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