Jacob Truedson Demitz (Lars Jacob)

**Jacob Truedson Demitz**
	Swedish-American director
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Date of birth	13 August 1948; Örebro
Country of citizenship	Sweden; United States of America;
Occupation	director; theatrical director; hotel manager; writer;
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Jacob Truedson Demitz a.k.a. Lars Jacob is a multilingual Swedish-American entertainment director, writer and former hotel manager, creator of Wild Side Story and Centuries of Selfies, Chairman since 2005 of the Southerly Clubs of Stockholm and Deputy Chairman since 2006 of FamSAC.

Svenska: Wild Side Story Föreställningen iscensattes av svenskamerikanen Jacob Truedson Demitz under artistnamnet Lars Jacob.

Español: Wild Side Story es un espectáculo satírico creado por Lars Jacob

Français : Jacob Truedson Demitz (Lars Jacob)

Deutsch: Wild Side Story ist ein parodistisches Musical von Jacob Truedson Demitz

Italiano: Wild Side Story è uno spettacolo satirico di Lars Jacob

Lars Jacob in Florida in 1974 while running his own underground shows and working at the Doral Hotel
Immigrating to America (center) with his mother and brother on the high seas of the Atlantic in 1950
TV debut in 1959 (right of mother Birgit Ridderstedt) on WTTW in Chicago
With his grandfather Stefan Anderson and brother Stefan Ridderstedt in Ludvika in 1961
1968 stage debut in Peccoral in Täby with Mia Adolphson and Eva Söderqvist in the cast
With his voice coach Grete Menzel and his mother in Salzburg in 1968
with Mia Adolphson in Austria in 1968 (see 1960s in fashion)
On tour to Umeå as disc jockey in 1970
With a favorite aunt Bengta Bolander at her home in Lund in 1971
With Dan Ahlquist (left) in San Diego in 1971 (see 1970s in fashion)
As a DJ meeting James Brown in Tampa in 1972
With Roxanne Russell in Miami Beach in 1973
With his 1950 Cadillac in Miami Beach in 1974
1974 with Dustin Hoffman in Fort Lauderdale on the set of Lenny, in which Lars Jacob and his car (see previous) both had small parts
With Örjan Ramberg and Agneta Lindén in the dressing room of Stockholm's Poor House Cabaret in 1974
Meeting in 1975 about Wild Side Story in London with British entertainer Danny La Rue
1975 family photo in Täby with Steve Vigil, Birgit Ridderstedt, C. Erik Ridderstedt and a sister-in-law
With his entire AlexCab cast in Stockholm in 1975
Performing his Swedish version of Walk on the Wild Side at Alexandra's in Stockholm 1975
With Christer Lindarw, Ulla Jones, Roger Jönsson and others in his 1976 Wild Side Story cast
Dinner with Swedish entertainment star Lill-Babs in Los Angeles in 1976
His photo of Mae West speaking after the Los Angeles opening of Sextette in 1978
With his Front Desk staff at The Beverly Hills Hotel in 1982
With Max von Sydow after a writers' meeting in Stockholm in 1992
In 1992 with Swedish PR guru Chris Platin who along with Sighsten Herrgård helped promote his 1975-1976 Stockholm shows
Dinner with Camilla Henemark in Stockholm in 1993
With his celebrity group at the Stockholm commemoration of the Mae West Centenary 1993
1993 with a production assistant and Miss Sweden of that year Johanna Lind
With radio personality Gert Fylking (left) and Wild Side Story cast members in Stockholm in 1997
Rehearsing the boys in a F.U.S.I.A. show in Spain in 2000 with Jimmie Kersmo in the cast
With Chris Ajaxson, Mohombi Moupondo and H. Magnus Olsson at a F.U.S.I.A. party in 2001
Visited at home by his cousin Mattias Klum in Stockholm 2001
Bidding young actress Helena Mattsson farewell at his office as she left Stockholm for Los Angeles in 2003
Arriving at The Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007 with two of his 1980s clerks from there, to begin a tour of their former workplace
After a meeting about Church of Sweden burial policies with Bishop Thomas Söderberg of West Aros in 2008
With Swedish entertainment entrepreneur Hans E. Wallman at his Stockholm office in 2009
With Jack Ohle and Bishop Åke Bonnier at Gustavus Adolphus College luncheon in Stockholm 2009
Running into Swedish song champion Måns Zelmerlöw when in productions at neighboring Stockholm venues in 2010
2010 meeting in Titisee, Germany, with Borwin Herzog zu Mecklenburg, head of the ancient Nicolan Dynasty of European royalty
2010 presenting Moritz Prinz und Landgraf von Hessen, head of the ancient Brabant Dynasty of European royalty, with a portrait of a related Swedish king in Kronberg, Germany
Meeting 2010 with Christoph Prinz zu Schleswig Holstein, head of the ancient Oldenburg Dynasty of European royalty, at his Grünholz Estate in Germany
Signing an agreement in Stockholm with his brother in 2011 to allow their mother Birgit Ridderstedt's songs to be published by Emil Eikner
His 2011 photo of Emil Eikner and their Swedish cast at Mae West's grave when in the U.S. to celebrate the centenary of her discovery on Broadway
With Emil Eikner and their tour ensemble doing finale number With a Song in My Heart at the Metropolitan Room in Manhattan in 2011
Directing Swedish actress Christina Schollin at her home for an audio in English in 2012
Reacting to fans screaming their approval at boy band One Direction in Stockholm in 2012
Thanking Swedish actress Kim Anderzon in Stockholm for recording his Swedish version of Mad About the Boy in 2012
With Emil Eikner, Gunvor Pontén and a grandson (production assistant) of Fleksnes in Eikner's cabaret cave in Stockholm 2013
With former roommate and close friend Jens Ehrs in London in 2013
With actor friends Matias Varela and Gustaf Skarsgård in the Stockholm subway 2013
Thanking old friend & Swedish entertainment icon Christer Lindarw in 2014 for recording a monologue for his Swedish version of Angel Eyes
With Birgit Ridderstedt Centenary guests Keith Foster, Biörn Riese, Monika Klum, his aunt Ingegärd Klum and ABBA choregrapher Graham Tainton in Stockholm 2014
With his longtime friend Swedish TV-personality Christopher O'Regan in Stockholm in 2015
Meeting in 2015 with Mayor Gisela Pallas in her office in Demitz-Thumitz, Germany, invited because she had never met anyone by the name of Demitz before
With his 1975 band leader Anders Eljas and Norwegian singer Wenche Myhre at Ulriksdal in 2015
Dressed in Xmas garb at home with Colin Dyall and his daughter singer Sharon Dyall 2016
With Princess Marianne Bernadotte, Countess of Wisborg and American cousin Linda R. Myers at his 68th birthday party in 2016 in Stockholm
With Emil Eikner thanking old friend and opera diva Kjerstin Dellert at her home in 2016 for hospitality and good work in recording his Swedish version of Comme d'habitude / My Way
Meeting up in 2016 in Batavia IL with grade school friends he hadn't seen since he moved away from there in 1962
Demonstrating the anti-fanaticism statement he wears around his neck, here on Hallowe'en 2016
With opera singers C. F. Tohver and Caroline Gentele preparing to perform his Swedish version of Indian Love Call at Ulriksdal Palace Theatre on New Year's Eve 2016
At the Kjerstin Dellert funeral reception with Princess Christina Magnuson & theater manager Fredrik Forslund 2018
With brother & proprietor of Matsalu Manor in Estonia, October 2019 (6 months before Ridderstedt's death)
Brother's burial ceremony, Dalecarlia Cathedral June 16 2020
Wearing Covid-19 headgear with Emil Eikner's daughter, Stockholm, December 2020
With actress/author Ewa Fröling in Stockholm, March 12 2023
With descendants of Jacob & Fredrika Marcus, such as Serena Altschul, Jens von Reis, Biörn Riese & Annabelle Rice, Stockholm August 27 2024