W. C. Fields
American comedian, actor, juggler and writer (1880-1946) · United States · On the map · Comedians · Died at 66
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.
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Mack Sennett Produced The Fatal Glass of Beer and The Dentist
Adolph Zukor Produced That Royle Girl and So's Your Old Man
Fanny Brice Duets: Ziegfeld Follies of 1915
Jesse Louis Lasky Produced That Royle Girl and So's Your Old Man
A. Edward Sutherland Directed Mississippi and It's the Old Army Game
Edward F. Cline Directed Million Dollar Legs (1932)
William LeBaron Produced It's a Gift and It's the Old Army Game- Norman Z. McLeod Directed Alice in Wonderland and It's a Gift
Tammany Young Also in The Old Fashioned Way (1934)
Baby LeRoy Also in It's a Gift and The Old Fashioned Way
Douglas MacLean Produced Tillie and Gus (1933)
John Leipold Wrote It's a Gift and If I Had a Million
Walter DeLeon Wrote Tillie and Gus and You're Telling Me!
Oscar Apfel W. C. Fields directed Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
Grady Sutton W. C. Fields directed Man on the Flying Trapeze (1935)
D. W. Griffith Produced Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
Norman Taurog Directed If I Had a Million (1932)
Eddie Cantor Duets: Ziegfeld Follies of 1917
Gregory La Cava Directed So's Your Old Man and Running Wild
Franklin Pangborn Produced Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Leon Errol Also in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
Alison Skipworth Also in Alice in Wonderland (1933)
Clyde Bruckman Directed The Fatal Glass of Beer (1933)- Arthur Ripley Directed The Pharmacist and The Barber Shop
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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.
