Philip Carey

He is perhaps known for his role as the protective patriarch, Asa Buchanan on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, a role he has been portraying since 1979. He is survived by his grandson, actor Keith Coogan. Carey has made appearances in the hit movie, Monster (1979), and the television series Little House on the Prairie. He was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery. Philip Carey (born July 15, 1925) is an American actor. He died of heart disease in 1984. His most famous TV role was as Uncle Fester in The Addams Family television series.

After the war, Coogan returned to acting, taking mostly character roles and appearing on television. He served in Asia, and flew gliders for the transportation of Orde Wingate's Chindits in the Burma Campaign. He left film entirely for several years, beginning in 1941, shortly before the United States entered World War II to serve as a flight officer in the Air Force. As he grew older, Coogan's popularity as an actor waned, though he had several well-publicised love affairs with leading Hollywood starlets, including a three-year marriage to Betty Grable.

The legal battle did, however, bring attention to child actors and resulted in the state of California enacting the California Child Actor's Bill, sometimes known as the Coogan Bill. He sued them in 1935, but only received $126,000. As a child star, Coogan earned as much as $4 million, but the money was taken by his mother and step-father. As a child actor, he is best remembered for his role as Charlie Chaplin's irrascible sidekick in The Kid (1921) and for the title role in Oliver Twist by Frank Lloyd the following year.

Coogan began his acting career as an infant in both vaudeville and film, with an uncredited role in the 1917 film Skinner's Baby. Jackie Coogan (October 26, 1914 - March 1, 1984) was a American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent films.