# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lou-jacobi
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:16:43.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lou-jacobi"
name: "Lou Jacobi"
slug: "lou-jacobi"
description: "Lou Jacobi was a Canadian character actor. Jacobi came to prominence for his role as Mr. Van Daan in the 1955 Broadway production of The Diary of Anne Frank which he reprised in the 1959 film version. He also acted in the films Irma la Douce (1963), Little Murders (1971), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*  (1972), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), The Lucky Star (1980), Arthur (1981), My Favorite Year (1982), and Avalon (1990)."
tagline: "Actor (1913-2009)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Lou_Jacobi_%22Ivan_the_Terrible%22_(1976_CBS_press_photo).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1913-12-28"
deathDate: "2009-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.16
  momentum:             3.145631067961164
  historical:           14.75331866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0414279/"
    handle:    "nm0414279"
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "لو جاكوبى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Jacobi"
    title: "Lou Jacobi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Jacobi"
    title: "Lou Jacobi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou_Jacobi"
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    title: "لو جاکوبی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lou Jacobi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lou Jacobi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lou Jacobi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%A3%A8_%EC%9E%90%EC%BD%94%EB%B9%84"
    title: "루 자코비"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Lou Jacobi"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump