1. Ian Marcus Wolfe was an American character actor with around 400 film and television credits.
13 Facts About Ian Wolfe
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Ian Wolfe's career lasted seven decades and included many films and TV series; his last screen credit was in 1990.
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Ian Wolfe made his film debut in The Barretts of Wimpole Street.
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Ian Wolfe appeared in many films, including Mutiny on the Bounty, Alfred Hitchcock's Foreign Correspondent and Saboteur, Julius Caesar, Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause and George Lucas's THX 1138.
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Ian Wolfe appeared in three other films in the series, as an American antiques dealer in Sherlock Holmes in Washington, as a butler in The Scarlet Claw, and as an art dealer in The Pearl of Death.
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Ian Wolfe played Carter, Sir Wilfrid Robarts's clerk and office manager in Witness for the Prosecution.
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Ian Wolfe played a crooked small-town doctor in "Six Gun's Legacy", an episode from the first season of The Lone Ranger.
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Ian Wolfe appeared in the 1966 Perry Mason episode "The Case of the Midnight Howler" as Abel Jackson.
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Ian Wolfe appeared in two episodes of the original Star Trek television series: "Bread and Circuses" as Septimus, and "All Our Yesterdays" as Mr Atoz.
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Ian Wolfe guest-starred in a 1977 episode of the ABC crime drama The Feather and Father Gang, and portrayed the wizard Traquill in the series Wizards and Warriors.
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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.
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Ian 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.
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Ian Wolfe was married to Elizabeth Schroder for 68 years, from 1924 until his death; the couple had two daughters.