Eugene Jackson - Movies, Bio & Filmography

Meet Eugene Jackson

★ Acting🎥 54 films📺 7 TV shows📅 1923–1991🔥 1

Born in Buffalo - New York - USA

1916-12-25 (age 84 at death)

Died 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.