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    Jackie Coogan

    American actor ; earned renewed fame in middle age portraying the character Uncle Fester in the 1960s television series The Addams Family

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  1. Jackie Coogan. Actor: Oliver Twist. Jackie Coogan was born into a family of vaudevillians; his father was a dancer and his mother had been a child star. On the stage by age 4, Jackie was touring at age 5 with his family in Los Angeles, California.

  2. Feb 29, 2024 · Jackie Coogan (born October 26, 1914, Los Angeles, California, U.S.—died March 1, 1984, Santa Monica, California) was the first major Hollywood child star, who rose to fame in the silent-film era and was best known as the sad-eyed waif of The Kid (1921) and similar movies.

  3. Feb 29, 2024 · Six-year-old Jackie Coogan, who became an instant global star for his performance in Charlie Chaplin’s 1921 movie The Kid, was soon billed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as “the most famous boy in the...

  4. 5 days ago · Jackie Coogan was by then struggling with the transition between child star and adult actor. He’d gotten engaged to Betty Grable in 1935; they were married two years later and divorced just two ...

  5. Mar 2, 1984 · Jackie Coogan, who in 1919 became the first major child star in American movie history as the sad-eyed foundling in ''The Kid,'' died after a heart attack yesterday at the Santa Monica (Calif.)...

  6. Feb 2, 2024 · Jackie Coogan and the Fall of Hollywood’s Child Stars. Hollywood adored child stars like Jackie Coogan and Diana Serra Cary, but failed to protect them. Ellen Walker | Published in History Today Volume 74 Issue 2 February 2024. Charlie Chaplin’s first full-length feature film, The Kid (1921), remains one of the great masterpieces of silent cinema.

  7. Jan 11, 2004 · 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 died in 1984 at the age of 69), odds are that...

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