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William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler, and writer. Fields' comic persona was a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist, who remained a sympathetic character despite his supposed contempt for children and dogs.
Birth Name
William Claude Dukenfield
Born
Thursday, 29 January 1880
Died
Wednesday, 25 December 1946
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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History of Swear Words | Self - Actor | 2021 |
Canaan Land | Self | 2020 |
The History of Comedy | The Great Man | 2017 |
The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One | (archive footage) | 2014 |
These Amazing Shadows | Harold Bissonette (clip from It's a Gift (1934)) | 2011 |
The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond | Self | 2009 |
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America | (archive footage) | 2009 |
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices | Self - Actor | 2008 |
The Great Man: W.C. Fields | Self | 2005 |
Broadway: The American Musical | (archive footage) | 2004 |
Actor Filmography
Title | Character | Year |
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History of Swear Words | Self - Actor | 2021 |
Canaan Land | Self | 2020 |
The History of Comedy | The Great Man | 2017 |
The Mack Sennett Collection: Volume One | (archive footage) | 2014 |
These Amazing Shadows | Harold Bissonette (clip from It's a Gift (1934)) | 2011 |
The Yellow Brick Road and Beyond | Self | 2009 |
Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America | (archive footage) | 2009 |
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices | Self - Actor | 2008 |
The Great Man: W.C. Fields | Self | 2005 |
Broadway: The American Musical | (archive footage) | 2004 |
I Know A Riddle | (archive footage) | 2004 |
Inside the Marx Brothers | Self | 2003 |
Bob Hope: Hollywood's Brightest Star | Self | 2002 |
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self / Self (archive footage) | 1997 |
100 Years at the Movies | Self | 1994 |
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her | (archive footage) | 1994 |
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths | Self | 1990 |
Classic Movie Bloopers | Self | 1990 |
Biography | (archive footage) / Self | 1987 |
Bloopermania | Self | 1987 |
American Masters | Self / Cuthbert J. Twillie | 1986 |
W.C. Fields: Straight Up | Self | 1986 |
Going Hollywood: The '30s | (archive footage) | 1984 |
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self | 1983 |
America at the Movies | Mr. Dilweg | 1976 |
That's Entertainment, Part II | Clip from 'David Copperfield' / (archive footage) | 1976 |
Arena | Elmer Prettywillie (clip from It's the Old Army Game (1926)) | 1975 |
Brother Can You Spare a Dime | (archive footage) (as Bill) / Self (archive footage) | 1975 |
The Movie Orgy | Self (archive footage) | 1968 |
Hollywood My Home Town | Self | 1965 |
Wayne and Shuster Take an Affectionate Look at... | Various | 1964 |
The Big Parade of Comedy | Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage) / Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' | 1964 |
Hollywood and the Stars | Self / Bela Toerrek (clip from Her Majesty, Love (1931)) | 1963 |
Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Actor 'David Copperfield' | 1961 |
The DuPont Show of the Week | Self | 1961 |
The Twentieth Century | Self | 1957 |
Down Memory Lane | The dentist / archive footage | 1949 |
Sensations of 1945 | W.C. Fields | 1944 |
Song of the Open Road | W.C. Fields | 1944 |
Follow the Boys | W. C. Fields | 1944 |
Show-Business at War | Self | 1943 |
Tales of Manhattan | Professor Pufflewhistle (Fields sequence) / Professor Pufflewhistle | 1942 |
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break | The Great Man | 1941 |
The Bank Dick | Egbert Sousé | 1940 |
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self / (archive footage) | 1940 |
My Little Chickadee | Cuthbert J. Twillie | 1940 |
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man | Larson E. Whipsnade | 1939 |
The Big Broadcast of 1938 | S.B. Bellows / T. Frothingill Bellows | 1938 |
Poppy | Prof. Eustace P. McGargle / Eustace McGargle | 1936 |
Man on the Flying Trapeze | Ambrose Wolfinger | 1935 |
Mississippi | Commodore Jackson | 1935 |
David Copperfield | Micawber / Wilkins Micawber | 1935 |
It's a Gift | Harold Bissonette | 1934 |
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch | Mr. Stubbins | 1934 |
The Old Fashioned Way | Squire Cribbs in 'The Drunkard' / The Great McGonigle | 1934 |
You're Telling Me! | Sam Bisbee | 1934 |
Six of a Kind | Sheriff John Hoxley | 1934 |
Alice in Wonderland | Humpty-Dumpty | 1933 |
Tillie and Gus | Augustus Winterbottom | 1933 |
The Barber Shop | Cornelius O'Hare | 1933 |
How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action | Himself / Self - Bill Fields | 1933 |
International House | Professor Henry R. Quail / Professor Quail | 1933 |
The Pharmacist | Mr. Dilweg | 1933 |
The Fatal Glass of Beer | Pa Snavely / Mr. Snavely | 1933 |
The Dentist | Dentist | 1932 |
If I Had a Million | Rollo La Rue | 1932 |
Million Dollar Legs | The President | 1932 |
Her Majesty, Love | Bela Toerrek - Lia's Father / Bela Toerrek | 1931 |
The Golf Specialist | J. Effingham Bellweather | 1930 |
Fools for Luck | Richard Whitehead | 1928 |
The Circus: Premiere | Himself | 1928 |
Two Flaming Youths | Gabby Gilfoil | 1927 |
Running Wild | Elmer Finch | 1927 |
The Potters | Pa Potter | 1927 |
So's Your Old Man | Samuel Bisbee | 1926 |
It's the Old Army Game | Elmer Prettywillie | 1926 |
That Royle Girl | Professor Royle | 1925 |
Sally of the Sawdust | Professor Eustance McGargle | 1925 |
Janice Meredith | A British Sergeant | 1924 |
Pool Sharks | The Pool Shark | 1915 |
Director Filmography
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