Todd Jacobsen

Born in Harlan, Iowa, on January 3, 1963, Todd "Dane" Jacobsen is a musician and occasional actor who collaborated with fellow musician and filmmaker Scott Allen Nollen from 1974 to 2018. 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. Beginning in 1977, Jacobsen and Nollen recorded a lengthy series of audio "radio" shows, including dozens of programs featuring Steel "Rod" Holmes, the son of Sherlock Holmes (played by Jacobsen)! 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. The band completed several albums prior to Nollen's relocation to the South Seas in 2017. Other bands under which Jacobsen and Nollen recorded include "The Midnight Crusaders," "Sergeant Dane and the Dirt Band," "Baseball Bat," Bedlam," "Butcher" and "Hymer," named after character actor Warren Hymer.