Stanley Fields Biography — Blustery Thirties Character Actor

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Above: Stanley Fields in Little Caesar (1931)

Stanley Fields had a voice that matched his face. Either could have been raked over gravel. His movie career lasted just a brief and blustery dozen years, but he still appeared in over one hundred feature film releases. He died a long time ago, a sergeant in the Great War who left us several months before the attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into the second World...