Jackie Coogan
Known for: 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.
Filmography
Series
Perry Mason
Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes
1957
Series
Perry Mason
Pete Desmond
1957
Series
Perry Mason
Gus Sawyer
1957
Series
Perry Mason
Ron Litten
1957
Series
The Andy Griffith Show
George Stevens
1960
Series
Ironside
1967
Series
Ironside
Buster Logan
1967
Series
Ironside
Sam McGoff
1967
Series
Hawaii Five-O
Horace Sibley
1968
Series
Hawaii Five-O
Jerry Howe
1968
Series
Hawaii Five-O
Frank
1968
Series
Love, American Style
Uncle Harold
1969
Series
Love, American Style
Motel Owner
1969
Series
Adam-12
Harry Rustin
1968
Series
Matinee Theater
1955
Series
The Wild Wild West
Mayor Cecil Pudney
1965
Series
The Wild Wild West
Sheriff Koster
1965
Series
Emergency!
1972
Series
The Red Skelton Show
Police Officer Hennesey
1951
Series
The Red Skelton Show
Muggsy
1951
Series
The Red Skelton Show
Police Lieutenant Smith
1951
Series
The Virginian
Bodey
1962
Series
The Lucy Show
Lieutenant Ruggles
1962
Series
I Dream of Jeannie
Suleiman
1965
Series
Burke's Law
Bert Crowley
1963
Series
Peter Gunn
1958
Series
Studio One
Jeffers
1948
Series
Barnaby Jones
Phil Rooney
1973
Series
Gunsmoke
Marshal Stoudenaire
1955
Series
The Addams Family
Uncle Fester
1964
Series
Marcus Welby, M.D.
Vince Darrell
1969
Series
The Partridge Family
Max Pepper
1970
Series
The Partridge Family
Grandpa Walter Renfrew
1970
Series
The Name of the Game
Connie Hart
1968
Series
Hawaiian Eye
Mack Stanley
1959
Series
Here's Lucy
Kermit Bosworth
1968
Series
77 Sunset Strip
Baldy Mike Hannigan (uncredited)
1958
Series
Family Affair
1966
Series
The Brady Bunch
1969
Series
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
George Bay
1955
Series
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
Series
Police Story
1973
Series
McMillan & Wife
1971
Series
McMillan & Wife
Howard Sparks
1971
Series
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Marshal Rogers
1958
Series
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
Uncle Fester (voice)
1972
Series
Lock-Up
1959
Series
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Zigler
1971
Series
The Dick Powell Show
Shopkeeper
1961
Vacation Playhouse
Finnegan
1963
Series
Mr. Lucky
Joe Azevedo
1959
Series
Outlaws
1960
Series
The Outsider
Rusty
1968
Series
The Wonderful World of Disney
Mr. Klein
1954
Series
Flying High
1978
Series
Movin' On
1974
Film
The Kid
The Kid
1921
Series
The Brian Keith Show
1972
$weepstake$
1979
Series
Hollywood
Self
1980
Series
The Jimmy Stewart Show
1971
Series
Cool Million
Merrill Cossack
1972
Series
Letter to Loretta
Woody Woods
1953
Series
Letter to Loretta
Snuff Carter
1953
Series
The Addams Family
Uncle Fester (voice)
1973
Series
Cowboy G-Men
1952
Film
Cahill: United States Marshal
Charlie Smith
1973
Film
Marlowe
Grant W. Hicks
1969
Film
Girl Happy
Sgt. Benson
1965
Series
The New Andy Griffith Show
1971
Film
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Stagehand 1
1976
Series
Unknown Chaplin
Self
1983
Series
General Electric Theater
Marshal Stubb Snider
1953
Film
The Proud Ones
Man on Make (uncredited)
1956
Film
The Actress
Inopportune (uncredited)
1953
Forbidden Area
The Cook
1956
Film
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Father Ryan
1965
Film
A Fine Madness
Mr. Fitzgerald
1966
Film
Halloween with the New Addams Family
Uncle Fester
1977
Film
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
(archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Film
The Joker is Wild
Swifty Morgan
1957
Film
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Matthew Basch
1968
Hello, 'Frisco
Jackie Coogan
1924
Film
Little Robinson Crusoe
Mickey Hogan
1924
Film
The Phantom of Hollywood
Jonathan
1974
McKeever and the Colonel
Sgt. Barnes
1962
Film
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Self
1979
Film
The Prey
Lester Tile
1983
Film
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
Uncle Fester (Voice)
1972
Film
High School Confidential!
Mr. A
1958
Film
Buttons
Buttons
1927
Film
Sherlock Holmes in New York
Haymarket Hotel Proprietor
1976
Film
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Self (archive footage)
2021
Film
The Beat Generation
Jake Baron
1959
Film
Sex Kittens Go to College
Wildcat MacPherson
1960
Film
The Escape Artist
Magic Shop Owner
1982
Film
The Buster Keaton Story
Elmer Case
1957
Film
Free and Easy
Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited)
1930
Film
The Kids Who Knew Too Much
Mr. Klein
1980
Film
Character Studies
Self (uncredited)
1927
Film
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Self (archive footage)
2000
Film
Kilroy Was Here
Pappy Collins
1947
Film
Seeing Stars
Self
1922
Film
College Swing
Jackie
1938
Film
The Space Children
Hank Johnson
1958
Film
Human Experiments
Sheriff Tibbs
1979
Film
Sky Patrol
Carter Meade
1939
Film
The Big Operator
Ed Brannell
1959
Film
Hollywood’s Children
Self
1982
Film
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
Self (archive footage)
1961
Film
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Detective Chief Anderson
1975
Film
Clown Alley
Clown
1966
Film
Lonelyhearts
Ned Gates
1959
Film
Where's Charley?
Coach Sanderford
1957
Film
The Rag Man
Tim Kelly
1925
Film
Escape from Terror
Agent Petrov
1955
Film
Nice and Friendly
Boy
1922
Film
Peck's Bad Boy
Henry Peck
1921
Film
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Self
1936
Film
Tom Sawyer
Tom Sawyer
1930
Film
French Leave
Pappy Reagan
1948
Film
A Day's Pleasure
Smallest Boy (uncredited)
1919
Film
Long Live the King
Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto
1923
Film
Night of the Quarter Moon
Desk Sergeant Bragan
1959
Film
Outlaw Women
Piute Bill
1952
Film
A Boy of Flanders
Nello
1924
Film
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
Self (archive footage)
1942
Film
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
Sgt. Fleacollar
1980
Film
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
1931
Film
Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
1922
Film
The Circus: Premiere
Self
1928
Film
Million Dollar Legs
Russ Simpson
1939
Film
The Bugle Call
Billy Randolph
1927
Film
Lucy Gets Lucky
Gus Mitchell
1975
Film
Skinner's Baby
The Baby (uncredited)
1917
Film
The Star Wagon
Hanus Wicks
1957
Film
Skipalong Rosenbloom
Buck Lovelace
1951
Film
Trouble
Danny, the Kid
1922
Film
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
Johnny O'Day
1927
Film
Home on the Range
Jack Hatfield
1935
Film
Mesa of Lost Women
Dr Aranya
1953
Film
Rogue's Gallery
Funeral Director
1968
Film
When the Girls Take Over
Captain Toussaint
1962
Film
No Place to Land
Swede
1958
Film
Eighteen and Anxious
Harold 'Eager' Beaver
1957
Film
Estrellados
Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)
1930
Film
Chaplin Today: The Kid
Self (archive footage)
2003
Film
My Boy
Jackie Blair
1921
Film
Love in September
Jackie
1936
Film
Old Clothes
Timothy Kelly
1925
Film
The Addams Family Album
Uncle Fester (archive footage)
1992
Film
Varieties on Parade
Himself
1951
Film
The Specialists
Roger
1975
Film
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Self (archive footage)
2015
Film
Meet Jackie Coogan
Himself
1924
Film
Circus Days
Toby Tyler
1923
Film
Daddy
Jackie Savelli / Jackie Holden
1923