Frank Jenks
Frank Jenks
From 1922 through 1934, Iowa-born performer Frank Jenks was a song and dance man in vaudeville. He began picking up day work in Hollywood films in 1933, and by 1937 had worked his way up to a contract with Universal Pictures. Jenks was seen in sizeable character roles in films ranging from the sumptuous Deanna Durbin vehicle 100 Men and a Girl to several entries in the Crime Club B-series. He portrayed sardonic sleuth Bill Crane (a creation of mystery writer Jonathan Latimer) in the Crime Club entries The Westland Case (1937) and Lady in the Morgue (1938). Jenks' familiar Hibernian grin and salty delivery of dialogue graced many a feature of the '40s and '50s; most of the roles were supporting, though Jenks was allowed full leads in an informal series of PRC detective films of the mid '40s. Frank Jenks' most conspicuous assignment of the '50s was as Uthas P. Garvey, the Runyonesque assistant of lovable con artist Alan Mowbray on the TV series Colonel Humphrey Flack, which ran live in 1953-54 and was resurrected for 39 filmed episodes in 1958. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Frank Jenks:
- Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck , Dennis Morgan , Sydney Greenstreet , Reginald Gardiner , Robert Shayne , Una O'Connor , Joyce Compton , Dick Elliott , Charles Arnt , Arthur Aylesworth , Marie Blake , John Dehner , Jody Gilbert , Olaf Hytten , Fred A. Kelsey , Jack Mower , S.Z. Sakall , Charles Sherlock
- His Girl Friday with Cary Grant , Rosalind Russell , Ralph Bellamy , Gene Lockhart , Helen Mack , Porter Hall , John Qualen , Ernest Truex , Cliff Edwards , Clarence Kolb , Roscoe Karns , Regis Toomey , Abner Biberman , Frank Orth , Alma Kruger , Billy Gilbert , Pat West , Edwin Maxwell , Irving Bacon , Wade Boteler , Edmund Cobb , Ralph Dunn , Earl Dwire , Pat Flaherty , Marion Martin
- A Letter of Introduction with Adolphe Menjou , Andrea Leeds , Edgar Bergen , George Murphy , Rita Johnson , Ann Sheridan , Eve Arden , John Archer , Irving Bacon , Don "Red" Barry , Wade Boteler , Don Brodie , Chester Clute , Ernest Cossart , William B. Davidson , William "Wild Bill" Elliott , Dorothy Granger , Jonathan Hale , Robert Emmett Homans , Kathleen Howard , Armand Kaliz , Crauford Kent , Doris Lloyd , Alphonse Martell , Charlie the Dummy McCarthy , Constance Moore , Natalie Moorhead , Leonard Mudie , Esther Ralston , Frank Reicher , Kane Richmond , Rolfe Sedan , Charles Sherlock , Richard Tucker , Theodore vonEltz , Ray W. Walker , Morgan Wallace , Claire Whitney , Dick Winslow , Russell Hopton
- Golden Boy with Barbara Stanwyck , Adolphe Menjou , Lee J. Cobb , Joseph Calleia , Sam Levene , Edward S. Brophy , Don Beddoe , Stanley Andrews , Don Brodie , Howard DaSilva , Eddie Fetherstone , Charles Halton , John Harmon , William Holden , George H. Lloyd , Sid Saylor , Charles Sherlock , Robert Sterling , Charles Sullivan , Harry Tyler , Minerva Urecal , Charles Lane , Bruce Mitchell
- Friendly Persuasion with Gary Cooper , Dorothy McGuire , Anthony Perkins , Marjorie Main , Robert Middleton , Richard Eyer , Walter Catlett , Richard Hale , Joel Fluellen , John Smith , Mary Carr , Russell Simpson , Charles Halton , James Dobson , Frank S. Hagney , Earl Hodgins , Diane Jergens , Norman Leavitt , Henry Rowland , Ralph Sanford , William Schallert , James Seay , Joseph Turkel
- Follow the Fleet with Fred Astaire , Ginger Rogers , Randolph Scott , Harriet Hilliard , Astrid Allwyn , Betty Grable , Russell Hicks , Lucille Ball , Bud Geary , Huntly Gordon , Doris Lloyd , George Magrill , Frank C. Moran , James Pierce , Herbert Rawlinson , Gertrude Short , Frank Sully , Max Wagner , Eric Wilton , Frank Mills , Addison Randall
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