Jake Jacobs(II)
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
- Writer
Jake Jacobs is a free-lance writer, and a professional gambler. Though
he studied acting as a child, his only film role to date was as an
ill-fated psychic in his brother's (Richard W. Munchkin) film Dance or Die (1987).
After a few years in the field of data processing, he worked as a cab
driver/dispatcher until a blackjack team recruited him. He has since
played blackjack in casinos from Costa Rica to Kathmandu. A winner of
the U.S. and Thai Open backgammon championships, he is the author of
CAN A FISH TASTE TWICE AS GOOD and A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO
THE FOUR-POINT.