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No one likes the fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of human sympathy underneath his rogueries. The immortal types of comedy are just such men.

W. C. Fields

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W. C. Fields
Age: 66 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 29
Died: 1946
Died: December 25
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Cabaret Artist
Circus Performer
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Film Director
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
WC Fields
William Claude Dukenfield
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