Megs Jenkins

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1917-04-21 (81 years old)

Deathday

1998-10-05

Place of Birth

Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK

Megs Jenkins

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...

Acting

1964

Murder Most Foul

as Gladys Thomas

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

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

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

1943

Millions Like Us

as Gwen Price

1974

Weekend Guest

as Beryl Steele

1964

Macbeth

as Gentlewoman

1950

No Place for Jennifer

as Mrs. Marshall

1945

1974

1957

The Man in the Sky

as Mrs. Snowden

1952

1944

It's in the Bag

as Peach St. Clair

1961

The Green Helmet

as Kitty Launder

1962

Heart to Heart

as Lady Johnson

1967

Cop-Out

as Mrs. Christoforides

1962

Life for Ruth

as Mrs Gordon

1943

The Lamp Still Burns

as Nurse (uncredited)

1976

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

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