Job Actor, comedian, juggler, writer
Years active 1902-1946
Top Roles Egbert Sousè, Larson E. Whipsnade, Her Father, T. Frothingill Bellows / S.B. Bellows, Humpty
Top GenresComedy, Musical, Silent Films, Drama, Short Films, Film Adaptation
Top TopicsSlapstick, Book-Based, Husband Wife
Top Collaborators (Producer), (Producer), (Director),
Shares birthday with Ernst Lubitsch, Victor Mature, Katharine Ross  see more..

W.C. Fields Overview:

Legendary actor, W.C. Fields, was born William Claude Dukenfield on Jan 29, 1880 in Darby, Pennsylvania. Fields died at the age of 66 on Dec 25, 1946 in Pasadena, CA and was laid to rest in Forest Lawn (Glendale) Cemetery in Glendale, CA.

MINI BIO:

Burly, round-faced, red-nosed American juggler and comedian, with a long history in vaudeville before his serious film career began in the mid-twenties. With sound, his own peculiar, abrasive, embittered, alcohol-oriented delivery really came into its own and, as henpeck or charlatan in turn, he created a series of comedy classics. Wore a fake mustache in films until 1932. Died, from a combination of dropsy, a liver ailment and heart failure, on the day he moaned about more than any other - Christmas Day.

(Source: available at Amazon Quinlan's Film Stars).

HONORS and AWARDS:

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He was honored with two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the categories of Radio and Motion Pictures. In addition, Fields was immortalized on a US postal stamp in 1980. He appears on the cover of The Beatles' Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Fields was never nominated for an Academy Award.

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W.C. Fields Quotes:

Sam Bisbee: It's a funny ol' world... Man's lucky if he gets out of it alive.


Peggy: I'm sitting on something!
Professor Quail: I lost mine in the stock market.


Egbert Sousé: Og Oggilby... sounds like a bubble in a bathtub!


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W.C. Fields Facts
The last movie he starred in, Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941), included a character he'd always wanted to have in one of his movies: a young woman (in this case his niece, played by Gloria Jean) who loved him unconditionally.

Was good friends with John Barrymore

He was the second choice to play the title role in The Wizard of Oz (1939). There are still some arguments as to why he turned the part down. Some sources say that he refused to play "The Wizard" because MGM wouldn't pay the salary he wanted, but according to Doug McClelland, author of "Down The Yellow Brick Road", Fields was too busy writing and acting in his latest film for Universal Pictures - You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) - to be loaned out to MGM to play the part.

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