Allen Jenkins
Acting
🎂 1900-04-08
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.
Cast credits(151)
1964
Janitor
1964
Little Al
1966
Mr. Gillespie
1957
Jobey
1968
Policeman
1951
Fingers
1952
1961
Muggsy
1951
1954
Gate Guard
1965
Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto
1964
1951
Retired Actors Home Man on Street
1952
Officer Dibble (voice)
1961
1954
Cop (uncredited)
1963
Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
1933
1951
1952
Harry
1959
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Al Murray
1956
Hotel Meat Packer (uncredited)
1932
Skeets Wilson
1938
Telegrapher
1974
Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto
1967
Lucky James
1941
Vermin Witowski
1964
Garbage Man
1941
Col. Leslie Jenkins
1964
Sam
1943
Self (archive footage)
2006
Mike
1938
Louie
1937
Fred
1964
Self (archive footage)
1987
Dempsey
1937
Self (archive footage)
2003
Self
1947
Farrell
1947
Gyp
1935
Eddie
1948
Allen Jenkins
1943
1953
Jake Edgall
1937
Barney Sykes
1932
Okay
1938
Hunk
1937
Joe Bonney
1967
Doorman
1972
Weepin' Willie
1951
Mike
1933
Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke
1942
Police Plainclothesman
1951
Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke
1942
Danny (Waring chauffeur)
1945
Mac Elroy
1933
Johnny Johnson
1942
Robert 'Rusty' Griffith
1933
Max Schwydel
1940
Lou
1952
Chimp
1945
Fishcake Carter
1935
Willie 'The Knife' Corson
1940
Joe Morgan
1947
Nick
1947
J. Van Courtland
1937
Ed aka The Weasel
1940
Willis Trimble
1946
Shiner Ward
1938
Hank
1941
Frank
1933
Mike Dumphy
1932
Mac
1934
Self
1936
Charlie
1936
Casey
1940
Dugan
1933
Duke 'Dukie' Dennis
1938
Self
1940
Lou
1934
Marty
1942
Pinky
1937
CPO Mervin Longnecker
1951
Dick
1932
Chris Cross
1936
Droopy
1938
Carbarn Hammerschlog
1935
Joe Eddy
1936
Frankie Wells
1932
Herman Brody
1933
Self
1935
Gyp Watson
1939
Xerxes 'Tip' Bailey
1939
Sweeney, store detective (uncredited)
1933
Spudsy
1935
Sergeant Mike
1937
Slats Henry
1949
Roscoe
1938
Sgt. Holcomb
1934
Deacon McGill
1946
O'Connor
1933
Bill Hardsock
1938
Specs
1937
radio announcer
1933
Petey
1935
Detective Joe Musik
1933
Pete
1939
'Pappy' Goodring
1942
Police Sgt. Jim Jackson
1935
Jonathan G. 'Goldie' Locke
1941
Emmett Frink
1934
Spudsy Drake
1935
Shiner Ward / Duke Dennis (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
Dewey Gibson
1938
Joe Dirk
1939
Crusty
1936
Lefty
1934
Hank Wales
1933
Off-Beat Davis
1941
Howard 'Harvard' Quinlan
1947
Higgins
1947
Alf Morgan
1937
Steve McBride
1939
Self
1937
Self
1936
Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
1937
Mr. Redington
1952
George
1949
Marine Sergeant in Chorus (archive footage) (uncredited)
1943
Glenn Cummings
1946
Allen Jenkins (uncredited)
1937
Tony Maloney
1931
John 'Johnny'
1934
Mac
1935
Bernard 'Kewpie' Wiggins
1935
Chuck
1934
Portagee Joe
1942
Buck Willetts
1934
Dodo
1936
Kenneth
1940
Wilfred
1941
Pete
1934
Sam Sparks
1934
Hinkley
1952
'Harvard'
1947
Johnny
1954
Louie
1933
Izzy Levine
1932
Barney Cowan
1935