Eugene Jackson
Birthday
1916/12/25
Day of death
2001/10/26 (84 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Buffalo - New York - USA
Also know as
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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...Read more
Acting
(1972) Black Gunn
as Bartender (uncredited)
(1973) Cleopatra Jones
as Henry
(1931) Sporting Chance
as Horseshoe
(1939) Reform School
as Pete
(1924) The Mysterious Mystery!
as Snowball
(1925) The Big Town
as Pineapple
(1925) Circus Fever
as Gene
(1925) The Love Bug
as Pineapple
(1964) Looking for Love
as Office Worker (uncredited)
(1971) Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
(1936) Guns and Guitars
as Eightball
(1936) The Lonely Trail
as Harmonica Player / Dancer
(1960) The Apartment
as Office Worker (uncredited)
(1971) Chandler
as Shoe Shine Boy
(1931) Secret Service
as Israel Polk
(1931) Sporting Blood
as Sam 'Sammy'
(1929) Hearts in Dixie
as Chinquapin
(1973) 40 Carats
as Party Dancer (uncredited)
(1964) Robin and the 7 Hoods
as Congregation Member
(1937) Wine, Women and Horses
as Eight Ball
(1931) Cimarron
as Isaiah
(1936) Red River Valley
as Iodine
(1938) Arrest Bulldog Drummond
as Hotel Page Boy
(1938) Kentucky
as Jimmy
(1976) All the President's Men
as Reporter (uncredited)
(1937) Midnight Court
as Garfield Brown
(1959) North by Northwest
as Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
(1980) American Gigolo
as Bootblack
(1925) Little Annie Rooney
as Humidor
(1942) Take My Life
as Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
(1924) The Thief of Bagdad
as Child (uncredited)
(1977) Scott Joplin
as Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
(1973) The World's Greatest Athlete
as Party Guest (uncredited)
(1938) Rhythm Rodeo
as ---
(1979) Escape from Alcatraz
as Inmate
(1940) Sporting Blood
as Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
(1943) Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
(1925) Dog Days
as Pineapple
(1983) Off the Wall
as Old Black Man
(1943) Reveille with Beverly
as Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
(1973) Coffy
as Man at Rally (uncredited)
(1941) Golden Hoofs
as Curly
(1938) The Buccaneer
as James Smith, a Servant
(1925) Shootin' Injuns
as Gene
(1923) Penrod and Sam
as Verman
(1991) The Addams Family
as One-Armed Bass Player
(1950) The Killer That Stalked New York
as Bootblack (uncredited)
(1938) Anaesthesia
as Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
(1939) The Lady's from Kentucky
as Winfield
(1935) Tumbling Tumbleweeds
as Eightball
(1984) Swing Shift
as Bartender at Kelly's
(1968) Julia
as Uncle Lou
(1956) The Adventures of Jim Bowie
as ---
(1951) The Adventures of Boston Blackie
as ---
(1984) Night Court
as Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
(1978) Taxi
as Cabbie (uncredited)
(1984) Night Court
as Shoe Shine Man
(1958) Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Small Slave