Allen Jenkins

Tous Jenkins (Avril 9, 1900 – July 20, 1974) que l'American character actor on stage", " screen and television. He was born Alfred McGonegal on Staten Island, New York. He etude at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In his first stage appearance, he je jouais, je dansais next to James Cagney dans a chorus line for an off-Broadway musical called Pitter-Patter. He made five dollars a week. He also appeared one thousand times dans Broadway plays between 1924 and 1962, including The Front Page with Lee Tracy (1928). His big break when he came 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 dans 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 bande dessinée henchmen, stooges, policemen and other "tough guys" dans numerous film of the 1930s and 1940s, especially for Warner Bros He was the labeled "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 en 1956-1957 television situation comedy Hey, Jeannie! (1956), mettant en vedette Jeannie Carson. He was also a guest star on The Red Skelton Show, I Love Lucy, Playhouse 90, The Ernie Kovacs Show, Zane Grey Théâtre, and The Sid Caesar Show. Eleven days before his death he made his final appearance, at the end of Billy Wilder 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 pour femmes. 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.