Shmuel Wolf

Acting

Shmuel Wolf

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Other
Birthday
Feb 12, 1934 (91 years old)
Death date
Feb 23, 2019

Shmuel Wolf

Known For

Cats on a Pedal Boat
1h 26m
Movie 2011

Cats on a Pedal Boat

Not the sort of film we usually see coming from...

Don Quixote in Jerusalem
0h 5m
Movie 2005

Don Quixote in Jerusalem

Don Quixote and Sancho Pancha arrive in Israel in the...

The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein
1h 23m
Movie 1993

The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein

In this surreal comedy, a ghost monk convinces Itzik, a...

The Passport
1h 43m
Movie 1990

The Passport

A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was...

Esther
1h 37m
Movie 1986

Esther

Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and...

War and Love
1h 38m
Movie 1985

War and Love

Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War...

Biography

Shmuel Wolf was an Israeli actor. Born in Budapest, Wolf's mother died at a young age and his father, who sold sewing machines, later remarried. Wolf and his stepmother were forced to relocate to the local ghetto during the Holocaust after his father was murdered by members of the Arrow Cross Party. After the ghetto was liberated in 1945, Wolf resided in a Bnei Akiva camp in France from 1948 until emigrating to Israel the following year. He lived in Masu'ot Yitzhak and then Kfar Masaryk. Wolf also served in the Hashomer Hatzair movement and the Nahal movement. He moved to Tel Aviv in 1959. From the 1960s onwards, Wolf focused on his career as an actor. He studied acting with Nola Chilton and he became a regular performer at many theatres which included the Ohel Theatre and the Haifa Theatre. Wolf's most popular stage performances was in Josef Mundy’s play It Comes Around in which he performed over 2,000 times. On film and television, Wolf made his film debut in Sallah Shabati starring Chaim Topol. He was also featured in the 1972 film An American Hippie in Israel. Other films he appeared in included Fifty-Fifty, An Intimate Story and A Woman Called Golda. He also made minor appearances in the television shows Life is Not Everything and Srugim.