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Ian Wolfe is a Actor American born on 4 november 1896 at Illinois (USA)
Ian Wolfe (November 4, 1896 – January 23, 1992) was an American actor with about 400 film and television roles. Until 1934, he worked in the theatre. That year, he also turned to film and later television, as a character actor. His career lasted many decades and included many classics; his last credit was in 1990.
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Nationality USA
Birth 4 november 1896 at Illinois (USA)
Death 23 january 1992 (at 95 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
Birth 4 november 1896 at Illinois (USA)
Death 23 january 1992 (at 95 years) at Los Angeles (USA)
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Dick Tracy (1990)
, 1h45Directed by Warren Beatty, Hayao Miyazaki, Robert Zemeckis
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Gangster films
Actors Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, James Caan, Glenne Headly
Roles Forger
Rating61%
At an illegal card game, a young street urchin (Charlie Korsmo) witnesses the massacre of a group of mobsters named Shoulders (Stig Eldred), Stooge (Jim Wilkey), the Rodent (Neil Summers), the Brow (Chuck Hicks) and Little Face (Lawrence Steven Meyers) at the hands of Flattop (William Forsythe) and Itchy (Ed O'Ross), two of the hoods on the payroll of Alphonse "Big Boy" Caprice (Al Pacino). Big Boy's crime syndicate is aggressively taking over small businesses in the city. Detective Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty) catches the urchin (who calls himself "Kid") in an act of petty theft. After rescuing him from a ruthless host, Tracy temporarily adopts him with the help of his girlfriend, Tess Truehart (Glenne Headly).
Checking Out (1989)
, 1h36Directed by David Leland
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker, Kathleen York, Ann Magnuson, Allan Havey
Roles Mr. D'Amato
Rating47%
Ray Macklin (Daniels) is obsessed with his own mortality. When a close friend suddenly dies of a heart attack at a barbecue, Ray becomes convinced that every ache, pain and twinge he experiences is a sign of his own impending death. His unjustified fears lead him into ever more extensive hypochondria.
Creator (1985)
, 1h44Directed by Ivan Passer
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Romance
Themes Comedy science fiction films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Vincent Spano, Virginia Madsen, Mariel Hemingway, David Ogden Stiers, John Dehner
Roles Prof. Brauer
Rating61%
Dr. Harry Wolper is an eccentric medical professor teaching at a small southern California college who is obsessed with making a clone of his wife Lucy who died in childbirth 30 years earlier. Harry hires Boris Lafkin, a struggling pre-med student as his personal assistant to help him with his experiments by obtaining lab equipment and working in his backyard shed in exchange for which Harry gives Boris love life advice in courting an attractive coed named Barbara whom slowly becomes smitten with Boris. To continue his research into cloning, Harry meets and employes a young woman, named Meli, who practically moves in with him on an agreement to contribute her ovary sample as part of the cloning progress. Meli slowly falls for the much older Harry whom begins to question his ethics and vision of true love. Meanwhile, a rival of Harry's, fellow medical professor Dr. Sid Kuhlenbeck, tries to investigate and hinder Harry's cloning plans as part of a ploy to remove Harry from the university to take over Harry's lab for himself.
Jinxed! (1982)
, 1h43Directed by Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Val Avery, Jack Elam, Jacqueline Scott
Roles Morley
Rating47%
Harold Benson (Rip Torn) and his lounge-singer wife Bonita Friml (Bette Midler) follow a young blackjack dealer Willie Brodax (Ken Wahl) around the country. Harold has a blackjack winning jinx on Willie, and seemingly can't lose to him.
Jinxed! (1982)
, 1h43Directed by Don Siegel
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bette Midler, Ken Wahl, Rip Torn, Jack Elam, Val Avery, Jacqueline Scott
Roles Morley
Rating47%
Harold est un joueur professionnel qui fréquente les casinos de Las Vegas accompagné de sa femme, la chanteuse Bonita. Harold sympathise avec le jeune Willie dont la présence lui porte chance aux tables de jeux Mais Willie et Bonita se rencontrent et tombent amoureux. Bonita complote alors pour récupérer l'assurance-vie d'Harold et refaire sa vie avec Willie.
Mae West (1982)
, 2hDirected by Lee Philips
Genres Drama
Actors Ann Jillian, James Brolin, Piper Laurie, Roddy McDowall, Ian Wolfe, Louis Giambalvo
Roles Dorset
Rating63%
Reds (1981)
, 3h4Directed by Warren Beatty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about anarchism, Politique, Political films
Actors Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Maureen Stapleton, Gene Hackman
Roles Mr. Partlow
Rating72%
The film covers the life of John Reed and Louise Bryant from their first meeting to Reed's final days in 1920 Russia. Interspersed throughout the narrative, several surviving witnesses from the time period give their recollections of Reed, Bryant, their colleagues and friends, and the era itself. A number of them have mixed views of Bryant and her relationship with Reed.
Up the Academy (1980)
, 1h27Directed by Robert Downey Sr.
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Military humor in film, Superhero films
Actors Ron Leibman, Ralph Macchio, Tom Poston, King Coleman, Barbara Bach, Ian Wolfe
Roles Commandant Causeway
Rating47%
At the Sheldon R. Wienberg Academy, four young teens are sent to school and learn the discipline that the school teaches. Almost immediately, they don't like what is going on. Along the way, they plan their own actions from looking for girls to holding a party without the faculty's knowledge. The film's title comes from the fictitious academy itself.
The Frisco Kid (1979)
, 1h54Directed by Robert Aldrich
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, Buddy films
Actors Gene Wilder, Harrison Ford, Ramon Bieri, Val Bisoglio, George DiCenzo, David Bradley
Roles Father Joseph
Rating62%
Rabbi Avram Belinski (Wilder) arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. He has with him a Torah scroll for the San Francisco synagogue. Belinski, an innocent, trusting, and inexperienced traveler, falls in with three con men, the brothers Matt and Darryl Diggs and their partner Mr. Jones, who trick him into helping pay for a wagon and supplies to go west, then brutally rob him and leave him and most of his belongings scattered along a deserted road in Pennsylvania.
Mean Dog Blues (1978)
, 1h48Directed by Mel Stuart
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action
Actors Gregg Henry, Kay Lenz, Scatman Crothers, Tina Louise, Gregory Sierra, Felton Perry
Roles Judge
Rating60%
A friend driving under the influence seriously injures a child. Paul Ramsey, a singer, offers to take the rap in court, only to be double-crossed and sentenced to five years in prison.
The Seniors (1978)
, 1h27Directed by Rodney Amateau
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Jeffrey Byron, Dennis Quaid, Gary Imhoff, Priscilla Barnes, Lou Richards, Alan Reed
Roles Mr. Bleiffer
Rating43%
Ben (Gary Imhoff), Larry (Jeffrey Byron), Alan (Dennis Quaid), and Steve (Lou Richards) are college seniors who are terrified at the prospect of working for a living. They create a plan to support themselves as graduate research students by getting a foundation grant to study sexuality in college-age women.
Dynasty (1976)
, 1h40Directed by Lee Philips
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Harrison Ford, Sarah Miles, Stacy Keach, Harris Yulin, Amy Irving, Granville Van Dusen
Roles Dr. Klauber
Rating49%
Dynasty (1976)
, 1h40Directed by Lee Philips
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Actors Harrison Ford, Stacy Keach, Harris Yulin, Sarah Miles, Amy Irving, Gerrit Graham
Roles Dr. Klauber
Rating49%
The Fortune (1975)
, 1h28Directed by Mike Nichols
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Stockard Channing, Ian Wolfe, Brian Avery, Florence Stanley
Roles Justice of the Peace
Rating55%
Nicky Wilson (Beatty) and Oscar Sullivan (Nicholson) are inept 1920s scam artists who see pay dirt in the guise of Fredericka Quintessa Bigard (Stockard Channing), the millionaire heiress to a sanitary napkin fortune. She loves the already married Nicky, but because the Mann Act prohibits him from taking her across state lines and engaging in immoral relations, he proposes that she marry Oscar and then carry on an affair with the man she wants. Oscar, who is wanted for embezzlement and anxious to get out of town, is happy to comply with the plan, although he intends to claim his spousal privileges after they are wed.
, 1h49Directed by Steven Hilliard Stern
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bob Dishy, Joanna Barnes, Bill Dana, Bobby Ball, Angelo Rossitto, Harvey Jason
Roles Phillips
Rating36%
Jordan Oliver (Dishy) is caught embezzling $250,000 from his employer but, as he is the boss' son-in-law, is given a chance to pay it back. Meanwhile, his wealthy wife Clarice (Barnes) is about to divorce him. He can only get the money by having his wife murdered for $1 million life insurance. He hires a hitman Bobo (Bill Dana) to kill his wife; Bobo subcontracts the job out to another hitman, who in turn subcontracts it out and so on until an actor is the hitman for just $6.95 When Oliver is told his wife's insurance is invalid, he must rescue his wife before she's murdered.