Celebrity Biographies
Lou Jacobi
Lou Jacobi is a supporting actor with a career that has spanned 4 decades. The actor has died at the advanced age of 95, at his Manhattan home. The death has been made public by Leonie Nowitz, the nurse who was in charge of attending to the interpreter.
Louis Harold Jacobovitch was born in Ontario (Canada) on December 28, 1913. He began as an actor as a boy, when he played a violinist at the age of 11 in the play “The Rabbi and the Priest”. After exercising various professions – he was, among other things, a wedding entertainer – he went to London where he triumphed on the stage. It was in Great Britain where he was asked to make his film debut, with the comedy Troubled Honeymoon .
On Broadway, Lou Jacobi earned rave reviews as Hans van Daan, one of the characters hiding in an Amsterdam house, in The Diary of Anne Frank . He reprized the role in the film adaptation. In addition, he appeared in numerous television shows and series, such as The Defenders , and was involved in titles such as Everything You Wanted to Know About Sex but Were Afraid to Ask , Next Stop, Greenwich Village , Arthur the Golden Bachelor, and The Love Genius .
But Jacobi will be remembered above all for playing Mustache, the brilliant waiter in Sweet Irma . Billy Wilder had written the part with Charles Laughton in mind , who agreed to play him, but he suffered from late-stage terminal cancer, and passed away before shooting began. The role ended up assigned to Lou Jacobi, who gets a lot out of the character’s clever phrases: “Being honest is like plucking a chicken in the wind, you fill your mouth with feathers”, “The jail is full of innocent people who told the truth ”, or “In this world we live in, love is illegal, but hate is not”.