- Born
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- Birth nameErnst Gerhard Ludwig Jacobi-Scherbening
- Height5′ 9¼″ (1.76 m)
- Ernst Jacobi was born on July 11, 1933 in Berlin, Germany. He was an actor and writer, known for North by Northwest (1959), Back to the Future (1985) and The White Ribbon (2009). He was married to Barbara Jacobi. He died on June 23, 2022 in Vienna, Austria.
- SpouseBarbara Jacobi(? - June 23, 2022) (his death)
- Appears in The Tin Drum (1979) and The White Ribbon (2009), both Palme D'Or winners at Cannes Film Festival and both films are allegories about Nazism.
- Voiced the title character in the German dub of Peter Pan (1953).
- A character actor of serious demeanour, he studied drama in Berlin and Paris. On stage from the 1950s at the Vienna Burgtheater and the Schauspielhaus in Zurich. Appeared in more than 200 TV roles from 1954.
- In 2009 he narrated Michael Haneke's critically acclaimed drama film The White Ribbon (Das weiße Band), a black-and-white film which darkly depicts life in a northern German village just before World War I. Jacobi narrates from the perspective of a frail old schoolteacher at a local school.
- Played Adolf Hitler in both Unity (1981) and Hamsun (1996).
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