Dick Wolf
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Wolf in 2010
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| Born |
Richard Anthony Wolf December 20, 1946 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Other names | Richard A. Wolf Richard Wolf |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Television writer, director, executive producer, creator |
| Known for |
Law & Order franchise Chicago franchise |
| Home town | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Spouse(s) | Susan Scranton (September 5, 1970 – March 16, 1983) (divorced) Christine Marburg (June 29, 1983 – 2005) (divorced) Noelle Lippman (June 17, 2006 – present) |
| Children | 5 |
Richard Anthony "Dick" Wolf (born December 20, 1946) is an American television producer, best known as the creator and executive producer of the Law & Order franchise of police dramas. He has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Wolf has also authored four books. The first, nonfiction Law & Order: Crime Scenes, is a companion to the Law & Order television series.The Intercept, The Execution, and The Ultimatum are volumes in a thriller series with N.Y.P.D. Detective Jeremy Fisk.
Wolf was born in New York City, the son of Marie G. (née Gaffney), a homemaker, and George Wolf, an advertising executive. His father was Jewish, and his mother was Roman Catholic of Irish descent.
He was an altar boy and attended Saint David's School, The Gunnery, and the University of Pennsylvania (class of 1969), where he belonged to the Zeta Psi fraternity. He also attended Phillips Academy.
Wolf worked as an advertising copywriter at Benton & Bowles creating commercials for Crest toothpaste, all the while writing screenplays in the hopes of a film career. It was at this time that he briefly collaborated on a screenplay with Oliver Stone, who was a struggling screenwriter at the time. He moved to Los Angeles after a few years and had three screenplays produced; one of these films, Masquerade (1988) starring Rob Lowe and Meg Tilly, was well received. He started his television career as a staff writer on Hill Street Blues and was nominated for his first Emmy for an episode entitled "What Are Friends For?", on which he was the only writer. While working on Hill Street Blues, Wolf became close friends with Tom Fontana, then writing for the series St. Elsewhere, produced in the same building, at the same time. Wolf moved from Hill Street Blues to Miami Vice, where he was a supervising producer.
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