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Jackie Coogan
Actor, Director
Died March 1, 1984 (69 years)
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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 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.
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Filmography
| 2021 | The Real Charlie Chaplin · as actor |
| 2009 | Vincere · as The Kid in 'The Kid' |
| 2005 | The Forgotten Films of Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle · as actor |
| 2004 | The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made · as actor |
| 1992 | Chaplin · as The Kid |
| 1983 | The Prey · as Lester Tile |
| 1982 | The Escape Artist · as Magic Shop Owner |
| 1980 | Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype · as Sgt. Fleacollar |
| 1980 | The Kids Who Knew Too Much · as Mr. Klein |
| 1980 | Hollywood (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1979 | Human Experiments · as Sheriff Tibbs |
| 1977 | Halloween with the New Addams Family · as Uncle Fester |
| 1977 | Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels (TV Series) · as Additional Voices |
| 1976 | Sherlock Holmes in New York · as Haymarket Hotel Proprietor |
| 1976 | Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood · as Stagehand 1 |
| 1975 | The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery · as Detective Chief Anderson |
| 1975 | Lucy Gets Lucky · as Gus Mitchell |
| 1974 | Movin' On (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1973 | Cahill U.S. Marshal · as Charlie Smith |
| 1973 | The Addams Family (1973) (TV Series) · as Uncle Fester (voice) |
| 1973 | Barnaby Jones (TV Series) · as Phil Rooney |
| 1973 | Police Story (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | The Brian Keith Show/The Little People (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1972 | The New Scooby-Doo Movies (TV Series) · as Uncle Fester (voice) |
| 1972 | Emergency! (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1971 | McMillan and Wife (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1971 | Alias Smith and Jones (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1970 | The Partridge Family (TV Series) · as Grandpa Walter Renfrew |
| 1969 | Marlowe · as Grant W. Hicks |
| 1969 | Love, American Style (TV Series) · as Motel Owner |
| 1969 | The Brady Bunch (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1969 | Marcus Welby, M.D. (TV Series) · as Vince Darrell |
| 1968 | The Shakiest Gun in the West · as Matthew Basch |
| 1968 | Rogue's Gallery · as Funeral Director |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Connie Hart |
| 1968 | Julia (TV Series) · as The Mailman |
| 1968 | Here's Lucy (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1968 | Adam-12 (TV Series) · as Harry Rustin |
| 1968 | Hawaii Five-O (TV Series) · as Jerry Howe |
| 1967 | Ironside (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1966 | A Fine Madness · as Mr. Fitzgerald |
| 1966 | Family Affair (1966) (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | Girl Happy · as Sgt. Benson |
| 1965 | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! · as Father Ryan |
| 1965 | The Wild Wild West (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1965 | I Dream of Jeannie (TV Series) · as Suleiman |
| 1964 | The Addams Family (1964) (TV Series) · as Uncle Fester |
| 1962 | The Virginian (TV Series) · as Bodey |
| 1962 | The Lucy Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1961 | Follow The Sun (TV Series) · as Lew Dobber |
| 1961 | The Joey Bishop Show (TV Series) · as Dave Arnold |
| 1960 | The Andy Griffith Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Night of the Quarter Moon · as Desk Sergeant Bragan |
| 1959 | Lock-Up (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1959 | Mr. Lucky (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1958 | Lonelyhearts · as Ned Gates |
| 1958 | The Space Children · as Hank Johnson |
| 1958 | 77 Sunset Strip (TV Series) · as Baldy Mike Hannigan |
| 1958 | The Ann Sothern Show (TV Series) · as Barney Dunaway |
| 1958 | Shirley Temple's Storybook (TV Series) · as Marshal Rogers |
| 1958 | Peter Gunn (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1957 | Eighteen and Anxious · as Harold 'Eager' Beaver |
| 1957 | Perry Mason (TV Series) · as Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes |
| 1956 | The Proud Ones · as Man on Make (uncredited) |
| 1955 | Escape from Terror · as Agent Petrov |
| 1955 | Gunsmoke (TV Series) · as Marshal Stoudenaire |
| 1955 | The People's Choice (TV Series) · as Salesman |
| 1955 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV Series) · as George Bay |
| 1954 | Climax! (TV Series) · as Ferguson |
| 1954 | Disneyland (TV Series) · as Mr. Klein |
| 1953 | Mesa of Lost Women · as Dr Aranya |
| 1953 | The Actress · as Inopportune (uncredited) |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Marshal Stubb Snider |
| 1953 | The Loretta Young Show (TV Series) · as Woody Woods |
| 1952 | Outlaw Women · as Piute Bill |
| 1952 | Cowboy G-Men (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1952 | The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet (TV Series) · as Ed Wilson |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as Muggsy |
| 1950 | Racket Squad (TV Series) · as Pennington |
| 1948 | Studio One (TV Series) · as Jeffers |
| 1939 | Sky Patrol · as Carter Meade |
| 1930 | Free and Easy · as Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited) |
| 1925 | The Rag Man · as Tim Kelly |
| 1925 | Old Clothes · as Timothy Kelly |
| 1922 | Oliver Twist · as Oliver Twist |
| 1922 | Nice and Friendly · as Boy |
| 1921 | The Kid · as The Kid |
| 1919 | A Day's Pleasure · as Smallest Boy (uncredited) |