Eugene Jackson

Acting

Born December 25, 1916, Buffalo, New York, USA

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

• 1991The Addams Family — One-Armed Bass Player
• Night Court — Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
• 1984Swing Shift — Bartender at Kelly's
• 1983Off the Wall — Old Black Man
• 1980American Gigolo — Bootblack
• 1979Escape from Alcatraz — Inmate
• Taxi — Cab Driver (uncredited), Cab Driver / Boxing Spectator (uncredited)
• 1977Scott Joplin — Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
• 1976All the President's Men — Reporter (uncredited)
• 197340 Carats — Party Dancer (uncredited)
• 1973Cleopatra Jones — Henry
• 1973Coffy — Man at Rally (uncredited)
• 1973The World's Greatest Athlete — Party Guest (uncredited)
• 1972Black Gunn — Bartender (uncredited)
• 1972Melinda — Party Guest (uncredited)
• 1972The Carey Treatment — Doctor (uncredited)
• 1971Chandler — Shoe Shine Boy
• 1971Support Your Local Gunfighter — Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
• 1964Looking for Love — Office Worker (uncredited)
• 1964Robin and the 7 Hoods — Congregation Member (uncredited)
• 1964The Best Man — Delegate (uncredited)
• 1960The Apartment — Office Worker (uncredited)
• 1959North by Northwest — Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
• 1959The Sound and the Fury — Townsman (uncredited)
• Shirley Temple's Storybook — Small Slave
• 1958The Long, Hot Summer — Waiter (uncredited)
• The Adventures of Jim Bowie
• Boston Blackie
• 1950The Killer That Stalked New York — Bootblack (uncredited)
• 1943Reveille with Beverly — Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
• 1943Thank Your Lucky Stars — Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
• 1942Take My Life — Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
• 1941Golden Hoofs — Curly
• 1940Sporting Blood — Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
• 1939Reform School — Pete
• 1939The Lady's from Kentucky — Winfield
• 1938Anaesthesia — Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
• 1938Arrest Bulldog Drummond — Hotel Page Boy
• 1938Kentucky — Jimmy
• 1938Rhythm Rodeo
• 1938The Buccaneer — James Smith, a Servant
• 1937Midnight Court — Garfield Brown
• 1937Wine, Women and Horses — Eight Ball
• 1936Guns and Guitars — Eightball
• 1936Red River Valley — Iodine
• 1936The Lonely Trail — Harmonica Player / Dancer
• 1935Tumbling Tumbleweeds — Eightball
• 1931Cimarron — Isaiah
• 1931Secret Service — Israel Polk
• 1931Sporting Blood — Sam 'Sammy'
• 1931Sporting Chance — Horseshoe
• 1929Hearts in Dixie — Chinquapin
• 1927Little Mickey Grogan — Dancing Black Boy
• 1925Circus Fever — Gene
• 1925Dog Days — Pineapple
• 1925Little Annie Rooney — Humidor
• 1925Shootin' Injuns — Gene
• 1925The Big Town — Pineapple
• 1925The Love Bug — Pineapple
• 1924The Mysterious Mystery! — Snowball
• 1924The Thief of Bagdad — Child (uncredited)
• 1923Penrod and Sam — Verman