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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.
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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1914-10-26
- event Death Date 1984-03-01
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 4.6
- info Birth Place Los Angeles, California, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Jackie Coogan
5.9
Marlowe
1969-09-19
0
Estrellados
1930-07-07
8.2
The Kid
1921-01-21
6.2
The Shakiest Gun in the West
1968-07-10
2.4
Mesa of Lost Women
1953-06-17
5.8
Sherlock Holmes in New York
1976-10-18
4.9
The Beat Generation
1959-07-03
5.7
High School Confidential!
1958-05-30
6.2
The Actress
1953-09-25
0
Skinner's Baby
1917-08-06
0
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
1927-01-15
0
Love in September
1936-03-06
0
Escape from Terror
1955-04-01
0
Clown Alley
1966-11-09
4.9
The Buster Keaton Story
1957-05-01
6.3
Oliver Twist
1922-10-30
4.9
Nice and Friendly
1922-01-01
5.9
My Boy
1921-12-01
4.5
Human Experiments
1979-10-19
0
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
1979-06-05
0
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
1961-05-24
4.4
Outlaw Women
1952-04-28
5
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
1980-10-01
6.1
Lonelyhearts
1959-03-04
6.5
The Rag Man
1925-02-16
3.5
Peck's Bad Boy
1921-04-21
4
The Space Children
1958-06-01
6.8
College Swing
1938-04-29
4.9
Seeing Stars
1922-10-29
6
Rogue's Gallery
1968-01-01
5.5
Tom Sawyer
1930-12-19
3.2
When the Girls Take Over
1962-04-30
5.8
The Big Operator
1959-08-01
1
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
1936-08-05
5.3
Night of the Quarter Moon
1959-03-04
0
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
1942-01-01
7
Forbidden Area
1956-10-04
6.1
Cahill: United States Marshal
1973-07-11
5.4
The Circus: Premiere
1928-01-13
0
The Specialists
1975-01-06
8
Huckleberry Finn
1931-08-07
3
No Place to Land
1958-10-03
3.4
Sex Kittens Go to College
1960-08-24
8.1
The Joker is Wild
1957-09-26
6.1
Free and Easy
1930-03-22
4
Sky Patrol
1939-09-11
5.1
The Phantom of Hollywood
1974-02-12
4.6
The Prey
1983-11-04
5
Million Dollar Legs
1939-07-13
0
French Leave
1948-04-10
0
Meet Jackie Coogan
1924-01-01
6
Halloween with the New Addams Family
1977-10-30
4.7
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
2004-07-13
6.1
A Day's Pleasure
1919-12-15
6
Eighteen and Anxious
1957-11-15
6.1
The Escape Artist
1982-05-28
0
Skipalong Rosenbloom
1951-04-30
0
A Boy of Flanders
1924-04-06
6
Character Studies
1927-11-20
5.2
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
1975-03-07
6
Varieties on Parade
1951-07-20
4.9
A Fine Madness
1966-06-29
1
Lucy Gets Lucky
1975-03-01
3
Old Clothes
1925-11-09
0
Home on the Range
1935-02-01
5
Kilroy Was Here
1947-07-19
0
The Bugle Call
1927-08-06
5
Hello, 'Frisco
1924-09-28
6.6
Girl Happy
1965-04-14
0
Long Live the King
1923-11-26
3.4
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965-03-24
6.5
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000-10-24
0
Trouble
1922-08-07
6.5
Circus Days
1923-07-30
0
Daddy
1923-03-25
6.4
The Proud Ones
1956-05-15
5.7
Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'
2003-03-02
1
Buttons
1927-12-24
0
Hollywood’s Children
1982-02-24
6
Little Robinson Crusoe
1924-08-25
0
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
2015-08-07
4.1
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
1976-07-26
6
The Kids Who Knew Too Much
1980-04-29
6.9
Showbiz Kids
2020-07-14
6.1
Child Star
2024-09-17
7.6
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-10-03
6.8
Movin' On
1974-05-08
6.7
Family Affair
1966-09-12
4.2
The Dick Powell Show
1961-09-26
6
Burke's Law
1963-09-20
7
Here's Lucy
1968-09-23
7.6
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
1972-09-09
7
Mr. Lucky
1959-10-24
7.5
The New Andy Griffith Show
1971-01-08
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
6.7
The Brady Bunch
1969-09-26
7.1
The Lucy Show
1962-10-01
6.9
Alias Smith and Jones
1971-01-05
7.6
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
6.5
Gunsmoke
1955-09-10
4.4
Studio One
1948-11-07
5.5
General Electric Theater
1953-02-01
7.8
Emergency!
1972-01-22
5
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958-01-12
6.9
Ironside
1967-03-28
7.7
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-10-02
6.2
Outlaws
1960-09-26
5.3
Cowboy G-Men
1952-09-13
7.3
McMillan and Wife
1971-09-29
7.5
The Wild Wild West
1965-09-17
7.1
Police Story
1973-03-20
6.4
The Virginian
1962-09-19
6.5
Peter Gunn
1958-09-22
5.2
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963-10-04
6
The Jimmy Stewart Show
1971-09-19
3.3
Matinee Theater
1955-10-31
6.2
Lock-Up
1959-09-28
8
The Addams Family
1964-09-18
5
The Brian Keith Show
1972-09-15
0
Vacation Playhouse
1963-07-22
4.5
Flying High
1978-09-29
5.8
Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20
6.7
77 Sunset Strip
1958-10-10
0
McKeever and the Colonel
1962-09-23
7.3
The Addams Family
1973-09-08
5
Hawaiian Eye
1959-10-07
7.3
McMillan and Wife
1971-09-29
5.8
Letter to Loretta
1953-09-20
7.1
Adam-12
1968-09-21
7.6
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
8.3
Hollywood
1980-01-08
8
Unknown Chaplin
1983-01-05
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
1968-09-20
7.6
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
7.6
Perry Mason
1957-09-21
7.5
The Wild Wild West
1965-09-17
5.8
Love, American Style
1969-09-29
5.8
Love, American Style
1969-09-29
7.6
The Wonderful World of Disney
1954-10-27
6.9
Ironside
1967-03-28
6.3
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
1971-09-16
7.9
I Dream of Jeannie
1965-09-18
6.9
Barnaby Jones
1973-01-28
6.9
Ironside
1967-03-28
5.2
The Outsider
1968-09-18
5
Cool Million
1972-10-28