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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
October 26, 1914
Died
March 1, 1984
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Also Known As
- John Leslie Coogan
- John L. Coogan
- Jack Coogan
Jackie Coogan
1.1 Popularity
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
7.5
Self (archive footage)
The Real Charlie Chaplin
2021
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
2015
5.7
Self (archive footage)
Chaplin Today: The Kid
2003
6.5
Self (archive footage)
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
2000
0.0
Uncle Fester (archive footage)
The Addams Family Album
1992
0.0
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
4.2
Lester Tile
The Prey
1983
8.2
Self
Unknown Chaplin
1983
6.2
Magic Shop Owner
The Escape Artist
1982
0.0
Self
Hollywood’s Children
1982
Credits
The Real Charlie Chaplin
as Self (archive footage)
2021
7.5
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
as Self (archive footage)
2015
0.0
Chaplin Today: The Kid
as Self (archive footage)
2003
5.7
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
as Self (archive footage)
2000
6.5
The Addams Family Album
as Uncle Fester (archive footage)
1992
0.0
Hollywood Scandals and Tragedies
1988
0.0
The Prey
as Lester Tile
1983
4.2
Unknown Chaplin
as Self
1983
8.2
The Escape Artist
as Magic Shop Owner
1982
6.2
Hollywood’s Children
as Self
1982
0.0
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
as Sgt. Fleacollar
1980
5.0
The Kids Who Knew Too Much
as Mr. Klein
1980
7.3
Hollywood
as Self
1980
8.3
Human Experiments
as Sheriff Tibbs
1979
4.2
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
as Self
1979
0.0
🎬
$weepstake$
1979
0.0
Flying High
1978
4.5
Halloween with the New Addams Family
as Uncle Fester
1977
5.8
Sherlock Holmes in New York
as Haymarket Hotel Proprietor
1976
5.9
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
as Stagehand 1
1976
4.1
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
as Detective Chief Anderson
1975
5.2
Lucy Gets Lucky
as Gus Mitchell
1975
1.0
The Specialists
as Roger
1975
0.0
Movin' On
1974
6.4
The Phantom of Hollywood
as Jonathan
1974
5.1
The Addams Family
as Uncle Fester (voice)
1973
7.3
Cahill: United States Marshal
as Charlie Smith
1973
6.1
Police Story
1973
6.9
Barnaby Jones
as Phil Rooney
1973
6.9
Cool Million
as Merrill Cossack
1972
5.0
Scooby-Doo Meets The Addams Family
as Uncle Fester (Voice)
1972
8.0
The Brian Keith Show
1972
5.0
The New Scooby-Doo Movies
as Uncle Fester (voice)
1972
7.7
Emergency!
1972
7.8
McMillan & Wife
1971
6.9
McMillan & Wife
as Howard Sparks
1971
6.9
The Jimmy Stewart Show
1971
6.0
Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
as Zigler
1971
6.3
The New Andy Griffith Show
1971
7.5
Alias Smith and Jones
1971
7.0
The Partridge Family
as Max Pepper
1970
6.8
The Partridge Family
as Grandpa Walter Renfrew
1970
6.8
Love, American Style
as Uncle Harold
1969
6.1
Love, American Style
as Motel Owner
1969
6.1
The Brady Bunch
1969
6.7
Marcus Welby, M.D.
as Vince Darrell
1969
6.5
Marlowe
as Grant W. Hicks
1969
6.0
Here's Lucy
as Kermit Bosworth
1968
6.7
Adam-12
as Harry Rustin
1968
7.0
Hawaii Five-O
as Horace Sibley
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Jerry Howe
1968
7.1
Hawaii Five-O
as Frank
1968
7.1
The Outsider
as Rusty
1968
5.2
The Shakiest Gun in the West
as Matthew Basch
1968
6.3
Rogue's Gallery
as Funeral Director
1968
6.0
Ironside
1967
6.8
Ironside
as Buster Logan
1967
6.8
Ironside
as Sam McGoff
1967
6.8
Clown Alley
as Clown
1966
10.0
Family Affair
1966
6.7
A Fine Madness
as Mr. Fitzgerald
1966
4.7
I Dream of Jeannie
as Suleiman
1965
7.8
The Wild Wild West
as Mayor Cecil Pudney
1965
7.6
The Wild Wild West
as Sheriff Koster
1965
7.6
Girl Happy
as Sgt. Benson
1965
6.4
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
as Father Ryan
1965
3.1
The Addams Family
as Uncle Fester
1964
8.0
🎬
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
1963
5.7
Burke's Law
as Bert Crowley
1963
6.0
🎬
Vacation Playhouse
as Finnegan
1963
7.0
The Lucy Show
as Lieutenant Ruggles
1962
7.0
🎬
McKeever and the Colonel
as Sgt. Barnes
1962
0.0
The Virginian
as Bodey
1962
6.4
When the Girls Take Over
as Captain Toussaint
1962
3.2
The Dick Powell Show
as Shopkeeper
1961
5.5
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
as Self (archive footage)
1961
0.0
The Andy Griffith Show
as George Stevens
1960
7.6
Outlaws
1960
6.2
Sex Kittens Go to College
as Wildcat MacPherson
1960
3.1
Mr. Lucky
as Joe Azevedo
1959
6.4
Hawaiian Eye
as Mack Stanley
1959
5.2
Lock-Up
1959
6.2
The Big Operator
as Ed Brannell
1959
5.8
The Beat Generation
as Jake Baron
1959
5.2
Lonelyhearts
as Ned Gates
1959
6.1
Night of the Quarter Moon
as Desk Sergeant Bragan
1959
5.3
77 Sunset Strip
as Baldy Mike Hannigan (uncredited)
1958
6.7
No Place to Land
as Swede
1958
2.3
Peter Gunn
1958
6.4
The Space Children
as Hank Johnson
1958
4.0
High School Confidential!
as Mr. A
1958
5.3
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Marshal Rogers
1958
6.2
Eighteen and Anxious
as Harold 'Eager' Beaver
1957
6.0
The Joker is Wild
as Swifty Morgan
1957
8.0
Perry Mason
as Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Pete Desmond
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Gus Sawyer
1957
7.7
Perry Mason
as Ron Litten
1957
7.7
The Buster Keaton Story
as Elmer Case
1957
4.9
Where's Charley?
as Coach Sanderford
1957
0.0
The Star Wagon
as Hanus Wicks
1957
0.0
🎬
Forbidden Area
as The Cook
1956
7.5
The Proud Ones
as Man on Make (uncredited)
1956
6.4
Matinee Theater
1955
5.0
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
as George Bay
1955
7.8
Gunsmoke
as Marshal Stoudenaire
1955
6.6
Escape from Terror
as Agent Petrov
1955
0.0
The Wonderful World of Disney
as Mr. Klein
1954
7.8
The Actress
as Inopportune (uncredited)
1953
6.4
Letter to Loretta
as Woody Woods
1953
6.5
Letter to Loretta
as Snuff Carter
1953
6.5
Mesa of Lost Women
as Dr Aranya
1953
2.4
General Electric Theater
as Marshal Stubb Snider
1953
6.4
Cowboy G-Men
1952
5.3
Outlaw Women
as Piute Bill
1952
4.1
The Red Skelton Show
as Police Officer Hennesey
1951
7.4
Varieties on Parade
as Himself
1951
5.5
Skipalong Rosenbloom
as Buck Lovelace
1951
0.0
Studio One
as Jeffers
1948
5.0
French Leave
as Pappy Reagan
1948
0.0
Kilroy Was Here
as Pappy Collins
1947
5.0
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
as Self (archive footage)
1942
0.0
Sky Patrol
as Carter Meade
1939
4.0
Million Dollar Legs
as Russ Simpson
1939
5.0
College Swing
as Jackie
1938
6.8
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
as Self
1936
1.0
Love in September
as Jackie
1936
0.0
Home on the Range
as Jack Hatfield
1935
0.0
Huckleberry Finn
as Tom Sawyer
1931
6.7
Tom Sawyer
as Tom Sawyer
1930
5.5
Estrellados
as Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)
1930
0.0
Free and Easy
as Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited)
1930
6.0
The Circus: Premiere
as Self
1928
5.4
Buttons
as Buttons
1927
1.0
Character Studies
as Self (uncredited)
1927
6.0
The Bugle Call
as Billy Randolph
1927
0.0
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
as Johnny O'Day
1927
0.0
Old Clothes
as Timothy Kelly
1925
3.0
The Rag Man
as Tim Kelly
1925
6.5
🎬
Hello, 'Frisco
as Jackie Coogan
1924
5.0
Little Robinson Crusoe
as Mickey Hogan
1924
6.0
A Boy of Flanders
as Nello
1924
0.0
Meet Jackie Coogan
as Himself
1924
0.0
Long Live the King
as Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto
1923
0.0
Circus Days
as Toby Tyler
1923
6.3
Daddy
as Jackie Savelli / Jackie Holden
1923
0.0
Oliver Twist
as Oliver Twist
1922
6.3
Seeing Stars
as Self
1922
4.9
Trouble
as Danny, the Kid
1922
0.0
Nice and Friendly
as Boy
1922
4.8
My Boy
as Jackie Blair
1921
5.9
Peck's Bad Boy
as Henry Peck
1921
3.5
The Kid
as The Kid
1921
8.1
A Day's Pleasure
as Smallest Boy (uncredited)
1919
6.2
Skinner's Baby
as The Baby (uncredited)
1917
0.0