W. C. Fields by Himself", it was shown that Fields was married (and subsequently estranged from his wife), and financially supported their son and loved his grandchildren. Fields was born William Claude Dukenfield in Darby, Pennsylvania, the oldest child of a working-class family. His father, James Lydon Dukenfield (1840–1913), was from an English family that emigrated from Sheffield, England in 1854. James Dukenfield served in Company M of the 72nd Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War and was wounded in 1863. Fields' mother, Kate Spangler Felton (1854–1925), was a Protestant of British ancestry. The 1876 "Philadelphia City Directory "lists James Dukenfield
Toby Claude group of actors who organized the Actors Theater in Los Angeles. Toby Claude married fellow actor William P. Carleton; they divorced in 1903. In 1915 she was involved in a scandal when she was found leaving America with another actress's husband and young child. Toby Claude Toby Claude (January 29, 1877 – October 27, 1962) was the stage name of Harriette Mary Kavanagh, an Irish actress and singer on vaudeville, on the Broadway stage, and in silent films. Harriette Mary Kavanagh was born in Dublin. Her father Richard Kavanaugh was Irish; her mother Angelina Claude was an "English burlesque actress".