page_title: Jackie Coogan
hierarchical_section_title: Jackie Coogan
caption_attribution_description: English: Red Skelton as San Fernando Red, Kay Starr, Jackie Coogan from Skelton's 1962 television show.
context_page_description: John Leslie Coogan was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films.
  Charlie Chaplin's film classic The Kid made him one of the first child stars in the history of Hollywood. 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. Coogan continued to act throughout his life, later earning renewed fame in middle age portraying a bumbling Uncle Fester in the 1960s television series The Addams Family.
context_section_description: John Leslie Coogan (October 26, 1914 – March 1, 1984) was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films.
  Charlie Chaplin's film classic The Kid (1921) made him one of the first child stars in the history of Hollywood. 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. Coogan continued to act throughout his life, later earning renewed fame in middle age portraying a bumbling Uncle Fester in the 1960s television series The Addams Family.
caption: Coogan in 1962
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