Eugene Jackson
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Addams Family (1991)
as One-Armed Bass Player
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
as Inmate
North by Northwest (1959)
as Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
The Apartment (1960)
as Office Worker (uncredited)
All the President's Men (1976)
as Reporter (uncredited)
American Gigolo (1980)
as Bootblack
The Long, Hot Summer (1958)
as Waiter (uncredited)
Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
as Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
Coffy (1973)
as Man at Rally (uncredited)
The Best Man (1964)
as Delegate (uncredited)
Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)
as Congregation Member (uncredited)
40 Carats (1973)
as Party Dancer (uncredited)
The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
as Child (uncredited)
Cleopatra Jones (1973)
as Henry
The World's Greatest Athlete (1973)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
as Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
as Townsman (uncredited)
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)
as Bootblack (uncredited)
Chandler (1971)
as Shoe Shine Boy
Swing Shift (1984)
as Bartender at Kelly's
Cimarron (1931)
as Isaiah
Black Gunn (1972)
as Bartender (uncredited)
Reform School (1939)
as Pete
Scott Joplin (1977)
as Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
The Carey Treatment (1972)
as Doctor (uncredited)
The Buccaneer (1938)
as James Smith, a Servant
Wine, Women and Horses (1937)
as Eight Ball
Reveille with Beverly (1943)
as Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
The Lady's from Kentucky (1939)
as Winfield
Off the Wall (1983)
as Old Black Man
Red River Valley (1936)
as Iodine
Looking for Love (1964)
as Office Worker (uncredited)
The Lonely Trail (1936)
as Harmonica Player / Dancer
Sporting Blood (1940)
as Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
Melinda (1972)
as Party Guest (uncredited)
Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938)
as Hotel Page Boy
Little Mickey Grogan (1927)
as Dancing Black Boy
Kentucky (1938)
as Jimmy
Little Annie Rooney (1925)
as Humidor
Sporting Blood (1931)
as Sam 'Sammy'
Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935)
as Eightball
Golden Hoofs (1941)
as Curly
Guns and Guitars (1936)
as Eightball
Midnight Court (1937)
as Garfield Brown
Secret Service (1931)
as Israel Polk
Penrod and Sam (1923)
as Verman
Dog Days (1925)
as Pineapple
Hearts in Dixie (1929)
as Chinquapin
Circus Fever (1925)
as Gene
The Big Town (1925)
as Pineapple
Anaesthesia (1938)
as Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
Shootin' Injuns (1925)
as Gene
The Love Bug (1925)
as Pineapple
The Mysterious Mystery! (1924)
as Snowball
Sporting Chance (1931)
as Horseshoe
Rhythm Rodeo (1938)
Actor
Take My Life (1942)
as Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber