Allen Jenkins
Age: 74 | From: Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1900-04-09 16:23:16
Death: 1974-07-20 16:23:16
Aliases: Alfred McGonegal
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA
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Movie Involvements: 44
TV Involvements: 3
Most Famous Work
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Allen Jenkins (April 9, 1900 – July 20, 1974) was an American character actor on stage, screen and television. He was born Alfred McGonegal on Staten Island, New York. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his first stage appearance, he danced next to James Cagney in a chorus line for an off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Patter. He made five dollars a week. He also appeared one thousand times in Broadway plays between 1924 and 1962, including The Front Page with Lee Tracy (1928). His big break came when he replaced Spencer Tracy for three weeks in the Broadway play The Last Mile. He was called to Hollywood by Darryl F. Zanuck and signed first to Paramount Pictures and shortly afterwards to Warner Bros. He originated the character of Frankie Wells in the Broadway production of Blessed Event and reprised the role in the film adaptation, both in 1932. With the advent of talking pictures, he made a career out of playing comic henchmen, stooges, policemen and other "tough guys" in numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s, especially for Warner Bros. He was labeled the "greatest scene-stealer of the 1930s" by the New York Times. He voiced the character of "Officer Dibble" on the Hanna-Barbera television cartoon Top Cat and was a regular on the 1956-1957 television situation comedy Hey, Jeannie! (1956), starring Jeannie Carson. He was also a guest star on The Red Skelton Show, I Love Lucy, Playhouse 90, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Zane Grey Theater, and The Sid Caesar Show. Eleven days before his death he made his final appearance, at the end of Billy Wilder's 1974 film adaptation of The Front Page. He went public with his alcoholism and was the first actor to speak in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate about it. He helped start the first Alcoholics Anonymous programs in California prisons for women. Jenkins, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh were the original members of the so-called "Irish Mafia". He was the seventh member of the Screen Actors Guild. Description above from the Wikipedia article Allen Jenkins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Most Famous Work
Adam-12
(1968) Jobey
Wagon Train
(1957) Mr. Gillespie
Honey West
(1965) Gate Guard
King Kong
(1933) Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
Marked Woman
(1937) Louie
Dead End
(1937) Hunk
Dive Bomber
(1941) Lucky James
Grand Hotel
(1932) Hotel Meat Packer (uncredited)Acting
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2003 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1988 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 1983 | Self (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| 1974 | Telegrapher | |
| 1972 | Doorman | |
| 1968 | Jobey | |
| 1967 | Joe Bonney | |
| Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto | ||
| 1966 | Little Al | |
| 1965 | Gate Guard | |
| 1964 | Janitor | |
| N/A | ||
| Fred | ||
| Vermin Witowski | ||
| Col. Leslie Jenkins | ||
| 1963 | Cop (uncredited) | |
| 1961 | N/A | |
| Officer Charlie Dibble (voice) | ||
| 1959 | Harry | |
| 1957 | Mr. Gillespie | |
| 1956 | Al Murray | |
| 1954 | N/A | |
| Johnny | ||
| 1953 | N/A | |
| 1952 | Mr. Redington | |
| N/A | ||
| Fingers | ||
| Lou | ||
| Hinkley | ||
| 1951 | Policeman | |
| Police Plainclothesman | ||
| Weepin' Willie | ||
| N/A | ||
| CPO Mervin Longnecker | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1949 | Slats Henry | |
| George | ||
| 1948 | Eddie | |
| 1947 | Self | |
| Farrell | ||
| Higgins | ||
| Howard 'Harvard' Quinlan | ||
| 'Harvard' | ||
| Joe Morgan | ||
| Nick | ||
| 1946 | Glenn Cummings | |
| Willis Trimble | ||
| Deacon McGill | ||
| 1945 | Danny (Waring chauffeur) | |
| Chimp | ||
| 1943 | Allen Jenkins | |
| Marine Sergeant in Chorus (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| 1942 | Marty | |
| Johnny Johnson | ||
| 'Pappy' Goodring | ||
| Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke | ||
| Portagee Joe | ||
| Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke | ||
| 1941 | Garbage Man | |
| Hank | ||
| Jonathan G. 'Goldie' Locke | ||
| Lucky James | ||
| Off-Beat Davis | ||
| Wilfred | ||
| 1940 | Self | |
| Casey | ||
| Max Schwydel | ||
| Kenneth | ||
| Willie 'The Knife' Corson | ||
| Ed aka The Weasel | ||
| 1939 | Gyp Watson | |
| Steve McBride | ||
| Pete | ||
| Joe Dirk | ||
| Xerxes 'Tip' Bailey | ||
| 1938 | Shiner Ward / Duke Dennis (archive footage) (uncredited) | |
| Droopy | ||
| Bill Hardsock | ||
| Roscoe | ||
| Okay | ||
| Skeets Wilson | ||
| Duke 'Dukie' Dennis | ||
| Dewey Gibson | ||
| Mike | ||
| Shiner Ward | ||
| 1937 | Self | |
| Dempsey | ||
| Pinky | ||
| Hunk | ||
| Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited) | ||
| Jake Edgall | ||
| Specs | ||
| Alf Morgan | ||
| Sergeant Mike | ||
| N/A | ||
| Louie | ||
| J. Van Courtland | ||
| 1936 | Self | |
| Chris Cross | ||
| Charlie | ||
| Dodo | ||
| Crusty | ||
| Joe Eddy | ||
| Self | ||
| 1935 | Bernard 'Kewpie' Wiggins | |
| Fishcake Carter | ||
| Self | ||
| Spudsy | ||
| Mac | ||
| Petey | ||
| Carbarn Hammerschlog | ||
| Spudsy | ||
| Gyp | ||
| Police Sgt. Jim Jackson | ||
| Barney Cowan | ||
| 1934 | Buck Willetts | |
| Chuck | ||
| Sgt. Holcomb | ||
| Pete | ||
| Emmett Frink | ||
| Mac | ||
| Lou | ||
| John 'Johnny' | ||
| Sam Sparks | ||
| Lefty | ||
| 1933 | Herman Brody | |
| Detective Joe Musik | ||
| Mike | ||
| O'Connor | ||
| Robert 'Rusty' Griffith | ||
| Dugan | ||
| Frank | ||
| Hank Wales | ||
| Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited) | ||
| Mac Elroy | ||
| Louie | ||
| Sweeney, store detective (uncredited) | ||
| radio announcer | ||
| 1932 | Izzy Levine | |
| Barney Sykes | ||
| Dick | ||
| Mike Dumphy | ||
| Frankie Wells | ||
| Hotel Meat Packer (uncredited) | ||
| 1931 | Tony Maloney | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
