Wolfe played a crooked small-town doctor in 'Six Gun's Legacy', an episode from the first (1949) season of The Lone Ranger. He played Carter, Sir Wilfrid Robarts's clerk and office manager in Witness for the Prosecution (1957). He also appeared in three other films in the series, as an American antiques dealer in Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943), as a butler in The Scarlet Claw (1944), and as an art dealer in The Pearl of Death (1944). Although he was American by birth, his experience in the theatre gave him precise diction, and he was often cast as Englishmen on screen, including a fictional commissioner of Scotland Yard in the final film in the 1939–1946 Sherlock Holmes film series, Dressed to Kill (1946). He appeared in many films, including Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942), Julius Caesar (1953), James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and George Lucas's THX 1138 (1971). Wolfe made his film debut in The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934). His Broadway credits include The Deputy (1964), Winesburg, Ohio (1958), Lone Valley (1933), Devil in the Mind (1931), The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1931), Lysistrata (1930), The Seagull (1930), At the Bottom (1930), Skyrocket (1929), Gods of the Lightning (1928), and The Claw (1921). Wolfe's stage debut came in The Claw (1919).

His career lasted seven decades and included many films and TV series his last screen credit was in 1990.īorn in Canton, Illinois, Wolfe studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. That year, he appeared in his first film role and later television, as a character actor. Ian Marcus Wolfe (Novem– January 23, 1992) was an American character actor with around 400 film and television credits.

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