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