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Most Recent Role: Dr. Robert "Bob" Kelso on Scrubs
Alias Name(s): Kenneth Jenkins
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Dayton, Ohio
Birthday: 8-28-1940
Birth Name: Kenneth Jenkins
Ken JenkinsMore Photos Ken Jenkins has been acting for the vast majority of his life. He began acting in various high school theatre productions in Dayton, where he was born and raised. Jenkins studied acting at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, not far from his home town. Whilst studying at Antioch, Jenkins also appeared on Broadway as well as in productions with several regional companies. In 1969, he...

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Scrubs
My Princess
Thursday 8 May 2008 on NBC

After a hard day of work, Dr. Cox has the burden to tell his son Jack a good night story, so disguises his hard day as a fairy tale about the little village Sacred Heartlia with Carla and Turk as the two-headed witch Turla, Elliot as the princess and J.D. as the village idiot. Other people...

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Ken's wife, Katherine Houghton, also works in films and is Katherine Hepburn's niece. (edit)
Ken studied drama at Antioch College. (edit)
Ken Jenkins appeared in the 2002 movie The Sum of all Fears alongside Morgan Freeman. (edit)
Ken married Katherine Houghton on the 1st January, 1970. (edit)
In the 1980s, Ken Jenkins played Frank Hall, a math teacher in the 15-part G.E.D. "Adult Math" telecourse. (edit)

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Ken Jenkins: As a teenager, I discovered a love for acting and theater arts that defined me for the rest of my life. (edit)
Ken Jenkins: Although most people think my character is too rough on the interns, I've been told by some people in the medical field that their 'Dr. Bob' was much tougher. I think the staff just don't realize how hard Kelso's job is. (edit)
Ken Jenkins: I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. (edit)
Ken Jenkins: I was fortunate to discover the world through the words of Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, and to discover in myself a love for the theater that has shaped my life. (edit)

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Homefront
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Dr. Robert "Bob" Kelso
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Wiseguy
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All Souls
Running Scared
Dr. Lohman
Amen
Fear of Flying
The Pilot
Babylon 5
No Surrender, No Retreat
Captain Trevor Hall
Beverly Hills, 90210
Tainted Love
Pastor Neal
Beverly Hills, 90210
Laying Pipe
Pastor Neal
Beverly Hills, 90210
Baby You Can Drive My Car
Pastor Neal
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