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: Acting

Born: Buffalo - New York - USA, 1916-12-25

Died: 2001-10-26

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1923	Penrod and Sam	Verman	65
2	1924	The Thief of Bagdad	Child (uncredited)	73
3	1924	The Mysterious Mystery!	Snowball	58
4	1925	The Big Town	Pineapple	58
5	1925	Circus Fever	Gene	58
6	1925	Dog Days	Pineapple	56
7	1925	The Love Bug	Pineapple	58
8	1925	Shootin' Injuns	Gene	60
9	1925	Little Annie Rooney	Humidor	69
10	1929	Hearts in Dixie	Chinquapin	30
11	1931	Cimarron	Isaiah	56
12	1931	Sporting Blood	Sam 'Sammy'	55
13	1931	Sporting Chance	Horseshoe	0
14	1931	Secret Service	Israel Polk	60
15	1935	Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Eightball	62
16	1936	Red River Valley	Iodine	50
17	1936	The Lonely Trail	Harmonica Player / Dancer	49
18	1936	Guns and Guitars	Eightball	42
19	1937	Midnight Court	Garfield Brown	48
20	1937	Wine, Women and Horses	Eight Ball	40
21	1938	The Buccaneer	James Smith, a Servant	64
22	1938	Rhythm Rodeo		0
23	1938	Anaesthesia	Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)	0
24	1938	Arrest Bulldog Drummond	Hotel Page Boy	66
25	1938	Kentucky	Jimmy	57
26	1939	Reform School	Pete	0
27	1939	The Lady's from Kentucky	Winfield	0
28	1940	Sporting Blood	Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom	43
29	1941	Golden Hoofs	Curly	70
30	1942	Take My Life	Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber	0
31	1943	Reveille with Beverly	Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)	70
32	1943	Thank Your Lucky Stars	Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)	61
33	1950	The Killer That Stalked New York	Bootblack (uncredited)	61
34	1959	North by Northwest	Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)	80
35	1960	The Apartment	Office Worker (uncredited)	82
36	1964	Robin and the 7 Hoods	Congregation Member	60
37	1964	Looking for Love	Office Worker (uncredited)	50
38	1971	Support Your Local Gunfighter	Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)	65
39	1971	Chandler	Shoe Shine Boy	45
40	1972	Black Gunn	Bartender (uncredited)	58
41	1973	The World's Greatest Athlete	Party Guest (uncredited)	53
42	1973	Coffy	Man at Rally (uncredited)	67
43	1973	40 Carats	Party Dancer (uncredited)	60
44	1973	Cleopatra Jones	Henry	58
45	1976	All the President's Men	Reporter (uncredited)	77
46	1977	Scott Joplin	Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)	60
47	1979	Escape from Alcatraz	Inmate	75
48	1980	American Gigolo	Bootblack	61
49	1983	Off the Wall	Old Black Man	30
50	1984	Swing Shift	Bartender at Kelly's	57
51	1991	The Addams Family	One-Armed Bass Player	70

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	The Adventures of Boston Blackie		40
2	1956	The Adventures of Jim Bowie		37
3	1958	Shirley Temple's Storybook	Small Slave	58
4	1968	Julia	Uncle Lou	60
5	1978	Taxi	Cabbie (uncredited)	72
6	1984	Night Court	Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)	73
7	1984	Night Court	Shoe Shine Man	73