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Jackie CooganBest known for his role in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid, Jackie Coogan (1914-1984) was one of the first and best known child actors. Because of the legal problems Coogan faced in obtaining the money he earned as a child star, the California legislature passed ground-breaking legislation protecting child actors and their earnings.
Mar 16, 2018 · John Leslie “Jackie” Coogan was born to a theater family on October 26, 1914, in Los Angeles. He appeared on stage before he could walk or talk. The silent-film superstar Charlie Chaplin discovered young Jackie performing in vaudeville and cast him in a small role in A Day’s Pleasure, when the boy was just four years old.
Mar 2, 1984 · Jackie Coogan, 69, whose performance as a sad-eyed street urchin alongside Charlie Chaplin in "The Kid" melted the hearts of silent-film audiences and helped make him Hollywood's first major child ...
Jan 11, 2004 · From ‘angel’ to ‘monster’. By Tom Nolan. Jan. 11, 2004 12 AM PT. Tom Nolan is the author of "Ross Macdonald: A Biography." If viewers today remember the work of actor Jackie Coogan (who ...
Oct 25, 2021 · On the 26th of October 1914, Jackie Coogan was born in Los Angeles, CA. From infancy, his actor father enrolled him into roles in vaudeville and film. He was discovered by Charlie Chaplin at the Orpheum Theatre, L.A., where Jackie charmed him with his shimmy dancing and miming talent. Chaplin soon cast him in various roles, the best known of ...
Jackie Coogan. John Leslie "Jackie" Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American movie, television, child, stage, radio, voice, silent movie actor, and comedian. He was known for his roles as The Kid in Charlie Chaplin 's The Kid and as Uncle Fester in The Addams Family. A law is named after him in the state of California, "The ...
Jackie Coogan. John Leslie “Jackie” Coogan, Jr. 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 ...
