William Claude Dukenfield Is Born

January 29th, 2008

On this day in 1880, the actor known as W.C. Fields was born. Here he is in his first short film, Pool Sharks, from 1915.

W.C. Fields was one of a kind. These days he would be considered his own “franchise“, as they like to say. He had a way of making people laugh, even though, when you look back on things, he wasn’t really that funny at all. It just shows you that nothing has really changed in Hollywood, except the faces.

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