Ian Wolfe
Acting
Born 1896-11-04
Died 1992-01-23
Canton, Illinois, USA
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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.
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Acting
44 credits
Perry Mason
Star Trek
The Fugitive
Bonanza
Cheers
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Andy Griffith Show
Hawaii Five-O
Wagon Train
Taxi
Adam-12
The Twilight Zone
Petticoat Junction
Dr. Kildare
Cheyenne
Barney Miller
Daniel Boone
All in the Family
Remington Steele
Gunsmoke
The F.B.I.
Studio One
Amazing Stories
Run for Your Life
The Lone Ranger
The Invaders
The Partridge Family
One Step Beyond
Kraft Suspense Theatre
Soap
Witness for the Prosecution
WKRP in Cincinnati
The Green Hornet
Cain's Hundred
The Great Adventure
Dick Tracy
CBS Playhouse
Lux Video Theatre
Rebel Without a Cause
The Wonderful World of Disney
Wire Service
Barbary Coast
Hawkins
THX 1138
Other credits
16 credits
Ironside
Alice
Emergency!
The Facts of Life
Lawman
The Rookies
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
State Trooper
The Count of Monte Cristo
Stoney Burke
Lancer
Branded
The Adventures of Jim Bowie
Cavalcade of America
You Are There
Jericho
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