Steve Jacobs

• Name — Steve Jacobs • Birthplace — Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Occupation — Actor, producer, director • Known for — Sky Trackers R.F.D.S. • Spouse — Anna Maria Monticelli Steve Jacobs is an Australian actor and film director.

Jacob's debut role was in the television film Man of Letters in 1984. The same year he appeared in feature film Silver City. In 1985, Jacobs appeared in 4 episodes of TV medical drama A Country Practice and two more TV films. The next year he appeared in two miniseries, Alice to Nowhere and The Dirtwater Dynasty and feature films Echoes of Paradise (alongside Wendy Hughes) and Jilted (opposite Tina Bursill). After a guest role in the rebooted American Mission: Impossible series in 1988, he appeared in two more miniseries, The Magistrate and Cassidy and feature film Kokoda Crescent (all 1989). Jacobs had early 1990s guest roles in long-running medical series G.P., anthology miniseries Seven Deadly Sins and drama thriller Snowy. He then starred in back-to-back roles in Australian children's science fiction adventure series Sky Trackers and medical drama R.F.D.S., a Crawford Productions spin-off of long-running series The Flying Doctors – the roles he is perhaps best known for. He had 1990s television guest appearances in Blue Murder, Halifax f.p., One West Waikiki, Police Rescue, State Coroner, All Saints, Medivac, Wildside and Stingers. He also had roles in several films including Father (1990), Boys in the Island (both 1990), Rose Against the Odds (1991), To Have & to Hold (1996), Heart of Fire, The Well and Reprisal (all 1997). Jacobs had further television guest roles into the 2000s, including White Collar Blue, Fergus McPhail, Blue Heelers, East West 101 and Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms. He appeared in the 2000s TV movies Ihaka: Blunt Instrument and BlackJack: Sweet Science, as well as 2001 comedy feature The Man Who Sued God (alongside Billy Connolly). Jacobs directed the movie La Spagnola (2001), which was written and produced by Anna Maria Monticelli. In 2008 he directed John Malkovich in a film adaptation of J. M. Coetzee's novel Disgrace, again produced and adapted by Monticelli. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, where it won the Prize of the International Critics.

Jacobs is married to actress and producer Anna Maria Monticelli, with whom he starred in Sky Trackers.

• Year — Title — Role — Type • 1985 — A Country Practice — Russell Griffin — TV series, 4 episodes • 1986 — Alice to Nowhere — Dave Mitchell — TV miniseries, 2 episodes • 1988 — The Dirtwater Dynasty — Josh McCall — TV miniseries, 5 episodes • 1988 — Mission: Impossible — Stanton — TV series, season 1, episode 4: "The Condemned" • 1989 — The Magistrate — Wetherby — TV miniseries, 4 episodes • 1989 — Cassidy — Jensen — TV miniseries, 2 episodes • 1992 — G.P. — Mark — TV series, season 4, episode 37: "Chrysalis" • 1993 — Seven Deadly Sins — TV miniseries, episode 7: "Wrath" • 1993 — Snowy — George Blessed — TV miniseries, season 1, episode 8: "Song of the Siren" • 1993–94 — R.F.D.S. — Dr Jim Solomon — TV series, 13 episodes • 1994 — Sky Trackers — Tony Masters — TV series, 26 episodes • 1995 — Blue Murder — Detective Mal Rivers — TV miniseries, 2 episodes • 1996 — Halifax f.p. — William — TV series, season 2, episode 1: "Without Consent" • 1996 — One West Waikiki — William Stanley — TV series, season 2, episode 9: "The Romanoff Affair" • 1996 — Police Rescue — Captain Tarrant — TV series, season 5, episode 5: "The Ship" • 1997 — State Coroner — Chief Inspector Karl Devon — TV series, season 1, 2 episodes • 1998 — All Saints — Dr Harry Williams — TV series, season 1, 2 episodes • 1998 — Medivac — Parker — TV series, season 3, episode 10: "Boy Scout" • 1999 — Wildside — Frank Smith — TV series, season 2, episode 10 • 1999; 2002 — Stingers — Kransky QC — TV series, seasons 2 & 5, 3 episodes • 2002 — White Collar Blue — Cable — TV movie • 2004 — Fergus McPhail — Jeremy Sylvester — TV series, season 1, episode 17: "The Act" • 2004 — Blue Heelers — Mike O'Grady — TV series, season 11, episode 16: "The Cull" • 2011 — East West 101 — Deputy Police Commissioner — TV series, season 3, 3 episodes • 2012 — Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms — Detective Masterson — TV miniseries, episode 4