Anne Frank actor Lou Jacobi dies
Last Updated: Sunday, October 25, 2009 | 4:33 PM ET
The Associated Press
Toronto-born Lou Jacobi is seen in the movie The Diary of Anne Frank. Jacobi died in Manhattan on Friday. (20th Century Fox/AP)Longtime character actor Lou Jacobi, born in Toronto, has died at the age of 95.
Jacobi died Friday at his home in Manhattan. The death was confirmed Sunday by social worker Leonie Nowitz, who had been overseeing Jacobi's care.
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 about 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.
Jacobi also appeared in a number of 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.
In 1999, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
