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- Birth nameJack Dudley Jenkins
- Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins was born on August 29, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for National Velvet (1944), The Human Comedy (1943) and Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945). He was married to Glenda Larue Birmingham. He died on August 14, 2001 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
- SpouseGlenda Larue Birmingham(March 3, 1967 - August 14, 2001) (his death)
- Huge freckles, sleepy eyes and buckteeth
- His childhood earnings were well invested for him, leaving him independently wealthy while still in his 30s.
- Left films at the age of eleven when he developed a nervous stutter which never left him, even as an adult.
- In his adult years he supervised the East Texas Water System, and ran a chain of car wash outlets.
- Son of actress Doris Dudley.
- Appeared under the direction of two Oscar winners (Fred Zinnemann and Norman Taurog) and three Oscar nominees (Clarence Brown, King Vidor and S. Sylvan Simon).
- In 1970: "I have never regretted leaving the picture business and am very grateful to my mother for taking me away from it. I enjoyed the first few years of acting in movies but I certainly don't miss it. In fact, when I've had offers to return a few times, I wasn't even tempted. There may be a better way to live than on a lake with a couple of cows, a wife, and children but being a movie star is not one."
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