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| + | William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler and writer. His career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler. He began to incorporate comedy into his act and was a featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies for several years. He became a star in the Broadway musical comedy Poppy (1923), in which he played a colorful small-time con man. His subsequent stage and film roles were often similar scoundrels or henpecked everyman characters. Among his trademarks were his physical comedy, raspy drawl, large nose, and grandiloquent vocabulary. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Fields Wikipedia] | ||
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'''Flaunch, G. Rodney'''<br /> | '''Flaunch, G. Rodney'''<br /> | ||
4, “some North Shore loophound” “of the Glencoe Flaunches" and fiancé of Daphne Airborne; | 4, “some North Shore loophound” “of the Glencoe Flaunches" and fiancé of Daphne Airborne; | ||
Revision as of 10:31, 30 September 2025
Fields, W.C. (1880-1946)
William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler and writer. His career in show business began in vaudeville, where he attained international success as a silent juggler. He began to incorporate comedy into his act and was a featured comedian in the Ziegfeld Follies for several years. He became a star in the Broadway musical comedy Poppy (1923), in which he played a colorful small-time con man. His subsequent stage and film roles were often similar scoundrels or henpecked everyman characters. Among his trademarks were his physical comedy, raspy drawl, large nose, and grandiloquent vocabulary. Wikipedia
Flaunch, G. Rodney
4, “some North Shore loophound” “of the Glencoe Flaunches" and fiancé of Daphne Airborne;
Flaschner, Detleft "Lefty"
30, Hicks McTaggart's adoptive uncle, married to Hick's maternal aunt. See "Uncle Lefty" entry
