The Bank Dick, released as The Bank Detective in the United Kingdom, is a 1940 American comedy film starring W. C. Fields. Set in Lompoc, California, Fields plays Egbert Sousé, a drunk who accidentally thwarts a bank robbery and ends up a bank security guard as a result.
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William Claude Dukenfield, better known as W. C. Fields, was an American actor, comedian, juggler, and writer.
Fields in 1938
Caricature by Ralph Barton, 1925
Fields's prominent warning to "Nibblers" in the June 13, 1919, issue of Variety threatening legal action against anyone using his material
Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy with Fields on The Chase and Sanborn Hour, c. 1945