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)
Muggsy
1951
Mr. Gillespie
1957
1952
Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto
1964
1954
1961
1951
1954
Little Al
1966
1964
Janitor
1964
Fingers
1952
1951
Officer Dibble (voice)
1961
Gate Guard
1965
Jobey
1968
Al Murray
1956
Retired Actors Home Man on Street
1952
Policeman
1951
Cop (uncredited)
1963
1953
Member of Ship's Crew (uncredited)
1933
Marty
1942
Harry
1959
Allen Jenkins
1943
Hotel Meat Packer (uncredited)
1932
Garbage Man
1941
Telegrapher
1974
Jonathan G. 'Goldie' Locke
1941
Mac Elroy
1933
Spudsy Drake
1935
Vermin Witowski
1964
George
1949
Barney Sykes
1932
Lefty
1934
Louie
1937
Self (archive footage)
1988
Gyp Watson
1939
Enzo 'Pretty' Stilletto
1967
Hunk
1937
Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke
1942
Pete
1939
Sgt. Holcomb
1934
Chimp
1945
Lou
1952
Willie 'The Knife' Corson
1940
Danny (Waring chauffeur)
1945
Izzy Levine
1932
Okay
1938
Jonathan 'Goldy' Locke
1942
O'Connor
1933
Mike
1933
Fred
1964
Duke 'Dukie' Dennis
1938
Casey
1940
Dempsey
1937
Hinkley
1952
Self (archive footage)
2003
Chuck
1934
Lucky James
1941
Col. Leslie Jenkins
1964
Johnny Johnson
1942
Lou
1934
Howard 'Harvard' Quinlan
1947
Portagee Joe
1942
Police Sgt. Jim Jackson
1935
Sweeney, store detective (uncredited)
1933
Roscoe
1938
Joe Morgan
1947
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1983
Pinky
1937
Off-Beat Davis
1941
Eddie
1948
Dick
1932
Spudsy
1935
Steve McBride
1939
Petey
1935
Mike
1938
Droopy
1938
Joe Dirk
1939
Dodo
1936
Joe Bonney
1967
John 'Johnny'
1934
Shiner Ward / Duke Dennis (archive footage) (uncredited)
1938
Ed aka The Weasel
1940
Police Plainclothesman
1951
Wilfred
1941
Mr. Redington
1952
Robert 'Rusty' Griffith
1933
Louie
1933
'Pappy' Goodring
1942
Jake Edgall
1937
Johnny
1954
Specs
1937
Crusty
1936
Charlie
1936
Higgins
1947
'Harvard'
1947
Max Schwydel
1940
Sam Sparks
1934
Hank
1941
Mike Dumphy
1932
J. Van Courtland
1937
Pete
1934
Buck Willetts
1934
Self (archive footage)
2006
Detective Joe Musik
1933
Frankie Wells
1932
Shiner Ward
1938
Frank
1933
Hank Wales
1933
Gyp
1935
Skeets Wilson
1938
Fishcake Carter
1935
Self
1935
radio announcer
1933
Kenneth
1940
Allen Jenkins (uncredited)
1937
Nick
1947
CPO Mervin Longnecker
1951
Sergeant Mike
1937
Xerxes 'Tip' Bailey
1939
Deacon McGill
1946
Barney Cowan
1935
Herman Brody
1933
Joe Eddy
1936
Farrell
1947
Dugan
1933
Self
1936
Self
1936
Sam
1943
Doorman
1972
Bernard 'Kewpie' Wiggins
1935
Glenn Cummings
1946
Tony Maloney
1931
Bill Hardsock
1938
Chris Cross
1936
Dewey Gibson
1938
Emmett Frink
1934
Willis Trimble
1946
Benefit Show Guest (archive footage) (uncredited)
1937
Weepin' Willie
1951
Alf Morgan
1937
Mac
1935
Self
1937
Carbarn Hammerschlog
1935
Mac
1934
Self
1940
Self
1947
Marine Sergeant in Chorus (archive footage) (uncredited)
1943
Slats Henry
1949