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 NBCs The Martha Raye Show. He appeared, too, as Corbett in two episodes of NBCs 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 ABCs 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 Jeannies uncle, Suleiman – Maharaja of Basenji), Family Affair, Heres 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.
Self (Guest Appearance at Premiere)
Film 1930
The Kid
Film 1921
Matthew Basch
Film 1968
Dr Aranya
Film 1953
Inopportune (uncredited)
Film 1953
The Baby (uncredited)
Film 1917
Johnny O'Day
Film 1927
Jackie
Film 1936
Agent Petrov
Film 1955
Clown
Film 1966
Oliver Twist
Film 1922
Boy
Film 1922
Jackie Blair
Film 1921
Sheriff Tibbs
Film 1979
Self
Film 1979
Self (archive footage)
Film 1961
Piute Bill
Film 1952
Sgt. Fleacollar
Film 1980
Tim Kelly
Film 1925
Henry Peck
Film 1921
Hank Johnson
Film 1958
Jackie
Film 1938
Self
Film 1922
Funeral Director
Film 1968
Tom Sawyer
Film 1930
Captain Toussaint
Film 1962
Ed Brannell
Film 1959
Self
Film 1936
Self (archive footage)
Film 1942
Self
Film 1928
Roger
Film 1975
Tom Sawyer
Film 1931
Swede
Film 1958
Wildcat MacPherson
Film 1960
Jackie Coogan - at Premiere (uncredited)
Film 1930
Carter Meade
Film 1939
Jonathan
Film 1974
Lester Tile
Film 1983
Pappy Reagan
Film 1948
Himself
Film 1924
Dr. Aranya (archive footage)
Film 2004
Smallest Boy (uncredited)
Film 1919
Harold 'Eager' Beaver
Film 1957
Buck Lovelace
Film 1951
Nello
Film 1924
Self (uncredited)
Film 1927
Detective Chief Anderson
Film 1975
Himself
Film 1951
Gus Mitchell
Film 1975
Timothy Kelly
Film 1925
Jack Hatfield
Film 1935
Pappy Collins
Film 1947
Billy Randolph
Film 1927
Jackie Coogan
Film 1924
Crown Prince Ferdinand William Otto
Film 1923
Self (archive footage)
Film 2000
Danny, the Kid
Film 1922
Toby Tyler
Film 1923
Jackie Savelli / Jackie Holden
Film 1923
Man on Make (uncredited)
Film 1956
Self (archive footage)
Film 2003
Self
Film 1982
Mickey Hogan
Film 1924
Self (archive footage)
Film 2015
Mr. Klein
Film 1980
Self (archive footage)
Film 2020
Uncle Fester (Voice)
Film 1972
George Stevens
Tv 1960
Tv 1974
Tv 1966
Bert Crowley
Tv 1963
Kermit Bosworth
Tv 1968
Tv 1959
Tv 1971
Tv 1969
Lieutenant Ruggles
Tv 1962
Tv 1971
Elwood P. 'Gunner' Grimes
Tv 1957
Marshal Stoudenaire
Tv 1955
Marshal Stubb Snider
Tv 1953
Tv 1972
Tv 1967
George Bay
Tv 1955
Tv 1960
Tv 1952
Tv 1971
Tv 1965
Tv 1973
Bodey
Tv 1962
Tv 1958
Tv 1963
Tv 1971
Tv 1955
Tv 1959
Tv 1972
Finnegan
Tv 1963
Tv 1978
Woody Woods
Tv 1953
Baldy Mike Hannigan (uncredited)
Tv 1958
Sgt. Barnes
Tv 1962
Uncle Fester (voice)
Tv 1973
Mack Stanley
Tv 1959
Howard Sparks
Tv 1971
Snuff Carter
Tv 1953
Pete Desmond
Tv 1957
Self
Tv 1980
Self
Tv 1983
Gus Sawyer
Tv 1957
Ron Litten
Tv 1957
Mayor Cecil Pudney
Tv 1965
Buster Logan
Tv 1967
Zigler
Tv 1971
Suleiman
Tv 1965
Phil Rooney
Tv 1973
Sam McGoff
Tv 1967
Merrill Cossack
Tv 1972
Marshal Rogers
Tv 1958