Allen Jenkins

Todos Jenkins (Abril 9, 1900 – July 20, 1974), lo que es en American character actor on stage, screen and television. He was born Alfred McGonegal on de Staten Island, Nueva York. He estudios en el at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. En his first stage apariencia, pp danced next to James Cagney en a chorus line for en el off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Golpeteo. He hecho five dollars a week. Así que He apareció one thousand times en Broadway entre 1924 y 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, the Broadway production of Blessed Event and reprised the role in the film adaptation, both en 1932. With the advent of talking pictures, he made a career out of playing comic henchmen, stooges, policemen and other "tough guys" en numerous films of the 1930s and 1940s, especially for Warner Bros He was etiquetadas the greatest scene-ladrón of the 1930s" by the New York Times. He sonoras carácter de "Oficial de Dibble" on the Hanna-Barbera television de dibujos animados Top Cat and was a regular on the 1956-1957 televisión de comedia de situación Hey, Jeannie! (1956), protagonizada por Jeannie Carson. He was also a guest star on The Red Skelton Show, I Love Lucy, Playhouse 90, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Zane Grey Teatro, and The Sid Caesar Show. Eleven days before his death he made his final appearance, at the end of Billy Wilder's en 1974, la película adaptation of The Front Page. He went public with his alcoholismo and was the first actor to speak in the U. S. House of Representatives and the Senate about it. He ayudado a start the first Alcohólicos anónimos programs en 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.