Jackie Coogan
Oct 26, 1914 — Mar 1, 1984 (69 years)
Los Angeles, California, USA
61 Movies
32 Series
A career spanning 109+ years and 93+ titles makes Jackie Coogan one of the trade's long-distance runners. his The Kid in 'The Kid' ranks among the most remembered of his filmography. Drama has been his most frequent territory.
69R.I.P.
61Movies
32Series
Jackie Coogan
61 Movies
32 Series
A career spanning 109+ years and 93+ titles makes Jackie Coogan one of the trade's long-distance runners. his The Kid in 'The Kid' ranks among the most remembered of his filmography. Drama has been his most frequent territory.
69 R.I.P.
R.I.P.
61
Movies
32
Series
Movies
The Kid
1921
Buttons
1927
The Actress
1953
Human Experiments
1979
Sex Kittens Go to College
1960
Peck's Bad Boy
1921
Girl Happy
1965
The Proud Ones
1956
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973
The Escape Artist
1982
The Buster Keaton Story
1957
The Prey
1983
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980
A Day's Pleasure
1919
A Fine Madness
1966
The Joker is Wild
1957
Marlowe
1969
The Space Children
1958
Kilroy Was Here
1947
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
1972
The Big Operator
1959
Nice and Friendly
1922
Outlaw Women
1952
The Beat Generation
1959
Night of the Quarter Moon
1959
When the Girls Take Over
1962
Lonelyhearts
1959
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976
College Swing
1938
Free and Easy
1930
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
Tom Sawyer
1930
High School Confidential!
1958
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
1975
The Rag Man
1925
Mesa of Lost Women
1953
My Boy
1921
Oliver Twist
1922
No Place to Land
1958
Huckleberry Finn
1931
Circus Days
1923
TV Shows
The Addams Family
1964
The Addams Family
1973
The Lucy Show
1962
McMillan & Wife
1971
The Wild Wild West
1965
I Dream of Jeannie
1965
The Andy Griffith Show
1960
Burke's Law
1963
Here's Lucy
1968
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
1972
Hawaii Five-O
1968
Perry Mason
1957
Gunsmoke
1955
Studio One
1948
General Electric Theater
1953
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955
The Virginian
1962
Letter to Loretta
1953
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Hawaiian Eye
1959
Adam-12
1968
Love, American Style
1969
Ironside
1967
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971
Barnaby Jones
1973
The Outsider
1968
Cool Million
1972
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969
The Partridge Family
1970
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The Prey
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The Prey
Lester Tile
1983
Film
The Escape Artist
Magic Shop Owner
1982
Film
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
Sgt. Fleacollar
1980
Film
Human Experiments
Sheriff Tibbs
1979
Film
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
Stagehand 1
1976
Film
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Detective Chief Anderson
1975
Film
The Addams Family
Uncle Fester (voice)
1973–
TV
Cahill: United States Marshal
Charlie Smith
1973
Film
Barnaby Jones
Phil Rooney
1973
TV
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Jackie Coogan still alive?
Jackie Coogan passed away on March 1, 1984 at age 69.
What are the most famous roles of Jackie Coogan?
Jackie Coogan is best known for roles in The Kid, Cahill: United States Marshal, The Joker is Wild.
How many movies has Jackie Coogan been in?
Over a 67-year career (since 1917), Jackie Coogan has appeared in 80 movies and 55 TV shows.
What was Jackie Coogan's first movie?
The career of Jackie Coogan began with Skinner's Baby (1917).
What is Jackie Coogan's most recent movie or series?
Jackie Coogan's most recent release is The Prey, which premiered on November 4, 1983.
What TV shows has Jackie Coogan appeared in?
On television, Jackie Coogan has appeared in I Dream of Jeannie, The Addams Family, The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
Jackie Coogan
1914-10-26 · Los Angeles, California, USA
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.Jackie Coogan, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.