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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. The Addams Family (1991) — One-Armed Bass Player
2. North by Northwest (1959) — Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
3. Escape from Alcatraz (1979) — Inmate
4. The Apartment (1960) — Office Worker (uncredited)
5. All the President's Men (1976) — Reporter (uncredited)
6. American Gigolo (1980) — Bootblack
7. Coffy (1973) — Man at Rally (uncredited)
8. The Thief of Bagdad (1924) — Child (uncredited)
9. Taxi (1978) — Cabbie (uncredited)
10. Cimarron (1931) — Isaiah
11. Night Court (1984) — Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
12. Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971) — Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
13. Swing Shift (1984) — Bartender at Kelly's
14. Cleopatra Jones (1973) — Henry
15. Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964) — Congregation Member (uncredited)
16. Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) — Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
17. The World's Greatest Athlete (1973) — Party Guest (uncredited)
18. The Carey Treatment (1972) — Doctor (uncredited)
19. The Killer That Stalked New York (1950) — Bootblack (uncredited)
20. Black Gunn (1972) — Bartender (uncredited)
21. Little Annie Rooney (1925) — Humidor
22. 40 Carats (1973) — Party Dancer (uncredited)
23. The Sound and the Fury (1959) — Townsman (uncredited)
24. Arrest Bulldog Drummond (1938) — Hotel Page Boy
25. Kentucky (1938) — Jimmy
26. The Lonely Trail (1936) — Harmonica Player / Dancer
27. Scott Joplin (1977) — Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
28. The Buccaneer (1938) — James Smith, a Servant
29. Chandler (1971) — Shoe Shine Boy
30. Sporting Blood (1931) — Sam 'Sammy'
31. Julia (1968) — Uncle Lou
32. Reveille with Beverly (1943) — Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
33. The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)
34. Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958) — Small Slave
35. Midnight Court (1937) — Garfield Brown
36. Sporting Blood (1940) — Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
37. Dog Days (1925) — Pineapple
38. The Mysterious Mystery! (1924) — Snowball
39. The Big Town (1925) — Pineapple
40. The Love Bug (1925) — Pineapple