Born William Claude Tia-Tamara Sasquatch Huckaberry Butterfield, Fields was the only child of a strip miner and a mine stripper, Johannes Gutenberg Tesla Butterfield and mother Ava Gardner. Young William (as his schoolyard chums used to refer to him) made a living sculpting vegetables out of other vegetables and selling them to unsuspecting tourists. Some of his work from this period survives, including one particularly well-done sculpture that was owned by Oscar Wilde. It is recorded that Wilde said of the sculpture when first spying it, "Never have I seen a celery that so resembles a carrot!" Despite preservation of many of these works, still many were lost in the Great Jack Lalaine Juicer Uprising of 1804.
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| - Born William Claude Tia-Tamara Sasquatch Huckaberry Butterfield, Fields was the only child of a strip miner and a mine stripper, Johannes Gutenberg Tesla Butterfield and mother Ava Gardner. Young William (as his schoolyard chums used to refer to him) made a living sculpting vegetables out of other vegetables and selling them to unsuspecting tourists. Some of his work from this period survives, including one particularly well-done sculpture that was owned by Oscar Wilde. It is recorded that Wilde said of the sculpture when first spying it, "Never have I seen a celery that so resembles a carrot!" Despite preservation of many of these works, still many were lost in the Great Jack Lalaine Juicer Uprising of 1804.
- William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. He was caricatured in several Disney animated shorts. W.C. Fields (played by Bob Leeman) made an appearance in The Rocketeer. Chameleon from the Mighty Ducks episode "Duck Hard" was seen transforming into W. C. Fields.
- A wax figure of W.C. Fields, looking somewhat out of place among the grotesqueries of Duval's Cave of Wax, is brought to life by the operator Raoul Duval by means of his injectable serum and ordered to eliminate Maxwell Smart who has infiltrated the museum in the guise of a wax Adolph Hitler. As befits his persona, he agrees to forgo the task in exchange for a decanter of daiquiris. "And that would make you pretend you didn't see me?," Max asks. "I won't be able to see you."
- William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Fields was known for his comic persona as a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children and women... (Read more at Wikipedia)
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| - "Uncle Claude"
- Charles Bogle
- Mahatma Kane Jeeves
- Otis Criblecoblis
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- Carlotta Monti
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- Pasadena, California, United States
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| - William Claude Fields, Jr. and William Morris
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| - Actor, comedian, juggler, writer
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| - 1880-01-29(xsd:date)
- Darby, Pennsylvania, United States
- William Claude Dukenfield
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| - Born William Claude Tia-Tamara Sasquatch Huckaberry Butterfield, Fields was the only child of a strip miner and a mine stripper, Johannes Gutenberg Tesla Butterfield and mother Ava Gardner. Young William (as his schoolyard chums used to refer to him) made a living sculpting vegetables out of other vegetables and selling them to unsuspecting tourists. Some of his work from this period survives, including one particularly well-done sculpture that was owned by Oscar Wilde. It is recorded that Wilde said of the sculpture when first spying it, "Never have I seen a celery that so resembles a carrot!" Despite preservation of many of these works, still many were lost in the Great Jack Lalaine Juicer Uprising of 1804.
- William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 - December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. He was caricatured in several Disney animated shorts. W.C. Fields (played by Bob Leeman) made an appearance in The Rocketeer. Chameleon from the Mighty Ducks episode "Duck Hard" was seen transforming into W. C. Fields.
- A wax figure of W.C. Fields, looking somewhat out of place among the grotesqueries of Duval's Cave of Wax, is brought to life by the operator Raoul Duval by means of his injectable serum and ordered to eliminate Maxwell Smart who has infiltrated the museum in the guise of a wax Adolph Hitler. As befits his persona, he agrees to forgo the task in exchange for a decanter of daiquiris. "And that would make you pretend you didn't see me?," Max asks. "I won't be able to see you." Wax figure of W.C. Fields portrayed by Bill Oberlin [Episodes #127: "House of Max" and #128: "House of Max, conclusion"]. For more on the real W.C. Fields see the Wikipedia article.
- William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American comedian, actor, juggler and writer. Fields was known for his comic persona as a misanthropic and hard-drinking egotist who remained a sympathetic character despite his snarling contempt for dogs, children and women... (Read more at Wikipedia) Interest in Fields (and other artists of his era) revived in the late 1960s, when Hollywood, already suffering from declining cinema attendance due to the rise of television, was trying to come to terms with 1960s pop music and youth culture. While Hollywood studios, stars and glossy '60s films seemed increasingly irrelevant to young people, television screenings of older films, especially those made before the highly restrictive Hays Code of censorship was introduced in 1934, created a curiosity about this less inhibited era of cinema. There were retrospective seasons on TV; music venues like UFO and the Fillmores East and West showed old films between musicians' sets, and repertory cinemas (like the Electric Cinema, Notting Hill Gate) which appealed to a young, hippyish audience also featured them regularly. Thus, artists such as the Marx Brothers, James Cagney, Greta Garbo and W.C. Fields became cult favourites, and Busby Berkeley musicals were admired for their surreal, extravagant sets, which struck some viewers as "psychedelic". Fields, an on-screen non-conformist who "did his own thing" in his way, was seen as an anti-establishment figure, attracted numerous references in pop culture and even appeared among the faces on the cover of the Beatles' "Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" LP.
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