
Jackie Coogan
Biography
John Leslie Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984), known professionally as Jackie Coogan, was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films. Many years later, he became known as Uncle Fester on 1960s sitcom The Addams Family. In the interim, he sued his mother and stepfather over his squandered film earnings and provoked California to enact the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers.
Coogan enlisted in the U.S. Army in March 1941. After the attack on Pearl Harbor that December, he requested a transfer to Army Air Forces as a glider pilot because of his civilian flying experience. Graduating the Advanced Glider School with the Glider Pilot aeronautical rating and the rank of Flight Officer, he volunteered for hazardous duty with the 1st Air Commando Group. In December 1943, the unit was sent to India. He flew British troops, the Chindits, under General Orde Wingate on March 5, 1944, landing them at night in a small jungle clearing 100 miles (160 km) behind Japanese lines in the Burma Campaign.
After the war, Coogan returned to acting, taking mostly character roles and appearing on television. From 1952 to 1953, he played Stoney Crockett on the syndicated series Cowboy G-Men. He guest-starred on NBC's The Martha Raye Show. He appeared, too, as Corbett in two episodes of NBC's The Outlaws with Barton MacLane, which aired from 1960–1962. In the 1960–1961 season, he guest-starred in the episode "The Damaged Dolls" of the syndicated crime drama The Brothers Brannagan. In 1961, he guest-starred in an episode of The Americans, an NBC series about family divisions stemming from the Civil War. He also appeared in episode 37, titled "Barney on the Rebound", of The Andy Griffith Show, which aired October 31, 1961. He had a regular role in a 1962–63 NBC series, McKeever and the Colonel. He finally found his most famous television role as Uncle Fester in ABC's The Addams Family (1964–1966). He appeared as a police officer in the Elvis Presley comedy Girl Happy in 1965.
He appeared four times on the Perry Mason series, including the role of political activist Gus Sawyer in the 1963 episode "The Case of the Witless Witness", and TV prop man Pete Desmond in the final episode, "The Case of the Final Fadeout", in 1966. He was a guest several times on The Red Skelton Show, appeared twice on The Brady Bunch ("The Fender Benders" and "Double Parked"), I Dream of Jeannie (as Jeannie's uncle, Suleiman – Maharaja of Basenji), Family Affair, Here's Lucy, and The Brian Keith Show, and continued to guest-star on television (including multiple appearances on The Partridge Family, The Wild Wild West, Hawaii Five-O, and McMillan and Wife) until his retirement in the mid 1970s.
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Acting (85 movies)

Marlowe
1969

Estrellados
1930

The Kid
1921

The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968

Mesa of Lost Women
1953

Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976

The Beat Generation
1959

High School Confidential!
1958

Skinner's Baby
1917

The Actress
1953

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
1927

Love in September
1936

Escape from Terror
1955

Clown Alley
1966

The Buster Keaton Story
1957

Oliver Twist
1922

Nice and Friendly
1922

My Boy
1921

Human Experiments
1979

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961

Outlaw Women
1952

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980

Lonelyhearts
1959

The Rag Man
1925

Peck's Bad Boy
1921

The Space Children
1958

College Swing
1938

Seeing Stars
1922

Rogue's Gallery
1968

Tom Sawyer
1930

When the Girls Take Over
1962

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1936

The Big Operator
1959

Night of the Quarter Moon
1959

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942

Cahill: United States Marshal
1973

The Circus: Premiere
1928

The Specialists
1975

Huckleberry Finn
1931

No Place to Land
1958

Sex Kittens Go to College
1960

The Joker is Wild
1957

Free and Easy
1930

Sky Patrol
1939

The Phantom of Hollywood
1974

The Prey
1983

Million Dollar Legs
1939

French Leave
1948

Meet Jackie Coogan
1924

Halloween with the New Addams Family
1977

A Day's Pleasure
1919

Eighteen and Anxious
1957

The Escape Artist
1982

Skipalong Rosenbloom
1951

A Boy of Flanders
1924

Character Studies
1927

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
1975

Varieties on Parade
1951

A Fine Madness
1966

Lucy Gets Lucky
1975

Old Clothes
1925

Home on the Range
1935

Kilroy Was Here
1947

The Bugle Call
1927

Girl Happy
1965

Long Live the King
1923

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000

Trouble
1922

Circus Days
1923

Daddy
1923

The Proud Ones
1956

Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'
2003

Buttons
1927

Hollywood’s Children
1982

Little Robinson Crusoe
1924

Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
2015

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976

The Kids Who Knew Too Much
1980

Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972

The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988

The Addams Family Album
1992

The Star Wagon
1957

Where's Charley?
1957
Directing (1 movie)
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