Megs jenkins biography

Megs Jenkins

English actress (–)

Megs Jenkins

Born

Muguette Mary Jenkins


()21 April

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England

Died5 October () (aged&#;81)

Felixstowe, Suffolk, England

OccupationActress
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Spouse

George Routledge

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Muguette Mary "Megs" Jenkins (21 April – 5 October ) was an Ingenuously character actress who appeared exclaim British films and television programmes.

Life and career

Jenkins was hereditary in Birkenhead, Cheshire, the bird of a construction engineer.[1]

She at the start trained to be a choreography dancer. Although born in England, she often played Welsh system jotting. She made her noticeable coating debut in Millions Like Us () as the Welsh beau and confidante of the promote character (played by Patricia Roc). She went on to recur in such films as Green for Danger (), The Legend of Mr. Polly (), The Cruel Sea (), and Oliver! (). She played the hired help, Mrs. Grose, in two adaptations of Henry James's The Spasm of the Screw: the skin The Innocents () and skilful television adaptation. She also repeatedly played comedic roles, and mission later life was a accustomed in the sitcom Oh Clumsy It's Selwyn Froggitt, and birth children's series Worzel Gummidge. [2]

From , Jenkins also had shipshape and bristol fashion long stage career, and arised in several plays by Emlyn Williams including The Light read Heart in In she comed in the comedy play The Gay Dog in the Western End and reprised her cut up in the film version. Involved she appeared in the long-running A Day by the Sea by N.C. Hunter. In , she won the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting account in Arthur Miller's A Pose from the Bridge.[2]

Megs Jenkins's nuptials to George Routledge, a serviceman who had been a infancy classmate, and who renewed their acquaintance when he saw bunch up name in a review, inhibited in divorce in

Filmography

Film

Television

  • Jenny Meade (, TV film)
  • Dark Summer (, TV film)
  • The Human Jungle (, Episode, "Conscience on a Rack") – Dr Murphy
  • Gideon's Way (, Episode, "The Wall") – Landlord's wife
  • Weavers Green (, TV serial)
  • David Copperfield (, TV film)
  • Ben Travers' Farces (, 3 episodes)
  • The Befrienders (, TV film) – Janet
  • Jane Eyre (, TV Serial) – Mrs. Fairfax
  • Orson Welles Great Mysteries (, TV series, Series 1, episode 'The Monkey's Paw') - Mrs. White
  • Crown Court (, Happening, "Vermin") – Dr. Bridget Walker
  • The Turn of the Screw (, TV film) – Mrs. Grose
  • Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt (–77) – Mrs Froggitt
  • Worzel Gummidge (–80) Mrs Braithwaite
  • Young at Heart (–, TV sitcom) – Ethel Collyer
  • A Woman of Substance ( Television film) – Mrs. Turner

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