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Ian Wolfe

Ian Wolfe

Birthday: 1896-11-04 | Place of Birth: Canton, Illinois, USA

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Ian Wolfe (November 4, 1896 – January 23, 1992) 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 where he served as a medical sergeant in the National Army of the United States. His service number was 2371377. 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 scientist 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. Of note to science fiction fans, Ian Wolfe appeared in two episodes of the original Star Trek television series: "Bread and Circuses" (1968) as Septimus, and "All Our Yesterdays" (1969) 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. Wolfe, who worked until the last couple of years of his life, died January 23, 1992, at age 95, of natural causes. He was cremated. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Wolfe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

1989
Checking Out

as    Mr. D'Amato

1982
Mae West

as    Dorset

1981
Reds

as    Mr. Partlow

1978
The Seniors

as    Mr. Bleiffer

1975
The Fortune

as    Justice of the Peace

1974
Homebodies

as    Mr. Loomis

1971
THX 1138

as    PTO

1967
Games

as    Dr. Edwards

1963
Diary of a Madman

as    Pierre

1960
The Lost World

as    Burton White

1957
Witness for the Prosecution

as    Carter

1953
Houdini

as    Malue

1952
The Captive City

as    Rev. Nash

1951
Mask of the Avenger

as    Donner

1951
On Dangerous Ground

as    Sheriff Carrey

1949
They Live by Night

as    Hawkins

1949
Colorado Territory

as    Homer Wallace

1947
Desire Me

as    Dr. Poulin

1947
The Marauders

as    Edwin "Deacon" Black

1946
The Fighting Guardsman

as    Berton

1946
The Falcon's Adventure

as    J.D. Denison

1946
Tomorrow Is Forever

as    Norton

1946
Bedlam

as    Sidney Long

1943
Don't You Believe It

as    Aide

1942
Secret Agent of Japan

as    Capt. Larsen

1942
Saboteur

as    Robert

1940
Earthbound

as    Amos Totten

1940
The Son of Monte Cristo

as    Conrad Stadt