Eugene Jackson
Age: 84 | From: Buffalo - New York - USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1916-12-25 07:18:00
Death: 2001-10-26 07:18:00
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: N/A
Place of birth: Buffalo - New York - USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 31
TV Involvements: 0
Most Famous Work
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.
Most Famous Work
Escape from Alcatraz
(1979) Inmate
North by Northwest
(1959) Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
American Gigolo
(1980) Bootblack
Coffy
(1973) Man at Rally (uncredited)
All the President's Men
(1976) Reporter (uncredited)
The Thief of Bagdad
(1924) Child (uncredited)
Cimarron
(1931) Isaiah
Swing Shift
(1984) Bartender at Kelly'sActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | One-Armed Bass Player | |
| 1984 | Bartender at Kelly's | |
| Shoe Shine Man (uncredited) | ||
| Shoe Shine Man | ||
| 1983 | Old Black Man | |
| 1980 | Bootblack | |
| 1979 | Inmate | |
| 1978 | Cabbie (uncredited) | |
| 1977 | Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited) | |
| 1976 | Reporter (uncredited) | |
| 1973 | Henry | |
| Party Dancer (uncredited) | ||
| Man at Rally (uncredited) | ||
| 1972 | Bartender (uncredited) | |
| 1971 | Shoe Shine Boy | |
| Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited) | ||
| 1968 | Uncle Lou | |
| 1964 | Office Worker (uncredited) | |
| Congregation Member | ||
| 1960 | Office Worker (uncredited) | |
| 1959 | Security Guard at Auction (uncredited) | |
| 1956 | N/A | |
| 1951 | N/A | |
| 1950 | Bootblack (uncredited) | |
| 1943 | Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited) | |
| 1942 | Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber | |
| 1941 | Curly | |
| 1940 | Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom | |
| 1939 | Winfield | |
| Pete | ||
| 1938 | Jimmy | |
| Hotel Page Boy | ||
| Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited) | ||
| James Smith, a Servant | ||
| 1937 | Eight Ball | |
| Garfield Brown | ||
| 1936 | Eightball | |
| Harmonica Player / Dancer | ||
| Iodine | ||
| 1935 | Eightball | |
| 1931 | Israel Polk | |
| Horseshoe | ||
| Sam 'Sammy' | ||
| Isaiah | ||
| 1929 | Chinquapin | |
| 1925 | Humidor | |
| Gene | ||
| Pineapple | ||
| Pineapple | ||
| Gene | ||
| Pineapple | ||
| 1924 | Snowball | |
| Child (uncredited) | ||
| 1923 | Verman | |
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
