Eugene Jackson
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.
60 acting credits
Acting · 60
Night Court
1984
Taxi
1978
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
Julia
1968
Boston Blackie
1951
The Addams Family
1991
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
North by Northwest
1959
The Apartment
1960
All the President's Men
1976
American Gigolo
1980
Coffy
1973
Robin and the 7 Hoods
1964
Cleopatra Jones
1973
40 Carats
1973
Cimarron
1931
Support Your Local Gunfighter
1971
The Thief of Bagdad
1924
Swing Shift
1984
Black Gunn
1972
The World's Greatest Athlete
1973
The Killer That Stalked New York
1950
The Sound and the Fury
1959
Chandler
1971
The Buccaneer
1938
Thank Your Lucky Stars
1943
Melinda
1972
The Carey Treatment
1972
Reveille with Beverly
1943
Scott Joplin
1977
The Lonely Trail
1936
Little Annie Rooney
1925
Golden Hoofs
1941
Kentucky
1938
Looking for Love
1964
Wine, Women and Horses
1937
Sporting Blood
1940
Off the Wall
1983
Midnight Court
1937
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938
Sporting Blood
1931
Reform School
1939
Sporting Chance
1931
Dog Days
1925
Hearts in Dixie
1929
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1935
Secret Service
1931
Red River Valley
1936
Shootin' Injuns
1925
Guns and Guitars
1936
The Lady's from Kentucky
1939
Circus Fever
1925
The Mysterious Mystery!
1924
Penrod and Sam
1923
The Big Town
1925
Anaesthesia
1938
Take My Life
1942
The Love Bug
1925
Rhythm Rodeo
1938