Eugene Jackson
Acting
Born 1916-12-25 · Buffalo - New York - USA · Died 2001-10-26
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.
Acting
The Addams Family
One-Armed Bass Player
Swing Shift
Bartender at Kelly's
Night Court
Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
Night Court
Shoe Shine Man
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)