Jackie Coogan (1914 - 1984) جاكي كوجان

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American actor, born in Los Angeles, California, USA on October 26, 1914 as John Leslie Coogan. He received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960. He married actress Betty Grable (1937-1939) and married Flower Parry (1941-1943). He then married actress Ann McCormack (1946-1951),...Read more with whom he had a child. Then, he married Dorothea Odetta Hanson (1952-1984), with whom he had two children, and he remained with her until he died on March 1, 1984, in Santa Monica, California, USA following a heart attack. His father worked as a theater dancer with his mother. At the age of four, he appeared on stage as a child actor. He played a major role in the movie The Kid (1921), achieved great success, and became a star in a number of films as a child actor, in addition to his work with his father in theater. After the movie Daddy (1923), he became the highest-paid child actor in Hollywood, and MGM guaranteed him an income of one million dollars annually. At the age of 13, he bid farewell to childhood and his popularity began to decline. He presented Ton Sawyer (1930) and Huckleberry Finn (1931). In 1935, his father died in an accident, and his mother married her business manager. He demanded from them the money he had earned in the twenties from his work in the cinema, amounting to 4 million dollars, but they refused. He filed a case in the California courts, but the law did not do him justice, but a new law was enacted to protect children's earnings, and it was called Coogan Law. At the end of the thirties, Jackie married, then enlisted in the army in World War II. He worked in the theaters of Burma, China, and India. After returning from the war, he could not return to his former stardom and worked in small roles in local films of the second degree, but in the fifties, he turned to work on television and achieved success in many of the shows he presented. and in the sixties, he presented two comedy series in which he regained his stardom.

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Pups (1999)

Girl Happy (1965)

Marlowe (1969)

The Actress (1953)

The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)

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  • American actor, born in Los Angeles, California, USA on October 26, 1914 as John Leslie Coogan. He received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960. He married actress Betty Grable...Read more (1937-1939) and married Flower Parry (1941-1943). He then married actress Ann McCormack (1946-1951), with whom he had a child. Then, he married Dorothea Odetta Hanson (1952-1984), with whom he had two children, and he remained with her until he died on March 1, 1984, in Santa Monica, California, USA following a heart attack. His father worked as a theater dancer with his mother. At the age of four, he appeared on stage as a child actor. He played a major role in the movie The Kid (1921), achieved great success, and became a star in a number of films as a child actor, in addition to his work with his father in theater. After the movie Daddy (1923), he became the highest-paid child actor in Hollywood, and MGM guaranteed him an income of one million dollars annually. At the age of 13, he bid farewell to childhood and his popularity began to decline. He presented Ton Sawyer (1930) and Huckleberry Finn (1931). In 1935, his father died in an accident, and his mother married her business manager. He demanded from them the money he had earned in the twenties from his work in the cinema, amounting to 4 million dollars, but they refused. He filed a case in the California courts, but the law did not do him justice, but a new law was enacted to protect children's earnings, and it was called Coogan Law. At the end of the thirties, Jackie married, then enlisted in the army in World War II. He worked in the theaters of Burma, China, and India. After returning from the war, he could not return to his former stardom and worked in small roles in local films of the second degree, but in the fifties, he turned to work on television and achieved success in many of the shows he presented. and in the sixties, he presented two comedy series in which he regained his stardom.

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