Jackie Coogan
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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
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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No Score Yet | The Forgotten Films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle |
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— | 2005 |
No Score Yet | Unknown Chaplin |
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— | 1983 |
80% | The Escape Artist |
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— | 1982 |
No Score Yet | Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Human Experiments (Beyond the Gate) (Women in Prison) |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | The Prey |
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— | 1980 |
20% | Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | Sherlock Holmes in New York |
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— | 1976 |
No Score Yet | The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery |
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— | 1975 |
No Score Yet | Cahill U.S. Marshal |
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— | 1973 |
71% | Marlowe |
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— | 1969 |
No Score Yet | The Shakiest Gun in the West |
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— | 1968 |
33% | A Fine Madness |
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— | 1966 |
No Score Yet | John Goldfarb, Please Come Home |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Girl Happy |
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— | 1965 |
No Score Yet | Sex Kittens Go to College |
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— | 1960 |
No Score Yet | The Beat Generation |
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— | 1959 |
70% | High School Confidential |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The Space Children |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | Lonelyhearts |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | No Place to Land |
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— | 1958 |
No Score Yet | The Joker Is Wild |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | Playhouse 90 - Charley's Aunt |
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— | 1957 |
No Score Yet | The Proud Ones |
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— | 1956 |
60% | The Actress |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Lost Women |
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— | 1953 |
No Score Yet | Outlaw Women |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Boot Hill Mamas |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | Cowboy G-Men |
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— | 1952 |
No Score Yet | The Navy Comes Through |
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— | 1942 |
No Score Yet | Sky Patrol |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | Land of Liberty |
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— | 1939 |
No Score Yet | College Swing |
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— | 1938 |
83% | Huckleberry Finn |
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— | 1931 |
No Score Yet | Tom Sawyer |
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— | 1930 |
No Score Yet | Free and Easy (Easy Go) |
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— | 1930 |
No Score Yet | The Rag Man |
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— | 1925 |
No Score Yet | Oliver Twist |
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— | 1922 |
No Score Yet | My Boy |
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— | 1922 |
No Score Yet | Seeing Stars |
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— | 1922 |
No Score Yet | Peck's Bad Boy |
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— | 1921 |
100% | The Kid |
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— | 1921 |
No Score Yet | A Day's Pleasure |
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— | 1919 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
American Masters
2001
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No Score Yet |
Gunsmoke
1955-1975
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No Score Yet |
Ironside
1967-1975
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No Score Yet |
Marcus Welby, M.D.
1969-1976
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No Score Yet |
The Partridge Family
1970-1974
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78% |
The Brady Bunch
1969-1974
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No Score Yet |
I Dream of Jeannie
1965-1970
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No Score Yet |
The Wild Wild West
1965-1969
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100% |
The Addams Family
1964-1966
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No Score Yet |
Perry Mason
1957-1966
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83% |
The Munsters
1964-1966
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No Score Yet |
The Andy Griffith Show
1960-1968
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No Score Yet |
The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
1952-1966
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No Score Yet |
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1955-1962
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No Score Yet |
Playhouse 90
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