JOHN LESLIE COOGAN , AMERICAN ACTOR BORN 1914 OCTOBER 26- 1984 MARCH 1
JOHN LESLIE COOGAN , AMERICAN ACTOR BORN 1914 OCTOBER 26- 1984 MARCH 1 John Leslie Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984), known professionally as Jackie Coogan, was an American actor and comedian who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films.[2] Charlie Chaplin's film classic The Kid (1921) made him one of the first child stars in film history. He later sued his mother and stepfather over his squandered film earnings and provoked California to enact the first known legal protection for the earnings of child performers, the California Child Actors Bill, widely known as the Coogan Act.[3] Coogan continued to act throughout his life, later earning renewed fame in middle age portraying bumbling Uncle Fester in the 1960s television series The Addams Family. Early life and early career Coogan as a child actor with Charlie Chaplin in The Kid (1921) Coogan was born as John Leslie Coogan in 1914 in Los Angeles, California, to John Henry Coogan Jr. an...