Lou Jacobi
Hefty, balding character actor, sometimes mustachioed, whose explosive manner has been instantly recognizable on many years of TV comedy. Typically cast in ethnic roles as Jews, Italians, or Russians, Jacobi has also kept busy in TV commercials, most notably his Clio Award-winning work in a series of Hertz advertisements. He has also had a very active theater career, with roles in such plays as "Spring Thaw" (1949), "Come Blow Your Horn" (1961), "Don't Drink the Water" (1966), "The Sunshine Boys" (1974) and "Cheaters" (1978). Although his most memorable early film role was as Mr. Van Daan, opposite Shelley Winters as one of the attic-confined Dutch Jews in "The Diary of Anne Frank" (1959), Jacobi has most often played alternately overbearing or put-upon men in such comedies as "Arthur" (1981) and "My Favorite Year" (1982), and such family sagas as "Avalon" (1990).
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Lou Jacobi
Filmography
Movies
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45% |
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I.Q. | Kurt Gödel (Character) | $25.2M | 1994 |
No Score Yet |
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I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore | Irving Fein (Character) | - | 1992 |
86% |
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Avalon | Gabriel Krichinsky (Character) | $14.9M | 1990 |
65% |
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Amazon Women on the Moon | Murray (Character) | $388.2K | 1987 |
No Score Yet |
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The Boss' Wife | Harry Taphorn (Character) | - | 1986 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Isaac Littlefeathers | Abe (Character) | - | 1984 |
97% |
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My Favorite Year | Uncle Morty (Character) | - | 1982 |
86% |
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Arthur | Plant Store Owner (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Chu Chu and the Philly Flash | Landlord (Character) | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucky Star | Elia Goldberg (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Off Your Rocker | Max Adler (Character) | - | 1980 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Magician of Lublin | Wolsky (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Better Late Than Never | Milton Cohen (Character) | - | 1979 |
No Score Yet |
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Roseland | Stan (The Waltz) (Character) | - | 1977 |
86% |
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Next Stop, Greenwich Village | Herb (Character) | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Coffee, Tea or Me | Waiter (Character) | - | 1973 |
88% |
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) | Sam (Character) | - | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Judge and Jake Wyler | Lieutenant Wolfson (Character) | - | 1972 |
71% |
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Little Murders | Judge Stern (Character) | - | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
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Penelope | Ducky (Character) | - | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Last of the Secret Agents? | Papa Leo (Character) | - | 1966 |
76% |
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Irma La Douce | Moustache (Character) | - | 1963 |
83% |
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Song Without End | Potin (Character) | - | 1960 |
80% |
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The Diary of Anne Frank | Mr. Hans Van Daan (Character) | - | 1959 |
67% |
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A Kid for Two Farthings | Blackie Isaacs (Character) | - | 1956 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Charley Moon | Rosenberg (Character) | - | 1955 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? | Captain Noakes (Character) | - | 1953 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tales of the Unexpected | Waiter (Character) | 1982 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Sanford and Son | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Barney Miller | Harry Tannenbaum (Guest Star) | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | What's My Line? | Guest | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Courtship of Eddie's Father | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1971 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | That Girl | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1969 |
100% | No Score Yet | The Man From U.N.C.L.E. | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Trials of O'Brien | Archie Vasoulian (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Lou Sorrell (Guest Star) | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alfred Hitchcock Hour | Unknown (Character) | 1963-1964 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rheingold Theatre | Milton Cassal (Character) | 1953-1954 |