Eugene Jackson

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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.

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1991
The Addams Family
Movie One-Armed Bass Player
1984
Swing Shift
Movie Bartender at Kelly's
1984
Night Court
TV show Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
1983
Off the Wall
Movie Old Black Man
1980
American Gigolo
Movie Bootblack
1979
Escape from Alcatraz
Movie Inmate
1978
Taxi
TV show Cab Driver (uncredited)
1977
Scott Joplin
Movie Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
1976
All the President's Men
Movie Reporter (uncredited)
1973
Cleopatra Jones
Movie Henry
1973
40 Carats
Movie Party Dancer (uncredited)
1973
Coffy
Movie Man at Rally (uncredited)
1973
The World's Greatest Athlete
Movie Party Guest (uncredited)
1972
Black Gunn
Movie Bartender (uncredited)
1972
Melinda
Movie Party Guest (uncredited)
1972
The Carey Treatment
Movie Doctor (uncredited)

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1971
Chandler
Movie Shoe Shine Boy
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Movie Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
1968
Julia
TV show Uncle Lou
1964
Looking for Love
Movie Office Worker (uncredited)
1964
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Movie Congregation Member (uncredited)
1964
The Best Man
Movie Delegate (uncredited)
1960
The Apartment
Movie Office Worker (uncredited)
1959
North by Northwest
Movie Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
1959
The Sound and the Fury
Movie Townsman (uncredited)
1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook
TV show Small Slave
1956
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
TV show
1951
Boston Blackie
TV show
1950
The Killer That Stalked New York
Movie Bootblack (uncredited)
1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
1943
Reveille with Beverly
Movie Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
1942
Take My Life
Movie Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
1941
Golden Hoofs
Movie Curly
1940
Sporting Blood
Movie Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
1939
Reform School
Movie Pete
1939
The Lady's from Kentucky
Movie Winfield
1938
Kentucky
Movie Jimmy
1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Movie Hotel Page Boy
1938
Anaesthesia
Movie Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
1938
Rhythm Rodeo
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