
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.

Oklahoma Annie

I Love Lucy

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I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang

Fun on a Weekend

The Irish in Us

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Top Cat

The Red Skelton Show

Ball of Fire

The Front Page

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The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse

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夜を楽しく

The Mayor of Hell

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Dead End

Let's Go Navy!

Meet Me on Broadway

Honey West

Adam-12

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おかしなおかしなおかしな世界

四十二番街

Footsteps in the Dark

Hard to Handle

Complicated Women

Lady on a Train

The Spy in the Green Hat

Wagon Train

Brother Orchid

Naughty But Nice

Wonder Man

Marked Woman

Blessed Event

A Date with the Falcon

Maisie Gets Her Man

The Inside Story

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Go West, Young Lady

Dive Bomber

While the Patient Slept

General Electric Theater

The Gay Falcon

A Slight Case of Murder

Going Places

Jimmy the Gent

Page Miss Glory

Blow-Ups of 1947

Three on a Match

The Falcon Takes Over

Five Came Back

Time Out for Rhythm

The Case of the Howling Dog

Three Men on a Horse

Fools for Scandal

Three Cheers for the Girls

Robin and the 7 Hoods

Cain and Mabel

Stage Door Canteen

Employees' Entrance

Behind the Scenes of Cain and Mabel

The Mind Reader

Lawyer Man

Happiness Ahead

Tomorrow at Seven

Dance Charlie Dance

Torchy Blane... Playing with Dynamite

Hard to Get

I've Got Your Number

42nd Street: From Book to Screen to Stage

Twenty Million Sweethearts

The Case of the Curious Bride

Talent Scout

Breakdowns of 1937

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Behave Yourself!

December Bride

Racket Squad

Eyes in the Night

Whirlpool

They All Kissed the Bride

Sh! The Octopus

I'd Rather Be Rich

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Havana Widows

Blondie Johnson

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Gold Diggers in Paris

Sweet Music

The Perfect Specimen

The Case of the Lucky Legs

The Big Shakedown

Ben Casey

Bureau of Missing Persons

Ever Since Eve

Crazy Over Horses

Doctor, You've Got to Be Kidding!

The Senator Was Indiscreet

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Broadway Hostess

For Those Who Think Young

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Racket Busters

Ready, Willing and Able

Tin Pan Alley

Marry the Girl

Professional Sweetheart

A Day at Santa Anita

Things You Never See on the Screen

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I Live for Love

The Keyhole

The Silk Express

Breakdowns of 1938

Mr. & Mrs. North

Swing Your Lady

The Case of the Baby-Sitter

The Singing Kid

Miss Pacific Fleet

Heart of the North

The Singing Marine

Breakdowns of 1940

Boston Blackie

The Merry Frinks

Sweepstakes Winner

Chained for Life

The Hat Box Mystery

Bodyhold

A Night at the Ritz

Easy Come, Easy Go

Sing Me a Love Song

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Meet the Wildcat

Sins of Man

Margie

Breakdowns of 1936

The Dark Horse

Wild Harvest

Singin' in the Corn

The Girl Habit

Getting Away from It All

Three Men on a Horse

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