Irving Jacobson (June 18, 1898 - December 17, 1978) was a Yiddish theater star, American stage and film actor.
[2] Irving played juvenile roles in Pinkhas Thomashefsky's troupe and later appeared in films by Sidney Goldin.
He performed two years with Goldenburg at Philadelphia's Garden Theater and toured Paris and Rumania with May Shoenfeld in 1929.
[4] He was star of the Josef Seiden's Yiddish language movie The Great Advisor (1940) with Yetta Zwerling, Mae Schoenfeld, Lazar Freed, and others.
He was the uncle of Bruce Adler and shares a star on the "Yiddish Walk of Fame" on Second Avenue with his brother.