Eugene Jackson

Known for ActingBorn 1916-12-25Died 2001-10-26Buffalo, New York, USA

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Rhythm Rodeo

Take My Life

The Apartment

North by Northwest

All the President's Men

Golden Hoofs

Reform School

The Lady's from Kentucky

Sporting Chance

Escape from Alcatraz

Little Mickey Grogan

Night Court

Taxi

The Addams Family

The Best Man

Tumbling Tumbleweeds

Penrod and Sam

Reveille with Beverly

The Long, Hot Summer

The Thief of Bagdad

Shootin' Injuns

The Sound and the Fury

Anaesthesia

Scott Joplin

The Big Town

Little Annie Rooney

Coffy

Support Your Local Gunfighter

Arrest Bulldog Drummond

The Love Bug

Shirley Temple's Storybook

Secret Service

American Gigolo

Robin and the 7 Hoods

The Buccaneer

Circus Fever

The Carey Treatment

The Killer That Stalked New York

The Mysterious Mystery!

Thank Your Lucky Stars

Dog Days

Kentucky

Black Gunn

Looking for Love

Swing Shift

Cleopatra Jones

40 Carats

Red River Valley