Eugene Jackson
- Schauspiel
- 25. Dezember 1916 · Buffalo, New York, USA
- 26. Oktober 2001
Biografie
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.
Bekannt aus
Filmografie
- Die Addams Family · One-Armed Bass Player
- Swing Shift - Liebe auf Zeit · Bartender at Kelly's
- Harrys wundersames Strafgericht · Shoe Shine Man (uncredited), Shoe Shine Man
- Off the Wall · Old Black Man
- Ein Mann für gewisse Stunden · Bootblack
- Flucht von Alcatraz · Inmate
- Taxi · Cab Driver (uncredited), Cab Driver / Boxing Spectator (uncredited)
- Scott Joplin · Piano Contest Spectator (uncredited)
- Die Unbestechlichen · Reporter (uncredited)
- Ein Fall für Cleopatra Jones · Henry
- Vierzig Karat · Party Dancer (uncredited)
- Coffy - Die Raubkatze · Man at Rally (uncredited)
- Big Boy - Der aus dem Dschungel kam · Party Guest (uncredited)
- Visum für die Hölle · Bartender (uncredited)
- Melinda · Party Guest (uncredited)
- Der Mörder im weißen Mantel · Doctor (uncredited)
- Chandler · Shoe Shine Boy
- Latigo · Waiter Aboard Train (uncredited)
- Looking for Love · Office Worker (uncredited)
- Sieben gegen Chicago · Congregation Member (uncredited)
- Der Kandidat · Delegate (uncredited)
- Das Appartement · Office Worker (uncredited)
- Der unsichtbare Dritte · Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
- Fluch des Südens · Townsman (uncredited)
- Der lange heiße Sommer · Waiter (uncredited)
- Shirley Temple's Storybook · Small Slave
- The Adventures of Jim Bowie
- Boston Blackie
- The Killer That Stalked New York · Bootblack (uncredited)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars · Dancer in "Ice Cold Katie" Number (uncredited)
- Reveille with Beverly · Franklin Delano Lincoln Van Buren Jones (uncredited)
- Take My Life · Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
- Golden Hoofs · Curly
- Sporting Blood · Sam - Lockwood's Horse Groom
- Reform School · Pete
- The Lady's from Kentucky · Winfield
- Die goldene Peitsche · Jimmy
- Bulldog Drummond Das Geheimnis der Strahlenkanone · Hotel Page Boy
- Anaesthesia · Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
- Rhythm Rodeo
- Der Freibeuter von Louisiana · James Smith, a Servant
- Wine, Women and Horses · Eight Ball
- Midnight Court · Garfield Brown
- Guns and Guitars · Eightball
- Wie vom Winde verweht · Harmonica Player / Dancer
- Dynamit für Schleuse 5 · Iodine
- Fünf Jahre und ein Tag danach · Eightball
- Secret Service · Israel Polk
- Sporting Chance · Horseshoe
- Vollblut · Sam 'Sammy'
- Pioniere des wilden Westens · Isaiah
- Hearts in Dixie · Chinquapin
- Little Mickey Grogan · Dancing Black Boy
- Little Annie Rooney · Humidor
- Shootin' Injuns · Gene
- The Love Bug · Pineapple
- Dog Days · Pineapple
- Circus Fever · Gene
- The Big Town · Pineapple
- The Mysterious Mystery! · Snowball
- Der Dieb von Bagdad · Child (uncredited)
- Die junge Stadt · Verman