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Is it true that Jackie Coogan disliked playing Uncle Fester??


If true, that makes me sad. Fester was my favorite character and he stole every scene he appeared in!

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That is in no way True he loved the Character of Fester so much that when they turned him down for the role, he went home Shaved his head made his own costume and went back and auditioned again. Plus he came back for the 70's Halloween special, and he along with Lurch where the only two to be in the 70 Cartoon. So must have still liked the Character

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Ted Cassidy didn't like playing Lurch and was happy when the show was cancelled because he wanted to be seen a real actor and not just typecast as lurch or a tall man who could just play villains and Monsters like Richard Kiel

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