Extremely rare and just great vintage 8x10-inch black and white portrait in-costume as Uncle Fester on "The Addams Family" (1964-1966), boldly signed and inscribed in black felt-tip pen to noted collector William Hosking in the 1970s. In good condition. Celebrated child actor Jackie Coogan, who was hand-selected by Charles Chaplin to appear in A Day's Pleasure (1919) and star in The Kid (1921), went on to star in Daddy (1923), Long Live the King (1923), Tom Sawyer (1930), and Huckleberry Finn (1931). After he had reached maturity, he found work more difficult to come by and made ends meet by appearing in bit parts and horror, sci-fi and western B-movies, most notably Cowboy G-Men (1952), Mesa of Lost Women (1953) and The Space Children (1958). It wasn't until the 1960s that Coogan would once again hit his stride, landing starring roles on two popular T.V. sitcoms: Sgt. Barnes on "McKeever and the Colonel" (1962-1963) and the bald, crazy-eyed, inexplicably electrical Uncle Fester on "The Addams Family" (1964-1966).

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