Sidney Fields Marriage Date, Son, Daughter, School Education, College/Qualifications, Favorite Things

Sidney Fields Marriage Date, Son, Daughter, School Education, College/Qualifications, Favorite Things

Sidney Fields (February 5, 1898 â€" September 28, 1975), born Sidney

H. Feldman, was an American comedic actor and writer best known for

his featured role on The Abbott and Costello Show in the 1940s (radio)

and early 1950s (television). He was sometimes credited as "Sid

Fields" or "Sidney Field".Fields was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on

February 5, 1898. He began his career when he was a boy, by working in

local theaters. As a teenager, he worked in carnivals and tent shows

in the Midwest, and later became partner in a comedy team with

vaudeville and burlesque performer Jack Greenman. The team was cast by

Harold Minsky in his family's celebrated burlesque theater. The team

split up in Hollywood when Fields was hired to work on a feature film

with Eddie Cantor, Strike Me Pink (1936).In the ensuing years, Fields

performed on stage, radio, and occasionally in movies. He worked on

Eddie Cantor's radio show as a writer and actor, and then with Ben

Blue, Rudy Vallee, Fred Allen, and Milton Berle.Fields appeared in

small roles in 1930s film comedies and sometimes received screen

credits as a writer and assistant director. In 1944, he began working

with Abbott and Costello, first in the film In Society (1944) and as a

writer/performer on their radio series, where he introduced his

Professor Melonhead character. From 1951 he supported Abbott and

Costello on NBC-TV's The Colgate Comedy Hour, and in 1952, he was cast

in the team's filmed series, The Abbott and Costello Show. He also

wrote the majority of scripts for the first season.
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