Jackie Coogan - clips and acting skills

Jackie Coogan (US)

b: 26 Oct 1914 (Los Angeles)
d: 1 Mar 1984

"Certainly the greatest child superstar of the silent period, and only equalled to Shirley Temple after the coming of the sound, Jackie was born if not in a trunk, at least with the roar of greasepaint loud about him.

At a perilously age early age he was crawling on to the vaudeville stage in his parents' comedy act, and soon became an established and adored part of it.

When he was four, the faithful encounter with Charlie Chaplin took place.
Chaplin saw him in a revuea at the Orpheum Theatre il Los Angeles, and went round to meet him. Among Jackie's first words to the great man (by Chaplin's account) were: 'I'm a prestidigitator who works in a world of legerdemain' - whereupon Chaplin, duly dumbfounded, exclaimed to Coogan père: 'This is the most remarkable person I have ever met'. The story sounds too good to be true, but whatever really was said, Chaplin put Jackie straight into his next comedy, 'A Day's Pleasure', and a year later gave him the co-starring title role in his first full-lenght film, 'The Kid'".
John Holmstrom (excerpt from The Moving Picture Boy)


Filmography as a child actor


1917 Skinner's Baby (uncredited)
1919 A Day's Pleasure (uncredited)
1921 The Kid
1921 Peck's Bad Boy
1921 My Boy
1922 Nice and Friendly
1922 Trouble Danny, the Kid
1922 Oliver Twist
1923 Daddy
1923 Circus Days
1923 Long Live the King
1924 A Boy of Flanders
1924 Hello, 'Frisco
1924 Little Robinson Crusoe
1925 The Rag Man
1925 Old Clothes
1927 Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
1927 The Bugle Call
1927 Buttons
1930 Free and Easy
1930 Tom Sawyer
1931 Huckleberry Finn