# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/w-c-fields
# Generated: 2026-08-12T16:25:47.602Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/w-c-fields"
name: "W. C. Fields"
slug: "w-c-fields"
description: "William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler and writer. His career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler. He began to incorporate comedy into his act and was a featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies for several years. He became a star in the Broadway musical comedy Poppy (1923), in which he played a colorful small-time con man. His subsequent stage and film roles were often similar scoundrels or henpecked everyman characters."
tagline: "American comedian, actor, juggler and writer (1880–1946)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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birthDate: "1880-01-29"
deathDate: "1946-12-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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    url:       "https://www.wcfields.com/"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump