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 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.
Halloween with the New Addams Family
as Uncle Fester
Age 63 (now 69)
Cahill: United States Marshal
as Charlie Smith
Age 58 (now 69)
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
Age 107 (now 69)
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
as Self (archive footage)
Age 100 (now 69)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self (archive footage)
Age 85 (now 69)
The Addams Family Album
as Uncle Fester (archive footage)
Age 78 (now 69)
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Age 73 (now 69)
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
Age 64 (now 69) Halloween with the New Addams Family
as Uncle Fester
Age 63 (now 69)
Sherlock Holmes in New York
as Haymarket Hotel Proprietor
Age 61 (now 69)
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Stagehand 1
Age 61 (now 69)
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
as Detective Chief Anderson
Age 60 (now 69)
Cahill: United States Marshal
as Charlie Smith
Age 58 (now 69)
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
as Uncle Fester (Voice)
Age 57 (now 69)
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as Father Ryan
Age 50 (now 69)
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
Age 46 (now 69)
Night of the Quarter Moon
as Desk Sergeant Bragan
Age 44 (now 69)
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
Age 27 (now 69)
Long Live the King
as Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto
Age 9 (now 69)
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
as Uncle Fester (voice)
Age 57 (now 69)
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Zigler
Age 56 (now 69)
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Marshal Rogers
Age 43 (now 69)
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mr. Klein
Age 40 (now 69)
General Electric Theater
as Marshal Stubb Snider
Age 38 (now 69)
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Also Known As
John Leslie Coogan, John L. Coogan, Jack Coogan
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