Name
Megs Jenkins
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1917-04-21
Deathday
1998-10-05 (81 years old)
Place of Birth
Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
Biography
An engineer's daughter, she had first planned on becoming a ballerina, using her original Christian name Muguette, but abandoned those plans by the age of 17 when she realized that her physique was more in keeping with her other first name, Megs. She trained in Liverpool at the School of Dancing and Dramatic Art and then joined the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1933 before moving to London to appear at the Player's Theatre four years later.
During the 1950's, Megs was busy acting on stage and had considerable critical success in two plays by Emlyn Williams, 'Light of Heart' (1940) and 'The Wind of Heaven' (1945). Against character, she also played the vicious, unstable Alma Winemiller in 'Summer and Smoke' (1951) by Tennessee Williams. In 1956, she was awarded the Clarence Derwent Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as the stoic wife of a longshoreman harbouring incestuous feelings for his niece in 'A View from the Bridge' by Arthur Miller. The previous year, she had made her Broadway debut in Chekhov's 'A Day by the Sea' as a supportive governess to an alcoholic physician.
Known For
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- 1964 Murder Most Foul as Gladys Thomas
- 1965 Bunny Lake Is Missing as Sister
- 1959 Friends and Neighbours as Lily Grimshaw
- 1958 Indiscreet as Doris Banks
- 1972 Asylum as Nurse Higgins
- 1946 Green for Danger as Nurse Woods
- 1959 Tiger Bay as Mrs. Phillips
- 1953 Trouble in Store as Miss Gibson
- 1961 The Innocents as Mrs. Grose
- 1968 Oliver! as Mrs. Bedwin
- 1948 Saraband for Dead Lovers as Frau Busche
- 1948 The Monkey's Paw as Mrs. Alice Trelawne
- 1949 The History of Mr. Polly as The Innkeeper
- 1953 Personal Affair as Vi Vining
- 1945 Painted Boats as Barmaid
- 1954 The Gay Dog as Maggie Gay
- 1955 John and Julie as Mrs. Pritchett
- 1955 Out of the Clouds as Mrs. Jones, the Landlady
- 1953 The Cruel Sea as Tallow's Sister
- 1949 A Boy, a Girl and a Bike as Nan Ritchie
- 1959 Jet Storm as Rose Brock
- 1975 The Amorous Milkman as Iris Peters
- 1969 David Copperfield as Clara Peggotty
- 1945 The Ten Year Plan as Housewife
- 1939 Poison Pen as Barmaid
- 1953 Rough Shoot as Mrs. Powell
- 1957 The Passionate Stranger as Millie
- 1943 Millions Like Us as Gwen Price
- 1974 Weekend Guest as Beryl Steele
- 1966 Where the Buffalo Roam
- 1974 If You Could See What I Can See as Mrs. Palmer
- 1964 Macbeth as Gentlewoman
- 1950 No Place for Jennifer as Mrs. Marshall
- 1945 29 Acacia Avenue as Shirley
- 1974 The Turn of the Screw as Mrs. Grose
- 1957 The Man in the Sky as Mrs. Snowden
- 1952 Secret People as Penny
- 1944 It's in the Bag as Peach St. Clair
- 1961 The Green Helmet as Kitty Launder
- 1967 Stranger in the House as Mrs. Christoforides
- 1962 Life for Ruth as Mrs Gordon
- 1963 The Barber of Stamford Hill
- 1957 The Story of Esther Costello as Nurse Evans
- 1980 A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special as Mrs Braithwaite
- 1943 The Lamp Still Burns as Nurse (uncredited)
- 1969 The Smashing Bird I Used to Know as Matron
- 1976 The Daedalus Equations as Eileen Gray
- 1951 White Corridors as Mrs. Briggs
- 1952 Ivanhoe as Servant to Isaac
- 1947 The Brothers as Angustina
- 1973 The Monkey's Paw as Mrs. White
- 1978 Kay as Iris
- 1939 Secret Journey as Berta Von Reimer
- 1962 Heart to Heart as Lady Johnson
- 1965 Gideon's Way ( 1 episode ) as Liz Rikker
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Gentlewoman
- 1972 The Befrienders ( 11 episodes ) as Janet
- 1965 Thirty-Minute Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Miss Wellcome
- 1973 Orson Welles' Great Mysteries ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. White
- 1970 Menace ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Pepper
- 1974 Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! ( 15 episodes ) as Mum
- 1956 Nathaniel Titlark ( 10 episodes )
- 1963 The Human Jungle ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Murphy
- 1979 Worzel Gummidge ( 19 episodes ) as Mrs. Braithwaite
- 1980 Young at Heart ( 19 episodes ) as Ethel Collyer
- 1974 Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Eileen Gray
- 1970 Ben Travers Farces ( 7 episodes ) as Mrs. Hewlett
- 1961 Drama 61-67 ( 1 episode ) as Amy
- 1966 Mystery and Imagination ( 1 episode ) as Mrs Bunch
- 1966 Mystery and Imagination ( 1 episode ) as Mrs Smedhurst
- 1985 A Woman of Substance ( 3 episodes ) as Mrs Turner
- 1956 Armchair Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Ma Waite
- 1967 ITV Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Beryl Steele
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Turner
- 1964 The Wednesday Play ( 1 episode ) as Molly Wilderness
- 1969 W. Somerset Maugham ( 1 episode ) as Mrs. Bulfinch
- 1974 Father Brown ( 1 episode ) as Mrs Banks
- 1977 The Sound of Laughter ( 1 episode ) as Emily Lloyd
- 1962 The Old Curiosity Shop ( 4 episodes ) as Mrs Nubbles
