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.
Filmography32 titles
The Apartment
North by Northwest
All the President's Men
Escape from Alcatraz
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Night Court
Taxi
The Thief of Bagdad
The Addams Family
Little Annie Rooney
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Coffy
Support Your Local Gunfighter
Shirley Temple's Storybook
The Buccaneer
Scott Joplin
American Gigolo
Robin and the 7 Hoods
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Kentucky
The Carey Treatment
Black Gunn
Red River Valley
Looking for Love
Guns and Guitars
Cleopatra Jones
40 Carats
Swing Shift
Cimarron
The World's Greatest Athlete
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
The Lonely Trail