[1] His best known appearances include The Village Blacksmith, The Rider of the Law, Oregon Trail, The Cowboy Star, Zorro's Black Whip and The Great Train Robbery.

[2] Jenks began his career sometime around the early 1890s in theatre, having run away from home and joined Diamond Jack's medicine show in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

[5] He found early success on a Broadway theatre production of Get Rich Quick Wallingford,[4] playing the role of the rube bus driver for 55 weeks.

[8] Jenks and Allen were described as "two excellent acts of vaudeville" by the Logansport Pharos-Tribune in 1920 and were known as "The Small Town Wise Crackers".

[9] On January 6, 1970, Jenks died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, of complications after suffering a heart disease.