Theatre Register

W. C. Fields

Shows · W. C. Fields

ActorOn stage 19051930

On stage 11 productions, 25 years

1905 The Ham Tree New York Theatre · Original · directed by Herbert Gresham 90 perf.
1915 Ziegfeld Follies of 1915 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Julian Mitchell 104 perf.
1917 Ziegfeld Follies of 1917 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Ned Wayburn 111 perf.
1918 Ziegfeld Follies of 1918 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Ned Wayburn 151 perf.
1919 Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic [1919] Danse De Follies · Original
1920 Ziegfeld Follies of 1920 New Amsterdam Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 123 perf.
1921 Ziegfeld Follies of 1921 Globe Theatre · Original · directed by Edward Royce 119 perf.
1922 George White’s Scandals Globe Theatre · Original · directed by George White 88 perf.
1923 Poppy Apollo Theatre · Original · directed by Dorothy Donnelly Choreogrer: Julian Alfred 346 perf.
1928 Earl Carroll's Vanities [1928] Earl Carroll Theatre · Original · directed by Busby Berkeley 200 perf.
1930 Ballyhoo of 1930 Hammersteins Theatre · Original · directed by Reginald Hammerstein 68 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Gladys Loftus 4 productions
Fanny Brice 4 productions
Ray Dooley 3 productions
Helen Barnes 3 productions
Doris Eaton 3 productions
Allyn King 3 productions
William Blanche 2 productions
Will Rogers 2 productions
Van and Schenck 2 productions
Rose Dolores 2 productions
Phil Dwyer 2 productions
Peter Ostrander 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 9 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on1 work

George White’s Scandals

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What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any biography.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — actor — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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