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
Bobby Clark (comedian) Yankees", 1956–58, in the role created on Broadway by Ray Walston. As well as his better-known stage and film credits, Clark directed and appeared in such Restoration comedy as Congreve's "Love For Love", and lectured on this period of theatre at the American Theater Wing. Bobby Clark died in New York City in 1960. He was married to Angele Gaignat from 1923 until his death. He died on February 12, 1960 and is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Bronx, New York. Bobby Clark (comedian) Robert Edwin Clark (June 16, 1888 – February 12, 1960), known as Bobby Clark, was a