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W.C. Fields
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1920s
No Reviews
11
1930s
3.2111
23
1940s
2.5181
7
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
2.5740
2.5740
W.C. Fields Movie Rankings
1
3.1998When David's father dies, his mother remarries. His new stepfather Murdstone has a mean and cruel view on how to raise a child. When David's mother dies from grief, Murdstone sends David to London to work for a living. ...more about David Copperfield
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
2
3.0740Egbert Souse, "accent grave over the e", henpecked by his whole family, is recruited to replace a drunken film director, then seems to have captured a bank robber and is hired as guard in the Lompoc Bank, where Og Oggilby, his daughter's fiancée, is ...more about Bank Dick
DVD from $38.39
(12 sellers)
3
2.9557The owner of a general store (Harold Bisonette) is hounded by his status-anxious wife ("That's 'Bee-soh-nay'" and "I have no maid you know"). ...more about It's a Gift
DVD from $38.39
(12 sellers)
4
2.7807
New ocean liner S.S. Gigantic is about to race its rival, the Colossal. Gigantic owner T.F. Bellows sends his brother S.B. on the Colossal, hoping he will cause trouble; delayed by a golf game, S.B. ...more about Big Broadcast of 1938
DVD from $9.18
(11 sellers)
5
2.7437
Fields wants to sell a film story to Esoteric Studios. On the way he gets insulted by little boys, beat up for ogling a woman, and abused by a waitress. ...more about Never Give a Sucker an Even Break
DVD from $38.39
(13 sellers)
6
2.6863
Rightly suspected of illicit relations with the Masked Bandit, Flower Belle Lee is run out of Little Bend. On the train she meets con man Cuthbert J. Twillie and pretends to marry him for "respectability. ...more about My Little Chickadee
DVD from $5.96
(15 sellers)
7
2.6757
Wealthy John Glidden wants to give his money away to strangers rather than have his relatives fight over it. We see the effect the gifts have on many different sorts of individuals. ...more about If I Had a Million
- Not Available on DVD
8
2.3652
On a boring winter afternoon, Alice dreams, that she's visiting the land behind the mirror. This turns out to be a surrealistic nightmare, with all sorts of strange things happening to her, like changing her size or playing croquet with flamingos. ...more about Alice in Wonderland
- Not Available on DVD
9
2.2807
Professor Wong has invented a television machine and invites everyone to see it at China's International House Hotel. ...more about International House
DVD from $38.39
(12 sellers)
10
2.2784
Sam Bisbee is an inventor whose works (e.g., a keyhole finder for drunks) have brought him only poverty. His daughter is in love with the son of the town snob. Events conspire to ruin his bullet-proof tire just as success seems near. ...more about You're Telling Me!
DVD from $38.39
(13 sellers)
11
2.2099
Fields is happy enough in his shop but tormented at home. His wife and daughters drive him crazy (one daughter talks on the phone forever; the other wants to eat the canary). ...more about Pharmacist
DVD from $10.99
(9 sellers)
12
2.0364
The wealthy von Wellingens are shocked when the father of their son Fred's fiancée Lia juggles desserts at a formal dinner. They encourage Fred to break the engagement. ...more about Her Majesty
- Not Available on DVD
13
2.0273
The Great McGonigle's traveling theatrical troupe are staying at a boarding house. They are preparing to put on a production of "The Drunkard" (and do so during this movie). ...more about Old Fashioned Way
DVD from $38.39
(13 sellers)
14
1.9816
A small country on the verge of bankruptcy is persuaded to enter the Olympics. ...more about Million Dollar Legs
- Not Available on DVD
15
1.8903
Ambrose Wolfinger wants the afternoon off (his first in twenty-five years) to go to a wrestling match. He tells his boss that he must attend his mother-in-law's funeral. The afternoon is no joy. ...more about Man on the Flying Trapeze
DVD from $38.39
(13 sellers)
16
1.8903
Larson E. Whipsnade runs a seedy circus which is perpetually in debt. His performers give him nothing but trouble, especially Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Meanwhile, Whipsnade's son and daughter, Phineas and Vicky, attend a posh college. ...more about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
DVD from $38.39
(12 sellers)
17
1.8584
After preliminaries with ice and golf dentist Fields turns to the problems of hius patients. He wrestles one woman all over the office during an extraction. ...more about Dentist
DVD from $10.99
(9 sellers)
18
1.7442
The Whinneys share expenses for their trip to Hollywood with George and Gracie and thier great Dane. ...more about Six of a Kind
DVD from $8.89
(7 sellers)
19
Barber O'Hair has a vegetarian wife at home a pretty manicurist at work. A dog sits in the barbershop which O'Hair explains: "One day I was shaving a man and cut his ear off. And the dog got it. Been back here ever since. ...more about Barber Shop
DVD from $10.99
(9 sellers)
20
Mr. Snavely, a Yukon prospector, lost his only son years ago to the temptations of the big city; now the prodigal Chester, released from prison, comes home to Ma and Pa. A parody of Yukon melodrama; includes the famous looking-out-the-door routine. ...more about Fatal Glass of Beer
- Not Available on DVD
21
During World War II, all the studios put out "all-star" vehicles which featured virtually every star on the lot--often playing themselves--in musical numbers and comedy skits, and were meant as morale-boosters to both the troops overseas and the ...more about Follow the Boys
- Not Available on DVD
22
Samuel Hunter, the richest man in Huntersville, is an eccentric who convinces his fellow citizens to invest in an oil field marketed by Richard Whitehead. But Whitehead is a notorious swindler and the oil wells appear to be dry holes. ...more about Fools for Luck
- Not Available on DVD
23
At a Florida hotel, absconding miscreant J. Effingham Bellweather goes slapstick golfing with the house detective's flirtatious wife and an incompetent caddy. ...more about Golf Specialist
- Not Available on DVD
25
Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire. ...more about It's the Old Army Game
- Not Available on DVD
26
It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drunken British sergeant. ...more about Janice Meredith
- Not Available on DVD
27
A young pacifist after refusing on principle to defend her sweetheart's honor and being banished in disgrace, joins a riverboat troupe as a singer, acquires a reputation as a crackshot after a saloon brawl in which the villain of the piece accidentally ...more about Mississippi
- Not Available on DVD
28
The Wiggs family plan to celebrate Thanksgiving in their rundown shack with leftover stew, without Mr. Wiggs who wandered off long ago an has never been heard from. Do-gooder Miss Lucy brings them a real feast. ...more about Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch
- Not Available on DVD
29
Poppy, daughter of carnival medicine salesman Professor McGargle, falls in love with the Mayor's son. Countess Maggie Tubbs DePuizzi is claimant to the Putnam estates, but McGargle and lawyer Wiffen plot to make Poppy claim the fortune. ...more about Poppy
DVD from $38.39
(13 sellers)
31
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis. ...more about Running Wild
- Not Available on DVD
32
Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. ...more about Sally of the Sawdust
DVD from $9.99
(2 sellers)
35
Poor glazier Sam Bisbee has invented break-proof glass. He intends to show it off to a convention of automobile men. Due to a mixup his car is switched with another and his demonstration toss of a brick simply breaks the car's windshield. ...more about So's Your Old Man
- Not Available on DVD
36
Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the U.S. Crop Corps, a small army of young folks staying at youth hostels and picking crops while adult farmworkers are at war. ...more about Song of the Open Road
- Not Available on DVD
37
Joan Royle, beautiful but naive model who came from the slums, falls for Fred Ketlar, the leader of a dance band. When Fred's estranged wife Adele is murdered, Fred is arrested and convicted of the crime. ...more about That Royle Girl
- Not Available on DVD
38
Tillie and Augustus Winterbottom are thought to be missionaries when they arrive to find Phineas Pratt trying cheat the Sheridans out of her father's inheritance, including a ferry franchise and a boat. ...more about Tillie and Gus
- Not Available on DVD
39
The ring master is plotting to get the circus owner done away with in a lion cage so he can take over. World War I intervenes and eventually aids the Allied cause by joining the German army. ...more about Tillie's Punctured Romance
- Not Available on DVD
41
Sheriff Ben Holden is in love with hotel owner Madge Malarkey when down-and-out carnival man Gabby Gilfoil shows up hoping to take her for some money. Gilfoil is mistaken for the wanted man Slippery Sawtelle. ...more about Two Flaming Youths
- Not Available on DVD
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