Jackie Coogan
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1914-10-26
Locus Natus: Los Angeles, California, USA
Et ut: John Leslie Coogan, John L. Coogan, Jack Coogan
Marlowe
Mysterious Orfamay Quest hires Los Angeles private investigator Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Though the job seems simple enough, it...
release : 1969.09.19popularis : 6.299
Estrellados
A matinée idol and a bumbling manager fight for the love of a would-be starlet. Estrellados is the Spanish version of Free and Easy (1930)...
release : 1930.07.07popularis : 1.904
The Kid
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
release : 1921.01.21popularis : 15.757
The Shakiest Gun in the West
Jesse W. Haywood (Don Knotts) graduates from dental school in Philadelphia in 1870 and goes west to become a frontier dentist. Penelope "Bad Penny"...
release : 1968.07.10popularis : 6.46
Mesa of Lost Women
A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting...
release : 1953.06.17popularis : 11.532
Sherlock Holmes in New York
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old...
release : 1976.10.18popularis : 6.954
The Beat Generation
A group of beatniks unwittingly harbor a serial rapist. A cop goes after him after his wife is attacked.
release : 1959.07.03popularis : 5.096
High School Confidential!
A tough kid comes to a new high school and begins muscling his way into the drug scene. This is a typical morality play of the era, filled with a...
release : 1958.05.30popularis : 1.498
Skinner's Baby
William Skinner is very pleased with the news his wife Honey is expecting their first child. He eagerly prepares for the new arrival, as he is sure...
release : 1917.08.06popularis : 3.016
The Actress
The true story of Ruth Gordon's early struggles on the road to stage stardom.
release : 1953.09.25popularis : 2.09
Johnny Get Your Hair Cut
An orphan is adopted by a kindly old racehorse owner. He decides to pay back his benefactor by training to ride the horse so he can win an important...
release : 1927.01.15popularis : 1.176
Escape from Terror
A couple who have escaped from the Baltics to Copenhagen are pursued by a KGB officer.
release : 1955.04.01popularis : 4.144
Clown Alley
An all-star cast joins Red Skelton in this lavish 60-minute salute to circus clowns.
release : 1966.11.09popularis : 0.526
The Buster Keaton Story
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
release : 1957.05.01popularis : 2.156
Oliver Twist
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring...
release : 1922.10.30popularis : 3.87
Nice and Friendly
This short was made as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. In it, Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large...
release : 1922.01.01popularis : 1.681
My Boy
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
release : 1921.12.01popularis : 1.144
Human Experiments
A demented prison doctor performs gruesome shock therapy experiments on inmates.
release : 1979.10.19popularis : 4.039
When the West Was Fun: A Western Reunion
Some of TV and film's popular western actors reunite in this tribute special hosted by Glenn Ford.
release : 1979.06.05popularis : 1.739
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
release : 1961.05.24popularis : 1.172
Outlaw Women
A old west town run by women. All the town's business is controlled by a woman gambler who tries not to succumb to the allure of a handsome and...
release : 1952.04.28popularis : 2.488
Dr. Heckyl and Mr. Hype
An ugly, misshapen podiatrist ingests a formula made by a colleague and turns into a handsome, devil-may-care (but violent) ladies' man.
release : 1980.10.01popularis : 5.108
Lonelyhearts
Burdened by a family secret, Adam White lands a job as a newspaper advice columnist. Little does he realize that it's all part of a nasty desire by...
release : 1959.03.04popularis : 2.902
The Rag Man
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York...
release : 1925.02.16popularis : 1.141
Peck's Bad Boy
This portrayal of small town life before the War is based on a small boys determination to get to see the circus, over all obstacles. Escaped lions,...
release : 1921.04.21popularis : 1.139
The Space Children
A glowing brain-like creature arrives on a beach near a rocket test site via a teleportation beam. The alien communicates telepathically with the...
release : 1958.06.01popularis : 8.802
College Swing
Gracie Alden tries to graduate from college to get an inheritance.
release : 1938.04.29popularis : 2.714
Seeing Stars
First National gala celebrity banquet with stars.
release : 1922.10.29popularis : 5.417
Rogue's Gallery
A private eye gets in trouble when he tries to help a woman in distress.
release : 1968.01.01popularis : 3.651
Tom Sawyer
The classic Mark Twain tale of a young boy and his friends on the Mississippi River. Tom and his pals Huckleberry Finn and Joe Harper have numerous...
release : 1930.12.19popularis : 1.11
When the Girls Take Over
A comic look...at Cuba after Castro regime take over.
release : 1962.04.30popularis : 2.111
Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs
Winners of the Lucky Stars National Dance Contest - one woman from each state of the United States - are welcomed to Palm Springs. Palm Springs being...
release : 1936.08.05popularis : 4.708
The Big Operator
A power-mad union boss resorts to murder to eliminate witnesses scheduled to testify against him. The eclectic cast includes Mickey Rooney, Mamie Van...
release : 1959.08.01popularis : 3.825
Night of the Quarter Moon
A POW marries a woman he meets in Mexico. Controversy erupts when people find out that she's one-quarter black.
release : 1959.03.04popularis : 2.073
Screen Snapshots (Series 22, No. 10)
The edition of Screen Snapshots celebrates 25 years of production. It looks at the content of edition #1, then a tribute to movie people who have...
release : 1942.01.01popularis : 1.194
Forbidden Area
Why are so many B-99 bombers from Hibiscus Air Base crashing or simply disappearing? Colonel Price comes up with a terrifying explanation, but will...
release : 1956.10.04popularis : 1.484
Cahill: United States Marshal
J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's...
release : 1973.07.11popularis : 6.922
The Circus: Premiere
Footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's 1928 film 'The Circus'.
release : 1928.01.13popularis : 1.023
The Specialists
Inspectors for the U.S. Public Health Service try to track down the cause of a rash of mysterious ailments suddenly appearing among the general...
release : 1975.01.06popularis : 1.975
Huckleberry Finn
A year after their former exploits, Tom Sawyer's puppy love of Becky Thatcher keeps him home while Huck Finn, chafing under "civilizing" influences...
release : 1931.08.07popularis : 2.715
No Place to Land
A cropduster pilot finds himself caught between two women—one who loves him and the other, who doesn’t handle rejection well, who’s...
release : 1958.10.03popularis : 1.284
Sex Kittens Go to College
Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come...
release : 1960.08.24popularis : 3.08
The Joker Is Wild
Prohibition-era nightclub crooner Joe E. Lewis has his career and nearly his life cut short when his throat is slashed as payback for leaving the...
release : 1957.09.26popularis : 10.368
Free and Easy
Gopher City Kansas hosts a beauty contest. The winner, Elvira Plunkett, and her mother go to Hollywood. The Chamber of Commerce also provides Elvira...
release : 1930.03.22popularis : 2.759
Sky Patrol
"Tailspin Tommy" Tompkins and "Skeeter" Milligan are training young U. S. Army fliers for the newly-formed 'Sky Patrol,'a branch of the Army Reserves...
release : 1939.09.11popularis : 2.401
The Phantom of Hollywood
The internationally famous Worldwide Studios has hit hard times and is forced to sell its Hollywood backlot to property developers. The trouble is...
release : 1974.02.12popularis : 3.564
The Prey
Three couples go on a camping trip in the woods of southern California during the summer, where a deformed man is stalking their camp.
release : 1983.11.04popularis : 7.792
Million Dollar Legs
At Middleton College, controlled by rich donor Melton, only paying sports are allowed. But Freddie Frye, conniving student body president, has to get...
release : 1939.07.13popularis : 1.281
French Leave
Merchant seaman Skitch Kilroy (Jackie Cooper) and "Pappy" Reagan (Jackie Coogan)arrive in Marseilles, eager to resume their combative rivalry for...
release : 1948.04.10popularis : 1.638
Meet Jackie Coogan
Star of Chaplin's The Kid, Jackie Coogan, visits the Stoll Picture Productions studio building. He befriends a child actor named Harry Beasley, who...
release : 1924.01.01popularis : 1.147
Halloween with the New Addams Family
The original TV Addams Family members prepare for Halloween.
release : 1977.10.30popularis : 4.882
The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made
There are some movies that are so bad they're good. And there are some movies that are so bad- that they're just bad...
release : 2004.07.13popularis : 8.776
A Day's Pleasure
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
release : 1919.12.15popularis : 7.038
Eighteen and Anxious
A naive teenager gets pregnant and is forced to face the realities of life.
release : 1957.11.15popularis : 0.76
The Escape Artist
The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback...
release : 1982.05.28popularis : 4.102
Skipalong Rosenbloom
Skipalong Rosenbloom is the star of a heavily commercialized TV kiddie show, presided over by a smarmy announcer. He is at odds with western bad guy...
release : 1951.04.30popularis : 2.061
A Boy of Flanders
An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.
release : 1924.04.06popularis : 1.052
Character Studies
Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or...
release : 1927.11.20popularis : 4.505
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
release : 1975.03.07popularis : 1.456
Varieties on Parade
Following a live orchestra opening, emcee Eddie Garr greets the audience and tells them about his trip to Los Angeles, where out-of-work actors are...
release : 1951.07.20popularis : 1.225
A Fine Madness
A womanizing poet falls into the hands of a psychiatrist with a straying wife.
release : 1966.06.29popularis : 3.955
Lucy Gets Lucky
Lucy pulls out all the stops in Las Vegas to see her favorite entertainer, Dean Martin. Lucy gets a job working at the MGM Grand casino and...
release : 1975.03.01popularis : 0.624
Old Clothes
Timothy and Max are partners in the junk business. They take poor young Mary in as a boarder. Mary gets a job in Nathan's office and falls in love...
release : 1925.11.09popularis : 0.888
Home on the Range
Two men, Thurman and Beady, and a woman, Georgia, ply a confidence game in Alaska by selling 'salted' gold mines to gullible newcomers. But the cold...
release : 1935.02.01popularis : 1.83
Kilroy Was Here
"Kilroy Was Here" was a popular expression during World War II, but it's not much fun to John J. Kilroy, who has to try to live with all the jokes...
release : 1947.07.19popularis : 1.401
The Bugle Call
Tale of a young bugler whose stepmother attempts to supplant the mother who only lives in his memory.
release : 1927.08.06popularis : 1.134
Hello, 'Frisco
A comedy short directed by character Slim Summerville.
release : 1924.09.28popularis : 0.587
Girl Happy
A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
release : 1965.04.14popularis : 8.912
Long Live the King
A young crown prince, wishing to be just an ordinary boy, runs away with his friend. The king dies, and when the prince does not appear, the people...
release : 1923.11.26popularis : 1.171
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by the local government. His captor, King Fawz,...
release : 1965.03.24popularis : 6.377
Lon Chaney: A Thousand Faces
Lon Chaney, the silent movie star and makeup artist, renowned for his various characterizations and celebrated for his horror films, becomes the...
release : 2000.10.24popularis : 2.628
Trouble
Danny, a ragamuffin orphan, is adopted by a brutal plumber and his frail wife. His fear of hunger, resulting from his foster father's indifference,...
release : 1922.08.07popularis : 0.52
Circus Days
10-year-old Toby runs away from his abusive uncle to join the Big Top.
release : 1923.07.30popularis : 1.247
Daddy
Believing her husband to be unfaithful, Helene Savelli takes her son, Jackie, to the Holdens' farm and dies shortly afterward. The Holdens keep...
release : 1923.03.25popularis : 2.525
The Proud Ones
Robert Ryan plays an aging sheriff responsible for law and order in a frontier cattle town. Virginia Mayo plays his fiancee. As if handling wild...
release : 1956.05.15popularis : 5.019
Chaplin Today: 'The Kid'
This documentary is featured on the two-disc Chaplin Collection DVD for "The Kid" (1921), released in 2004.
release : 2003.03.02popularis : 1.848
Buttons
Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell...
release : 1927.12.24popularis : 1.456
Hollywood’s Children
A documentary about child actors, since the beginning of motion pictures (narrated by Roddy McDowell).
release : 1982.02.24popularis : 2.367
Little Robinson Crusoe
Left an orphan by the death of his father, Mickey Hogan sails for Australia to live with relatives, but he is shipwrecked and stranded on an island...
release : 1924.08.25popularis : 0.749
Jackie Coogan: The First Child Star
Documentary taking a look at the career of Jackie Coogan who was considered the first child star.
release : 2015.08.07popularis : 1.484
Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
A would-be filmmaker and actress shake up the industry with a trick dog who gets discovered by a studio bus driver in the 1920s.
release : 1976.07.26popularis : 3.574
The Kids Who Knew Too Much
When a cryptic note is passed to young Bert Hale by a stranger, he and his three friends inadvertently hold the key to unravelling the sinister plot...
release : 1980.04.29popularis : 1.217
Showbiz Kids
A documentary chronicling the shared experiences of prominent former child stars and the personal and professional price of fame and failure on a...
release : 2020.07.14popularis : 4.953
Child Star
Explore the highs and lows of growing up in the spotlight through the lens of some of the world’s most famous former child stars. Through...
release : 2024.09.17popularis : 78.945