Jackie Coogan
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1914-10-26
Deathday 1984-03-01 (69 years old)
Place of Birth Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As John Leslie Coogan, John L. Coogan, Jack Coogan
Jackie Coogan
Biography
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.
Known For
Actor
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Dr. Aranya (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Lester Tile
as Self
as Magic Shop Owner
as Self
as Sgt. Fleacollar
as Mr. Klein
as Self
as Sheriff Tibbs
as Uncle Fester
as Haymarket Hotel Proprietor
as Stagehand 1
as Detective Chief Anderson
as Gus Mitchell
as Roger
as Jonathan
as Charlie Smith
as Uncle Fester (voice)
as Phil Rooney
as Merrill Cossack
as Uncle Fester (voice)
as Howard Sparks
as Zigler
as Grant W. Hicks
as Uncle Harold
as Motel Owner
as Matthew Basch
as Funeral Director
as Kermit Bosworth
as Harry Rustin
as Horace Sibley
as Jerry Howe
as Frank
as Rusty
as Buster Logan
as Sam McGoff
as Clown
as Mr. Fitzgerald
as Sgt. Benson
as Father Ryan
as Suleiman
as Mayor Cecil Pudney
as Uncle Fester
as Bert Crowley
as Finnegan
as Captain Toussaint
as Lieutenant Ruggles
as Sgt. Barnes
as Bodey
as Self (archive footage)
as Shopkeeper
as Wildcat MacPherson
as George Stevens
as Ed Brannell
as Jake Baron
as Ned Gates
as Desk Sergeant Bragan
as Mack Stanley
as Swede
as Hank Johnson
as Mr. A
as Baldy Mike Hannigan (uncredited)
as Marshal Rogers
as Harold 'Eager' Beaver
as Swifty Morgan
as Elmer Case
as Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes
as Pete Desmond
as Gus Sawyer
as Ron Litten
as The Cook
as Man on Make (uncredited)
as Agent Petrov
as George Bay
as Marshal Stoudenaire
as Mr. Klein
as Inopportune (uncredited)
as Dr Aranya
as Woody Woods
as Snuff Carter
as Marshal Stubb Snider
as Piute Bill
as Himself
as Buck Lovelace
as Pappy Reagan
as Jeffers
as Pappy Collins
as Self (archive footage)
as Carter Meade
as Russ Simpson
as Jackie
as Self
as Jackie
as Jack Hatfield
as Tom Sawyer
as Tom Sawyer
as Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)
as Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited)
as Self
as Buttons
as Self (uncredited)
as Billy Randolph
as Johnny O'Day
as Timothy Kelly
as Tim Kelly
as Jackie Coogan
as Mickey Hogan
as Nello
as Himself
as Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto
as Toby Tyler
as Jackie Savelli / Jackie Holden
as Oliver Twist
as Self
as Danny, the Kid
as Boy
as Jackie Blair
as Henry Peck
as The Kid
as Smallest Boy (uncredited)
as The Baby (uncredited)
Director
as Director