| 词条 | Frank Jenks |
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| name = Frank Jenks | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1902|11|4|mf=y}} | birth_place = Des Moines, Iowa, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1962|5|13|1902|11|4}} | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | othername = | yearsactive = 1933–1962 | spouse = }} Frank Jenks (November 4, 1902 – May 13, 1962) was an acid-voiced American supporting actor of stage and films. Jenks' mother gave him a trombone when he was 9 years old, and by his late teens he was playing with Eddie Peabody and his band. Later he became a studio musician in Hollywood, California.[1] Jenks began in vaudeville and went on to a long career in movies and television, mostly in comedy. He was one of the more familiar faces and voices of the Hollywood Studio era. For almost ten years beginning in the early 1920s, Jenks was a song and dance man in vaudeville. In 1933, when sound films had become the norm, and Broadway actors were moving to Hollywood in droves, Jenks's flat, sarcastic delivery landed him a film career. Internet Movie Database lists him appearing in 180 titles over the next 28 years (including TV) often as a sarcastic cabbie, reporter, cop or soldier. Usually a supporting actor, Jenks did appear occasionally as a film lead for low-budget films for PRC. Jenks appeared in not a few classics. In the Cary Grant-Rosalind Russell classic His Girl Friday (1940), Jenks had his most famous role, as the cynical newsman "Wilson." When television began, Jenks made a successful transition. Jenks' biggest continuing role was that of Uthas P. Garvey, the skeptical, proletarian right-hand man for the loquacious English conman Colonel Humphrey Flack (1953-1954), in the DuMont TV series of that name.[2] He reprised the role in a syndicated version of Colonel Humphrey Flack that was syndicated in 1958.[3] Jenks portrayed Lieutenant Rodney in the DuMont series Front Page Detective (1951-1952),{{r|st|page1=369-370}} and he was a member of the cast of The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater, which was syndicated in 1955.{{r|st|page1=298}} Partial filmography{{div col|colwidth=22em}}
References1. ^{{cite news|title=Career Of Frank Jenks On Rise Again|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6791650/oshkosh_daily_northwestern/|work=Oshkosh Daily Northwestern|agency=United Press|date=April 1, 1954|location=Wisconsin, Oshkosh|page=20|via = Newspapers.com|accessdate = September 26, 2016}} {{Open access}} 2. ^Terrace, Vincent (2011). Encyclopedia of Television Shows, 1925 through 2010. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|978-0-7864-6477-7}}. P. 200. 3. ^Erickson, Hal (1989). Syndicated Television: The First Forty Years, 1947-1987. McFarland & Company, Inc. {{ISBN|0-7864-1198-8}}. P. 56. 4. ^https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037235/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm External links{{Portal|Biography}}
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