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Known For
Acting
Birthday
December 25, 1916
Died
October 26, 2001
Place of Birth
Buffalo - New York - USA
Eugene Jackson
0.4 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.1
One-Armed Bass Player
The Addams Family
1991
5.5
Bartender at Kelly's
Swing Shift
1984
7.3
Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
Night Court
1984
7.3
Shoe Shine Man
Night Court
1984
2.3
Old Black Man
Off the Wall
1983
6.2
Bootblack
American Gigolo
1980
7.5
Inmate
Escape from Alcatraz
1979
7.2
Cabbie (uncredited)
Taxi
1978
6.1
Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
Scott Joplin
1977
7.7
Reporter (uncredited)
All the President's Men
1976
Credits
The Addams Family
as One-Armed Bass Player
1991
7.1
Swing Shift
as Bartender at Kelly's
1984
5.5
Night Court
as Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
1984
7.3
Night Court
as Shoe Shine Man
1984
7.3
Off the Wall
as Old Black Man
1983
2.3
American Gigolo
as Bootblack
1980
6.2
Escape from Alcatraz
as Inmate
1979
7.5
Taxi
as Cabbie (uncredited)
1978
7.2
Scott Joplin
as Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1977
6.1
All the President's Men
as Reporter (uncredited)
1976
7.7
Cleopatra Jones
as Henry
1973
5.6
40 Carats
as Party Dancer (uncredited)
1973
5.7
Coffy
as Man at Rally (uncredited)
1973
6.6
The World's Greatest Athlete
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1973
5.3
Black Gunn
as Bartender (uncredited)
1972
5.8
Melinda
as Party Guest (uncredited)
1972
3.3
Chandler
as Shoe Shine Boy
1971
4.3
Support Your Local Gunfighter
as Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
1971
6.6
Julia
as Uncle Lou
1968
6.0
Looking for Love
as Office Worker (uncredited)
1964
5.0
Robin and the 7 Hoods
as Congregation Member
1964
6.1
The Apartment
as Office Worker (uncredited)
1960
8.2
North by Northwest
as Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
1959
8.0
The Sound and the Fury
as Townsman (uncredited)
1959
6.6
Shirley Temple's Storybook
as Small Slave
1958
6.2
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
1956
5.0
Boston Blackie
1951
4.0
The Killer That Stalked New York
as Bootblack (uncredited)
1950
6.2
Thank Your Lucky Stars
as Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
1943
6.0
Reveille with Beverly
as Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
1943
7.0
Take My Life
as Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
1942
0.0
Golden Hoofs
as Curly
1941
7.0
Sporting Blood
as Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
1940
3.5
Reform School
as Pete
1939
0.0
The Lady's from Kentucky
as Winfield
1939
0.0
Kentucky
as Jimmy
1938
5.8
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
as Hotel Page Boy
1938
6.6
Anaesthesia
as Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
1938
0.0
Rhythm Rodeo
1938
0.0
The Buccaneer
as James Smith, a Servant
1938
6.4
Wine, Women and Horses
as Eight Ball
1937
4.3
Midnight Court
as Garfield Brown
1937
4.4
Guns and Guitars
as Eightball
1936
4.2
The Lonely Trail
as Harmonica Player / Dancer
1936
4.6
Red River Valley
as Iodine
1936
5.0
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
as Eightball
1935
6.2
Secret Service
as Israel Polk
1931
6.0
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Sporting Chance
as Horseshoe
1931
0.0
Sporting Blood
as Sam 'Sammy'
1931
5.1
Cimarron
as Isaiah
1931
5.6
Hearts in Dixie
as Chinquapin
1929
3.0
Little Annie Rooney
as Humidor
1925
6.9
Shootin' Injuns
as Gene
1925
6.7
The Love Bug
as Pineapple
1925
6.2
Dog Days
as Pineapple
1925
5.9
Circus Fever
as Gene
1925
5.8
The Big Town
as Pineapple
1925
5.8
The Mysterious Mystery!
as Snowball
1924
6.2
The Thief of Bagdad
as Child (uncredited)
1924
7.3
Penrod and Sam
as Verman
1923
6.3