Eugene Jackson
Acting • Born 1916-12-25 – Died 2001-10-26
Biography
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
61 credits
Black Gunn
Movie • 1972
Bartender (uncredited)
Cleopatra Jones
Movie • 1973
Henry
Sporting Chance
Movie • 1931
Horseshoe
Reform School
Movie • 1939
Pete
The Mysterious Mystery!
Movie • 1924
Snowball
The Big Town
Movie • 1925
Pineapple
Circus Fever
Movie • 1925
Gene
The Love Bug
Movie • 1925
Pineapple
Looking for Love
Movie • 1964
Office Worker (uncredited)
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie • 1971
Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
Guns and Guitars
Movie • 1936
Eightball
The Lonely Trail
Movie • 1936
Harmonica Player / Dancer
The Apartment
Movie • 1960
Office Worker (uncredited)
Chandler
Movie • 1971
Shoe Shine Boy
Secret Service
Movie • 1931
Israel Polk
Sporting Blood
Movie • 1931
Sam 'Sammy'
Hearts in Dixie
Movie • 1929
Chinquapin
40 Carats
Movie • 1973
Party Dancer (uncredited)
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Movie • 1964
Congregation Member
Wine, Women and Horses
Movie • 1937
Eight Ball
Cimarron
Movie • 1931
Isaiah
Red River Valley
Movie • 1936
Iodine
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Movie • 1938
Hotel Page Boy
Kentucky
Movie • 1938
Jimmy
All the President's Men
Movie • 1976
Reporter (uncredited)
Midnight Court
Movie • 1937
Garfield Brown
North by Northwest
Movie • 1959
Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
American Gigolo
Movie • 1980
Bootblack
Little Annie Rooney
Movie • 1925
Humidor
Take My Life
Movie • 1942
Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
The Thief of Bagdad
Movie • 1924
Child (uncredited)
Scott Joplin
Movie • 1977
Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
The World's Greatest Athlete
Movie • 1973
Party Guest (uncredited)
Rhythm Rodeo
Movie • 1938
Escape from Alcatraz
Movie • 1979
Inmate
Sporting Blood
Movie • 1940
Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie • 1943
Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Dog Days
Movie • 1925
Pineapple
Off the Wall
Movie • 1983
Old Black Man
Reveille with Beverly
Movie • 1943
Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
Coffy
Movie • 1973
Man at Rally (uncredited)
Golden Hoofs
Movie • 1941
Curly
The Buccaneer
Movie • 1938
James Smith, a Servant
Shootin' Injuns
Movie • 1925
Gene
Penrod and Sam
Movie • 1923
Verman
The Addams Family
Movie • 1991
One-Armed Bass Player
The Killer That Stalked New York
Movie • 1950
Bootblack (uncredited)
Anaesthesia
Movie • 1938
Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
The Lady's from Kentucky
Movie • 1939
Winfield
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Movie • 1935
Eightball
Swing Shift
Movie • 1984
Bartender at Kelly's
Melinda
Movie • 1972
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Sound and the Fury
Movie • 1959
Townsman (uncredited)
The Carey Treatment
Movie • 1972
Doctor (uncredited)
Julia
TV • 1968
Uncle Lou
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV • 1956
Boston Blackie
TV • 1951
Night Court
TV • 1984
Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
Taxi
TV • 1978
Cabbie (uncredited)
Night Court
TV • 1984
Shoe Shine Man
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV • 1958
Small Slave