buckingham Palace. He starred at the Folies-Bergere (young Charles Chaplin and Maurice Chevalier were on the program).He was in each of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1915 through 1921. He played for a year in the highly praised musical Poppy which opened in New York in 1923. In 1925 D.W. Griffith made a movie of the play, renamed Sally of the Sawdust (1925), starring Fields. Pool Sharks (1915), Fields first movie, was made when he was thirty-five. He settled into a mansion near Burbank, California and made most of his thirty-seven movies for Paramount. He appeared in mostly spontaneous dialogs on Charlie McCarthys radio shows. In 1939 he switched to Universal where he made films written mainly by and for himself. He died after several serious illnesses, including bouts of pneumonia.
Self
Film 1933
Self (archive footage)
Film 1968
Professor Quail
Film 1933
Humpty-Dumpty
Film 1933
Film 2004
(archive footage)
Film 1979
Harold Bissonette
Film 1934
Larson E. Whipsnade
Film 1939
The Great Man
Film 1941
Eustace McGargle
Film 1936
Richard Whitehead
Film 1928
Cuthbert J. Twillie
Film 1940
T. Frothingill Bellows / S.B. Bellows
Film 1938
J. Effingham Bellweather
Film 1930
Gabby Gilfoil
Film 1927
Mr. Dilweg
Film 1933
Film 1915
Dentist
Film 1932
Mr. Snavely
Film 1933
Cornelius O'Hare
Film 1933
Ambrose Wolfinger
Film 1935
Mr. Stubbins
Film 1934
Rollo La Rue
Film 1932
Bela Toerrek
Film 1931
Sheriff John Hoxley
Film 1934
A British Sergeant
Film 1924
The President
Film 1932
Samuel Bisbee
Film 1926
Professor Eustance McGargle
Film 1925
Self (archive footage)
Film 1982
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1983
Elmer Prettywillie
Film 1926
Elmer Finch
Film 1927
Film 1986
(archive footage)
Film 1984
'David Copperfield' (archive footage) (uncredited)
Film 1961
W.C. Fields
Film 1944
Self
Film 1928
(archive footage)
Film 1990
Ring Master
Film 1928
The Great McGonigle / Squire Cribbs in 'The Drunkard'
Film 1934
Self (archive footage)
Film 1994
Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
Film 1964
Film 2000
Himself
Film 1933
Self
Film 1943
Self (archive footage)
Film 1940
Self (archive footage)
Film 1975
Pa Potter
Film 1927
Self (archive footage)
Film 1997
Professor Royle
Film 1925
(archive footage)
Film 1949
Self
Tv 1982
Self (archive footage)
Tv 1990
