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
John Harvey (American actor) as an agent at United Talent, lived at 11 Riverside Drive in New York City. John Harvey died at age 53 of an apparent heart attack on Christmas Day, 1970, in New York. John Harvey (American actor) John Harvey (June 28, 1917 – December 25, 1970) was an American actor. He starred in stage plays in Los Angeles, then went to New York, where he portrayed Private Earhart in the hit comedy "Kiss and Tell" (1943) on Broadway. With his success in the Earhart role, Harvey was signed to a motion picture contract by 20th Century Fox. He returned to