Eugene Jackson
Actor
Born December 25, 1916 in Buffalo - New York - USA
Eugene Jackson gained fame as Farina's older brother, Pineapple, in six of Hal Roach's "Our Gang" serials - "The Mysterious Mystery", "The Big Town", "Circus Fever", "Dog Days", "The Love Bug" and "Shootin Injuns". Besides films he sang and danced on the vaudeville circuit - billed as "Hollywood's most famous colored kid star". Most of his film roles were bit parts, most uncredited. He did appear as Diahann Carroll's Uncle Lou on TV's "Julia" and Redd Foxx's friend on "Sanford and Son". In later years he taught dance at studios he started in Compton and Pasadena. He trained several performers in the 1959 film Porgy and Bess. His work was featured in a dance retrospective for the 1993 Los Angeles Festival.
Filmography
The Addams Family
One-Armed Bass Player
Swing Shift
Bartender at Kelly's
Night Court
Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
Off the Wall
Old Black Man
American Gigolo
Bootblack
Escape from Alcatraz
Inmate
Taxi
Cabbie (uncredited)
Scott Joplin
Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
All the President's Men
Reporter (uncredited)
Cleopatra Jones
Henry
40 Carats
Party Dancer (uncredited)
Coffy
Man at Rally (uncredited)
The World's Greatest Athlete
Party Guest (uncredited)
Black Gunn
Bartender (uncredited)
Melinda
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Carey Treatment
Doctor (uncredited)
Chandler
Shoe Shine Boy
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
Julia
Uncle Lou
Looking for Love
Office Worker (uncredited)
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Congregation Member
The Apartment
Office Worker (uncredited)
North by Northwest
Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
The Sound and the Fury
Townsman (uncredited)
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Small Slave
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Boston Blackie
The Killer That Stalked New York
Bootblack (uncredited)
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Reveille with Beverly
Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
Take My Life
Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
Golden Hoofs
Curly
Sporting Blood
Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
Reform School
Pete
The Lady's from Kentucky
Winfield
Kentucky
Jimmy
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Hotel Page Boy
Anaesthesia
Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
Rhythm Rodeo
The Buccaneer
James Smith, a Servant
Wine, Women and Horses
Eight Ball
Midnight Court
Garfield Brown
Guns and Guitars
Eightball
The Lonely Trail
Harmonica Player / Dancer
Red River Valley
Iodine
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Eightball
Secret Service
Israel Polk
Sporting Blood
Sam 'Sammy'
Cimarron
Isaiah
Hearts in Dixie
Chinquapin
Little Mickey Grogan
Dancing Black Boy
Little Annie Rooney
Humidor
Shootin' Injuns
Gene
The Love Bug
Pineapple
Dog Days
Pineapple
Circus Fever
Gene
The Big Town
Pineapple
The Mysterious Mystery!
Snowball
The Thief of Bagdad
Child (uncredited)
Penrod and Sam
Verman