As per our current Database, Frank Jenks has been died on May 13, 1962(1962-05-13) (aged 59)\nLos Angeles, California, U.S..
When Frank Jenks die, Frank Jenks was 59 years old.
Popular As | Frank Jenks |
Occupation | Actor |
Age | 59 years old |
Zodiac Sign | Sagittarius |
Born | November 04, 1902 ( Des Moines, Iowa, United States) |
Birthday | November 04 |
Town/City | Des Moines, Iowa, United States |
Nationality | United States |
Frank Jenks’s zodiac sign is Sagittarius. According to astrologers, Sagittarius is curious and energetic, it is one of the biggest travelers among all zodiac signs. Their open mind and philosophical view motivates them to wander around the world in search of the meaning of life. Sagittarius is extrovert, optimistic and enthusiastic, and likes changes. Sagittarius-born are able to transform their thoughts into concrete actions and they will do anything to achieve their goals.
Frank Jenks was born in the Year of the Tiger. Those born under the Chinese Zodiac sign of the Tiger are authoritative, self-possessed, have strong leadership qualities, are charming, ambitious, courageous, warm-hearted, highly seductive, moody, intense, and they’re ready to pounce at any time. Compatible with Horse or Dog.
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 Data Base 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 portrayed Lieutenant Rodney in the DuMont series Front Page Detective (1951-1952), and he was a member of the cast of The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater, which was syndicated in 1955.
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.