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W. C. Fields

1880 - 1946

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William Claude Dukenfield (January 29, 1880 – December 25, 1946), better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler and writer. Fields's 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of W. C. Fields has received more than 2,746,678 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). W. C. Fields is the 3,084th most popular actor (down from 2,592nd in 2019), the 4,670th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,155th in 2019) and the 1,393rd most popular American Actor.

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  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, W. C. Fields ranks 3,084 out of 13,578. Before him are Misha Collins, Rachel Ticotin, Steve Kanaly, Han Hyo-joo, Otto Waalkes, and Jonathan Ke Quan. After him are Nicole Courcel, Frédéric Diefenthal, Robert Z'Dar, Carey Lowell, Claude Dauphin, and Clive Revill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, W. C. Fields ranks 126. Before him are Richard Oswald, Dmitry Karbyshev, Harry Baur, Carl Schuricht, Tom Mix, and Alexander Bogomazov. After him are Elizabeth Christ Trump, Nikolai Podvoisky, Margit Kaffka, Louis Wolheim, William Joseph Simmons, and Herbert Brenon. Among people deceased in 1946, W. C. Fields ranks 135. Before him are Ernst Leonard Lindelöf, Maximilian Steinberg, Benjamin I of Constantinople, Grigory Neujmin, Dorothy Gibson, and Juan Bautista Sacasa. After him are Sándor Simonyi-Semadam, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, Gualberto Villarroel, Józef Mehoffer, I Gusti Ngurah Rai, and Aleksandr Bogomolets.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, W. C. Fields ranks 4,670 out of 20,380. Before him are Sammy Hagar (1947), Milo Ventimiglia (1977), Misha Collins (1974), William Christie (1944), Rachel Ticotin (1958), and Steve Kanaly (1946). After him are Lillian Hellman (1905), Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Scott Travis (1961), Amy Lee (1981), John Ashbery (1927), and Michael Kors (1959).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, W. C. Fields ranks 1,393. Before him are Carol Kane (1952), Jorja Fox (1968), Milo Ventimiglia (1977), Misha Collins (1974), Rachel Ticotin (1958), and Steve Kanaly (1946). After him are Robert Z'Dar (1950), Carey Lowell (1961), Estelle Harris (1928), Michael Shannon (1974), Peter Jacobson (1965), and Esai Morales (1962).

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