Dick Wolf - Biography

Last Editor: ahetzler009				Dick Wolf Biography -   Name : Dick Wolf Profession : Producer Birth Details : born December 20, 1946, New York City Birth name : Richard A. Wolf Spouse : Christine Marburg (29 June 1983 - present) 3 children Susan Scranton (5 September 1970 - 16 March 1983) (divorced) Trade mark : Often uses guest appearances as springboards for actors into regular cast roles.

Dick Wolf Trivia -

Attended prep school, which served as basis later for his School Ties (1992) screenplay; also attended Univ. of Pennsylvania. Father was an advertising executive, mother a housewife. Worked as copywriter and/or producer of over 100 TV commercials, 1969-76. Children: Olivia, Sarina and Elliot. Producer Dick Wolf is old friends with producer Tom Fontana. They often use actors from each other's TV series, usually resulting in the actors working on two shows at once. Examples are J.K. Simmons on "Law & Order" (1990) and "Oz" (1997), Christopher Meloni and Dean Winters on "Oz" (1997) and "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999), and Kathryn Erbe on "Oz" (1997) and "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" (2001). Richard Belzer famously leaped from producers' show to show as Detective John Munch. Was an altar boy at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York back when Cardinal Spellman was Archbishop. Is a close friend of famous crime novelist James Ellroy. Wolf even hired Ellroy's best friend, LAPD Homicide Detective Bill Stoner, as a technical advisor on his TV show Dragnet.

Dick Wolf Detailed Biography -

Richard A. ("Dick") Wolf, (born December 20, 1946, New York City), is one of television’s most respected drama series creators and is an Emmy Award-winning producer. He started his career in advertising, then moved to television writing and finally became a "show runner" and executive producer of Law & Order (which he created), the most successful television "franchise" in the history of the industry. The show has been nominated for the most consecutive Emmy Awards of any primetime drama series. He has also received awards for providing opportunities to minority actors in his television series. Wolf serves as creator and executive producer of the four Law & Order drama series from Wolf Films and NBC Universal Television – Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and the latest spinoff Law & Order: Trial by Jury. The latter was cancelled after its first season. In addition, he is creator and executive producer of NBC's courtroom reality series Crime & Punishment, which chronicles real-life cases prosecuted by the San Diego District Attorney’s office. Wolf's company also produced Twin Towers, the 2003 Academy Award-winning Short Documentary about two brothers, one a policeman and the other a fireman, who lost their lives in the line of duty on September 11, 2001. Wolf's personal honors include such awards as: the prestigious Award of Excellence from the Banff Television Festival; the 2002 Creative Achievement Award from NATPE; the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Entertainment Industry Award; the Leadership and Inspiration Award from the Entertainment Industries Council; the Governor’s Award by the New York Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences; the 1997 achievement award from the Caucus for Producers, Writers, and Directors, the 1998 Television Showman of the Year Award from the Publicist’s Guild of America and the 2002 Tribute from the Museum of Television and Radio. Wolf is also an Honorary Consul general of Monaco and is actively involved in the principality’s prestigious annual Television Festival, and is its primary liaison with the entertainment community. "I've never understood the obsession with younger writers and dramas. Comedies I understand, but how do you write drama at 23, you haven't experienced anything. You know about 23 year olds. It's kind of hard to write about 60 year old EADA's. Only a couple of us are 60 years old so far, but there are not many 23 year olds who can write about life-changing situations unless it's medical. That sounds weird, but there's not the mileage on the odometer to get under the surface. There are exceptions that prove the rule --Dickens wasn't bad at 23." Wolf's least favorite of more than 350 episodes until now is the one where the daughter of Detective Lennie Briscoe (played by Jerry Orbach) gets killed by a drug dealer. "It was exactly what the show wasn't, but Jerry has pled for years, 'Please let someone die in my arms so I can get nominated.'" Conviction (2006) TV Series Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005) TV Series Dragnet (2003) TV Series Twin Towers (2003) Crime & Punishment (2002) TV Series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) TV Series Arrest & Trial (2000) TV Series Deadline (2000) TV Series D.C. (2000) TV Series (executive producer) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) The Invisible Man (1998) (TV) Exiled: A Law & Order Movie (1998) (TV) Players (1997) TV Series Feds (1997) TV Series Swift Justice (1996) TV Series The Wright Verdicts (1995) TV Series New York Undercover (1994) TV Series South Beach (1993) TV Series The Human Factor (1992) TV Series Mann & Machine (1992) TV Series Law & Order (1990) TV Series H.E.L.P. (1990) TV Series Nasty Boys (1990) TV Series Christine Cromwell (1989) TV Series Gideon Oliver (1989) TV Series Masquerade (1988) No Man's Land (1987) Miami Vice (1984) TV Series Skateboard (1978)