Adrian Jacobs

Adrian Jacobs was born in London and grew up during World War II. He pretended he was crazy to get out of the National Service. He loved playing rugby and actually played a couple of games for "The Wasps" 1st team. He was a charted accountant, but soon started wheeling and dealing. He was chairman of two indie record labels in the 60s - "Go Records" and "Strike Records". He became infamous for his business dealings and was dubbed by the press as "Mr. X". He was subsequently bankrupted by the stock exchange. At aged 29, he was the chairman of nine public companies. He married Jackie White, Miss United Kingdom in 1962, and is the father of actor/filmmaker Jon Jacobs. Adrian appears in a cameo in the Directors cut of The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1995). In the late 1980s, he wrote a children's book called "Willy The Wizard".