Jackie Coogan
Born in Los Angeles, California, USA — Oct 26 1914• Died Mar 01 1984
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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…
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Jackie Coogan's Credits
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Perry Mason
Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes
Ironside
The Andy Griffith Show
George Stevens
Emergency!
Adam-12
Harry Rustin
Hawaii Five-O
Horace Sibley
Love, American Style
Uncle Harold
The Virginian
Bodey
Studio One
Jeffers
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Vince Darrell
Matinee Theater
Hawaiian Eye
Mack Stanley
Family Affair
Burke's Law
Bert Crowley
The Wild Wild West
Mayor Cecil Pudney
The Name of the Game
Connie Hart
The Lucy Show
Lieutenant Ruggles
Here's Lucy
Kermit Bosworth
I Dream of Jeannie
Suleiman
Barnaby Jones
Phil Rooney
77 Sunset Strip
Baldy Mike Hannigan (uncredited)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
George Bay
Peter Gunn
The Addams Family
Uncle Fester
The Partridge Family
Max Pepper
The Brady Bunch
McMillan & Wife
Gunsmoke
Marshal Stoudenaire
Alias Smith and Jones
Police Story
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Marshal Rogers
Lock-Up
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Zigler
Outlaws
Mr. Lucky
Joe Azevedo
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Uncle Fester (voice)
The Outsider
Rusty
$weepstake$
Movin' On
Letter to Loretta
Woody Woods
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mr. Klein
Vacation Playhouse
Finnegan
Flying High
The Brian Keith Show
The Jimmy Stewart Show
Hollywood
Self
Cowboy G-Men
Cool Million
Merrill Cossack
The Addams Family
Uncle Fester (voice)
The Kid
The Kid
General Electric Theater
Marshal Stubb Snider
McKeever and the Colonel
Sgt. Barnes
Unknown Chaplin
Self
High School Confidential!
Mr. A
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
The New Andy Griffith Show
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Matthew Basch
Girl Happy
Sgt. Benson
The Escape Artist
Magic Shop Owner
Marlowe
Grant W. Hicks
The Actress
Inopportune (uncredited)
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Self
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Father Ryan
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Stagehand 1
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
The Joker is Wild
Swifty Morgan
Outlaw Women
Piute Bill
Lonelyhearts
Ned Gates
Halloween with the New Addams Family
Uncle Fester
Human Experiments
Sheriff Tibbs
A Fine Madness
Mr. Fitzgerald
The Phantom of Hollywood
Jonathan
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Cahill: United States Marshal
Charlie Smith
The Proud Ones
Man on Make (uncredited)
Sky Patrol
Carter Meade
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Self
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
Uncle Fester (Voice)
College Swing
Jackie
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
The Buster Keaton Story
Elmer Case
Buttons
Buttons
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Haymarket Hotel Proprietor
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
The Big Operator
Ed Brannell
French Leave
Pappy Reagan
The Prey
Lester Tile
Estrellados
Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)
Free and Easy
Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited)
Million Dollar Legs
Russ Simpson
My Boy
Jackie Blair
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
Sgt. Fleacollar
Lon Chaney: A thousand faces
Self (archive footage)
Sex Kittens Go to College
Wildcat MacPherson
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
Seeing Stars
Self
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Johnny O'Day
The Beat Generation
Jake Baron
Kilroy Was Here
Pappy Collins
Peck's Bad Boy
Henry Peck
Hollywood’s Children
Self
Trouble
Danny, the Kid
Hello, 'Frisco
Jackie Coogan
Old Clothes
Timothy Kelly
Daddy
Jackie Savelli / Jackie Holden
The Space Children
Hank Johnson
A Day's Pleasure
Smallest Boy (uncredited)
Character Studies
Self (uncredited)
Chaplin Today: The Kid
Self (archive footage)
Clown Alley
Clown
Night of the Quarter Moon
Desk Sergeant Bragan
No Place to Land
Swede
The Specialists
Roger
Mesa of Lost Women
Dr Aranya
Circus Days
Toby Tyler
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
Home on the Range
Jack Hatfield
Forbidden Area
The Cook
The Kids Who Knew Too Much
Mr. Klein
Love in September
Jackie
When the Girls Take Over
Captain Toussaint
Long Live the King
Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto
Eighteen and Anxious
Harold 'Eager' Beaver
Nice and Friendly
Boy
The Rag Man
Tim Kelly
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Detective Chief Anderson
A Boy of Flanders
Nello
The Bugle Call
Billy Randolph
Skinner's Baby
The Baby (uncredited)
Where's Charley?
Coach Sanderford
Rogue's Gallery
Funeral Director
Little Robinson Crusoe
Mickey Hogan
Varieties on Parade
Himself
Escape from Terror
Agent Petrov
Skipalong Rosenbloom
Buck Lovelace
Lucy Gets Lucky
Gus Mitchell
The Circus: Premiere
Self
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Self (archive footage)
The Star Wagon
Hanus Wicks
The Addams Family Album
Uncle Fester (archive footage)
Meet Jackie Coogan
Himself