Actor Lou Jacobi Dies at 95

By PopEater / Wire Services Posted Oct 26th 2009 07:28AM

Lou Jacobi, who was known for comic roles and won praise for dramatic roles in movies like 'The Diary of Anne Frank,' has died. He was 95. The Canadian-born actor died Friday at his home in Manhattan. A social worker who had been overseeing his care confirmed the actor's passing.

Jacobi made his Broadway debut in 1955 in 'The Diary of Anne Frank,' playing one of the occupants of the Amsterdam attic where the Franks were hiding. He played the same role in the 1959 film version. He was in nine other Broadway plays, including Paddy Chayefsky's 'Tenth Man' in 1959 and Neil Simon's 'Come Blow Your Horn' in 1961.

Jacobi was in some two dozen other movies, including the Dudley Moore comedy 'Arthur,' Woody Allen's 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex' and Barry Levinson's 'Avalon.'

His last movie was 'I.Q.' in 1994. He played the logician Kurt Godel, one of Albert Einstein's professor friends at Princeton, sharing the screen with Meg Ryan and Walter Matthau.

He also appeared in many TV shows, including 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.' and 'That Girl.' He was a regular on 'The Dean Martin Show' on NBC for two seasons in the early 1970s.

Jacobi was born Louis Harold Jacobovitch in 1913 in Toronto and began acting as a boy. He married Ruth Ludwin in 1957. She died in 2004. He is survived by a brother, Rabbi Avrom Jacobovitch, and a sister, Rae Gold, both of Toronto.

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Monday 26 October

By Daniel

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I want to tell you that NOBODY EFFIN' CARES.

Loui Jacobi you will certainly be missed. RIP

By Rick

Diary of Anne Frank gets me every time. Saw it yesterday but nothing was said. May you rest forever.

By hg

Lou Jacobi came into my father's bagel restaurant in Manhattan in the summer of 1975 while I was at summer camp. My mother wrote me about this, identifying Jacobi as "Kenny the piano player's mother's boyfriend on 'The Dean Martin Show'." He had a cup of coffee, into which he apparently put salt (by mistake). He was given a fresh cup of coffee.

I always loved Jacobi's line from "Avalon": You carved the toikey without me?!?!

RIP Lou!

By Gary

I'll always remember Lou's character as Uncle Morty in "My Favorite Year," as it always reminds me of my grandfather.

Benji: "Uncle Morty. How ODD to find you here."

Morty "What? I just dropped the 7:45 elevator down from 6...!"

By Wargun

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A good guy. Loved his work. I am sad to hear of his passing.
Thanks for all you did!

By Bob

The guy was a treasure.... Whatever role he was playing became believable to me.... I always knew it was Lou but his investment in the role always took precedence over his own personna and I believe that's what endeared him to so many movie fans....
He was always Lou... but Lou in a different role...
Surely he'll be missed but ever-so-much more appreciated as we see him in the movies he made these past decades... R.I.P. Mr. Jacobi

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