Eugene Jackson gained fame as Farinas older brother, Pineapple, in six of Hal Roachs 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 Hollywoods most famous colored kid star. Most of his film roles were bit parts, most uncredited. He did appear as Diahann Carrolls Uncle Lou on TVs Julia and Redd Foxxs 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.
Bartender (uncredited)
Movie 1972
Horseshoe
Movie 1931
Pete
Movie 1939
Snowball
Movie 1924
Gene
Movie 1925
Pineapple
Movie 1925
Pineapple
Movie 1925
Office Worker (uncredited)
Movie 1964
Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
Movie 1971
Eightball
Movie 1936
Harmonica Player / Dancer
Movie 1936
Office Worker (uncredited)
Movie 1960
Israel Polk
Movie 1931
Sam 'Sammy'
Movie 1931
Chinquapin
Movie 1929
Party Dancer (uncredited)
Movie 1973
Isaiah
Movie 1931
Iodine
Movie 1936
Reporter (uncredited)
Movie 1976
Garfield Brown
Movie 1937
Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
Movie 1959
Bootblack
Movie 1980
Humidor
Movie 1925
Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
Movie 1942
Child (uncredited)
Movie 1924
Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
Movie 1977
Party Guest (uncredited)
Movie 1973
Movie 1938
Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
Movie 1943
Pineapple
Movie 1925
Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
Movie 1943
Man at Rally (uncredited)
Movie 1973
Curly
Movie 1941
James Smith, a Servant
Movie 1938
Gene
Movie 1925
Verman
Movie 1923
Bootblack (uncredited)
Movie 1950
Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
Movie 1938
Winfield
Movie 1939
Eightball
Movie 1935
Uncle Lou
Tv 1968
Tv 1956
Tv 1951
Shoe Shine Man (uncredited)
Tv 1984
Cabbie (uncredited)
Tv 1978
Shoe Shine Man
Tv 1984
Small Slave
Tv 1958