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Fields, Stanley, 1883-1941

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Personal name headingFields, Stanley, 1883-1941
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Variant(s)Agnew, Walter L., 1883-1941
Biography/History noteStanley Fields (1883-1941) was an American actor.
Birth date1883-05-20
Death date1941-04-23
Place of birthAllegheny (Pa.)
Place of deathLos Angeles (Calif.)
Profession or occupationActors Boxers (Sports)
Found inWay out west [MP] 1936: credits (with Stanley Fields)
Halliwell's filmgoer's companion, 1985 (Stanley Fields; AKA Walter L. Agnew; b. 1884 d. 1941; character actor; former prizefighter and vaudevillian)
IMDb, December 3, 2018 (Stanley Fields; born May 20, 1883 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA as Walter L. Agnew; he was an actor, known for Little Caesar (1931), Cimarron (1931) and Island of Lost Souls (1932); he was married to Alta Bailey; he died April 23, 1941 in Los Angeles, California)
Wikipedia, December 3, 2018 (Stanley Fields (actor); Stanley Fields (born Walter L. Agnew, May 20, 1883--April 23, 1941) was an American actor; Fields spent seven years as a boy soprano in the Trinity Church choir; he began work as a newsboy, but later became a professional boxer; as a result of a broken nose, he left the ring and decided to try performing in vaudeville in partnership with Frank Fay; thanks to Norma Talmadge, who thought his broken nose gave him a ferocious appearance, he started on a film career with a screen debut as a gunman in her talkie New York Nights)