W.C. Fields
William Claude Dukenfield · Bill Fields · Charles Bogle · Mahatma Kane Jeeves · Otis Criblecoblis
- Туған күні:
- 1880-01-29
- Қайтыс болған күні:
- 1946-12-25
- Туған жері:
- Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
Өмірбаяны
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.
Фильмографиясы
Marlene Dietrich: Home Movies
2024
Self
The Great Man: W.C. Fields
2005
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Self (archive footage)
W.C. Fields: 6 Short Films
2000
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Hidden Hollywood II: More Treasures from the 20th Century Fox Vaults
1999
TMDb 9.0 / 10
(archive footage)
Vaudeville
1997
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Self (archive footage)
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1997
TMDb 5.3 / 10
Self (archive footage)
Mae West and the Men Who Knew Her
1994
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
1990
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Self (archive footage)
W.C. Fields: Straight Up
1986
TMDb 9.0 / 10
Going Hollywood: The '30s
1984
TMDb 9.0 / 10
(archive footage)
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Oops, Those Hollywood Bloopers!
1982
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Self (archive footage)
Голливудские весельчаки
1979
(archive footage)
Вот это развлечение! Часть 2
1976
TMDb 7.0 / 10
(archive footage)
Hooray for Hollywood
1976
TMDb 8.0 / 10
Self (archive footage)
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
1975
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Self (archive footage)
The Movie Orgy
1968
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Self (archive footage)
Большой парад комедии
1964
TMDb 7.2 / 10
Wilkins Micawber in 'David Copperfield' (archive footage)
Down Memory Lane
1949
TMDb 7.0 / 10
(archive footage)
Сенсации 1945-го года
1944
TMDb 6.6 / 10
W.C. Fields
Song of the Open Road
1944
TMDb 7.0 / 10
W.C. Fields
Следуя за парнями
1944
TMDb 5.7 / 10
W. C. Fields
Show-Business at War
1943
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Self
Сказки Манхэттена
1942
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Professor Pufflewhistle (uncredited)
Не давай молокососу передышки
1941
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Great Man
Банковский сыщик
1940
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Egbert Sousé
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Self (archive footage)
My Little Chickadee
1940
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Cuthbert J. Twillie
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
1939
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Larson E. Whipsnade
Большое радиовещание в 1938 году
1938
TMDb 6.2 / 10
T. Frothingill Bellows / S.B. Bellows
Poppy
1936
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Eustace McGargle
Man on the Flying Trapeze
1935
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Ambrose Wolfinger
Mississippi
1935
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Commodore Jackson
Дэвид Копперфильд
1935
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Wilkins Micawber
It's a Gift
1934
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Harold Bissonette
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
1934
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Mr. Stubbins
The Old-Fashioned Way
1934
TMDb 7.2 / 10
The Great McGonigle / Squire Cribbs in 'The Drunkard'
Hollywood on Parade No. B-10
1934
Self
You're Telling Me!
1934
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Sam Bisbee
Six of a Kind
1934
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Sheriff John Hoxley
Алиса в стране чудес
1933
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Humpty-Dumpty
Tillie and Gus
1933
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Augustus Winterbottom
The Barber Shop
1933
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Cornelius O'Hare
How to Break 90 #3: Hip Action
1933
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Himself
International House
1933
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Professor Quail
The Pharmacist
1933
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Mr. Dilweg
The Fatal Glass of Beer
1933
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Mr. Snavely
The Dentist
1932
TMDb 5.9 / 10
Dentist
Если бы у меня был миллион
1932
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Rollo La Rue
Million Dollar Legs
1932
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The President
Her Majesty, Love
1931
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Bela Toerrek
The Golf Specialist
1930
TMDb 5.3 / 10
J. Effingham Bellweather
Fools for Luck
1928
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Richard Whitehead
Tillie's Punctured Romance
1928
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Ring Master
The Circus: Premiere
1928
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Self
Two Flaming Youths
1927
Gabby Gilfoil
Running Wild
1927
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Elmer Finch
The Potters
1927
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Pa Potter
So's Your Old Man
1926
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Samuel Bisbee
Эта старая армейская игра
1926
TMDb 5.0 / 10
Elmer Prettywillie
That Royle Girl
1925
TMDb 3.7 / 10
Professor Royle
Sally of the Sawdust
1925
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Professor Eustance McGargle
Janice Meredith
1924
TMDb 7.0 / 10
A British Sergeant
Акулы бильярда
1915
TMDb 5.3 / 10