Stanley Fields (born Walter L. Agnew; May 20, 1883April 23, 1941) was an American actor.

Biography

On Broadway, Fields performed in ''Fifty Miles from Boston'' (1908) and ''The Red Widow'' (1911). After that, for eight years, Fields performed in vaudeville with Frank Fay. he started on a film career with a screen debut as a gunman in her talkie ''

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''. In 1930, he signed a long-term contract with

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. He died on April 23, 1941, of a heart attack.

Selected filmography

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'' (1929) - Hood (uncredited) *'' Street of Chance'' (1930) - Dorgan *'' Dangerous Paradise'' (1930) - Steamer Captain (uncredited) *'' Mammy'' (1930) - Pig Eyes (uncredited) *'' Captain of the Guard'' (1930) - Hangman (uncredited) *''

Ladies Love Brutes ''Ladies Love Brutes'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film starring George Bancroft, Mary Astor, and Fredric March. The film was directed by Rowland V. Lee and based on the play ''Pardon My Glove'' by Zoë Akins. Cast *George Bancroft as J ...

'' (1930) - Mike Mendino *''

The Border Legion ''The Border Legion'' is a 1916 Western novel written by Zane Grey, first published by Harper & Brothers in 1916. Plot It tells the story of a cold hearted man named Jack Kells who falls in love with Miss Joan Randle, a girl his legion has ta ...

'' (1930) - Hack Gulden *''

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'' (1930) - Peters *'' Her Man'' (1930) - Al *''

The Lottery Bride ''The Lottery Bride'' is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Jeanette MacDonald, John Garrick, ZaSu Pitts, and Joe E. Brown. The film was produced by Joseph M. Schenck and Arthur Hammerstein, based on ...

'' (1930) - Bartender (uncredited) *''

See America Thirst ''See America Thirst'' is a 1930 American pre-Code comedy film produced and distributed by Universal Pictures and directed by William James Craft. Silent comics Harry Langdon and Slim Summerville star along with Bessie Love. Though released late ...

'' (1930) - Spumoni *''

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'' (1930) - McKay - Blackwell Henchman *''

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'' (1931) - Sam Vettori *'' Cimarron'' (1931) - Lon Yountis *'' Cracked Nuts'' (1931) - Gen. Bogardus *'' City Streets'' (1931) - Blackie *''

A Holy Terror ''A Holy Terror'' is a 1931 American pre-Code Western movie starring George O'Brien, Sally Eilers, Rita La Roy, and Humphrey Bogart. The film is an adaptation by Ralph Block, Alfred A. Cohn, and Myron C. Fagan of the novel ''Trailin'!'' by M ...

'' (1931) - Butch Morgan *'' Traveling Husbands'' (1931) - Dan Murphy - House Detective *'' Skyline'' (1931) - Captain Breen *'' Riders of the Purple Sage'' (1931) - Oldring *'' Way Back Home'' (1931) - Rufe Turner *'' Girl of the Rio'' (1932) - Mike *'' Two Kinds of Women'' (1932) - Harry Glassman *'' Girl Crazy'' (1932) - Lank Sanders *'' Destry Rides Again'' (1932) - Sheriff Jerry Wendell *''

The Mouthpiece ''The Mouthpiece'' is a 1932 American pre-Code crime drama film starring Warren William and directed by James Flood and Elliott Nugent. It was produced and distributed by Warner Bros.''The American Film Institute Catalog Feature Films: 1931-40'' ...

'' (1932) - Mr. Pondapolis *''

The Painted Woman ''The Painted Woman'' is a 1932 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code thriller film starring Spencer Tracy, Peggy Shannon and Irving Pichel and directed by John G. Blystone. Plot After becoming involved in a killing, Kiddo gets on board Boyton ...

'' (1932) - Yank *'' Hell's Highway'' (1932) - F. E. Whiteside *'' One Way Passage'' (1932) - Freighter Captain (uncredited) *''

Rackety Rax ''Rackety Rax'' is a 1932 American pre-Code comedy action film directed by Alfred L. Werker and starring Victor McLaglen, Greta Nissen and Nell O'Day. Plot Always looking for an angle, "Knucks" McGloin purchases the mortgage on Canarsie Colle ...

'' (1932) - Gilatti *''

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'' (1932) - Tony Ardetti *'' The Kid from Spain'' (1932) - Jose *'' Island of Lost Souls'' (1932) - Captain Davies *''

The Constant Woman ''The Constant Woman'' (1933), also known as ''Auction in Souls'' and ''Hell in a Circus'', is an American Pre-Code film directed by Victor Schertzinger. It is based on the 1913 Eugene O'Neill play ''Recklessness''. Plot Marlene Underwood is a ...

'' (1933) - Beef - Stagehand *'' Destination Unknown'' (1933) - Gattallo *'' Terror Aboard'' (1933) - Capt. Swanson *'' He Couldn't Take It'' (1933) - Sweet Sue *'' Roman Scandals'' (1933) - Slave Auctioneer (uncredited) *'' Palooka'' (1934) - Blacky Wolfe (uncredited) *'' Sing and Like It'' (1934) - Butch - Hood *''

Strictly Dynamite ''Strictly Dynamite'' is a 1934 American Pre-Code Hollywood, pre-Code film directed by Elliott Nugent and starring Lupe Vélez and Jimmy Durante. Premise Norman Foster plays a poet whose life changes when he begins writing comedy for Durante an ...

'' (1934) - Pussy *'' Many Happy Returns'' (1934) - Joe * '' Name the Woman'' (1934) - Dawson *'' Rocky Rhodes'' (1934) - Harp Haverty *'' Kid Millions'' (1934) - Oscar Wilson *'' Life Returns'' (1935) - Dog Catcher *'' Helldorado'' (1935) - Truck Driver *'' Baby Face Harrington'' (1935) - Mullens *'' The Daring Young Man'' (1935) - Rafferty *'' Mutiny on the Bounty'' (1935) - Muspratt *'' Black Gold'' (1936) - Lefty Stevens *''

It Had to Happen ''It Had to Happen'' is a 1936 American drama film starring George Raft and Rosalind Russell. The movie was written by Kathryn Scola, and Howard Ellis Smith, and directed by Roy Del Ruth. It is based on the 1909 short story "Canavan, the Man Wh ...

'' (1936) - Mug *'' O'Malley of the Mounted'' (1936) - Red Jagger *'' The Mine with the Iron Door'' (1936) - Dempsey *''

The King Steps Out ''The King Steps Out'' is a 1936 American light comedy film directed by Josef von Sternberg based on the early years of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi" or "Sissi", and her courtship and marriage to Franz Joseph I of Austria, after ...

'' (1936) - Bruiser (uncredited) *'' Show Boat'' (1936) - Backwoodsman with Gun (uncredited) *'' Ticket to Paradise'' (1936) - Dan Kelly *'' The Devil Is a Sissy'' (1936) - Joe *'' The Gay Desperado'' (1936) - Butch *'' Maid of Salem'' (1937) - First Mate *''

The Great O'Malley ''The Great O'Malley'' is a 1937 crime film directed by William Dieterle and starring Pat O'Brien (actor), Pat O'Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart, and Ann Sheridan. The 1925 silent version ''The Making of O'Malley'' starred Milton Sills, Dorot ...

'' (1937) - Convict at Lathe (uncredited) *'' Midnight Court'' (1937) - 'Slim' Jacobs *'' Way Out West'' (1937) - Sheriff *'' The Hit Parade'' (1937) - Bedtime Story Man *'' The Last Train from Madrid'' (1937) - Avila (uncredited) *''Three Legionnaires'' (1937) - Gen. Stavinski *'' The Toast of New York'' (1937) - Top Sergeant *'' Souls at Sea'' (1937) - Captain Paul M. Granley *'' The Sheik Steps Out'' (1937) - Abu Saal *'' All Over Town'' (1937) - Slug *'' Wife, Doctor and Nurse'' (1937) - Delivery Man *''

Danger – Love at Work ''Danger – Love at Work'' is a 1937 American screwball comedy film directed by Otto Preminger. The screenplay by James Edward Grant and Ben Markson focuses on an attorney's frustrating efforts to deal with a wildly eccentric family. Plot Henry ...

'' (1937) - Thug *'' Counsel for Crime'' (1937) - George Evans *'' Ali Baba Goes to Town'' (1937) - Tramp *'' Roll Along, Cowboy'' (1937) - Barry Barker *'' Wells Fargo'' (1937) - Abe - Prospector *''

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'' (1938) - Carlos *''

Of Human Hearts ''Of Human Hearts'' is a 1938 American drama film directed by Clarence Brown and starring Walter Huston, James Stewart and Beulah Bondi. Stewart plays a proud and ungrateful son who rebels against his preacher father and (after his father's de ...

'' (1938) - Horse Owner (uncredited) *''

Arsène Lupin Returns ''Arsène Lupin Returns'' is a 1938 American mystery film directed by George Fitzmaurice and written by James Kevin McGuinness, Howard Emmett Rogers, and George Harmon Coxe. The film stars Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William, John Hal ...

'' (1938) - André - Horse Groom (uncredited) *'' The Adventures of Marco Polo'' (1938) - Bayan *'' Wide Open Faces'' (1938) - Duke Temple *'' Panamint's Bad Man'' (1938) - Harold 'Black Jack' Deavers *'' Painted Desert'' (1938) - Bill *''

Straight, Place and Show ''Straight, Place and Show'' is a 1938 American comedy film directed by David Butler and starring the Ritz Brothers, Richard Arlen, and Ethel Merman, and released by 20th Century Fox. It based on the unproduced play ''Saratoga Chips'' by Damon ...

'' (1938) - Slippery Sol *'' The Sisters'' (1938) - Ship's Captain (uncredited) *'' Flirting with Fate'' (1938) - Fernando *'' Off the Record'' (1939) - Big Bruiser (uncredited) *'' Blackwell's Island'' (1939) - 'Bull' Bransom *''

Chasing Danger ''Chasing Danger'' is a 1939 American adventure film directed by Ricardo Cortez and written by Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892), Robert Ellis and Helen Logan. The film stars Preston Foster, Lynn Bari, Wally Vernon, Henry Wilcoxon, Joan Woodbury an ...

'' (1939) - Captain Fontaine *'' The Kid from Kokomo'' (1939) - Muscles Malone *''

Exile Express ''Exile Express'' is a 1939 American drama film directed by Otis Garrett and starring Anna Sten, Alan Marshal and Jerome Cowan. Plot After being wrongly implicated in the murder of her scientist boss by foreign agents, a young immigrant woman ...

'' (1939) - Tony Kassan *'' Hell's Kitchen'' (1939) - Buck * '' Fugitive at Large'' (1939) - Manning *'' Pack Up Your Troubles'' (1939) - Sgt. Walker *'' Viva Cisco Kid'' (1940) - Boss *'' King of the Lumberjacks'' (1940) - Dominic Deribault *'' Ski Patrol'' (1940) - Birger Simberg *''

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'' (1940) - Tambour *'' Wyoming'' (1940) - Curley - Henchman (uncredited) *'' The Great Plane Robbery'' (1940) - Frankie Toller *''

Where Did You Get That Girl? ''Where Did You Get That Girl?'' is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Arthur Lubin and starring Leon Errol. The title comes from the popular song of the same name, which dates to 1913 and was written by Bert Kalmar and Harry Puck. The song f ...

'' (1941) - Crandall *'' The Lady from Cheyenne'' (1941) - Jerry Stover * ''

I'll Sell My Life ''I'll Sell My Life'' is a 1941 American crime film directed by Elmer Clifton and starring Rose Hobart, Michael Whalen and Joan Woodbury.Fetrow p.224 Cast * Rose Hobart as Dale Layden * Michael Whalen as Mordecai Breen * Stanley Fields a ...

'' (1941) - Bochini (final film role)

References

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