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Uncle Fester (Addams) is a member of the fictional Addams Family and has been played by numerous actors, beginning with Jackie Coogan in the television series The Addams Family (1964–1966). Character
The Addams Family consists of husband and wife, Gomez and Morticia Addams, their children, Wednesday and Pugsley, as well as Grandmama, Uncle Fester, and their butler, Lurch. The Addams' are a close-knit extended family with decidedly macabre interests and supernatural abilities. No explanation for their powers is explicitly given in the series.
A successful film, The Addams Family, was released by Paramount Pictures in 1991, starring Raul Julia as Gomez, Anjelica Huston as Morticia, Christopher Lloyd as an amnesiac Uncle Fester, and Christina Ricci as Wednesday. After the film's release, series creator David Levy filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures; the suit was settled out of ...
Coogan in a publicity shot as the character Uncle Fester for The Addams Family TV series. After the war, Coogan returned to acting, taking mostly character roles and appearing on television. From 1952 to 1953, Coogan played Stoney Crockett on the syndicated series Cowboy G-Men. In 1959, he guest-starred in a first-season episode of Peter Gunn.
The family includes parents Gomez and Morticia, children Wednesday and Pugsley, in-house workers, and extended family members Thing, Grandmama, Cousin Itt, Uncle Fester, and Lurch.
Ten video games released from 1989 to 2021 were based on The Addams Family. Fester's Quest (1989) is a top-down adventure game that features Uncle Fester. The Addams Family LCD Video Game by Tiger Electronics is a handheld unit released in 1991. ICOM Simulations published The Addams Family video game for the TurboGrafx-CD in 1991.
The final member of Tim Burton's new Addams Family has finally been revealed: comedian Fred Armisen is playing Uncle Fester in the Netflix series 'Wednesday.'
The plot of The Addams Family, which was written by Caroline Thompson and Larry Wilson, and then extensively re-written by Paul Rudnick, hinges on whether or not Christopher Lloyd's Uncle Fester ...