Eugene Jackson
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.
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Acting History
1991
The Addams Family as One-Armed Bass Player
1984Swing Shift as Bartender at Kelly's
1984Night Court as Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
1984Night Court as Shoe Shine Man
1983Off the Wall as Old Black Man
1980American Gigolo as Bootblack
1979Escape from Alcatraz as Inmate
1978Taxi as Cabbie (uncredited)
1977Scott Joplin as Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1976All the President's Men as Reporter (uncredited)
1973Cleopatra Jones as Henry
197340 Carats as Party Dancer (uncredited)
1973Coffy as Man at Rally (uncredited)
1973The World's Greatest Athlete as Party Guest (uncredited)
1972Black Gunn as Bartender (uncredited)
1972Melinda as Party Guest (uncredited)
1971Chandler as Shoe Shine Boy
1971Support Your Local Gunfighter as Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
1968Julia as Uncle Lou
1964Looking for Love as Office Worker (uncredited)
1964Robin and the 7 Hoods as Congregation Member
1960The Apartment as Office Worker (uncredited)
1959North by Northwest as Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
1959The Sound and the Fury as Townsman (uncredited)
1958Shirley Temple's Storybook as Small Slave
1956The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1951Boston Blackie
1950The Killer That Stalked New York as Bootblack (uncredited)
1943Thank Your Lucky Stars as Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
1943Reveille with Beverly as Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
1942Take My Life as Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
1941Golden Hoofs as Curly
1940Sporting Blood as Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
1939Reform School as Pete
1939The Lady's from Kentucky as Winfield
1938Kentucky as Jimmy
1938Arrest Bulldog Drummond as Hotel Page Boy
1938Anaesthesia as Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
1938Rhythm Rodeo
1938The Buccaneer as James Smith, a Servant
1937Wine, Women and Horses as Eight Ball
1937Midnight Court as Garfield Brown
1936Guns and Guitars as Eightball
1936The Lonely Trail as Harmonica Player / Dancer
1936Red River Valley as Iodine
1935Tumbling Tumbleweeds as Eightball
1931Secret Service as Israel Polk
1931Sporting Chance as Horseshoe
1931Sporting Blood as Sam 'Sammy'
1931Cimarron as Isaiah
1929Hearts in Dixie as Chinquapin
1925Little Annie Rooney as Humidor
1925Shootin' Injuns as Gene
1925The Love Bug as Pineapple
1925Dog Days as Pineapple
1925Circus Fever as Gene
1925The Big Town as Pineapple
1924The Mysterious Mystery! as Snowball
1924The Thief of Bagdad as Child (uncredited)
1923Penrod and Sam as Verman