- He studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. He started his art direction career designing productions for a Philadelphia theater group. He designed and lighted sets on Broadway during the 1940s, and gained prominence for his work on "I Remember Mama" in 1944.
- Producer Samuel Goldwyn asked him to move to Hollywood. Jenkins' first film assignment was "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946).
- Father of daughter Jane Jenkins Dumas.
- His Oscar-winning work on "All the President's Men" (1976) included recreating, on a sound-stage, the Washington Post newsroom. Carl Bernstein, one of the reporters portrayed in the film, remarked how accurate the set was: "[Jenkins] had recreated it down to the trash on our desks.".
- Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Art Directors Branch).
- Under contract to RKO (Goldwyn), 1946-1949.
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