W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields
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W.C. Fields

*	January 29, 1880 Darby, Pennsylvania, USA
	as William Claude Dukenfield
†	December 25, 1946 Pasadena, California, USA

American comedian, actor, juggler and writer.

Films

1949

Down Memory Lane

1944

Follow the Boys
Song of the Open Road
Sensations of 1945

1943

Show Business at War

1942

Tales of Manhattan

1941

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

1940

The Bank Dick
My Little Chickadee

1939

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

1938

The Big Broadcast of 1938

1936

Poppy

1935

Man on the Flying Trapeze
David Copperfield
Mississippi

1934

It's a Gift
Six of a Kind

1933

Alice in Wonderland
International House
Hollywood on Parade No. 9
The Barber Shop
Tillie and Gus
The Pharmacist
The Fatal Glass of Beer

1932

If I Had a Million
Million Dollar Legs
The Dentist

1931

Her Majesty, Love

1928

Tillie's Punctured Romance
Fools for Luck

1927

Running Wild
Two Flaming Youths

1926

It's the Old Army Game
So's Your Old Man

1925

That Royle Girl
Sally of the Sawdust

1924

Janice Meredith

1915

Pool Sharks

Imdb: 0001211

VIAF: 22348988

W.C. Fields, Freddie Bartholomew - David Copperfield

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Books by W.C. Fields

		W.C. Fields Fields for President Dodd 1940

Books on W.C. Fields

		James Curtis W.C. Fields, a biography New York, 2004




		Ronald Fields with Shaun O'L. Higgins Never give a sucker an even break, W.C. Fields on business Paramus, NJ, 2000




		Simon Louvish Man on the Flying Trapeze, The Life and Times of W.C. Fields London, 1997




		Wes D. Gehring Groucho & W.C. Fields, Huckster Comedians Jackson, 1994




		David T. Rocks W.C. Fields, An Annotated Guide , 1994




		Wes D. Gehring W.C. Fields, A Bio-Bibliography Westport, Connecticut, 1984




		Ronald Fields W.C. Fields, a Life on Film New York, 1984




		Richard J. Anobile (editor) "Godfrey Daniels", Verbal and Visual Gems from the Short Films of W.C. Fields New York, New York, 1975




		Carlotta Monti with Cy Rice W.C. Fields and Me London, 1974




		Nicholas Yanni W.C. Fields New York, 1974




		Ronald Fields W.C. Fields by Himself Englefield, NJ, 1973




		Richard J. Anobile (ed.) A flask of Fields, Verbal & and visual gems from the films of W. C. Fields New York, [1972]




		James Smart W.C. Fields in Philadelphia Philadelphia, 1972




		Richard J. Anobile (ed.) Drat! Being the encapsulated view of life,, W. C. Fields in his own words New York,, [1968]




		William K. Everson The Art of W.C. Fields Indianapolis, Kansas City, New York, 1967




		Alfred Hansen Incomplete Requiem for W.C. Fields New York, 1966




		Donald Deschner The Films of W.C. Fields , 1966




		Robert Lewis Taylor W.C. Fields, His Follies & Fortunes Garden City, New York, 1949

Books with substantial mentioning of W.C. Fields

		Michelle Vogel Children of Hollywood, Accounts of growing up as the sons and daughters of stars Jefferson, N.C., 2005




		John Dileo 100 Great Film Performances You Should Remember - but probably don't New York, 2002




		Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.) International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000




		Glenn Mitchell A-Z of Silent Film Comedy, An Illustrated Companion London, 1998




		Andrew Sarris "You ain't heard nothin' yet", the American talking film ; history & memory ; 1927 - 1949 New York, Oxford, 1998




		Wes D. Gehring Personality Comedians As Genre, Selected Players Westport, Connecticut - London, 1997




		Glenn Mitchell The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia London, 1996




		Danny Peary Alternate Oscars, One Critic's Defiant Choices for Best Picture, Actor, and Actress - From 1927 to the Present New York, 1993




		Ronald L. Smith Who's Who in Comedy, Comedians, Comics and Clowns From Vaudeville to Today's Stand-ups New York, Oxford, 1992




		Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era Chicago and London, 1990




		Ann Lloyd (ed.) Movies of the Thirties London, 1983




		James Robert Parish and William T. Leonard with Gregory W. Mank and Charles Hoyt The Funsters New Rochelle, New York, 1979




		Ray Stuart (ed.) Immortals of the Screen New York, 1965

Books with an entry on W.C. Fields

		David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film New York, 2003




		Kay Weniger Das große Personenlexikon des Films, Zweiter Band, C-F Berlin, 2001




		Danny Peary Cult Movie Stars New York, [..], 1991




		Anthony Slide (ed.) Selected Vaudeville Criticism Metuchen, N.J., & London, 1988




		Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors) Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs, 361 Portraits from the 1860s to 1950 New York, 1981




		Joe Franklin Encyclopedia of Comedians Secaucus, N.J., 1979




		Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book, The sound era Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Books with photograph(s) of W.C. Fields

		John Richard Finch and Paul Elby Close-Ups, From the Golden Age of the Silent Cinema South Brunswick and New York - London, 1978