Eugene Jackson
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 10.562 |
| Birthday | 1916-12-25 |
| Place of Birth | Buffalo - New York - USA |
| Also Known As |
1972
Black Gunn
5.8/16
A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militan...
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Black Gunn
1973
Cleopatra Jones
5.771/70
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug lord Mommy vows to destroy her.
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Cleopatra Jones
1931
Sporting Chance
0/0
A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career and his life.
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Sporting Chance
1939
Reform School
0/1
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 add...
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Reform School
1924
The Mysterious Mystery!
5.8/3
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...
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The Mysterious Mystery!
1925
The Big Town
5.8/3
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 see...
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The Big Town
1925
Circus Fever
5.8/2
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...
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Circus Fever
1925
The Love Bug
5.8/3
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...
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The Love Bug
1964
Looking for Love
5/3
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack.
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Looking for Love
1971
Support Your Local Gunfighter
6.5/81
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to driv...
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
1936
Guns and Guitars
4.2/2
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local sheriff.
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Guns and Guitars
1936
The Lonely Trail
4.9/10
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid of some troublesome carpetbaggers. He enlists the h...
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The Lonely Trail
1960
The Apartment
8.2/2329
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apart...
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The Apartment
1971
Chandler
4.5/9
A private eye is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress.
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1931
Secret Service
6/2
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a Confederate captain.
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1931
Sporting Blood
5.5/8
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multiple hands who do not treat him well.
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1929
Hearts in Dixie
3/0
Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community.
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1973
40 Carats
6/15
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...
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40 Carats
1964
Robin and the 7 Hoods
6.051/69
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisborne a cut of their profits after Guy shoots mob bos...
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
1937
Wine, Women and Horses
4/2
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife.
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1931
Cimarron
5.574/128
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his fa...
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1936
Red River Valley
5/2
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site.
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Red River Valley
1938
Arrest Bulldog Drummond
6.7/12
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard and Bulldog Drummond.
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
1938
Kentucky
5.7/11
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...
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Kentucky
1976
All the President's Men
7.66/1819
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate scandal that compels President Nixon to resign from...
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All the President's Men
1937
Midnight Court
4.8/3
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car thieves.
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Midnight Court
1959
North by Northwest
7.982/4113
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
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North by Northwest
1980
American Gigolo
6.147/656
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a relationship with Michelle, a local politician's wife...
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American Gigolo
1925
Little Annie Rooney
6.9/18
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film Arch...
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Little Annie Rooney
1942
Take My Life
0/0
A well-meaning doctor lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn that the kids are members of a tough Harlem gang, t...
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Take My Life
1924
The Thief of Bagdad
7.326/164
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
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The Thief of Bagdad
1977
Scott Joplin
6/6
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
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Scott Joplin
1973
The World's Greatest Athlete
5.3/28
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he can reverse the school's athletic fortunes. An Afri...
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The World's Greatest Athlete
1938
Rhythm Rodeo
0/0
An All-Black comedy musical.
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Rhythm Rodeo
1979
Escape from Alcatraz
7.5/2787
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security prison located on a rocky island. Although no one...
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Escape from Alcatraz
1940
Sporting Blood
4.3/3
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and marrying Lockwood's daughter Linda. But as the bi...
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Sporting Blood
1943
Thank Your Lucky Stars
6.1/33
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort.
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
1925
Dog Days
5.6/4
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 awa...
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Dog Days
1983
Off the Wall
3/2
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...
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Off the Wall
1943
Reveille with Beverly
7/5
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 n...
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Reveille with Beverly
1973
Coffy
6.7/250
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilan...
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Coffy
1941
Golden Hoofs
7/1
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sold.
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Golden Hoofs
1938
The Buccaneer
6.4/9
French pirate Jean Lafitte rescues a girl and joins the War of 1812.
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The Buccaneer
1925
Shootin' Injuns
6/3
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 - pla...
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Shootin' Injuns
1923
Penrod and Sam
6.5/1
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Penrod and Sam
1991
The Addams Family
7.052/4613
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a celebration to wake the dead. But the kids barely h...
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1950
The Killer That Stalked New York
6.1/27
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 polic...
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The Killer That Stalked New York
1938
Anaesthesia
0/0
An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times.
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Anaesthesia
1939
The Lady's from Kentucky
0/0
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...
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1935
Tumbling Tumbleweeds
6.2/2
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 als...
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Tumbling Tumbleweeds
1984
Swing Shift
5.719/73
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against his wishes, she takes a job at the local aircraft p...
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