Jackie Coogan

Highest Rated: 100% The Kid (1921)
Lowest Rated: 20% Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976)
Birthday: Oct 26, 1914
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA

American actor Jackie Coogan belonged to a family of vaudevillians. At age four Coogan was already a stage attraction performing with his father when he caught the eye of Charles Chaplin, who immediately hired him (and his father as well). After giving him a bit part in the short A Day's Pleasure (1919), he made Coogan his co-star in the masterpiece The Kid (1921). This launched Coogan's film career and he went on to become one of the highest paid film actors of the day. Movie audiences worldwide doted on him, but his career as a child star petered out when he was 13 and too old to be "cute." In 1935 when his mother and stepfather refused to let him have the $4 million that he had amassed during his child acting days, he filed suit against them. When the settlement finally came, he received a mere $126,000., but the legal fight brought attention to such abuses, and resulted in the "California Child Actor's Bill" also known as the "Coogan Act" which protected the earnings of child actors. He was married to Betty Grable for 3 years, and to three other showgirls in succession afterwards. During his adulthood, he occasionally appeared in films playing character roles and worked frequently in television, most notably as Uncle Fester in The Addams Family TV series. He died on March 1, 1984.

Highest Rated Movies

The Kid
100%
Marlowe
71%
High School Confidential
70%
The Actress
60%

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Rating	Title	Credit	Box Office	Year
No Score Yet	The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle	Actor	—	2005
No Score Yet	Unknown Chaplin	Actor	—	1983
No Score Yet	The Escape Artist	Magic-Shop Owner	—	1982
No Score Yet	Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype	Sgt. Fleacollar	—	1980
No Score Yet	Human Experiments (Beyond the Gate) (Women in Prison)	Actor	—	1980
No Score Yet	The Prey	Lester	—	1980
20%	Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood	Stagehand I	—	1976
No Score Yet	Sherlock Holmes in New York	Actor	—	1976
No Score Yet	The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery	Sheriff	—	1975
No Score Yet	Cahill U.S. Marshal	Charlie Smith	—	1973
71%	Marlowe	Grant W. Hicks	—	1969
No Score Yet	The Shakiest Gun in the West	Matthew Basch	—	1968
No Score Yet	A Fine Madness	Mr. Fitzgerald	—	1966
No Score Yet	John Goldfarb, Please Come Home	Father Ryan	—	1965
No Score Yet	Girl Happy	Sgt. Benson	—	1965
No Score Yet	Sex Kittens Go to College	Wildcat MacPherson	—	1960
No Score Yet	The Beat Generation	Jake Baron	—	1959
70%	High School Confidential	Mr. A	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Space Children	Hank Johnson	—	1958
No Score Yet	Lonelyhearts	Ned Gates	—	1958
No Score Yet	No Place to Land	Swede	—	1958
No Score Yet	The Joker Is Wild	Swifty Morgan	—	1957
No Score Yet	Playhouse 90 - Charley's Aunt	Actor	—	1957
No Score Yet	The Proud Ones	Man on Make	—	1956
60%	The Actress	Heckler	—	1953
No Score Yet	Lost Women	Doctor Aranya	—	1953
No Score Yet	Outlaw Women	Piute Bill	—	1952
No Score Yet	Boot Hill Mamas	Actor	—	1952
No Score Yet	Cowboy G-Men	Actor	—	1952
No Score Yet	The Navy Comes Through	Actor	—	1942
No Score Yet	Sky Patrol	Carter	—	1939
No Score Yet	Land of Liberty	Actor	—	1939
No Score Yet	College Swing	Jackie	—	1938
No Score Yet	Tom Sawyer	Tom Sawyer	—	1930
No Score Yet	Free and Easy (Easy Go)	Himself	—	1930
No Score Yet	The Rag Man	Tim Kelly	—	1925
No Score Yet	Oliver Twist	Oliver Twist	—	1922
No Score Yet	My Boy	Jackie Blair	—	1922
No Score Yet	Seeing Stars	Actor	—	1922
No Score Yet	Peck's Bad Boy	Peck's Bad Boy	—	1921
100%	The Kid	The Child	—	1921
No Score Yet	A Day's Pleasure	Smallest Boy	—	1919

TV

Rating	Title	Credit	Year
No Score Yet	American Masters 2001	Appearing	2002
No Score Yet	Gunsmoke 1955-1975	Stoudenaire	1974
No Score Yet	Ironside 1967-1975	Terry Wilson Sam Buster Logan	1974 1971 1969
No Score Yet	Marcus Welby, M.D. 1969-1976	Darrell	1973
No Score Yet	The Partridge Family 1970-1974	Grandpa Walter Renfrew Max Pepper	1973 1970
77%	The Brady Bunch 1969-1974	Harry Duggan Man	1972 1971 1970
No Score Yet	I Dream of Jeannie 1965-1970	Uncle Suleiman Sulieman	1969
No Score Yet	The Wild Wild West 1965-1969	Pudney	1969 1965
100%	The Addams Family 1964-1966	Uncle Fester Frump	1966 1965 1964
No Score Yet	Perry Mason 1957-1966	Grimes Desmond Litten Sawyer	1966 1964 1963 1961
83%	The Munsters 1964-1966	Young Man	1965
No Score Yet	The Andy Griffith Show 1960-1968	Guest George Stevens	1961
No Score Yet	The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet 1952-1966	Ed	1960
No Score Yet	Alfred Hitchcock Presents 1955-1962	George	1959

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