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