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- NAME: W C Fields
- OCCUPATION: Film Actor, Comedian
- BIRTH DATE: January 29, 1880
- DEATH DATE: December 25, 1946
- PLACE OF BIRTH: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- PLACE OF DEATH: Pasadena, California
- Originally: William Claude Dukenfield
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W.C. Fields was an actor whose flawless timing and humorous cantankerousness made him one of America's greatest comedians.
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W.C. Fields’s early films featured one of his two comic types: either the con man–braggart or the henpecked husband, and he was renowned for his fondness for using flowery verbiage, silly names and muttered asides. Fields became a major star in his mid-50s, but his career—and his life—nearly came to an end as alcoholism led to serious illnesses, but he kept going, acting into the 1940s.© 2013 A+E Networks. All rights reserved.
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