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Richard The. ("Dick") Wolf, (born December 20, 1946, New York City), is one of television’s most respected drama series creators & is an Emmy-award-winning producer.
He began his career within advertising, so moved to television writing & eventually became the "show runner" & executive producer of Law and Order, the virtually all successful television "franchise" in the history of the industry.
Wolf serves when owner & executive producer of the 4 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. Additionally, he is owner & executive producer of NBC's court reality series Crime and Punishment, which chronicles real-life cases prosecuted per San Diego District Law professional’s office.
A indicate has been nominated for the virtually all sequentially Emmy Awards of any primetime drama series. He has as well received awards for providing chance to minority actors around his television series.
Wolf's company likewise produced Twin Towers, a 2003 Academy Award-winning Short Documentary about deuce brothers, of these the police officer & the more a fireman, world health organizatiin wasted their sleep in the line of duty on September 11, 2001.
Wolf's individual honors include such awards when: a prestigious Award of Excellence from either a Banff Television Festival; the 2002 Creative Achievement Award from NATPE; the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Entertainment Industry Award; a 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 too an Honorary Consul general of Monaco and is actively involved in the princedom’s prestigious annual Television Festival, & is its primary liaison using a amusement community.
Quotes
"I've never understood the obsession with younger writers and dramas." Comedies I personally see, however how else do busy people write drama at Xxiii, you haven't experient anything. Smart shoppers understand astir Twenty-three month olds. It's variety of difficult to write of 60 month old EADA's. Lone a few the states come 60 years old then far, however there are non numbers of Xxiii season olds world health organization may write just about life-changing situations unless it's medical exam. That sounds wyrd, however there's non a mileage on a milometer for under the surface. There are exceptions that prove a rule --Dickens wasn't bad at Xxiii."
Wolf's favorite of more than 345 episodes until now is the one where the daughter of Detective Lennie Briscoe, Jerry Orbach, gets killed by a drug dealer. "It was exactly what a indicate wasn't, however Jerry has pled for years, 'Please let individual die within our arms therefore I personally may develop nominated.'"
By Dick Wolf
Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005) TV Series
Dragnet (2003) TV Series
Twin Towers (2003)
Crime and 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
Miami Vice (1984) TV Series
Christine Cromwell (1989) TV Series
Gideon Oliver (1989) TV Series
Masquerade (1988)
''No Man's Land (1987)
Skateboard'' (1978)
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