Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 25, 1916
Died
Oct 26, 2001
Place of Birth
Buffalo - New York - USA
Credits
61 titles
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.
Known For
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 (uncredited)
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 Chance
Horseshoe
Sporting Blood
Sam 'Sammy'
Cimarron
Isaiah