Todd Jacobsen

Born in Harlan, Iowa, on January 3, 1963, Todd "Dane" Jacobsen is a musician and occasional actor who has been collaborating with fellow musician and filmmaker Scott Allen Nollen since 1974. By the time he graduated from high school in 1981, Jacobsen already had acted in several films, collaborated on scores of audio "radio shows," and written and recorded dozens of original songs. Jacobsen's film roles include "The King," a hilarious take on Elvis Presley, in Nollen's science-fiction spoof "Plan 17: The Purple King" (2002). Jacobsen is known primarily for his uncanny ability to improvise dialogue, as well as lyrics, melodies and chord structures in his music, which incorporates an eclectic mix of genres. He also is known as "One-Take Jake," due to his desire to write and record his songs off-the-cuff in a single take. His most popular numbers include "Down in Alabama," "Burned the House Down," "Kamakaze Longjohns" and "Backseat Full of Whisky." In 2014, Jacobsen began collaborating with Nollen in the progressive rock band Bramwell Fletcher, named after the British actor famous for laughing himself "insane" in the classic Universal horror film "The Mummy" (1932), starring Boris Karloff. Their first album, "Mountains of the Moon" (2015), will be followed by "F-I-R-E."