Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1916-12-25
Place of Birth
Buffalo, New York, USA
Eugene Jackson
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
as Cab Driver (uncredited)
as Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
as Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
as Pete
as Isaiah
as Eight Ball
as Chinquapin
as Reporter (uncredited)
as Child (uncredited)
as Pineapple
as Horseshoe
as One-Armed Bass Player
as Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
as Gene
as Gene
as Sam 'Sammy'
as Pineapple
as Humidor
as Snowball
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