Character Actor Lou Jacobi, Mainstay of TV and Movies and Broadway, Dies at 95 AP

Lou Jacobi, the veteran character actor who first appeared on TV in 1953 and last appeared on a television show in 1992, has died at 95 at his home in Manhattan, the Associated Press reports.

Among dozens of TV roles over five decades, Jacobi was a regular on Dean Martin's show for a few seasons. Jacobi, a Canadian, was also seen in scores of movies and a number of Broadway shows. 

Before his acting success, Jacobi was a comic playing the Canadian Borscht Belt, Roger Ebert once wrote in a profile of Jacobi. And there was nothing Jacobi liked better than a corny joke, Ebert said, recounting a joke Jacobi told him:

" 'These two newlyweds are driving down to Fort Lauderdale on their honeymoon,'  Lou Jacobi is telling me. 'The guy puts his hand on his wife's leg. `Why don't you go farther?' she asks him. So he goes to Miami.' "

--Chuck Ross