Jackie Coogan

Acting · 1.5 popularity

Age

111

Movies

Born: October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984
From: Los Angeles, California, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jackie Coogan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

88 films

The Kid

19218.1

Girl Happy

19656.5

Little Robinson Crusoe

19246.5

Marlowe

19696.1

Cahill: United States Marshal

19736.1

Hello, 'Frisco

19247.5

The Actress

19536.4

Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

20006.8

Human Experiments

19794.4

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979

Night of the Quarter Moon

19596.2

Sex Kittens Go to College

19603.3

The Shakiest Gun in the West

19686.2

Character Studies

19276.2

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

19764.3

Peck's Bad Boy

19214.4

The Prey

19834.3

A Fine Madness

19665.0

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

19653.8

Forbidden Area

19567.5

The Buster Keaton Story

19575.2

The Proud Ones

19566.5

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

19617.0

The Beat Generation

19595.1

The Real Charlie Chaplin

20217.6

Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family

19726.5

Sherlock Holmes in New York

19766.0

Free and Easy

19306.2

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

19364.7

The Escape Artist

19826.2

The Kids Who Knew Too Much

19807.5

Halloween with the New Addams Family

19775.8

Escape from Terror

19559.0

The Joker is Wild

19578.1

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

1988

College Swing

19386.8

High School Confidential!

19585.5

Buttons

19273.7

Lucy Gets Lucky

19754.5

Seeing Stars

19224.9

The Big Operator

19596.0

The Space Children

19584.2

Huckleberry Finn

19317.0

A Day's Pleasure

19196.3

The Phantom of Hollywood

19745.5

Kilroy Was Here

19475.7

Where's Charley?

1957

Nice and Friendly

19224.9

Hollywood’s Children

19829.0

Clown Alley

196610.0

Outlaw Women

19524.8

A Boy of Flanders

19248.0

French Leave

19487.0

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

19755.5

Lonelyhearts

19596.3

Home on the Range

19359.0

Tom Sawyer

19306.3

Trouble

19227.0

Skinner's Baby

1917

The Circus: Premiere

19285.4

The Bugle Call

192710.0

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

Sky Patrol

19395.5

Skipalong Rosenbloom

19517.0

Mesa of Lost Women

19532.5

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

19277.0

Oliver Twist

19226.4

Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star

2015

Chaplin Today: The Kid

20036.0

The Addams Family Album

1992

Rogue's Gallery

19687.0

The Rag Man

19257.0

Eighteen and Anxious

19577.0

Long Live the King

19237.0

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

19805.2

Million Dollar Legs

19396.0

The Star Wagon

1957

My Boy

19216.1

No Place to Land

19583.5

The Specialists

19759.0

When the Girls Take Over

19624.0

Circus Days

19237.3

Love in September

19369.0

Old Clothes

19255.0

Estrellados

19307.0

Daddy

19237.0

Varieties on Parade

19516.7

Meet Jackie Coogan

1924