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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 · Jackie Coogan’s saga, Cary writes, is “a true-life tale of selfishness, greed, and betrayal rare even in what is often said to be hard-hearted Hollywood.” What makes her book especially ...
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 ...
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 broke out as Charlie Chaplin's miniature sidekick in The Kid, then ended his career as the zappy Uncle Fester of The Addams Family. But there is a sinister twist to his life story, and, contrary to his famous films and shows, this one is R-rated. Get ready for some startling facts about Jackie Coogan.
