Eugene Jackson
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Acting · Born 1916-12-25 · age 84 at death · Buffalo - 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.
Titles
The Addams Family
North by Northwest
Escape from Alcatraz
The Apartment
All the President's Men
American Gigolo
Coffy
The Thief of Bagdad
Taxi
Cimarron
Night Court
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Swing Shift
Cleopatra Jones
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Thank Your Lucky Stars
The World's Greatest Athlete
The Carey Treatment
The Killer That Stalked New York
Black Gunn
Little Annie Rooney
40 Carats
The Sound and the Fury
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Kentucky
The Lonely Trail
The Buccaneer
Chandler
Sporting Blood
Scott Joplin
Julia
Reveille with Beverly
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Midnight Court
Sporting Blood
Dog Days
The Mysterious Mystery!
The Big Town
The Love Bug
Looking for Love
Wine, Women and Horses
Off the Wall
Shootin' Injuns
Melinda
Circus Fever
Guns and Guitars
Secret Service
Hearts in Dixie
Red River Valley
Penrod and Sam
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Reform School
Golden Hoofs
Boston Blackie
Sporting Chance
Take My Life
Rhythm Rodeo
Anaesthesia
The Lady's from Kentucky