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Also Known As William Claude Dukenfield
Born January 29, 1880 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died December 25, 1946 (aged 66) • Pasadena • California
Notable Works “The Bank Dick”

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W.C. Fields, dressed as a dentist, leans over a female patient who is dramatically reclined in a dental chair, with a nurse standing nearby in a scene from The Dentist (1932).
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