Ian Wolfe
| Ian Wolfe | |
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Wolfe circa 1960
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| Born |
November 4, 1896 Canton, Illinois, US |
| Died | January 23, 1992 (aged 95) Los Angeles, California, US |
| Other names | Ien Wulf, Ian Macwolfe, Ian Wolf |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1934–1990 |
| Spouse(s) | Elizabeth Schroder (m. 1924; his death 1992) |
| Children | Moya and Deirdre |
Ian Wolfe (November 4, 1896 – January 23, 1992) was an American actor with about 400 film and television roles. Until 1934, he worked in the theatre. That year, he also turned to film and later television, as a character actor. His career lasted many decades and included many classics; his last credit was in 1990.
Ian Wolfe appeared in many notable films, including the Clark Gable/Charles Laughton Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942), the highly regarded Julius Caesar (1953), James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and George Lucas's THX 1138 (1971). Wolfe's best-known role may have been in the 1946 movie Bedlam, in which he played a lawyer confined to an asylum. Although he was American by birthright, his experience in theatre gave him a precise diction, and he was often cast as Englishmen on screen, including a fictional Commissioner of Scotland Yard in the final film in the 1939-1946 Sherlock Holmes film series, Dressed to Kill (1946) (incidentally, he also appeared as an American antiques dealer in another film in the series, Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943)), and Carter, Sir Wilfrid's clerk and office manager, in Witness for the Prosecution (1957).
Wolfe played a crooked small town doctor in "Six Gun's Legacy", an episode from the first (1949) season of The Lone Ranger. In it he plots to cheat a man out of his inheritance by using a look-alike to collect the payment. The episode is unusual in that it featured white collar crime, though at the end, true to formula, Wolfe draws on The Lone Ranger and has his gun shot from his hand. Wolfe appeared in the 1966 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Midnight Howler," as Abel Jackson. In 1966, he portrayed the new Rev. Leighton on The Andy Griffith Show ('Aunt Bee’s Crowning Glory', season 7, episode 5, broadcast October 10, 1966), where in an attempt to impress, Aunt Bee wears a wig. He also 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, guest-starred in a 1977 episode of the ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang, and portrayed the wizard Traquil in the cult series Wizards and Warriors (1983). 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, played by Carol Bruce.
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