Lou Jacobi

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Lou Jacobi

Louis Harold "Lou" Jacobi (born December 28, 1913) is a Canadian character actor

Character actor

A character actor is one who predominantly plays a particular type of role rather than leading actor ones. Character actor roles can range from bit parts to leading actor....
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Jacobi was born in Toronto, Ontario to Jew

Jew

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ish parents Fay and Joseph Jacobi. Slightly overweight and sporting a moustache

Moustache

A moustache is facial hair grown on the upper lip. Often the term implies that the wearer grows only upper-lip hair while shaving the hair on his chin and cheeks....
, he appeared in several films and television commercials, particularly in the 1970s.

Notable film roles include: Mr. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank (film)

The Diary of Anne Frank is a 1959 in film film based on the Pulitzer Prize winning The Diary of Anne Frank , which was based on the The Diary of a Young Girl of Anne Frank....
, Moustache in Irma La Douce
Irma la Douce

Irma La Douce is a 1963 comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine....
, a transvestite

Transvestism

Transvestism is the practice of cross-dressing, which is wearing the clothing of the opposite sex. Transvestite refers to a person who cross-dresses; however, the word often has additional connotations....
husband in Woody Allen

Woody Allen

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's Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid to Ask) (film)

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* is Woody Allen's fifth film, consisting of a series of short sequences loosely inspired by the Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex ....
, playing Kurt Gödel

Kurt Gödel

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in I.Q.

I.Q. (film)

I.Q. is a 1994 in film romantic comedy film directed by Fred Schepisi, starring Tim Robbins, Meg Ryan, and Walter Matthau. The original music score was composed by Jerry Goldsmith....
, and one of the uncles in Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson

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Louis Harold "Lou" Jacobi (born December 28, 1913) is a Canadian character actor

Character actor

Jew

Moustache

Transvestism

Woody Allen

Kurt Gödel

I.Q. (film)

Barry Levinson

Barry Levinson is an Academy Award-winning United States screenwriter, film director, actor, and Film producer of film and television....
's Avalon
Avalon (1990 film)

Avalon is an Academy Award-nominated feature film directed by Barry Levinson. It is a mostly autobiography story of a family of Eastern European Jewish immigration to the United States who settle in Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland, at the beginning of the 20th century....
. In Amazon Women on the Moon
Amazon Women on the Moon

Amazon Women on the Moon is a 1987 in film film written by comedy duo Michael Barrie and Jim Mulholland.The film is a compilation of twenty-one comedy skits of various lengths by a group of highly regarded film director....
, his character is sucked into his television by a remote control

Remote control

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(similar to the film Pleasantville
Pleasantville (film)

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). He also played in the movie "Penelope" (1966) with Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood

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and Ian Bannen

Ian Bannen

Ian Bannen was a Scotland character actor and occasional leading man....
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He made a spoof record album for Capitol Records

Capitol Records

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called Al Tijuana and his Jewish Brass in he which he acted as a master of ceremonies/bandleader of dance band that plays songs such as "Downtown

Downtown (song)

"Downtown" is a pop music composed by Tony Hatch following a first-time visit to New York City. It was his original intention to present it to The Drifters, but when British singer Petula Clark heard the incomplete tune, she proposed that if he could write lyrics to match the quality of the melody, she would be interested in recording it....
." He also was part of a group that made the comic shtick recordsYou Don't Have to Be Jewish and When You're in Love, the Whole World Is Jewish.

In 1999, Jacobi was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame

Canada's Walk of Fame

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