Eugene Jackson
Acting
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.
Born: December 25, 1916 · Buffalo - New York - USA
Filmography (34)
The Addams Family
1991
Swing Shift
1984
Night Court
1984
American Gigolo
1980
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
Taxi
1978
Scott Joplin
1977
All the President's Men
1976
Cleopatra Jones
1973
40 Carats
1973
Coffy
1973
The World's Greatest Athlete
1973
Black Gunn
1972
The Carey Treatment
1972
Chandler
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
Julia
1968
Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964
The Apartment
1960
North by Northwest
1959
The Sound and the Fury
1959
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Boston Blackie
1951
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Kentucky
1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938
The Buccaneer
1938
The Lonely Trail
1936
Sporting Blood
1931
Cimarron
1931
Little Annie Rooney
1925
The Thief of Bagdad
1924