Acting · Los Angeles, California, USA · Born October 26, 1914
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.
MovieThe Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
as Self (archive footage)
MovieJackie Coogan: The First Child Star
2015
as Self (archive footage)
MovieChaplin Today: The Kid
2003
as Self (archive footage)
MovieLon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
as Self (archive footage)
MovieThe Addams Family Album
1992
as Uncle Fester (archive footage)
MovieHollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
MovieThe Prey
1983
as Lester Tile
TVUnknown Chaplin
1983
as Self
MovieThe Escape Artist
1982
as Magic Shop Owner
MovieHollywood’s Children
1982
as Self
MovieDr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980
as Sgt. Fleacollar
MovieThe Kids Who Knew Too Much
1980
as Mr. Klein
TVHollywood
1980
as Self
MovieHuman Experiments
1979
as Sheriff Tibbs
MovieWhen the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979
as Self
$weepstake$
1979
TVFlying High
1978
MovieHalloween with the New Addams Family
1977
as Uncle Fester
MovieSherlock Holmes in New York
1976
as Haymarket Hotel Proprietor
MovieWon Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
as Stagehand 1
MovieThe Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
1975
as Detective Chief Anderson
MovieLucy Gets Lucky
1975
as Gus Mitchell
MovieThe Specialists
1975
as Roger
TVMovin' On
1974
MovieThe Phantom of Hollywood
1974
as Jonathan
TVThe Addams Family
1973
as Uncle Fester (voice)
MovieCahill: United States Marshal
1973
as Charlie Smith
TVPolice Story
1973
TVBarnaby Jones
1973
as Phil Rooney
TVCool Million
1972
as Merrill Cossack
MovieScooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972
as Uncle Fester (Voice)
TVThe Brian Keith Show
1972
TVThe New Scooby-Doo Movies
1972
as Uncle Fester (voice)
TVEmergency!
1972
TVMcMillan & Wife
1971
TVThe Jimmy Stewart Show
1971
TVOwen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
as Zigler
TVThe New Andy Griffith Show
1971
TVAlias Smith and Jones
1971
TVThe Partridge Family
1970
as Max Pepper
TVLove, American Style
1969
as Uncle Harold
TVThe Brady Bunch
1969
TVMarcus Welby, M.D.
1969
as Vince Darrell
MovieMarlowe
1969
as Grant W. Hicks
TVHere's Lucy
1968
as Kermit Bosworth
TVAdam-12
1968
as Harry Rustin
TVHawaii Five-O
1968
as Horace Sibley
TVThe Name of the Game
1968
as Connie Hart
TVThe Outsider
1968
as Rusty
MovieThe Shakiest Gun in the West
1968
as Matthew Basch
MovieRogue's Gallery
1968
as Funeral Director
TVIronside
1967
MovieClown Alley
1966
as Clown
TVFamily Affair
1966
MovieA Fine Madness
1966
as Mr. Fitzgerald
TVI Dream of Jeannie
1965
as Suleiman
TVThe Wild Wild West
1965
as Mayor Cecil Pudney
MovieGirl Happy
1965
as Sgt. Benson
MovieJohn Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
as Father Ryan
TVThe Addams Family
1964
as Uncle Fester
TVBurke's Law
1963
as Bert Crowley
Vacation Playhouse
1963
as Finnegan
TVThe Lucy Show
1962
as Lieutenant Ruggles
McKeever and the Colonel
1962
as Sgt. Barnes
TVThe Virginian
1962
as Bodey
MovieWhen the Girls Take Over
1962
as Captain Toussaint
TVThe Dick Powell Show
1961
as Shopkeeper
MovieThe Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961
as Self (archive footage)
TVThe Andy Griffith Show
1960
as George Stevens
TVOutlaws
1960
MovieSex Kittens Go to College
1960
as Wildcat MacPherson
TVMr. Lucky
1959
as Joe Azevedo
TVHawaiian Eye
1959
as Mack Stanley
TVLock-Up
1959
MovieThe Big Operator
1959
as Ed Brannell
MovieThe Beat Generation
1959
as Jake Baron
MovieLonelyhearts
1959
as Ned Gates
MovieNight of the Quarter Moon
1959
as Desk Sergeant Bragan
TV77 Sunset Strip
1958
as Baldy Mike Hannigan (uncredited)
MovieNo Place to Land
1958
as Swede
TVPeter Gunn
1958
MovieThe Space Children
1958
as Hank Johnson
MovieHigh School Confidential!
1958
as Mr. A
TVShirley Temple's Storybook
1958
as Marshal Rogers
MovieEighteen and Anxious
1957
as Harold 'Eager' Beaver
MovieThe Joker is Wild
1957
as Swifty Morgan
TVPerry Mason
1957
as Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes
MovieThe Buster Keaton Story
1957
as Elmer Case
MovieWhere's Charley?
1957
as Coach Sanderford
MovieThe Star Wagon
1957
as Hanus Wicks
Forbidden Area
1956
as The Cook
MovieThe Proud Ones
1956
as Man on Make (uncredited)
TVMatinee Theater
1955
TVAlfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
as George Bay
TVGunsmoke
1955
as Marshal Stoudenaire
MovieEscape from Terror
1955
as Agent Petrov
TVThe Wonderful World of Disney
1954
as Mr. Klein
MovieThe Actress
1953
as Inopportune (uncredited)
TVLetter to Loretta
1953
as Woody Woods
MovieMesa of Lost Women
1953
as Dr Aranya
TVGeneral Electric Theater
1953
as Marshal Stubb Snider
TVCowboy G-Men
1952
MovieOutlaw Women
1952
as Piute Bill
TVThe Red Skelton Show
1951
as Police Officer Hennesey
MovieVarieties on Parade
1951
as Himself
MovieSkipalong Rosenbloom
1951
as Buck Lovelace
TVStudio One
1948
as Jeffers
MovieFrench Leave
1948
as Pappy Reagan
MovieKilroy Was Here
1947
as Pappy Collins
MovieScreen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942
as Self (archive footage)
MovieSky Patrol
1939
as Carter Meade
MovieMillion Dollar Legs
1939
as Russ Simpson
MovieCollege Swing
1938
as Jackie
MovieLove in September
1936
as Jackie
MovieSunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1936
as Self
MovieHome on the Range
1935
as Jack Hatfield
MovieHuckleberry Finn
1931
as Tom Sawyer
MovieTom Sawyer
1930
as Tom Sawyer
MovieEstrellados
1930
as Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)
MovieFree and Easy
1930
as Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited)
MovieThe Circus: Premiere
1928
as Self
MovieButtons
1927
as Buttons
MovieCharacter Studies
1927
as Self (uncredited)
MovieThe Bugle Call
1927
as Billy Randolph
MovieJohnny Get Your Hair Cut
1927
as Johnny O'Day
MovieOld Clothes
1925
as Timothy Kelly
MovieThe Rag Man
1925
as Tim Kelly
Hello, 'Frisco
1924
as Jackie Coogan
MovieLittle Robinson Crusoe
1924
as Mickey Hogan
MovieA Boy of Flanders
1924
as Nello
MovieMeet Jackie Coogan
1924
as Himself
MovieLong Live the King
1923
as Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto
MovieCircus Days
1923
as Toby Tyler
MovieDaddy
1923
as Jackie Savelli / Jackie Holden
MovieOliver Twist
1922
as Oliver Twist
MovieSeeing Stars
1922
as Self
MovieTrouble
1922
as Danny, the Kid
MovieNice and Friendly
1922
as Boy
MovieMy Boy
1921
as Jackie Blair
MoviePeck's Bad Boy
1921
as Henry Peck
MovieThe Kid
1921
as The Kid
MovieA Day's Pleasure
1919
as Smallest Boy (uncredited)
MovieSkinner's Baby
1917
as The Baby (uncredited)
