Allen Jenkins

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA, 1900-04-08

Died: 1974-07-20

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1931	The Girl Habit	Tony Maloney	0
2	1932	Grand Hotel	Hotel Meat Packer (uncredited)	69
3	1932	Blessed Event	Frankie Wells	65
4	1932	Rackety Rax	Mike Dumphy	50
5	1932	Three on a Match	Dick	63
6	1932	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang	Barney Sykes	78
7	1932	Lawyer Man	Izzy Levine	58
8	1933	Hard to Handle	radio announcer	69
9	1933	Employees' Entrance	Sweeney, store detective (uncredited)	63
10	1933	Blondie Johnson	Louie	61
11	1933	42nd Street	Mac Elroy	69
12	1933	King Kong	Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)	76
13	1933	The Keyhole	Hank Wales	49
14	1933	The Mind Reader	Frank	63
15	1933	Tomorrow at Seven	Dugan	60
16	1933	The Silk Express	Robert 'Rusty' Griffith	47
17	1933	Professional Sweetheart	O'Connor	50
18	1933	The Mayor of Hell	Mike	72
19	1933	Bureau of Missing Persons	Detective Joe Musik	58
20	1933	Havana Widows	Herman Brody	58
21	1934	The Big Shakedown	Lefty	56
22	1934	Bedside	Sam Sparks	56
23	1934	I've Got Your Number	John 'Johnny'	60
24	1934	Jimmy the Gent	Lou	63
25	1934	Whirlpool	Mac	61
26	1934	The Merry Frinks	Emmett Frink	37
27	1934	Twenty Million Sweethearts	Pete	60
28	1934	The Case of the Howling Dog	Sgt. Holcomb	65
29	1934	Happiness Ahead	Chuck	60
30	1934	The St. Louis Kid	Buck Willetts	58
31	1935	Sweet Music	Barney Cowan	57
32	1935	While the Patient Slept	Police Sgt. Jim Jackson	64
33	1935	A Night at the Ritz	Gyp	30
34	1935	The Case of the Curious Bride	Spudsy	60
35	1935	The Irish in Us	Carbarn Hammerschlog	76
36	1935	Page Miss Glory	Petey	63
37	1935	I Live for Love	Mac	48
38	1935	The Case of the Lucky Legs	Spudsy Drake	60
39	1935	Things You Never See on the Screen	Self	50
40	1935	Broadway Hostess	Fishcake Carter	53
41	1935	Miss Pacific Fleet	Bernard 'Kewpie' Wiggins	40
42	1936	Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel	Self	60
43	1936	The Singing Kid	Joe Eddy	40
44	1936	Sins of Man	Crusty	0
45	1936	Cain and Mabel	Dodo	61
46	1936	Three Men on a Horse	Charlie	62
47	1936	Sing Me a Love Song	Chris Cross	0
48	1936	Breakdowns of 1936	Self	0
49	1937	Ready, Willing and Able	J. Van Courtland	51
50	1937	Marked Woman	Louie	65
51	1937	A Day at Santa Anita	Allen Jenkins (uncredited)	50
52	1937	The Singing Marine	Sergeant Mike	40
53	1937	Dance Charlie Dance	Alf Morgan	60
54	1937	Marry the Girl	Specs	50
55	1937	Ever Since Eve	Jake Edgall	58
56	1937	Talent Scout	Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)	60
57	1937	Dead End	Hunk	70
58	1937	The Perfect Specimen	Pinky	57
59	1937	Sh! The Octopus	Dempsey	58
60	1937	Breakdowns of 1937	Self	60
61	1938	Swing Your Lady	Shiner Ward	42
62	1938	A Slight Case of Murder	Mike	62
63	1938	Fools for Scandal	Dewey Gibson	62
64	1938	Gold Diggers in Paris	Duke 'Dukie' Dennis	57
65	1938	Racket Busters	Skeets Wilson	51
66	1938	The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse	Okay	72
67	1938	Hard to Get	Roscoe	60
68	1938	Heart of the North	Bill Hardsock	37
69	1938	Going Places	Droopy	63
70	1938	Breakdowns of 1938	Shiner Ward / Duke Dennis (archive footage) (uncredited)	50
71	1939	Sweepstakes Winner	Xerxes 'Tip' Bailey	37
72	1939	Five Came Back	Pete	62
73	1939	Naughty But Nice	Joe Dirk	62
74	1939	Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite	Steve McBride	60
75	1939	Destry Rides Again	Gyp Watson	72
76	1940	Oh, Johnny, How You Can Love!	Ed aka The Weasel	57
77	1940	Brother Orchid	Willie 'The Knife' Corson	65
78	1940	Margie	Kenneth	0
79	1940	Meet the Wildcat	Max Schwydel	0
80	1940	Tin Pan Alley	Casey	48
81	1940	Breakdowns of 1940	Self	40
82	1941	Dive Bomber	Lucky James	63
83	1941	Footsteps in the Dark	Wilfred	69
84	1941	Time Out for Rhythm	Off-Beat Davis	62
85	1941	The Gay Falcon	Jonathan G. 'Goldie' Locke	62
86	1941	Go West, Young Lady	Hank	69
87	1941	Ball of Fire	Garbage Man	74
88	1942	A Date with the Falcon	Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke	65
89	1942	Tortilla Flat	Portagee Joe	54
90	1942	The Falcon Takes Over	Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke	60
91	1942	Maisie Gets Her Man	'Pappy' Goodring	65
92	1942	They All Kissed the Bride	Johnny Johnson	58
93	1942	Eyes in the Night	Marty	59
94	1943	Three Cheers for the Girls	Marine Sergeant in Chorus (archive footage) (uncredited)	62
95	1943	My Wife's an Angel	Sam	0
96	1943	Stage Door Canteen	Allen Jenkins	58
97	1945	Wonder Man	Chimp	66
98	1945	Lady on a Train	Danny (Waring chauffeur)	66
99	1946	Meet Me on Broadway	Deacon McGill	70
100	1946	The Dark Horse	Willis Trimble	0
101	1946	Singin' in the Corn	Glenn Cummings	0
102	1947	Easy Come, Easy Go	Nick	0
103	1947	Fun on a Weekend	Joe Morgan	70
104	1947	The Hat Box Mystery	'Harvard'	42
105	1947	The Case of the Baby-Sitter	Howard 'Harvard' Quinlan	40
106	1947	Wild Harvest	Higgins	0
107	1947	The Senator Was Indiscreet	Farrell	54
108	1947	Blow-Ups of 1947	Self	63
109	1948	The Inside Story	Eddie	65
110	1949	The Big Wheel	George	52
111	1949	Bodyhold	Slats Henry	30
112	1951	Let's Go Navy!	CPO Mervin Longnecker	70
113	1951	Crazy Over Horses	Weepin' Willie	55
114	1951	Behave Yourself!	Police Plainclothesman	60
115	1952	Chained for Life	Hinkley	39
116	1952	Oklahoma Annie	Lou	80
117	1952	The WAC from Walla Walla	Mr. Redington	0
118	1959	Pillow Talk	Harry	71
119	1963	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World	Cop (uncredited)	70
120	1964	For Those Who Think Young	Col. Leslie Jenkins	52
121	1964	Robin and the 7 Hoods	Vermin Witowski	61
122	1964	I'd Rather Be Rich	Fred	58
123	1967	The Spy in the Green Hat	Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto	65
124	1967	Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!	Joe Bonney	55
125	1972	Getting Away from It All	Doorman	0
126	1974	The Front Page	Telegrapher	73
127	1983	Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage	Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	65
128	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self (archive footage)	60
129	2003	Complicated Women	Self (archive footage)	67
130	2006	42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage	Self (archive footage)	60

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Racket Squad		60
2	1951	The Adventures of Boston Blackie		40
3	1951	The Red Skelton Show	Muggsy	74
4	1951	I Love Lucy	Policeman	79
5	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Fingers	63
6	1952	Mr. & Mrs. North		43
7	1952	The Abbott and Costello Show	Retired Actors Home Man on Street	71
8	1953	General Electric Theater		63
9	1954	The Duke	Johnny	0
10	1954	Studio 57		0
11	1954	December Bride		55
12	1956	Hey, Jeannie!	Al Murray	55
13	1957	Wagon Train	Mr. Gillespie	63
14	1961	Top Cat	Officer Dibble (voice)	75
15	1961	Ben Casey		56
16	1964	Bewitched		79
17	1964	Bewitched	Janitor	79
18	1964	The Man from U.N.C.L.E.	Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto	72
19	1965	Honey West	Gate Guard	70
20	1966	Batman	Little Al	73
21	1968	Adam-12	Jobey	70

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