For the American football player, see Dick Wolf (American football).
Dick Wolf
Wolf in 2010
Born
Richard Anthony Wolf
(1946-12-20) December 20, 1946 (age 77)
New York City, New York, United States
Other names
Richard D. Wolf
Education
University of Pennsylvania (BA)
Occupation(s)
Television writer, director, executive producer, creator
Employer
Wolf Entertainment
Known for
Law & Order franchise
Chicago franchise
FBI franchise
Spouses
Susan Scranton
(m. 1970; div. 1983)
Christine Marburg
(m. 1983; div. 2005)
Noelle Lippman
(m. 2006; div. 2019)
[1]
Children
5
Richard Anthony Wolf (born December 20, 1946[2]), known professionally as Dick Wolf, is an American film and television producer, best known for his Law & Order franchise. Since 1990, the franchise has included six police/courtroom dramas and four international spinoffs. He is also creator and executive producer of the Chicago franchise, which since 2012, has included four Chicago-based dramas, and the creator and executive producer of the FBI franchise, which since 2018, has also become a franchise after spinning off two additional series.
Wolf has also written four books. The first, the non-fiction volume Law & Order: Crime Scenes, is a companion to the Law & Order television series.[3]The Intercept,The Execution, and The Ultimatum are works of fiction in a thriller series featuring a NYPD detective named Jeremy Fisk.[4]
Wolf has won numerous awards, including an Emmy Award, being inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, and receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
^"'Law & Order' Creator Dick Wolf Splitting from Third Wife, Noelle, after 12 Years of Marriage". Fox News. January 7, 2019. Retrieved August 28, 2020.
^Halliburton, Suzanne (December 20, 2021). "'Law & Order: SVU' Star Ice-T Wishes Creator Dick Wolf Happy Birthday". Outsider Media Network. Archived from the original on June 9, 2022. Retrieved January 7, 2021. It's Wolf's 75th birthday.
^"LAW & ORDER: Crime Scenes". Publishers Weekly. September 15, 2003. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
^DeSilva, Bruce (October 22, 2012). "The Intercept". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved October 29, 2012.
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bisexual criminal Chris Keller on the HBO series Oz. Law & Order producer DickWolf signed Meloni to play Elliot Stabler on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit...
2020. Rodkin, Dennis (November 27, 2018). "The West Loop building these DickWolf actors call home". Crain's Chicago Business. Retrieved October 16, 2019...
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co-written with DickWolf, teleplay by Maisha Closson) 2.17 – "Say Her Real Name" (March 25, 2015) (story co-written with DickWolf, teleplay by Craig...
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