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Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'

as Self (archive footage)

2003
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces

as Self (archive footage)

2000
Unknown Chaplin

as Himself

1983
The Escape Artist

as Magic Shop Owner

1982
Hollywood

as Self

1980
Sherlock Holmes in New York

as Haymarket Hotel Proprietor

1976
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery

as Detective Chief Anderson

1975
The Phantom of Hollywood

as Jonathan

1974
The Addams Family

as Uncle Fester (voice)

1973
Marlowe

as Grant W. Hicks

1969
The Shakiest Gun in the West

as Matthew Basch

1968
A Fine Madness

as Mr. Fitzgerald

1966
Girl Happy

as Sgt. Benson

1965
The Addams Family

as Uncle Fester

1964
McKeever and the Colonel

as Sgt. Barnes

1962
Sex Kittens Go to College

as Wildcat MacPherson

1960
The Beat Generation

as Jake Baron

1959
The Big Operator

as Ed Brannell

1959
The Space Children

as Hank Johnson

1958
Mesa of Lost Women

as Dr Aranya

1953
Cowboy G-Men

as

1952
Outlaw Women

as Piute Bill

1952
French Leave

as Pappy Reagan

1948
Sky Patrol

as Carter Meade

1939
Million Dollar Legs

as Russ Simpson

1939
The Kid

as The Kid

1921
Jackie Coogan Jackie Coogan

Birthday

1914-10-26

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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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