Wendy Barrie
Acting
Born April 18, 1912 · Hong Kong, British Crown Colony [now China]
Biography
Wendy Barrie was a British actress who worked in British and American films. Barrie was born in London to English parents. Her father, Francis Charles John Graigoe Jenkin KC (1883 – 1936), was an employee of Great Western (according to the 1901 census), who then joined the Royal Fusiliers in 1902. Her mother was Ellen McDonagh. Hollywood gave her a more exotic parentage with her father being a King's Counsel and her mother a Russian-Jewish actress who had performed in the world's first professional Yiddish-language theater troupe. She received her education at a convent school in England and…
Known For · 40 titles
What's My Line?
Your Show of Shows
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Dead End
Cash
Speed
The Private Life of Henry VIII
It Should Happen to You
Follies Girl
Collision
Forever and a Day
I Am the Law
The Gay Falcon
College Scandal
Gangs Of The City
The Barton Mystery
The Saint In Palm Springs
A Feather in Her Hat
Pacific Liner
Day-time Wife
The Big Broadcast of 1936
The Saint Strikes Back
Prescription for Romance
The Saint Takes Over
Millions in the Air
Five Came Back
What Price Vengeance
A Date with the Falcon
Wings Over Honolulu
It's A Small World
Give Her a Ring
Under Your Spell
A Girl with Ideas
Women in War
Love on a Bet
Cross-Country Romance
Eyes of the Underworld
Submarine Alert
Men Against the Sky
There Goes Susie