Jackie Coogan
Acting
Born: October 26, 1914 · Los Angeles, California, USA
Died: March 1, 1984 (aged 69)
Highest Rated
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.
Known for
The Kid
1921
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
The Addams Family
1964
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
1972
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
The Brady Bunch
1969
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
The Joker is Wild
1957
Perry Mason
1957
A Day's Pleasure
1919
Photos (6)
Movies (71)
The Kid
The Kid
Cahill: United States Marshal
Charlie Smith
Marlowe
Grant W. Hicks
Halloween with the New Addams Family
Uncle Fester
Human Experiments
Sheriff Tibbs
Girl Happy
Sgt. Benson
A Fine Madness
Mr. Fitzgerald
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Father Ryan
The Joker is Wild
Swifty Morgan
The Proud Ones
Man on Make (uncredited)
The Escape Artist
Magic Shop Owner
The Actress
Inopportune (uncredited)
Buttons
Buttons
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
Uncle Fester (Voice)
The Buster Keaton Story
Elmer Case
High School Confidential!
Mr. A
The Space Children
Hank Johnson
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Stagehand 1
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Matthew Basch
Mesa of Lost Women
Dr Aranya
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Haymarket Hotel Proprietor
Outlaw Women
Piute Bill
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
Sgt. Fleacollar
Long Live the King
Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto
The Beat Generation
Jake Baron
The Kids Who Knew Too Much
Mr. Klein
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Detective Chief Anderson
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
Nice and Friendly
Boy
Clown Alley
Clown
Lonelyhearts
Ned Gates
Sex Kittens Go to College
Wildcat MacPherson
No Place to Land
Swede
The Big Operator
Ed Brannell
Free and Easy
Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited)
A Boy of Flanders
Nello
Night of the Quarter Moon
Desk Sergeant Bragan
Where's Charley?
Coach Sanderford
A Day's Pleasure
Smallest Boy (uncredited)
Million Dollar Legs
Russ Simpson
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
The Prey
Lester Tile
Rogue's Gallery
Funeral Director
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
Escape from Terror
Agent Petrov
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Johnny O'Day
The Phantom of Hollywood
Jonathan
My Boy
Jackie Blair
Daddy
Jackie Savelli / Jackie Holden
Peck's Bad Boy
Henry Peck
The Specialists
Roger
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
The Rag Man
Tim Kelly
Home on the Range
Jack Hatfield
Kilroy Was Here
Pappy Collins
Skipalong Rosenbloom
Buck Lovelace
The Bugle Call
Billy Randolph
College Swing
Jackie
Sky Patrol
Carter Meade
Eighteen and Anxious
Harold 'Eager' Beaver
Skinner's Baby
The Baby (uncredited)
The Addams Family Album
Uncle Fester (archive footage)
Little Robinson Crusoe
Mickey Hogan
When the Girls Take Over
Captain Toussaint
French Leave
Pappy Reagan
The Star Wagon
Hanus Wicks
Circus Days
Toby Tyler
Lucy Gets Lucky
Gus Mitchell
Trouble
Danny, the Kid
Old Clothes
Timothy Kelly
Love in September
Jackie
TV Shows (65)
Perry Mason
Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Pete Desmond · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Gus Sawyer · 1 eps
Perry Mason
Ron Litten · 1 eps
The Andy Griffith Show
George Stevens · 1 eps
Ironside
1 eps
Ironside
Buster Logan · 1 eps
Ironside
Sam McGoff · 1 eps
The Virginian
Bodey · 1 eps
Love, American Style
Uncle Harold · 1 eps
Love, American Style
Motel Owner · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Horace Sibley · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Jerry Howe · 1 eps
Hawaii Five-O
Frank · 1 eps
Adam-12
Harry Rustin · 1 eps
Matinee Theater
2 eps
The Red Skelton Show
Police Officer Hennesey · 1 eps
The Red Skelton Show
Muggsy · 1 eps
The Red Skelton Show
Police Lieutenant Smith · 1 eps
Emergency!
Junkyard Owner · 1 eps
Studio One
Jeffers · 1 eps
I Dream of Jeannie
Suleiman · 2 eps
The Wild Wild West
Mayor Cecil Pudney · 2 eps
The Wild Wild West
Sheriff Koster · 1 eps
The Lucy Show
Lieutenant Ruggles · 2 eps
Barnaby Jones
Phil Rooney · 1 eps
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Vince Darrell · 1 eps
The Partridge Family
Max Pepper · 1 eps
The Partridge Family
Grandpa Walter Renfrew · 1 eps
Burke's Law
Bert Crowley · 1 eps
The Addams Family
Uncle Fester · 64 eps
77 Sunset Strip
Baldy Mike Hannigan (uncredited) · 1 eps
The Name of the Game
Connie Hart · 1 eps
Gunsmoke
Marshal Stoudenaire · 1 eps
Hawaiian Eye
Mack Stanley · 1 eps
Peter Gunn
1 eps
Here's Lucy
Kermit Bosworth · 1 eps
Family Affair
1 eps
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
George Bay · 1 eps
Police Story
1 eps
The Brady Bunch
2 eps
Alias Smith and Jones
3 eps
McMillan & Wife
1 eps
McMillan & Wife
Howard Sparks · 2 eps
Outlaws
2 eps
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Zigler · 1 eps
Lock-Up
1 eps
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Marshal Rogers · 1 eps
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Uncle Fester (voice) · 1 eps
The Dick Powell Show
Shopkeeper · 1 eps
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mr. Klein · 1 eps
Mr. Lucky
Joe Azevedo · 1 eps
The Outsider
Rusty · 1 eps
Movin' On
1 eps
Flying High
1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Woody Woods · 1 eps
Letter to Loretta
Snuff Carter · 1 eps
The Brian Keith Show
1 eps
The Jimmy Stewart Show
1 eps
Cowboy G-Men
39 eps
Cool Million
Merrill Cossack · 1 eps
General Electric Theater
Marshal Stubb Snider · 1 eps
The Addams Family
Uncle Fester (voice) · 16 eps
The New Andy Griffith Show
1 eps
McKeever and the Colonel
Sgt. Barnes · 26 eps
Self / Appearances (17)
Hollywood
Self · 2 eps
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Self
Unknown Chaplin
Self · 3 eps
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Self (archive footage)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: The Kid
Self (archive footage)
Character Studies
Self (uncredited)
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Self
Seeing Stars
Self
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Self (archive footage)
Hollywood’s Children
Self
Estrellados
Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
Varieties on Parade
Himself
The Circus: Premiere
Self
Meet Jackie Coogan
Himself