Eugene Jackson
Birthday: 1916-12-25
Place of Birth: Buffalo - New York - USA
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.
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Black Gunn
A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality...
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Cleopatra Jones
After federal agent Cleopatra Jones orders the burning of a Turkish poppy field, the notorious drug ...
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Sporting Chance
A jockey finally hits the big time, but he lets his success go to his head, threatening his career a...
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Reform School
A female warden takes over at a state reform school and attempts to bring about needed changes. Res...
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The Mysterious Mystery!
Mickey Daniels doing an impersonation of Sherlock Holmes and Joe Cobb being Watson as the two try to...
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The Big Town
The gang play inside a railroad box car which suddenly closes, trapping them inside. The next mornin...
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Circus Fever
The circus is in town and for one day only. By pretending to be sick some of the gang members were a...
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The Love Bug
Farina, Joe and Mickey are all struck by the love bug. After several problems, they go to the beauty...
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Looking for Love
An aspiring young singer unexpectedly gets her big break by inventing a specialized clothes rack....
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Support Your Local Gunfighter
A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he...
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Guns and Guitars
A wrongfully-imprisoned man becomes determined to find who was responsible for the death of a local ...
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The Lonely Trail
Though he fought for the North in the Civil War, John is asked by the Governor of Texas to get rid o...
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The Apartment
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to ...
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Secret Service
In 1864 a Secret Service agent for the Union army goes undercover in Richmond and pretends to be a C...
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Sporting Blood
A horse with great potential is reluctantly sold by the breeder and by chance passes through multipl...
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Hearts in Dixie
Nappus sends his grandson north for schooling to shelter him from their community....
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40 Carats
After an overnight fling with a man nearly 20 years her junior while vacationing in Greece, Ann Stan...
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisbor...
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Wine, Women and Horses
An ex-gambler hooks up with an old flame after his old habit resurfaces and drives off his wife....
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Cimarron
When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a ...
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Red River Valley
Gene and Frog set out to find out who has been causing the accidents at a dam construction site....
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Arrest Bulldog Drummond
The invention of a machine that can cause remote explosions brings the attention of Scotland Yard an...
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Kentucky
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby...
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All the President's Men
During the 1972 elections, two reporters' investigation sheds light on the controversial Watergate s...
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Midnight Court
After losing his bid for district attorney, an aspiring young lawyer agrees to defend a ring of car ...
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North by Northwest
Advertising man Roger Thornhill is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase....
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American Gigolo
Julian makes a lucrative living as an escort to older women in the Los Angeles area. He begins a rel...
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Little Annie Rooney
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city...
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Take My Life
A well-meaning doctor lends his building to a group of neighborhood kids. When the neighbors learn t...
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The Thief of Bagdad
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess....
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Scott Joplin
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time....
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The World's Greatest Athlete
Stuck with a feeble sports department, college coach Sam Archer (John Amos) faces the ax unless he c...
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Escape from Alcatraz
San Francisco Bay, January 18, 1960. Frank Lee Morris is transferred to Alcatraz, a maximum security...
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Sporting Blood
Myles Vanders feuds with hardnosed stable owner Davis Lockwood. Myles takes revenge by romancing and...
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Thank Your Lucky Stars
An Eddie Cantor look-alike organizes an all-star show to help the war effort....
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Dog Days
The boys are showing off their dogs to each other when little rich girl Mary Kornman rides by in her...
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Off the Wall
Two young hitchhikers are picked up a speed-crazed young woman, who tears around the countryside. Sh...
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Reveille with Beverly
Beverly Ross, the switchboard operator at a local radio station, jumps at the chance to be the DJ fo...
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Coffy
After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nu...
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Golden Hoofs
A teenage horse trainer fears she'll lose her beloved horses when the stables where she works is sol...
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Shootin' Injuns
Many of the "Our Gang" kids are in their secret clubhouse - so secret that some wannabe members have...
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Penrod and Sam
Penrod and his gang don't want to let neighborhood "goodie-goodie" Georgie Bassett into their club, ...
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The Addams Family
When a man claiming to be long-lost Uncle Fester reappears after 25 years lost, the family plans a c...
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The Killer That Stalked New York
In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels t...
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Anaesthesia
An examination of the history of anesthesia, from ancient Egyptian times to contemporary times....
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The Lady's from Kentucky
Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard time...
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Tumbling Tumbleweeds
Traveling with Doc Parker's medicine show, Gene finds his old friend Harry Brooks wounded and the Sh...
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Swing Shift
In 1941 America, Kay and her husband are happy enough until he enlists after Pearl Harbor. Against h...
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Melinda
A slick, smooth-talking, womanizing young black DJ falls hard for an enigmatic woman he's just met. ...
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The Sound and the Fury
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of th...
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