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File No. 355717 · Adjudicated
Lou Jacobi
Actor — Fiddler on the Roof, Arthur, The Diary of Anne Frank
Born
1913
Birthplace
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Citizenships
CA
Canadianness Score
🍁🍁🍁🍁🍁
5.0/ 5
Weighted across 2 scored criteria
Designation
Bleeds Maple Syrup 🍁Born, raised, and still says “out for a rip” unironically.
Scorecard
Path A — born on Canadian soilI. Origin
Born on Canadian soil — yes
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canadian parentage — not scored
No Canadian parents on record
Citizenship on record — not scored
Automatic by birth
II. Residency
Formative years spent in Canada — yes
Raised — Ontario
Lived in Canada by choice — not scored
Residency on record as an adult
Worked or filmed in Canada — not scored
Credits filed north of the 49th
III. Cultural evidence — not scored
Section III is recorded for the file only. Birth on Canadian soil already settles the matter.
Publicly claims to be Canadian — not scored
Says so, out loud
Canada claims them back — not scored
No claim lodged
Fun fact
Started his career in Toronto's Yiddish theatre scene before becoming a fixture in American film and television.
The verdict
Born in Toronto in 1913, spent his formative years there before heading to Hollywood in the 1950s. Best remembered as the horny neighbour in *Fiddler on the Roof* and countless TV sitcoms, but Canada always claimed him as one of their own, eh?
Adjudicated by
The Standings Committee
Status
Final — appealable
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References — en.wikipedia.org