Eugene Jackson
Acting
🎂 1916-12-25
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.
Cast credits(60)
Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
1984
Shoe Shine Man
1984
1951
1956
Small Slave
1958
Cabbie (uncredited)
1978
Uncle Lou
1968
Inmate
1979
One-Armed Bass Player
1991
Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
1959
Reporter (uncredited)
1976
Office Worker (uncredited)
1960
Bootblack
1980
Child (uncredited)
1924
Bartender (uncredited)
1972
Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1977
Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
1971
Man at Rally (uncredited)
1973
Bartender at Kelly's
1984
Townsman (uncredited)
1959
Congregation Member
1964
Party Dancer (uncredited)
1973
Isaiah
1931
Party Guest (uncredited)
1973
Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
1943
Hotel Page Boy
1938
Bootblack (uncredited)
1950
Henry
1973
Jimmy
1938
James Smith, a Servant
1938
Party Guest (uncredited)
1972
Humidor
1925
Office Worker (uncredited)
1964
Sam 'Sammy'
1931
Eightball
1935
Old Black Man
1983
Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
1943
Israel Polk
1931
Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
1940
Harmonica Player / Dancer
1936
Pineapple
1925
Curly
1941
Shoe Shine Boy
1971
Verman
1923
Snowball
1924
Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
1938
Garfield Brown
1937
Eightball
1936
Eight Ball
1937
Pete
1939
Gene
1925
Winfield
1939
Iodine
1936
Chinquapin
1929
Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
1942
Horseshoe
1931
Gene
1925
Pineapple
1925
Pineapple
1925
1938