Eugene Jackson
Born: 1916-12-25 in Buffalo, New York, USA
Died: 2001-10-26
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
1991
- The Addams Family as One-Armed Bass Player
1984
- Night Court as Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
- Swing Shift as Bartender at Kelly's
1983
- Off the Wall as Old Black Man
1980
- American Gigolo as Bootblack
1979
- Escape from Alcatraz as Inmate
1978
- Taxi as Cab Driver (uncredited)
1977
- Scott Joplin as Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1976
- All the President's Men as Reporter (uncredited)
1973
- Coffy as Man at Rally (uncredited)
- 40 Carats as Party Dancer (uncredited)
- Cleopatra Jones as Henry
- The World's Greatest Athlete as Party Guest (uncredited)
1972
- Black Gunn as Bartender (uncredited)
- The Carey Treatment as Doctor (uncredited)
- Melinda as Party Guest (uncredited)
1971
- Support Your Local Gunfighter as Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
- Chandler as Shoe Shine Boy
1964
- The Best Man as Delegate (uncredited)
- Robin and the 7 Hoods as Congregation Member (uncredited)
- Looking for Love as Office Worker (uncredited)
1960
- The Apartment as Office Worker (uncredited)
1959
- North by Northwest as Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
- The Sound and the Fury as Townsman (uncredited)
1958
- Shirley Temple's Storybook as Small Slave
- The Long, Hot Summer as Waiter (uncredited)
1951
1950
- The Killer That Stalked New York as Bootblack (uncredited)
1943
- Thank Your Lucky Stars as Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
- Reveille with Beverly as Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
1942
- Take My Life as Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
1941
- Golden Hoofs as Curly
1940
- Sporting Blood as Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
1939
- Reform School as Pete
- The Lady's from Kentucky as Winfield
1938
- The Buccaneer as James Smith, a Servant
- Arrest Bulldog Drummond as Hotel Page Boy
- Kentucky as Jimmy
- Anaesthesia as Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
- Rhythm Rodeo
1937
- Wine, Women and Horses as Eight Ball
- Midnight Court as Garfield Brown
1936
- Red River Valley as Iodine
- The Lonely Trail as Harmonica Player / Dancer
- Guns and Guitars as Eightball
1935
- Tumbling Tumbleweeds as Eightball
1931
- Cimarron as Isaiah
- Sporting Blood as Sam 'Sammy'
- Secret Service as Israel Polk
- Sporting Chance as Horseshoe
1929
- Hearts in Dixie as Chinquapin
1927
- Little Mickey Grogan as Dancing Black Boy
1925
- Little Annie Rooney as Humidor
- Dog Days as Pineapple
- Circus Fever as Gene
- The Big Town as Pineapple
- Shootin' Injuns as Gene
- The Love Bug as Pineapple
1924
- The Thief of Bagdad as Child (uncredited)
- The Mysterious Mystery! as Snowball
1923
- Penrod and Sam as Verman