Megs Jenkins
Acting • Born 1917-04-21 – Died 1998-10-05
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.
Filmography
73 credits
Murder Most Foul
Movie • 1964
Gladys Thomas
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Movie • 1965
Sister
Friends and Neighbours
Movie • 1959
Lily Grimshaw
Indiscreet
Movie • 1958
Doris Banks
Asylum
Movie • 1972
Nurse Higgins
Green for Danger
Movie • 1946
Nurse Woods
Tiger Bay
Movie • 1959
Mrs. Phillips
Trouble in Store
Movie • 1953
Miss Gibson
The Innocents
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Grose
Oliver!
Movie • 1968
Mrs. Bedwin
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Movie • 1948
Frau Busche
The Monkey's Paw
Movie • 1948
Mrs. Alice Trelawne
The History of Mr. Polly
Movie • 1949
The Innkeeper
Personal Affair
Movie • 1953
Vi Vining
Painted Boats
Movie • 1945
Barmaid
The Gay Dog
Movie • 1954
Maggie Gay
John and Julie
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Pritchett
Out of the Clouds
Movie • 1955
Mrs. Jones, the Landlady
The Cruel Sea
Movie • 1953
Tallow's Sister
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
Movie • 1949
Nan Ritchie
Jet Storm
Movie • 1959
Rose Brock
The Amorous Milkman
Movie • 1975
Iris Peters
David Copperfield
Movie • 1969
Clara Peggotty
The Ten Year Plan
Movie • 1945
Housewife
Poison Pen
Movie • 1939
Barmaid
Rough Shoot
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Powell
The Passionate Stranger
Movie • 1957
Millie
Millions Like Us
Movie • 1943
Gwen Price
Weekend Guest
Movie • 1974
Beryl Steele
Where the Buffalo Roam
Movie • 1966
If You Could See What I Can See
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Palmer
Macbeth
Movie • 1964
Gentlewoman
No Place for Jennifer
Movie • 1950
Mrs. Marshall
29 Acacia Avenue
Movie • 1945
Shirley
The Turn of the Screw
Movie • 1974
Mrs. Grose
The Man in the Sky
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Snowden
Secret People
Movie • 1952
Penny
It's in the Bag
Movie • 1944
Peach St. Clair
The Green Helmet
Movie • 1961
Kitty Launder
Stranger in the House
Movie • 1967
Mrs. Christoforides
Life for Ruth
Movie • 1962
Mrs Gordon
The Barber of Stamford Hill
Movie • 1963
The Story of Esther Costello
Movie • 1957
Nurse Evans
A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
Movie • 1980
Mrs Braithwaite
The Lamp Still Burns
Movie • 1943
Nurse (uncredited)
The Smashing Bird I Used to Know
Movie • 1969
Matron
The Daedalus Equations
Movie • 1976
Eileen Gray
White Corridors
Movie • 1951
Mrs. Briggs
Ivanhoe
Movie • 1952
Servant to Isaac
The Brothers
Movie • 1947
Angustina
The Monkey's Paw
Movie • 1973
Mrs. White
Kay
Movie • 1978
Iris
Secret Journey
Movie • 1939
Berta Von Reimer
Heart to Heart
Movie • 1962
Lady Johnson
Gideon's Way
TV • 1965
Liz Rikker
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Gentlewoman
The Befrienders
TV • 1972
Thirty-Minute Theatre
TV • 1965
Miss Wellcome
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
TV • 1973
Mrs. White
Menace
TV • 1970
Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!
TV • 1974
Mum
The Old Curiosity Shop
TV • 1962
Nathaniel Titlark
TV • 1956
Father Brown
TV • 1974
The Human Jungle
TV • 1963
Dr. Murphy
Worzel Gummidge
TV • 1979
Mrs. Braithwaite
Young at Heart
TV • 1980
Ethel Collyer
Playhouse
TV • 1974
Eileen Gray
Ben Travers Farces
TV • 1970
Mrs. Hewlett
Drama 61-67
TV • 1961
Amy
Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966
Mrs Bunch
Mystery and Imagination
TV • 1966
Mrs Smedhurst
A Woman of Substance
TV • 1985
Mrs Turner