Jackie Coogan
Acting
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…
Filmography
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The Addams Family Album
1992
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
The Prey
1983
The Escape Artist
1982
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980
The Kids Who Knew Too Much
1980
Human Experiments
1979
$weepstake$
$weepstake$
1979
Flying High
1978
Halloween with the New Addams Family
1977
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
1975
Lucy Gets Lucky
1975
The Specialists
1975
Movin' On
1974
The Phantom of Hollywood
1974
The Addams Family
1973
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
Police Story
1973
Barnaby Jones
1973
Cool Million
1972
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972
The Brian Keith Show
1972
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
1972
Emergency!
1972
McMillan & Wife
1971
The Jimmy Stewart Show
1971
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
The New Andy Griffith Show
1971
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Partridge Family
1970
Love, American Style
1969
The Brady Bunch
1969
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
Marlowe
1969
Here's Lucy
1968
Adam-12
1968
Hawaii Five-O
1968
The Name of the Game
1968
The Outsider
1968
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968
Rogue's Gallery
1968
Ironside
1967
Clown Alley
1966
Family Affair
1966
A Fine Madness
1966
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
The Wild Wild West
1965
Girl Happy
1965
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
The Addams Family
1964
Burke's Law
1963
Vacation Playhouse
Vacation Playhouse
1963
The Lucy Show
1962
McKeever and the Colonel
McKeever and the Colonel
1962
The Virginian
1962
When the Girls Take Over
1962
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
Outlaws
1960
Sex Kittens Go to College
1960
Mr. Lucky
1959
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Lock-Up
1959
The Big Operator
1959
The Beat Generation
1959
Lonelyhearts
1959
Night of the Quarter Moon
1959
77 Sunset Strip
1958
No Place to Land
1958
Peter Gunn
1958
The Space Children
1958
High School Confidential!
1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
Eighteen and Anxious
1957
The Joker is Wild
1957
Perry Mason
1957
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
Where's Charley?
1957
The Star Wagon
1957