Jackie Coogan

ActorDirector Oct 26 (died age 69) Los Angeles, California, USA 1917–2021 (104 year career)

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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. A…

Known For

Film

The Kid

Film

The Addams Family

Uncle Fester

Film

The Joker is Wild

Swifty Morgan

Film

Cahill: United States Marshal

Charlie Smith

Film

A Day's Pleasure

Smallest Boy (uncredited)

Film

The Addams Family

Uncle Fester (voice)

Film

Marlowe

Grant W. Hicks

Film

The Real Charlie Chaplin

Self (archive footage)

Filmography

Acting (144)

Movies (88)

The Real Charlie Chaplin

2021

as Self (archive footage)

7.5

Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star

2015

as Self (archive footage)

Chaplin Today: The Kid

2003

as Self (archive footage)

5.7

Lon Chaney: A thousand faces

2000

as Self (archive footage)

6.5

The Addams Family Album

1992

as Uncle Fester (archive footage)

Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies

The Prey

as Lester Tile

The Escape Artist

as Magic Shop Owner

Hollywood’s Children

as Self

The Kids Who Knew Too Much

1980

as Mr. Klein

7.3

Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype

as Sgt. Fleacollar

Human Experiments

as Sheriff Tibbs

When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion

1979

as Self

Halloween with the New Addams Family

1977

as Uncle Fester

5.8

Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood

1976

as Stagehand 1

4.1

Sherlock Holmes in New York

1976

as Haymarket Hotel Proprietor

5.9

Lucy Gets Lucky

1975

as Gus Mitchell

1.0

The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

1975

as Detective Chief Anderson

5.2

The Specialists

1975

as Roger

The Phantom of Hollywood

1974

as Jonathan

5.1

Cahill: United States Marshal

1973

as Charlie Smith

6.1

Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family

1972

as Uncle Fester (Voice)

7.3

Marlowe

1969

as Grant W. Hicks

6.0

The Shakiest Gun in the West

as Matthew Basch

Rogue's Gallery

as Funeral Director

A Fine Madness

as Mr. Fitzgerald

Clown Alley

as Clown

Girl Happy

as Sgt. Benson

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

1965

as Father Ryan

3.1

When the Girls Take Over

1962

as Captain Toussaint

3.2

The Legend of Rudolph Valentino

1961

as Self (archive footage)

Sex Kittens Go to College

1960

as Wildcat MacPherson

3.1

Night of the Quarter Moon

1959

as Desk Sergeant Bragan

Lonelyhearts

as Ned Gates

The Beat Generation

as Jake Baron

The Big Operator

as Ed Brannell

No Place to Land

as Swede

The Space Children

as Hank Johnson

High School Confidential!

as Mr. A

The Joker is Wild

as Swifty Morgan

The Star Wagon

as Hanus Wicks

Where's Charley?

1957

as Coach Sanderford

The Buster Keaton Story

1957

as Elmer Case

4.9

Eighteen and Anxious

1957

as Harold 'Eager' Beaver

6.0

The Proud Ones

1956

as Man on Make (uncredited)

Forbidden Area

as The Cook

Escape from Terror

as Agent Petrov

The Actress

1953

as Inopportune (uncredited)

Mesa of Lost Women

as Dr Aranya

Outlaw Women

as Piute Bill

Skipalong Rosenbloom

as Buck Lovelace

Varieties on Parade

1951

as Himself

5.5

French Leave

1948

as Pappy Reagan

Kilroy Was Here

1947

as Pappy Collins

5.0

Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)

1942

as Self (archive footage)

Million Dollar Legs

as Russ Simpson

Sky Patrol

as Carter Meade

College Swing

as Jackie

Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs

1936

as Self

1.0

Love in September

1936

as Jackie

Home on the Range

1935

as Jack Hatfield

Huckleberry Finn

as Tom Sawyer

Tom Sawyer

as Tom Sawyer

Free and Easy

as Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited)

6.0

Estrellados

1930

as Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)

The Circus: Premiere

as Self

Buttons

as Buttons

The Bugle Call

as Billy Randolph

Character Studies

1927

as Self (uncredited)

6.0

Johnny Get Your Hair Cut

1927

as Johnny O'Day

The Rag Man

as Tim Kelly

Old Clothes

as Timothy Kelly

A Boy of Flanders

as Nello

Hello, 'Frisco

1924

as Jackie Coogan

5.0

Little Robinson Crusoe

1924

as Mickey Hogan

6.0

Meet Jackie Coogan

1924

as Himself

Circus Days

1923

as Toby Tyler

6.3

Long Live the King

1923

as Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto

Daddy

1923

as Jackie Savelli / Jackie Holden

Trouble

1922

as Danny, the Kid

Seeing Stars

as Self

Oliver Twist

as Oliver Twist

Nice and Friendly

as Boy

The Kid

as The Kid

Peck's Bad Boy

as Henry Peck

My Boy

as Jackie Blair

A Day's Pleasure

as Smallest Boy (uncredited)

6.2

Skinner's Baby

1917

as The Baby (uncredited)

Television (56)

Unknown Chaplin

as Self

Hollywood

as Self

$weepstake$

Flying High

Movin' On

Barnaby Jones

as Phil Rooney

Police Story

The Addams Family

as Uncle Fester (voice)

7.3

Emergency!

1972

7.9

The New Scooby-Doo Movies

1972

as Uncle Fester (voice)

The Brian Keith Show

Cool Million

as Merrill Cossack

McMillan & Wife

Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law

1971

as Zigler

6.3

Alias Smith and Jones

1971

7.0

The Jimmy Stewart Show

1971

6.0

The New Andy Griffith Show

The Partridge Family

as Max Pepper

Love, American Style

as Motel Owner

Marcus Welby, M.D.

as Vince Darrell

The Brady Bunch

Adam-12

as Harry Rustin

Hawaii Five-O

as Horace Sibley

The Name of the Game

as Connie Hart

Here's Lucy

as Kermit Bosworth

The Outsider

as Rusty

Ironside

Family Affair

I Dream of Jeannie

as Suleiman

The Wild Wild West

as Sheriff Koster

The Addams Family

as Uncle Fester

Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

Burke's Law

as Bert Crowley

Vacation Playhouse

as Finnegan

The Virginian

as Bodey

The Lucy Show

as Lieutenant Ruggles

7.0

McKeever and the Colonel

1962

as Sgt. Barnes

The Dick Powell Show

1961

as Shopkeeper

5.5

The Andy Griffith Show

as George Stevens

Outlaws

Hawaiian Eye

as Mack Stanley

Mr. Lucky

as Joe Azevedo

Lock-Up

77 Sunset Strip

as Baldy Mike Hannigan (uncredited)

6.7

Peter Gunn

1958

6.4

Shirley Temple's Storybook

1958

as Marshal Rogers

6.2

Perry Mason

1957

as Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes

7.7

Matinee Theater

1955

5.0

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

1955

as George Bay

7.8

Gunsmoke

1955

as Marshal Stoudenaire

6.6

The Wonderful World of Disney

1954

as Mr. Klein

7.8

General Electric Theater

1953

as Marshal Stubb Snider

Letter to Loretta

as Woody Woods

Cowboy G-Men

The Red Skelton Show

as Muggsy

Studio One

as Jeffers

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Escape from Terror

1955

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