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Ian Wolfe
Known for: ActingFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Wolfe, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography 68
Witness for the Prosecution
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as Carter 
Julius Caesar
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as Caius Ligarius 
Rebel Without a Cause
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as Dr. Minton 
Diane
as Lord Tremouille 
Reds
as Mr. Partlow 
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
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as Rev. Elcott 
Moonfleet
as Tewkesbury 
Mutiny on the Bounty
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as Maggs 
Mad Love
as Henry Orlac, Stephen Orlac's Stepfather 
THX 1138
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as PTO 
Saboteur
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as Robert 
They Live by Night
as Hawkins 
Bedlam
as Sidney Long 
Foreign Correspondent
as Stiles 
The Frisco Kid
as Father Joseph 
The Raven
as Geoffrey 'Pinky' Burns 
Desire Me
as Dr. Poulin (uncredited) 
The Lost World
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as Burton White 
Jinxed!
as Morley 
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
as Antiques Store Sales Clerk 
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
as Smith 
The Pearl of Death
as Amos Hodder 
Creator
as Prof. Brauer 
Pollyanna
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as Mr. Neely 
Diary of a Madman
as Pierre 
Dressed to Kill
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as Commissioner of Scotland Yard 
The Actress
as Mr. Bagley 
The Silver Chalice
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as Theron 
On Dangerous Ground
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as Sheriff Carrey 
99 River Street
as Waldo Daggett 
The King's Thief
as Fell 
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell
as President Calvin Coolidge 
If Winter Comes
as Dr. Clement Avington (uncredited) 
Colorado Territory
as Homer Wallace 
Confidential Agent
as Dr. Bellows 
Tomorrow Is Forever
as Norton 
Games
as Dr. Edwards 
The Scarlet Claw
as Drake 
Houdini
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as Malue 
Romeo and Juliet
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as Apothecary 
The Defender (Studio One)
as Judge Marsala 
Here Comes the Groom
as Uncle Adam 
The Barretts of Wimpole Street
as Harry Bevan 
The Devil's Daughter
as Father MacHugh 
All in a Night's Work
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as O'Hara 
The Son of Monte Cristo
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as Conrad Stadt 
Allegheny Uprising
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as Poole 
Checking Out
as Mr. D'Amato 
The Falcon's Adventure
as J.D. Denison 
The Fortune
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as Justice of the Peace 
On Borrowed Time
as Charles Wentworth 
Up the Academy
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as Commandant Causeway 
Mae West
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as Dorset 
Copper Canyon
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as Mr. Henderson 
Blondie
as Judge 
The Notorious Lone Wolf
as Adam Wheelright 
Les Miserables
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as Presiding Judge (uncredited) 
The Seniors
as Mr. Bleiffer 
The Firefly
as Izquierdo (uncredited) 
Julia Misbehaves
as Hobson, the Butler 
Nightmare
as James, Abbington's butler 
The Captive City
as Rev. Nash 
Mayerling
as Loschek 
Murder in the Blue Room
as Edwards 
One Man's Way
as Bishop Hardwick 
Strange Confession
as Frederick 
I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?
as Phillips