Lou Jacobi

Lou Jacobi

Nacimiento : 1913-12-28, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Muerte : 2009-10-23

Historia

Lou Jacobi (born Louis Harold Jacobovitch; December 28, 1913 – October 23, 2009) was a Canadian actor.

Perfil

Lou Jacobi
Lou Jacobi

Películas

The Trial of Adolf Eichmann
Judge Yitzhak Raveh (voice)
David Brinkley hosts this shattering two-hour documentary about the trial of the man whose role in deporting the Jews of Europe for extermination made him the target of a 15-year manhunt by Israeli agents. Rare videotapes of the trial, exclusive interviews with courtroom witnesses, prosecutors, and others recount the emotionally explosive proceedings.
El genio del amor
Kurt Gödel
El legendario científico Albert Einstein abandona por un tiempo sus teorías físicas para encontrar a un hombre perfecto para su intelectual sobrina, Catherine. El elegido es Ed, un atractivo mecánico lector habitual de revistas de ciencia. Sin embargo, la chica, que ya está prometida, no muestra ningún interés por Ed. Así que Einstein, con la ayuda de sus colegas científicos, hará todo lo posible para convertir al mecánico en una eminencia en física.
I Don't Buy Kisses Anymore
Gramps
Bernie Fishbine is overweight. He stops at the neighborhood store to buy some chocolate kisses every day. This is where he meets Theresa Garabaldi. Then they take the same bus route every evening. Theresa invites Bernie to see her play piano at her father's restaurant. It is here that she gets him to join a gym. Theresa is in college and gets the idea to write about Bernie's weight problem for her thesis. She does this without telling Bernie. Meanwhile, Bernie is falling in love with Theresa, and vice versa.
Avalon
Gabriel Krichynsky
Narra la vida de Sam Krichinsky (Armin Mueller-Stahl), un inmigrante judío de origen polaco llegado a Baltimore (Estados Unidos) a principios del siglo XX. Él y sus hermanos encontraron trabajo, se casaron y tuvieron hijos. Su principal objetivo era mantener a la familia reunida.
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: The Old Reliable
Jacob Glutz
In this program, a wealthy and famous, but not terribly successful, film actress of the 1930s, Adela Shannon, suddenly becomes a widow when her husband is accidentally killed by a moving sightseeing bus. Due to a suit to contest her husband's will, Shannon is left penniless. She devises a means to keep herself in the standard of living to which she has grown accustomed: Shannon intends to blackmail her three ex-husbands with a book written by her sister, Bill. The book contains information none of her former spouses would want made public. Meanwhile, Bill thinks that it would be better to publish the book instead. Unfortunately, she decides this after Shannon has placed the manuscript in her safe. Luckily for Bill, however, Shannon's butler is an expert thief who happens to know a thing or two about breaking into safes.
Amazonas en la luna
Murray
Conjunto de veinte historietas narradas en forma de sketches donde se ridiculizan los programas más clásicos de la televisión americana.
If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium
Ed Blye
When a tour bus driver plans to save his daughter from her captors, a Belgian circus performer, the Americans on his European bus tour lend a help hand.
La mujer del jefe
Harry Taphorn
Un empleado de una importante empresa se haya agobiado con su trabajo (quiere ascender de puesto) y con su propio matrimonio (su mujer no le da el hijo que desea). Es entonces cuando su jefe invita a la pareja a pasar un fin de semana en su apartamento de vacaciones para ofrecerles descanso y, al mismo tiempo, hablar de negocios. La esposa del jefe, una atractiva e inteligente mujer, seduce al empleado, que tendrá que decidir si se arriesga o no en ese posible romance.
Mi año favorito
Uncle Morty
Años 50. Benjy Stone (Mark Linn-Baker), un joven guionista de televisión que colabora en un exitoso programa de humor, debe acompañar al inglés Alan Swan (Peter O'Toole), un viejo artista totalmente alcoholizado, los días que dure el rodaje. Benjy tendrá que proporcionarle las mayores comodidades, evitar que beba y procurar que llegue a las grabaciones en el mejor estado posible, tarea que se convertirá en una auténtica pesadilla.
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash
Landlord
Flash used to be a talented baseball player, but he took to drinking and now he sells stolen watches in the streets. One day he meets Chu Chu, who, before falling into alcoholism like him, was a successful entertainer. Now she still dances, but in the streets, for no more than a cent or two. Luck seems to smile at them the day stolen government documents literally fall from the sky. They decide to return them to their legal owners, but instead of the expected reward money, all they get is a load of trouble.
Arthur, el soltero de oro
Plant Store Owner
Arthur Bach es el millonario más encantador del mundo, pero la mayor parte del tiempo está borracho. De repente, su familia le plantea un dilema: si quiere heredar 750 millones de dólares deberá casarse con su aburrida novia de Long Island en menos de un mes.
The Lucky Star
Elia Goldberg
In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
The Magician of Lublin
Wolsky
Yasha is a Jewish stage magician who tours through eastern Europe while destroying his career through personal problems. He has one more chance at theatrical success, but he needs to do a brand new trick in a Warsaw theater.
Better Late Than Never
Milton Cohen
Harry Landers is a feisty senior citizen who refuses to abide by the rules in a stodgy retirement home run by a dour Ms. Davis, in which Harry leads a revolt by the other goated senior citizen residents against the establishment.
Roseland
Stan
"Roseland" is made up of three stories, sometimes connecting, all set in the famed New York dance palace, and all having the same theme: finding the right dance partner.
Próxima parada, Greenwich Village
Herb
An aspiring Jewish actor moves out of his parents' Brooklyn apartment to seek his fortune in the bohemian life of Greenwich Village in 1953.
Everybody Rides the Carousel
Stage 1 (voice)
Everybody Rides The Carousel invites the viewer along on eight "rides" through the different stages of life. Based on the work by Erik Erikson, one of the most influential psychoanalytic theorists of this century, the film explores the inner feelings and conflicted emotions experienced during each stage of personality development. With distinctive and poetic animation, John and Faith Hubley visualize the conflicts, joys, problems and delights we all experience on the carousel of life.
Coffee, Tea or Me?
Waiter
An airline stewardess juggles a life that includes a husband in Los Angeles and another one in London.
The Judge and Jake Wyler
Lt. Wolfson
A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency with a charming ex-con as her leg man and various parolees helping in the day-to-day operation.
Todo lo que siempre quiso saber sobre el sexo y nunca se atrevió a preguntar
Sam Musgrave
A lo largo de varias historias, Allen aborda de una forma desenfadada y absolutamente descarada y cómica alguno de los tabús y las facetas más bochornosas e intocables de la sexualidad humana. Así, los afrodisíacos resultaron ser la clave de un bufón de la corte para llegar al corazón de la Reina, pero pronto se da cuenta de que conseguir la llave de su cinturón de castidad podría serle más útil. En otra historia, un buen médico se enamora de una oveja descarriada desencadenando una serie de acontecimientos sobrenaturales y divertidísimos que harán que todo alrededor se vuelva confuso. En un absurdo programa televisivo llamado "¿Cuál es mi perversión?", Jack Barry presenta 20 preguntas sobre el fetichismo. Los sexólogos ven sus teorías fracasadas cuando un científico loco crea un pecho indeseable y monstruoso. El mundo del absurdo llega a su punto más alto cuando Tony Randall, Burt Reynolds y Allen aparecen en el papel de esperma pensando en el futuro incierto que les espera.
Decisions! Decisions!
Lt. Ettinger
A precedent-setting comedy-drama special in which a salesman (Bob Newhart) and a sexologist (Jill St. John) have misadventures with plot development determined by the votes of the studio audience.
The Battle of Love's Return
Talking Head (uncredited)
After a series of mishaps, a young man is fired from his job for failing to deliver a package. He goes on a journey to find himself, encountering various characters including a priest and the owner of a pornographic bookstore, who are seen in black and white interview segments.
Little Murders
Judge Stern
Historia de un tranquilo neoyorquino (Elliott Gould), fotógrafo de profesión, que comienza a darse cuenta de lo violento que es el mundo que le rodea. (FILMAFFINITY)
Algodón en Harlem
Goodman
El carismático reverendo Rev Deke O’malley intenta vender fraudulentos viajes a África a la gente de Harlem. Los policías Gravedigger Jones y Coffin Ed Johnson investigarán el sospechoso caso.
Penélope
Ducky
Comedia sobre la inestable, aburrida y cleptómana esposa de un banquero que llega a robar 60.000 dólares del banco de su marido.
The Last of the Secret Agents?
Papa Leo
Marty and Steve, American tourists in France, are given a multipurpose umbrella and pitted against an international band of art thieves. Among the stolen treasures is the Statue Of Liberty.
Irma la dulce
Moustache
Un infeliz gendarme, fiel cumplidor de su trabajo, se enamora perdidamente de una prostituta a la que detiene en una redada. Por ella dejará su trabajo, se enfrentará al chulo que la explota y, gracias a un golpe de suerte, se convertirá en el nuevo matón del pintoresco barrio de "Les Halles", el mercado de abastos de París. A partir de ese momento, aunque con ciertos escrúpulos, vive de la chica, que lo considera su nuevo protector, y él por amor la deja hacer.
Sueño de amor
Potin
Biografía del famoso pianista y compositor húngaro Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde). Charles Vidor falleció durante el rodaje y fue sustituido por George Cukor.
El diario de Ana Frank
Hans Van Daan
Amsterdam, julio de 1942. Con objeto de escapar de la Gestapo, la familia Frank se esconde en la buhardilla del señor Krater. Allí convivirán con otro grupo de judíos: la familia Van Daan. Todo quedará reflejado en el diario de la pequeña hija de los Frank.
Charley Moon
A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
El niño y el unicornio
Blackie Isaacs
En un barrio londinense de clase baja, el pequeño Joe vive con su madre en un piso situado sobre la sastrería del señor Kandinsky. Joe sueña con ayudar a los pobres a cumplir sus deseos. Un día el sastre le cuenta un cuento según el cual quien capture a un unicornio podrá obtener cualquier deseo. Joe decide entonces gastar sus ahorros en la compra de un cabritillo con un cuerno emergente, creyendo que se trata de un unicornio. Sus esfuerzos para hacer realidad los sueños demuestran el poder de la esperanza y la voluntad en medio de la adversidad.
The Good Beginning
Bookmaker
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
Capt. Noakes
Based on a 1944 West End stage success with Ralph Lynn, this is a classic bedroom farce for those who like them that way -- its theatrical origins acknowledged in the credits and clearly apparent when most of the action takes place with characters popping in and out of a single-room set -- enlivened by a sex-pot performance by Diana Dors as blackmailing first wife Candy.