From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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.
Movie | Showbiz Kids | Self (archive footage) | 2020-07-14 |
Movie | Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star | Self (archive footage) | 2015-08-07 |
Movie | The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made | Dr. Aranya (archive footage) | 2004-07-13 |
Movie | Chaplin Today: 'The Kid' | Self (archive footage) | 2003-03-02 |
Movie | Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces | Self (archive footage) | 2000-10-24 |
Series | Unknown Chaplin | Self | 1983-01-05 |
Movie | The Prey | Lester Tile | 1983-11-04 |
Movie | Hollywood’s Children | Self | 1982-02-24 |
Movie | The Escape Artist | Magic Shop Owner | 1982-05-28 |
Series | Hollywood | Self | 1980-01-08 |
Movie | Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype | Sgt. Fleacollar | 1980-10-01 |
Movie | The Kids Who Knew Too Much | Mr. Klein | 1980-04-29 |
Movie | Human Experiments | Sheriff Tibbs | 1979-10-19 |
Series | Flying High | Unknown | 1978-09-29 |
Movie | Halloween with the New Addams Family | Uncle Fester | 1977-10-30 |
Movie | Sherlock Holmes in New York | Haymarket Hotel Proprietor | 1976-10-18 |
Movie | Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood | Stagehand 1 | 1976-07-26 |
Movie | The Specialists | Roger | 1975-01-06 |
Movie | The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery | Detective Chief Anderson | 1975-03-07 |
Movie | Lucy Gets Lucky | Gus Mitchell | 1975-03-01 |
Movie | The Phantom of Hollywood | Jonathan | 1974-02-12 |
Series | Movin' On | Unknown | 1974-05-08 |
Movie | Cahill: United States Marshal | Charlie Smith | 1973-07-11 |
Series | Police Story | Unknown | 1973-03-20 |
Series | The Addams Family | Uncle Fester (voice) | 1973-09-08 |
Series | Emergency! | Unknown | 1972-01-22 |
Series | The New Scooby-Doo Movies | Uncle Fester (voice) | 1972-09-09 |
Series | The Brian Keith Show | Unknown | 1972-09-15 |
Series | Alias Smith and Jones | Unknown | 1971-01-05 |
Series | The New Andy Griffith Show | Unknown | 1971-01-08 |
Series | McMillan and Wife | Unknown | 1971-09-29 |
Series | The Jimmy Stewart Show | Unknown | 1971-09-19 |
Movie | Marlowe | Grant W. Hicks | 1969-09-19 |
Series | The Brady Bunch | Unknown | 1969-09-26 |
Series | Love, American Style | Motel Owner | 1969-09-29 |
Movie | Rogue's Gallery | Funeral Director | 1968-01-01 |
Movie | The Shakiest Gun in the West | Matthew Basch | 1968-07-10 |
Series | Hawaii Five-O | Unknown | 1968-09-20 |
Series | Here's Lucy | Unknown | 1968-09-23 |
Series | The Outsider | Unknown | 1968-09-18 |
Series | Ironside | Unknown | 1967-03-28 |
Series | Family Affair | Unknown | 1966-09-12 |
Movie | A Fine Madness | Mr. Fitzgerald | 1966-06-29 |
Movie | Girl Happy | Sgt. Benson | 1965-04-14 |
Movie | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | Father Ryan | 1965-03-24 |
Series | The Wild Wild West | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
Series | The Addams Family | Uncle Fester | 1964-09-18 |
Series | Vacation Playhouse | Unknown | 1963-07-22 |
Series | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Unknown | 1963-10-04 |
Series | Burke's Law | Unknown | 1963-09-20 |
Series | The Virginian | Unknown | 1962-09-19 |
Movie | When the Girls Take Over | Captain Toussaint | 1962-04-30 |
Series | McKeever and the Colonel | Sgt. Barnes | 1962-09-23 |
Series | The Lucy Show | Unknown | 1962-10-01 |
Movie | The Legend of Rudolph Valentino | Self (archive footage) | 1961-05-24 |
Series | The Dick Powell Show | Unknown | 1961-09-26 |
Movie | Sex Kittens Go to College | Wildcat MacPherson | 1960-08-24 |
Series | The Andy Griffith Show | Unknown | 1960-10-03 |
Series | Outlaws | Unknown | 1960-09-26 |
Movie | Lonelyhearts | Ned Gates | 1959-03-04 |
Movie | Night of the Quarter Moon | Desk Sergeant Bragan | 1959-03-04 |
Movie | The Beat Generation | Jake Baron | 1959-07-03 |
Series | Hawaiian Eye | Unknown | 1959-10-07 |
Movie | The Big Operator | Ed Brannell | 1959-08-01 |
Series | Mr. Lucky | Unknown | 1959-10-24 |
Series | Lock-Up | Unknown | 1959-09-28 |
Movie | The Space Children | Hank Johnson | 1958-06-01 |
Movie | High School Confidential! | Mr. A | 1958-05-30 |
Series | Peter Gunn | Unknown | 1958-09-22 |
Movie | No Place to Land | Swede | 1958-10-03 |
Series | Perry Mason | Pete Desmond | 1957-09-21 |
Movie | The Buster Keaton Story | Elmer Case | 1957-05-01 |
Movie | The Joker is Wild | Swifty Morgan | 1957-09-26 |
Movie | Eighteen and Anxious | Harold 'Eager' Beaver | 1957-11-15 |
Movie | The Proud Ones | Man on Make (uncredited) | 1956-05-15 |
Series | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Unknown | 1955-10-02 |
Series | Gunsmoke | Unknown | 1955-09-10 |
Series | Matinee Theater | Unknown | 1955-10-31 |
Series | General Electric Theater | Unknown | 1953-02-01 |
Movie | Mesa of Lost Women | Dr Aranya | 1953-06-17 |
Movie | The Actress | Inopportune (uncredited) | 1953-09-25 |
Series | Letter to Loretta | Unknown | 1953-09-20 |
Movie | Outlaw Women | Piute Bill | 1952-04-28 |
Series | Cowboy G-Men | 1952-09-13 | |
Movie | Skipalong Rosenbloom | Buck Lovelace | 1951-04-30 |
Movie | Varieties on Parade | Himself | 1951-07-20 |
Movie | French Leave | Pappy Reagan | 1948-04-10 |
Series | Studio One | Unknown | 1948-11-07 |
Movie | Kilroy Was Here | Pappy Collins | 1947-07-19 |
Movie | Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10) | Self (archive footage) | 1942-01-01 |
Movie | Million Dollar Legs | Russ Simpson | 1939-07-13 |
Movie | Sky Patrol | Carter Meade | 1939-09-11 |
Movie | College Swing | Jackie | 1938-04-29 |
Movie | Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs | Self | 1936-08-05 |
Movie | Home on the Range | Jack Hatfield | 1935-02-01 |
Movie | Huckleberry Finn | Tom Sawyer | 1931-08-07 |
Movie | Free and Easy | Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited) | 1930-03-22 |
Movie | Estrellados | Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere) | 1930-07-07 |
Movie | Tom Sawyer | Tom Sawyer | 1930-12-19 |
Movie | The Circus: Premiere | Self | 1928-01-13 |
Movie | Johnny Get Your Hair Cut | Johnny O'Day | 1927-01-15 |
Movie | The Bugle Call | Billy Randolph | 1927-08-06 |
Movie | Buttons | Buttons | 1927-12-24 |
Movie | Character Studies | Self (uncredited) | 1927-11-20 |
Movie | The Rag Man | Tim Kelly | 1925-02-16 |
Movie | Old Clothes | Timothy Kelly | 1925-11-09 |
Movie | A Boy of Flanders | Nello | 1924-04-06 |
Movie | Meet Jackie Coogan | Himself | 1924-01-01 |
Movie | Little Robinson Crusoe | Mickey Hogan | 1924-08-25 |
Movie | Hello, 'Frisco | Jackie Coogan | 1924-09-28 |
Movie | Daddy | Jackie Savelli / Jackie Holden | 1923-03-25 |
Movie | Circus Days | Toby Tyler | 1923-07-30 |
Movie | Long Live the King | Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto | 1923-11-26 |
Movie | Nice and Friendly | Boy | 1922-01-01 |
Movie | Trouble | Danny, the Kid | 1922-08-07 |
Movie | Seeing Stars | Self | 1922-10-29 |
Movie | Oliver Twist | Oliver Twist | 1922-10-30 |
Movie | The Kid | The Kid | 1921-01-21 |
Movie | Peck's Bad Boy | Henry Peck | 1921-04-21 |
Movie | My Boy | Jackie Blair | 1921-12-01 |
Movie | A Day's Pleasure | Smallest Boy (uncredited) | 1919-12-15 |
Movie | Skinner's Baby | The Baby (uncredited) | 1917-08-06 |