Lou Jacobi
Louis Harold "Lou" Jacobi (December 28, 1913 – October 23, 2009) was a Canadian character actor.
Life and early career
Jacobi was born Louis Harold Jacobovitch in Toronto, Ontario, to Joseph and Fay Jacobivitch. His family was Jewish.
Jacobi began acting as a boy, making his stage debut in 1924 at a Toronto theater, playing a violin prodigy in The Rabbi and the Priest. After working as the drama director of the Toronto Y.M.H.A., the social director at a summer resort, a stand-up comic in Canada’s equivalent of the Borscht Belt, and the entertainment at various weddings and bachelor parties, Jacobi moved to London to work on the stage, appearing in Guys and Dolls and Pal Joey. Jacobi made his Broadway debut in 1955 in The Diary of Anne Frank playing Hans van Daan, the less-than-noble occupant of the Amsterdam attic where the Franks were hiding, and reprised the role in the 1959 film version. Other Broadway performances included Paddy Chayefsky’s The Tenth Man (1959); Woody Allen’s Don’t Drink the Water (1966); and Neil Simon’s debut play Come Blow Your Horn (1961), in which he portrayed the playboy protagonist’s disappointed father. His reading of the film line “Aha!” stuck with the Times columnist William Safire so vividly that he cited it when writing about the meaning of the word 36 years later.
Jacobi, Lou Filmography
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - In Memoriam
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1997, role: actor
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1997, role: actor , character name: Actor 'Diary of Anne Frank'
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1994, role: actor
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1992, role: actor
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1992, role: actor
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1990, role: actor
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1987, role: actor
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1987, role: actor , character name: Murray
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1986, role: actor
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1985, role: actor , character name: Rosenthal
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1984, role: actor , character name: Abe
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1982, role: actor , character name: Max Adler
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1982, role: actor , character name: Uncle Morty
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1981, role: actor
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1981, role: actor , character name: Landlord
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1980, role: actor
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1979, role: actor
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1979, role: actor
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1977, role: actor , character name: Stan
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1976, role: actor
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1976, role: actor , character name: Herb
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1975, role: actor
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1973, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1973, role: actor , character name: Waiter
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1972, role: actor , character name: Sam
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1972, role: actor
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1971, role: actor
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1971, role: actor
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1971, role: actor
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1970, role: actor
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1970, role: actor , character name: Goodman
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1966, role: actor , character name: Ducky
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1966, role: actor , character name: Papa Leo
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1965, role: actor , character name: Himself
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1965, role: actor
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1963, role: actor , character name: Moustache
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1960, role: actor , character name: Potin
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1959, role: actor , character name: Mr. Hans Van Daan
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1956, role: actor , character name: Rosenberg
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1955, role: actor
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1954, role: actor , character name: Pete
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1953, role: actor
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1953, role: actor , character name: Bookmaker
Podcasts:
Monkey Shaker
Monday morning I was back at work
I asked my mother to give me some money
She said: "Son look what you've done tonight!
You're a hooligan and this is not very bright"
Everybody's dancing
Everybody's moving
Come and be the best one
Give me some time you better don't ask why
Sunday Morning I was in the Park
I fed some animals they were looking at me
"Hey pigeons, sparrows, what do you need?
Give me some time you better don't ask why!"