Douglas Wakefield

{{Short description|British actor (1899–1951)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Douglas Wakefield | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 28 August 1899 | birth_place = Hull, Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|14 April 1951|28 August 1899}} | death_place = London, England | other_names = | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1933-1940 (film) }} '''Douglas Wakefield (actual first name was Albine but changed to Duggie for stage) ''' (28 August 1899{{spaced ndash}}14 April 1951) was a British music hall performer and film actor. He is often credited as '''Duggie Wakefield'''. He appeared in two films with sister-in-law Gracie Fields, playing her brother in the 1933 comedy ''This Week of Grace''. In 1940 he starred in an espionage comedy-thriller, ''Spy for a Day''.<ref>Murphy p.30</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''This Week of Grace'' (1933) * ''Look Up and Laugh'' (1955) * ''The Penny Pool'' (1937) * ''Calling All Crooks'' (1938) * ''Spy for a Day'' (1940)

== References == {{Reflist}}

== Bibliography == * Murphy, Robert. ''British Cinema and the Second World War''. A&C Black, 2005.

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0906769}} * Duggie Wakefield and Thomas Thompson

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wakefield, Douglas}} Category:1899 births Category:1951 deaths Category:British male film actors Category:Male actors from Kingston upon Hull