Eugene Jackson

Nascimento : 1916-12-25, Buffalo - New York - USA

Morte : 2001-10-26

História

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.

Filmes

A Família Addams
One-Armed Bass Player
Quando um homem dizendo ser Fester Addams (o irmão desaparecido de Gomez Addams) chega à casa dos Addams, a família está feliz. No entanto, Mortícia começa a suspeitar que Fester é uma fraude, já que ele não consegue se lembrar de detalhes da sua vida. Com a ajuda do advogado Tully Alford, Fester consegue fazer com que o clã Addams seja despejado de sua casa. Gomez percebe que os dois homens estão conspirando para roubar a fortuna de sua família.
Armas e Amores aka Segundo Turno
Bartender at Kelly's
A Segunda Guerra Mundial vista pela ótica dos trabalhadores de uma fábrica de implementos de guerra. Duas mulheres e um trumpetista, todos três sem nenhuma experiência neste tipo de trabalho, vivem dias de grande aventura longe do front.
Off the Wall
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
Gigolô Americano
Bootblack
Julian Kaye vive em Beverly Hills e é um dos gigolôs mais bem pagos da cidade, atendendo mulheres sofisticadas, ricas e entediadas. Mas quando ele se envolve com Michelle Stratton, a esposa de um senador, acaba sendo acusado do assassinato de outra cliente.
Alcatraz: Fuga Impossível
Inmate
São Francisco, 1960. Frank Morris é um condenado que tem várias tentativas de fugas em seu histórico. Ele é enviado para Alcatraz, uma prisão de segurança máxima que também é conhecida como A Rocha e que fica em uma ilha, sendo que quem tentou escapar de lá ou foi recapturado ou morreu afogado. Frank vê gradativamente os pontos vulneráveis de Alcatraz e, com a ajuda de alguns outros internos, tenta pacientemente criar um rota de fuga.
Todos os Homens do Presidente
Reporter (uncredited)
Em 1972, sem ter a menor noção da gravidade dos fatos, um repórter do Washington Post, inicia uma investigação sobre a invasão de cinco homens na sede do Partido Democrata, que dá origem ao escândalo Watergate e que teve como conseqüência a queda do presidente Richard Nixon.
Cleopatra Jones
Henry
Uma sensual agente dos Estados Unidos, Cleópatra Jones (Tamara Dobson), opera no serviço de combate as drogas. Após supervisionar, na Turquia, a destruição de uma enorme plantação de papoulas, que seriam usadas.
40 Quilates
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.
Coffy: Em Busca da Vingança
Man at Rally (uncredited)
Após perder a irmã para as drogas, a enfermeira Coffy decide fazer justiça com as próprias mãos. Ela então se passa por prostituta para se aproximar do mundo do crime e eliminar os chefes do tráfico.
O Justiceiro Negro
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.
Chandler
Shoe Shine Boy
Em um retrocesso deliberado para 1940 filmes noir , um ex-detetive particular a partir desse período, Chandler, ocupa seu antigo trabalho de novo, e encontra-se constantemente dirigindo carros velhos. Ele é ostensivamente contratado pelo governo para proteger uma testemunha, Katherine Creighton, de um líder do submundo do crime, John Melchior, que quer matá-la. Mas Chandler é na verdade trabalhando para um agente do governo corrupto, Ross J. Carmady, que está usando-o como um joguete para que Carmady pode assassinar Melchior e colocar seu próprio agente duplo na parte superior da raquete.
Em Busca do Amor
Office Worker (uncredited)
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
Se Meu Apartamento Falasse
Office Worker (uncredited)
Um funcionário ambicioso (Jack Lemmon) descobre um atalho para subir na companhia em que trabalha: Ceder seu apartamento para os encontros amorosos de seus chefes. A tática inicialmente dá certo, mas passa a ser ameaçada quando ele se apaixona pela amante de um de seus chefes.
Intriga Internacional
Security Guard at Auction (uncredited)
O executivo publicitário Roger O. Thornhill é confundido como um agente do governo por um grupo de espiões. A partir daí, envolve-se numa série de desventuras incríveis e passa a ser perseguido tanto pelo governo quanto pelos espiões por todo os Estados Unidos.
Cidade Apavorada
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.
Reveille with Beverly
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.
Take My Life
Bill, Harlem Tuff-Kid Gang Menber
A well meaning Dr. lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn that they are members Harlem tough -kid gang, they suspect that their operation there conducting nefarious deeds.
Golden Hoofs
Curly
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
Sporting Blood
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.
Reform School
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 Lady's from Kentucky
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 thoroughbred.
Kentucky
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.
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
Hotel Page Boy
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
Anaesthesia
Colored Boy 1839 (uncredited)
An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.
Lafitte, O Corsário
James Smith, a Servant
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
Wine, Women and Horses
Eight Ball
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
Midnight Court
Garfield Brown
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
Guns and Guitars
Eightball
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
A Trilha Solitária
Harmonica Player / Dancer
Embora ele tenha lutado pelo norte na Guerra Civil, o Cap. John Ashley é convidado pelo governador do Texas a se livrar de alguns problemáticos políticos picaretas. Ele pede a ajuda de Benedict Holden antes de saber que ele também está saqueando o povo local. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
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.
Secret Service
Israel Polk
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
Sporting Chance
Horseshoe
A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.
Lealdade
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.
Cimarron
Isaiah
Quarenta anos da história norte-americana, em um período compreendido entre 1889 e 1929, são vistos através dos olhos de Yancey Cravat, um editor de jornal e o homem da lei de Oklahoma. Ele deixa suas terras em Wichita, chegando em Osage com sua família, mas logo sente-se ocioso novamente, com a rotina, e decide ir para Cherokee Strip, deixando sua família para trás. Sua mulher, Sabra, precisa então aprender a viver por conta própria. Vencedor do Oscar de Melhor Filme, foi o primeiro do gênero faroeste a conseguir tal proeza (fato que só se repetiu mais duas vezes, com Dança com Lobos e Os Imperdoáveis). Faturou ainda as estatuetas de Melhor Direção de Arte e Melhor Roteiro Adaptado.
Hearts in Dixie
Chinquapin
Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.
Sua Vida Pelo Seu Amor
Humidor
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
Shootin' Injuns
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 decide to take refuge in a neighborhood house. What they are unaware of is that the house belongs to inventor W.R. Jones, who rigged it to be a "magnetic house", a demonstration for a possible amusement park attraction. Not knowing about the house's rigged contraptions leads to a lot of misadventures for the gang not related to shooting Indians as they try to figure out what's happening around them.
The Love Bug
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.
Dog Days
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.
Circus Fever
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 Big Town
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.
The Mysterious Mystery!
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.
O Ladrão de Bagdá
Child (uncredited)
O ladrão Ahmed, fazendo-se passar por príncipe, penetra no castelo para liderar a revolta contra os invasores mongóis. Conto das mil e uma noites que é considerado um dos mais fantasiosos e divertidos do cinema mudo.
Penrod and Sam
Verman