Eugene Jackson
Born in Buffalo - New York - USA — Dec 25 1916• Died Oct 26 2001
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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 Compt…
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Eugene Jackson's Credits
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Night Court
Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
Taxi
Cabbie (uncredited)
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Small Slave
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
40 Carats
Party Dancer (uncredited)
Julia
Uncle Lou
The Addams Family
One-Armed Bass Player
Boston Blackie
North by Northwest
Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
American Gigolo
Bootblack
The Apartment
Office Worker (uncredited)
All the President's Men
Reporter (uncredited)
Escape from Alcatraz
Inmate
Guns and Guitars
Eightball
The Carey Treatment
Doctor (uncredited)
Swing Shift
Bartender at Kelly's
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Congregation Member
Coffy
Man at Rally (uncredited)
The Thief of Bagdad
Child (uncredited)
Cimarron
Isaiah
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
The Killer That Stalked New York
Bootblack (uncredited)
Off the Wall
Old Black Man
Chandler
Shoe Shine Boy
Black Gunn
Bartender (uncredited)
Midnight Court
Garfield Brown
Sporting Blood
Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
Melinda
Party Guest (uncredited)
The Buccaneer
James Smith, a Servant
The Sound and the Fury
Townsman (uncredited)
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
Dog Days
Pineapple
Reveille with Beverly
Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
Kentucky
Jimmy
The Lonely Trail
Harmonica Player / Dancer
Cleopatra Jones
Henry
Looking for Love
Office Worker (uncredited)
The World's Greatest Athlete
Party Guest (uncredited)
Penrod and Sam
Verman
Golden Hoofs
Curly
Sporting Blood
Sam 'Sammy'
Scott Joplin
Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
Wine, Women and Horses
Eight Ball
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Hotel Page Boy
Secret Service
Israel Polk
Little Annie Rooney
Humidor
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Eightball
Red River Valley
Iodine
Take My Life
Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
The Love Bug
Pineapple
The Lady's from Kentucky
Winfield
Anaesthesia
Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
The Mysterious Mystery!
Snowball
Circus Fever
Gene
Sporting Chance
Horseshoe
The Big Town
Pineapple
Reform School
Pete
Hearts in Dixie
Chinquapin
Shootin' Injuns
Gene
Rhythm Rodeo