Eugene Jackson
Birthday: Born in 1916-12-25 in Buffalo - New York - USA
Deathday: 2001-10-26
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.
TV Credits
Julia
Character: Uncle Lou
Julia is an American sitcom notable for being one of the first weekly series to depict an African American woman in a non-stereotypical role. Previous television series featured African American lead characters, but the characters were usually servants. The show stars actress and singer Diahann Carroll, and ran for 86 episodes on NBC from September 17, 1968 to March 23, 1971. The series was produced by Savannah Productions, Inc., Hanncar Productions, Inc., and 20th Century-Fox Television. Durin...
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Character:
The Adventures of Jim Bowie is an American Western television series that aired on ABC from 1956 to 1958. Its setting was the 1830s-era Louisiana Territory. The series was an adaptation of the book Tempered Blade, by Monte Barrett. The series stars Scott Forbes as the real-life adventurer Jim Bowie. The series initially portrayed Jim Bowie as something of an outdoors-man, riding his horse through the wilderness near his home in Opelousas, where he would stumble across someone needing his assista...
The Adventures of Boston Blackie
Character:
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Night Court
Character: Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there....
Taxi
Character: Cabbie (uncredited)
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life....
Night Court
Character: Shoe Shine Man
An eccentric fun-loving judge presides over an urban night court and all the silliness going on there....
Shirley Temple's Storybook
Character: Small Slave
Shirley Temple's Storybook is an American children's anthology series hosted and narrated by actress Shirley Temple. The series features adaptations of fairy tales like Mother Goose and other family-oriented stories performed by well-known actors, although one episode, an adaptation of The House of the Seven Gables, was meant for older youngsters. Temple's three children made their acting debuts in the last episode of the first season, "Mother Goose"....
Movie Credits
Black Gunn
Character: Bartender (uncredited)
A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their involvements lead to a breathless race course chase, the destruction of a dopepusher and a violent waterfront climax....
Cleopatra Jones
Character: Henry
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her....
Reform School
Character: Pete
A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Restored in 2020 by the Academy Film Archive with additional funding from the National Endowment for the Arts from a 16mm print donated by Giancarlo Esposito and Laurence Fishburne....
The Mysterious Mystery!
Character: Snowball
Mickey Daniels doing an impersonation of Sherlock Holmes and Joe Cobb being Watson as the two try to discover the whereabouts of a young rich kids who has gone missing. While trying to find the kid the gang must also try and avoid a dumb detective also working the case....
The Big Town
Character: Pineapple
The gang play inside a railroad box car which suddenly closes, trapping them inside. The next morning they find themselves in New York City. After seeing some of the sites on foot, they steal a 5th Avenue Bus, and are caught by the police....
Circus Fever
Character: Gene
The circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members were able to play hooky from school so as to attend the festivities....
The Love Bug
Character: Pineapple
Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty salon, where Pineapple works and proceed to make shambles of it. The police arrive and arrest them, but Grandma comes to their rescue....
Looking for Love
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack....
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Character: Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town....
Guns and Guitars
Character: Eightball
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff....
The Lonely Trail
Character: Harmonica Player / Dancer
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the help of Holden before learning that Holden too is plundering the local folk....
The Apartment
Character: Office Worker (uncredited)
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve....
Chandler
Character: Shoe Shine Boy
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress....
Secret Service
Character: Israel Polk
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain....
Sporting Blood
Character: Sam 'Sammy'
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well....
Hearts in Dixie
Character: Chinquapin
Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community....
40 Carats
Character: Party Dancer (uncredited)
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stanley returns to New York assuming she'll never see Peter Latham again. Until, that is, he shows up on her doorstep to take her daughter to a party. Despite her yearning for Peter and the encouragement of her friends and family, Ann initially rebuffs him when he pursues her, but slowly she yields to his charm and her own stifled emotions....
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Character: Congregation Member
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob boss Big Jim and takes over. When Big Jim's daughter, Marian, gives Robbo a large sum, believing he has avenged her father's death, the gangster donates to an orphanage, cementing his reputation as a softhearted hood....
Wine, Women and Horses
Character: Eight Ball
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife....
Cimarron
Character: Isaiah
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take...
Red River Valley
Character: Iodine
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site....
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Character: Hotel Page Boy
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond....
Kentucky
Character: Jimmy
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family....
All the President's Men
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from his post....
Midnight Court
Character: Garfield Brown
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves....
North by Northwest
Character: Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase....
American Gigolo
Character: Bootblack
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife, without expecting any pay. One of his clients is murdered and Detective Sunday begins pumping him for details on his different clients, something he is reluctant to do considering the nature of his work. Julian begins to suspect he's being framed. Meanwhile Michelle begins to fall in love with him....
Little Annie Rooney
Character: Humidor
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the Library of Congress. Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division, in 2014....
Take My Life
Character: Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
A well-meaning doctor lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn that the kids are members of a tough Harlem gang, they begin to suspect they're up to nefarious deeds....
The Thief of Bagdad
Character: Child (uncredited)
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess....
Scott Joplin
Character: Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time....
The World's Greatest Athlete
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An African vacation with his assistant (Tim Conway) answers Archer's prayers when he spots the athletically gifted Nanu (Jan-Michael Vincent). Sam counts on Nanu's remarkable abilities to put the team back on the winning track. This upbeat farce boasts an impressive cast of comedians....
Rhythm Rodeo
Character:
An All-Black comedy musical....
Escape from Alcatraz
Character: Inmate
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one has ever managed to escape from there, Frank and other inmates begin to carefully prepare an escape plan....
Sporting Blood
Character: Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the big race looms nearer, Myles is distracted to discover that he really loves Linda....
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Character: Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....
Dog Days
Character: Pineapple
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her pony-drawn cart. When the pony shies and runs away, Mickey comes to the rescue with his dog. In gratitude, Mary invites all the boys and their dogs to her party, much to the chagrin of her wealthy mother....
Off the Wall
Character: Old Black Man
Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. She leaves them to take the blame for her activities, and they find themselves sentenced to six months in prison. The girl, feeling bad about what she did to them, resolves to break them out of the prison...
Reveille with Beverly
Character: Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ for an early morning show before the soldiers at a nearby army camp assemble for reveille. Beverly, with her modern music, camp bulletins and chatter, is a hit with the soldiers. Beverly's younger brother and his two buddies are soldiers at the camp. The buddies vie for Beverly's attentions....
Coffy
Character: Man at Rally (uncredited)
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path....
Golden Hoofs
Character: Curly
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold....
The Buccaneer
Character: James Smith, a Servant
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812....
Shootin' Injuns
Character: Gene
Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have troubles trying to find the tunnel entrance - planning their next game, which will be a Wild West shootout. They run into some obstacles in playing the game, including objections from parents, and as such they decide to postpone it until the wee hours of the next morning and play it in the streets of the neighborhood. As it begins to rain during the middle of their shootout that morning, they dec...
Penrod and Sam
Character: Verman
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The Addams Family
Character: One-Armed Bass Player
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely have time to warm up the electric chair before Morticia begins to suspect Fester is fraud when he can't recall any of the details of Fester's life....
The Killer That Stalked New York
Character: Bootblack (uncredited)
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown individual who is infecting the city with smallpox....
Anaesthesia
Character: Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times....
The Lady's from Kentucky
Character: Winfield
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times. His one out is a marker for half-ownership in a young thoroughbred, which he quickly calls in. He discovers the other owner to be a young woman from an old horse racing family who wants to protect her colt almost as much as Marty wants to rush him into big races for a fast buck. While they clash, Marty soon comes to understand the human bond with the horses and what it means to be a thoroughbre...
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Character: Eightball
Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sheriff after him for murdering his father. Gene also sees that Craven and his gang are looking for Brooks. Finding clues that Craven was behind the murder, Gene has a plan utilizing the medicine show wagon that will trap the gang....
Swing Shift
Character: Bartender at Kelly's
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft plant where she meets Hazel, the singer from across the way. The two soon become firm friends and with the other girls become increasingly expert workers. As the war drags on, Kay finally dates her trumpet-playing foreman and life gets more complicated....