Jackie Coogan
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.
143 acting credits · 1 directing credit
Acting · 143
Perry Mason
1957
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
Ironside
1967
Love, American Style
1969
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Adam-12
1968
The Virginian
1962
Emergency!
1972
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
The Wild Wild West
1965
Burke's Law
1963
The Lucy Show
1962
Barnaby Jones
1973
Matinee Theater
1955
Studio One
1948
The Red Skelton Show
1951
Hawaiian Eye
1959
The Name of the Game
1968
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
Here's Lucy
1968
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Gunsmoke
1955
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
Peter Gunn
1958
The Addams Family
1964
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
The Brady Bunch
1969
Family Affair
1966
McMillan & Wife
1971
Police Story
1973
The Partridge Family
1970
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
Lock-Up
1959
Outlaws
1960
Mr. Lucky
1959
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
1972
The Dick Powell Show
1961
The Outsider
1968
Vacation Playhouse
1963
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954
Flying High
1978
Letter to Loretta
1953
$weepstake$
1979
Movin' On
1974
Cowboy G-Men
1952
The Brian Keith Show
1972
The Jimmy Stewart Show
1971
Hollywood
1980
Cool Million
1972
General Electric Theater
1953
The Kid
1921
The Addams Family
1973
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
The New Andy Griffith Show
1971
Unknown Chaplin
1983
Marlowe
1969
The Escape Artist
1982
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
Girl Happy
1965
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972
McKeever and the Colonel
1962
The Kids Who Knew Too Much
1980
Human Experiments
1979
Hollywood’s Children
1982
The Proud Ones
1956
The Space Children
1958
Outlaw Women
1952
A Fine Madness
1966
Halloween with the New Addams Family
1977
Mesa of Lost Women
1953
The Actress
1953
The Beat Generation
1959
The Phantom of Hollywood
1974
High School Confidential!
1958
Oliver Twist
1922
Forbidden Area
1956
Tom Sawyer
1930
Lonelyhearts
1959
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
Estrellados
1930
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
Sex Kittens Go to College
1960
The Prey
1983
The Circus: Premiere
1928
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
The Big Operator
1959
The Joker is Wild
1957
Old Clothes
1925
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
1975
Huckleberry Finn
1931
French Leave
1948
Night of the Quarter Moon
1959
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
Sky Patrol
1939
College Swing
1938
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
Chaplin Today: The Kid
2003
No Place to Land
1958
Daddy
1923
The Rag Man
1925
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
1927
Rogue's Gallery
1968
Long Live the King
1923
Buttons
1927
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1936
The Specialists
1975
Million Dollar Legs
1939
Free and Easy
1930
Home on the Range
1935
Hello, 'Frisco
1924
Seeing Stars
1922
Lucy Gets Lucky
1975
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
Character Studies
1927
A Boy of Flanders
1924
Nice and Friendly
1922
Circus Days
1923
Skinner's Baby
1917
Little Robinson Crusoe
1924
Peck's Bad Boy
1921
Skipalong Rosenbloom
1951
Varieties on Parade
1951
Kilroy Was Here
1947
A Day's Pleasure
1919
Where's Charley?
1957
Trouble
1922
My Boy
1921
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
2015
Clown Alley
1966
The Bugle Call
1927
When the Girls Take Over
1962
Eighteen and Anxious
1957
Love in September
1936
Escape from Terror
1955
The Star Wagon
1957
The Addams Family Album
1992
Meet Jackie Coogan
1924