My Boy is a 1921 American silent comedy-drama film directed by Victor Heerman and Albert Austin, and starring child actor Jackie Coogan.

As described in a film magazine,[1] little Jackie Blair (Coogan) arrives in New York City from France without a friend in the world, his mother having died in steerage during the voyage.

He slips by the immigration officers at Ellis Island by blending in with a family of eight, and follows an old seaman Captain Bill (Gillingwater), who was looking for work along the waterfront, home.

The film was conceived and written expressly for him,[2] and his father, Jackie Coogan Sr., was given some credit in the press for helping to adapt the script.

[5] The movie has been preserved and was released in 2004 as part of a Warner Home Video two-disc special edition of Charlie Chaplin's The Kid.