W.C. Fields

W.C. Fields was born on Jan 29, 1880 in USA. W.C. Fields's big-screen debut came with Pool Sharks directed by Edwin Middleton in 1915, strarring The Pool Shark. W.C. Fields is known for Tales of Manhattan directed by Julien Duvivier, Charles Boyer stars as Paul Orman and Rita Hayworth as Ethel Halloway. The most recent award W.C. Fields achieved is Walk of Fame. The upcoming new movie W.C. Fields plays is Sensations of 1945 which will be released on Jun 30, 1944.

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