W.C. Fields
演员
62
电影
1
电视节目
William Claude Dukenfield was the eldest of five children born to Cockney immigrant James Dukenfield and Philadelphia native Kate Felton. He went to school for four years, then quit to work with his father selling vegetables from a horse cart. At eleven, after many fights with his alcoholic father (who hit him on the head with a shovel), he ran away from home. For a while he lived in a hole in the ground, depending on stolen food and clothing. He was often beaten and spent nights in jail. His first regular job was delivering ice. By age thirteen he was a skilled pool player and juggler. It was then, at an amusement park in Norristown PA, that he was first hired as an entertainer. There he developed the technique of pretending to lose the things he was juggling. In 1893 he was employed as a juggler at Fortescue's Pier, Atlantic City. When business was slow he pretended to drown in the ocean (management thought his fake rescue would draw customers). By nineteen he was billed as "The Distinguished Comedian" and began opening bank accounts in every city he played. At age twenty-three he opened at the Palace in London and played with Sarah Bernhardt at Buckingham Palace. He starred at the Folies-Bergere (young Charles Chaplin and Maurice Chevalier were on the program).
He was in each of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1915 through 1921. He played for a year in the highly praised musical "Poppy" which opened in New York in 1923. In 1925 D.W. Griffith made a movie of the play, renamed Sally of the Sawdust (1925), starring Fields. Pool Sharks (1915), Fields' first movie, was made when he was thirty-five. He settled into a mansion near Burbank, California and made most of his thirty-seven movies for Paramount. He appeared in mostly spontaneous dialogs on Charlie McCarthy's radio shows. In 1939 he switched to Universal where he made films written mainly by and for himself. He died after several serious illnesses, including bouts of pneumonia.
作为演员/演员
Wogan
自己
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger
Wilkins Micawber
Alice in Wonderland
Humpty-Dumpty
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tales of Manhattan
Professor Pufflewhistle (uncredited)
That's Entertainment, Part II
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Follow the Boys
W. C. Fields
The Movie Orgy
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
Self (archive footage)
If I Had a Million
Rollo La Rue
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self (archive footage)
My Little Chickadee
Cuthbert J. Twillie
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Self (archive footage)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
Self (archive footage)
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Ambrose Wolfinger
Poppy
Eustace McGargle
Mississippi
Commodore Jackson
Sensations of 1945
W.C. Fields
Show-Business at War
自己
The Big Parade of Comedy
Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
The Bank Dick
Egbert Sousé
Janice Meredith
A British Sergeant
百万美元腿
The President
Hooray for Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
The Great Man
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
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International House
Professor Quail
The Big Broadcast of 1938
T. Frothingill Bellows / S.B. Bellows
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Larson E. Whipsnade
相机背后
My Little Chickadee
Guionista
Man on the Flying Trapeze
Director, Historia
The Bank Dick
Guionista
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
Historia
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Historia
The Fatal Glass of Beer
作家
The Dentist
作家
It's the Old Army Game
Theatre Play
Too Many Highballs
Historia
It's a Gift
Historia
The Old-Fashioned Way
Historia
The Golf Specialist
作家
Pool Sharks
作家
The Pharmacist
作家
The Barber Shop
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