Ian Wolfe
AKA: Ian Wolf
Birthday: 1896-11-04
Died: 1992-01-23
Birthplace: 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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Filmography
Character: Commissioner of Scotland Yard
Character: Sanity Hearing Doctor (uncredited)
Character: Sheriff Carrey
Character: Feeney (uncredited)
Character: Thomas, the butler (uncredited)
Character: Geoffrey 'Pinky' Burns
Character: Hobson, the Butler
Character: Justice of the Peace
Character: Edwin "Deacon" Black
Character: Leon, a Conspirator
Character: Father MacHugh
Character: A. Le Marchand - Detective (as Ien Wulf)
Character: President Webb (uncredited)
Character: Reading Clerk (as Ian Wulf)
Character: Councilman Hurdwell
Character: Kirby's Secretary (uncredited)
Character: Dr. Clement Avington (uncredited)
Character: Charles Wentworth
Character: Bishop Hardwick
Character: Lord Mayor Herman Brandon R. Clive
Character: Sidney P. Melrose
Character: Edward Warrender
Character: Swedish consul
Character: Commandant Causeway
Character: Fritz (uncredited)
Character: Cabinet Member (uncredited)
Character: Patient (uncredited)
Character: Police Judge (uncredited)
Character: Cemetery Caretaker (uncredited)
Character: Lloyd (uncredited)
Character: Charlie Gibbs (uncredited)
Character: Charlie, a Fence (uncredited)
Character: Horace Greeley (uncredited)
Character: Watkins (uncredited)
Character: Martin, Nelson's Second Butler (uncredited)
Character: Thomas - Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Character: Sir Charles Porter
Character: Health Officer
Character: Hermann Einreich [Chs. 1-2]
Character: Skipper of Honeymoon Boat (uncredited)
Character: Henry Orlac, Stephen Orlac's Stepfather (Uncredited)
Character: Mr. Rojeck (uncredited)
Character: Antiques Store Sales Clerk
Character: Skeptical Member of Modern-day Expedition (uncredited)
Character: Joe (uncredited)
Character: Paymaster Commander
Character: Tallyrand (as Ien Wulf)
Character: Gillkie the Barrister
Character: Eustace L. Harley (uncredited)
Character: Prof. Mellasagus
Character: Isaac Newton (uncredited)
Character: Dr. Wyeland (uncredited)
Character: Professor Lilliquist
Character: Coroner (uncredited)
Character: Rector (uncredited)
Character: Fritz, Police Lab Man
Character: President Calvin Coolidge
Character: Pleyel's Clerk (uncredited)
Character: James, Abbington's butler
Character: Herbert - the Jailer (uncredited)
Character: Editor W.W. Dwight
Character: President James K. Polk
Character: Registrar of Births (uncredited)
Character: Nicholas Cabot
Character: Lord Tremouille
Character: Dentist (uncredited)
Character: Board of Military Judges
Character: Joseph (uncredited)
Character: Councillor (uncredited)
Character: Gruning, Stregel's Henchman (uncredited)
Character: Reporter (uncredited)
Character: President James K. Polk (uncredited)
Character: Grandpa Squirrel (voice) (uncredited)
Character: Viceroy (uncredited)
Character: Presiding Judge (uncredited)
Character: Izquierdo (uncredited)
Character: Adam Wheelright