Frank Jenks, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American actor
Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1902
Place of Birth: Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Date of Death: 13-May-1962
Profession: actor
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Frank Jenks
- 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.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.
- He reprised the role in a syndicated version of Colonel Humphrey Flack that was syndicated in 1958.Jenks portrayed Lieutenant Rodney in the DuMont series Front Page Detective (1951-1952),:369-370 and he was a member of the cast of The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater, which was syndicated in 1955.:298
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