Annett Wolf

Annett Wolf (born September 11, 1936) is a Danish director, writer producer, interviewer for TV documentaries, feature films and stage plays. Between 1962 and 1977, she worked for Danmarks Radio, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, directing numerous in-depth profiles with artists such as Jacques Brel, Jerry Lewis, Dave Allen, Peter Ustinov and Peter Sellers. These documentaries were shot on location. In Hollywood, she directed a series of in-depth profiles with Jack Lemmon, Alfred Hitchcock, Walter Matthau and Telly Savalas. She also directed Hurray for Hollywood, a three-part documentary series about Hollywood and the American film industry.

Wolf received the Billedbladets Gyldne Rose (the Danish People's Choice Award) in 1976 for Jack Lemmon - A Twist of Lemmon, and in 1977 for Hurray for Hollywood. She then established herself as an independent Hollywood producer and directed documentaries, making-of featurettes, and trailers to promote major productions overseas. She left the United States in 1990 and resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She is in pre-production for the feature film So It Was.

Wolf should not be confused with her daughter, Hollywood publicist Annett Wolf Junior.

Annett Wolf was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, the daughter of Amory and Halfdan Wolf, owner and CEO of the wine importing agency Louis Wolf. In 1955 and 1956 she was trained by expert wine makers across Europe. She joined the family business for a short period of time, but then decided to pursue her passion for theatre, history, and drama, concluding her studies in England, Scotland and Spain.

In 1961, Wolf began working for Danmarks Radio, the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, as a production assistant. In 1962, she started filming jazz concerts (Bud Powell at the Montmartre Jazz club) and went on producing and directing television specials with American jazz musicians such as Erroll Garner, Bill Evans, Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz and Ben Webster. It was also at this point she began her collaboration with the Danish jazz trumpeter and composer Palle Mikkelborg, and bass player Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. Mikkelborg continues to compose and arrange the scores for Wolf’s films to this day. She also worked with the American jazz saxophonist Sahib Shihab, who wrote the score for two of her films: Theme in D Minor (1963), a poetic exploration of Copenhagen by night and The Girl with the Ballet Slippers (1965), a jazz pantomime conceived by Finn Methling. The same year she co-wrote and directed Charlie Chaplin, The Man, the Clown and the Director, a three-part documentary series based on Chaplin's My Autobiography, and La Grande Famille (The Big Family), a feature documentary centered around the Spanish clown Charlie Rivel, the Rivel family and the Danish circus dynasty the Shumann’s. In 1966, she convinced the French mime Marcel Marceau to collaborate in writing an original visual autobiography. The Visual World of Marcel Marceau (1967) was the first color film ever broadcast by Danish TV. The drafts and final screenplay are now part of the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France.

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