Allen Jenkins - Фильмы

Аллен Дженкинс (9 апреля, 1900 – July 20, 1974) was an American character actor on stage, screen and television. He was born Альфред McGonegal on Staten Island, New York. He studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his first stage appearance, he danced next to Джеймс Кэгни в a chorus line for an off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Скороговоркой. He made five dollars a week. He also appeared one thousand times in plays Broadway between 1924 и 1962, including The Front Page with Tracy Lee (1928). His big break came when he replaced Спенсер трэйси for three weeks in the Broadway play The Last Mile. He was called to Hollywood by Дэррил ф. занук 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 комикс прихвостней, 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 звонких the character of "директор Dibble" on the Hanna-Barbera television мультфильм Top Cat and was a regular on the 1956-1957 television ситуация comedy Эй, Джинни! (1956), в ролях: Джинни Карсон. He was also a guest star on The Red Skelton Show, I Love Lucy, Playhouse 90, The Ernie Kovacs шоу, Zane Grey Theater, and The Sid Caesar шоу. Eleven days before his death, he made his final appearance, at the end of 1974 Билли Уайлдера film adaptation of The Front Page. He went public with his алкоголизм and actor was the first 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. Дженкинс, Джеймс Кэгни, ПЭТ о'Брайен и Фрэнк Макхью were the original members of the so-called "ирландская мафия". He was the seventh member of the Screen Actors Guild.