W. C. Fields biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of W. C. Fields

Author Name:

W. C. Fields

Born As:

William Claude Dukenfield

Other Names:

William Claude Dukenfield

Born:

29 Jan 1880

Died:

25 Feb 1946




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Actor                          
Selected Works:

Films:

Janice Meredith - 1924
Sally of the Sawdust - 1925
That Royle Girl - 1925
It's the Old Army Game - 1926
So's Your Old Man - 1926
The Potters - 1927
Running Wild - 1927
Two Flaming Youths - 1927
Tillie's Punctured Romance - 1928
Fools for Luck - 1928
Her Majesty, Love - 1931
Million Dollar Legs - 1932
If I Had a Million - 1932
International House - 1933
Tillie and Gus - 1933
Alice in Wonderland - 1933
Six of a Kind - 1934
You're Telling Me! - 1934
The Old Fashioned Way - 1934
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch - 1934
It's a Gift - 1934
David Copperfield - 1935
Mississippi - 1935
Man on the Flying Trapeze - 1935
Poppy - 1936
The Big Broadcast of 1938 - 1938
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man - 1939
My Little Chickadee - 1940
The Bank Dick - 1940
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break - 1941
Tales of Manhattan - 1942 - scenes deleted, later restored for home video
Follow the Boys - 1944
Song of the Open Road - 1944
Sensations of 1945 - 1944

Short Subjects:

Pool Sharks - 1915
His Lordship's Dilemma - 1915
A Trip Through the Paramount Studio - 1927
The Golf Specialist - 1930
The Dentist - 1932
The Fatal Glass of Beer - 1933
Hollywood on Parade No. A-9 - 1933
The Pharmacist - 1933
How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action - 1933 - guest appearance in a Bobby Jones golf lesson
The Barber Shop - 1933
Show Business at War - 1943.                          
Mother Kate Spangler Felton
Father James Dukenfield
Wife Harriet Hughes, one son Claude.