Ian Wolfe
Actor, Theater Actor
1896 – 1992
Who was Ian Wolfe?
Ian Wolfe was an American actor whose films date from 1934 to 1990. Until 1934, he worked as a theatre actor. Wolfe mostly found work as a character actor, appearing in over 270 films. He and his wife, Elizabeth, had two daughters.
Wolfe was also a veteran of World War I when he served as a volunteer medical specialist.
Although American by birth and upbringing, Wolfe was often cast as an Englishman: his stage experience endowed him with precise diction resembling an upper-class British accent. A receding hairline and etched features at a relatively early age allowed him to play older men before he actually grew old. Wolfe found a niche as a soft-spoken learned man, and his over 250 roles included many attorneys, judges, butlers, ministers, professors, and doctors.
Wolfe's best-known role may have been in the 1946 movie Bedlam, in which he played a lawyer confined to an asylum.
Wolfe wrote and self-published two books of poetry Forty-Four Scribbles and a Prayer: Lyrics and Ballads and Sixty Ballads and Lyrics In Search of Music.
Wolfe appeared in the 1966 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Midnight Howler," as Abel Jackson. He also appeared in two episodes of the original Star Trek television series: "Bread and Circuses" as Septimus, and "All Our Yesterdays" as Mr. Atoz, and portrayed the wizard Traquil in the cult series Wizards and Warriors. In 1982, Wolfe had a small recurring role on the TV series WKRP in Cincinnati as Hirsch, the sarcastic, irreverent butler to WKRP owner Lillian Carlson.
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- Born
- Nov 4, 1896
Canton - Also known as
- Ian Wolf
- Ien Wulf
- Ian MacWolfe
- Ian Wulf
- Spouses
- Elizabeth Schroder Wolfe
(1924 - 1992/01/23)
- Elizabeth Schroder Wolfe
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 23, 1992
Los Angeles
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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