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name: "Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jackie-butch-jenkins"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "29 August 1937"
died: "14 August 2001"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-20T01:01:47.404577+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins

Actor. Born 29 August 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 14 August 2001.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 29 August 1937, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 14 August 2001
- **Also known as:** Butch Jenkins, Jackie Jenkins, Jack Jenkins, Jack Dudley Jenkins
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_%22Butch%22_Jenkins, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1267250, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0420862/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1020650

## Biography

Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins, born Jack Dudley Jenkins, was an American child actor. He made his film debut at the age of six as Ulysses Macauley in *The Human Comedy* (1943). The son of actress Doris Dudley, he was discovered by an MGM talent scout while playing on a Santa Monica beach.

Jenkins appeared in a series of MGM films during the 1940s, including *National Velvet* (1944) as Donald Brown, *Our Vines Have Tender Grapes* (1945), *Boys' Ranch* (1946) and *My Brother Talks to Horses* (1947). He received star billing in *Boys' Ranch*. His final screen roles were in 1948 films such as *The Bride Goes Wild*, *Summer Holiday* and *Big City*.

He retired from acting at the age of eleven after developing a stutter. In later years he worked in water systems and ran car washes. Jenkins died in Asheville, North Carolina, in 2001.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Human Comedy* (1943), Fi1m 66, as Ulysses Macauley — [page](https://film.one/film/the-human-comedy.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Summer Holiday* (1948), as Tommy Miller
- *Big City* (1948), as Louis Keller
- *The Bride Goes Wild* (1948), as Danny
- *My Old Town* (1948), as Boy Watching Gopher (uncredited)
- *Little Mister Jim* (1947), as Little Jim Tukker
- *My Brother Talks to Horses* (1947), as Lewie Penrose
- *Boys' Ranch* (1946), as Butch
- *Our Vines Have Tender Grapes* (1945), as Arnold Hanson
- *National Velvet* (1945), as Donald Brown
- *Reward Unlimited* (1944), Actor
- *Twenty Years After* (1944), as (archive footage)
- *The Human Comedy* (1943), as Ulysses Macauley — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/the-human-comedy.md)

## Gallery

- ![Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins](https://film.one/media/person/1233713/gallery-9106c1fcce48.jpg) Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins — Trailer screenshot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Jack_Jenkins_in_The_Human_Comedy_trailer.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Postcard of (from left) Jackie "Butch" Jenkins and Ching Wah Lee for the 1946 film Little Mister Jim](https://film.one/media/person/1233713/gallery-8070d14732a4.jpg) Postcard of (from left) Jackie "Butch" Jenkins and Ching Wah Lee for the 1946 film Little Mister Jim — Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b6/Little_Mister_Jim_%281946%29_Postcard_of_Jackie_%22Butch%22_Jenkins_and_Ching_Wah_Lee.jpg/1280px-Little_Mister_Jim_%281946%29_Postcard_of_Jackie_%22Butch%22_Jenkins_and_Ching_Wah_Lee.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins](https://film.one/media/person/1233713/gallery-50d01215b23f.jpg) Jackie 'Butch' Jenkins — Image via TMDB

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