Richard Anthony Wolf, (born December 20, 1946, New York City), is one of American television's most respected drama series creators and is an Emmy Award-winning producer, specializing in crime dramas. He does not use his full name professionally; his creative credits always list him as Dick Wolf. December 20 is the 354th day of the year (355th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... An Emmy Award. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... The police procedural is a sub-genre of the mystery story which attempts to accurately depict the activities of a police force as they investigate crimes. ...

Biography

Wolf was raised Roman Catholic in New York City. As a child, he was an altar boy at St. Patrick's Cathedral when Francis Cardinal Spellman was Archbishop of New York. The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ... New York, NY redirects here. ... An altar server is a lay assistant to a member of the clergy during a religious service. ... Several cathedrals are named after Saint Patrick. ... Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman, (4 May 1889–2 December 1967) was an American prelate, the ninth bishop and sixth archbishop of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York. ... St. ...

Dick Wolf attended Phillips Academy and graduated from The Gunnery. He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, graduating in 1969. He was a member of Penn's chapter of the Zeta Psi fraternity. Wolf began working as an advertising copywriter at Benton & Bowles, all the while writing screenplays in the hopes of a film career. He moved to Los Angeles after a few years and wrote three feature films. He started his television career as a staff writer on "Hill Street Blues" and was nominated for his first Emmy for an episode on which he was the only writer. He moved from there to "Miami Vice" where he was a supervising producer. He created a number of shows which made it briefly to the air. After he created "Law and Order," the rest of his remarkable career is history. It is one of the most successful television franchises in the history of the industry, and the original show is the second-longest-running dramatic show in television history. The show has been nominated for the most consecutive Emmy Awards of any primetime drama series. He also has received awards for providing opportunities to minority actors in his television series. Phillips Academy (also known as Andover, Phillips Andover, or simply P.A.) is a co-educational University preparatory school for boarding and day students in grades 9-12. ... The Gunnery is a coeducational boarding and day Prep school for 295 students in grades nine through twelve. ... The Zeta Psi Fraternity of North America Inc. ... The definition of a minority group can vary, depending on specific context, but generally refers to either a sociological sub-group that does not form either a majority or a plurality of the total population, or a group that, while not necessarily a numerical minority, is disadvantaged or otherwise has...

Wolf serves as creator and executive producer of the three current Law & Order drama series from Wolf Films and NBC Universal Television – Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Law & Order: Trial by Jury was cancelled after its first season. In addition, he was the creator and executive producer of NBC's courtroom reality series Crime & Punishment, which chronicled real-life cases prosecuted by the San Diego District Attorney’s office. NBC Universal is a media and entertainment conglomerate formed in May 2004 by the combination of General Electrics NBC with Vivendi Universal Entertainment, part of Vivendi Universal. ... Law & Order is an American television police procedural and legal drama set in New York City. ... Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 5 DVD Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (also known as Law & Order: SVU) is the first of three spin-offs of Law & Order (the other two being Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury; all series are presented on the NBC... Law & Order: Criminal Intent is a United States crime drama television series that began in 2001. ... Law and Order: Trial by Jury is the third spinoff of Law & Order; it focuses on the court room process, as opposed to particular topics of crime. ... Crime & Punishment, also known as Law & Order: Crime & Punishment, was a 2002 reality television spin-off of the Law & Order franchise. ... Nickname: Location of San Diego within San Diego County Coordinates: Country United States State California County San Diego Founded July 16, 1769 Incorporated March 27, 1850 Government  - Mayor Jerry Sanders  - City Attorney Michael Aguirre  - City Council Scott Peters Kevin Faulconer Toni Atkins Tony Young Brian Maienschein Donna Frye Jim Madaffer...

Wolf's company also produced Twin Towers, the 2003 Academy Award-winning Short Documentary about two brothers, one a policeman and the other a fireman, who lost their lives in the line of duty on September 11, 2001. Academy Award The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are the most prominent and most watched film awards ceremony in the world. ... A sequential look at United Flight 175 crashing into the south tower of the World Trade Center The September 11, 2001 attacks (often referred to as 9/11—pronounced nine eleven or nine one one) consisted of a series of coordinated terrorist[1] suicide attacks upon the United States, predominantly...

Currently, Wolf is involved with the production of a theatrical film that will document the popular rock group The Doors. This project is currently in production and is expected to be completed in 2007, which will coincide with the group's 40th anniversary of their first album. The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 (see 1965 in music) in Los Angeles by keyboardist Ray Manzarek, vocalist Jim Morrison, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. ...

Wolf's personal honors include such awards as the prestigious Award of Excellence from the Banff Television Festival, the 2002 Creative Achievement Award from NATPE; the Anti-Defamation League’s Distinguished Entertainment Industry Award, the 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, the 2002 Tribute from the Museum of Television and Radio, and a 2003 Special Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. The Banff television festival recently celebrated its 25th Anniversary as Canadas premier internation event celebrating television and new media. ... NATPE logo NATPE, the National Association of Television Progam Executives, is an organization dedicated to providing information, marketing and meeting opportunities in television programming. ... The Anti-Defamation League (or ADL) is an advocacy group founded by Bnai Brith in the United States whose stated aim is to stop, by appeals to reason and conscience and, if necessary, by appeals to law, the defamation of the Jewish people. ... The Entertainment Industries Council is a non-profit organization founded in 1983 that promotes the depiction of health and social issues in film, television, music, and comic books. ... The East Coast branch of The Museum of Television and Radio is located in the heart of Midtown Manhattan in New York City (USA). ... The Edgar Allan Poe Awards (popularly called the Edgars), named after Edgar Allan Poe, are presented every year by the Mystery Writers of America. ... The Mystery Writers of America are an organization for mystery writers. ...

Wolf is also an Honorary Consul general of Monaco and is actively involved in the principality’s prestigious annual Television Festival, and is its primary liaison with the entertainment community. See also: consulate (disambiguation). ...

On March 29, 2007, Wolf was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7040 Hollywood Boulevard.^[1] March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (89th in leap years). ... 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ... A band plays on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ...

Quotes

• “I've never understood the obsession with younger writers and dramas. Comedies I understand, but how do you write drama at 23, you haven't experienced anything. You know about 23-year-olds. It's kind of hard to write about 60 year old EADAs [Executive Assistant District Attorneys]. Only a couple of us are 60 years old so far, but there are not many 23-year-olds who can write about life-changing situations unless it's medical. That sounds weird, but there's not the mileage on the odometer to get under the surface. There are exceptions that prove the rule—Dickens wasn't bad at 23.”

[In fact Charles Dickens was first published at the age of 24 (Pickwick Papers) although by the age of 27 he had become an exceptionally popular author in England.] An Executive Assistant District Attorney (EADA), sometimes called the Chief Assistant District Attorney (CADA), is the prosecutor placed in charge of the daily activities of some District Attorneys offices. ... Dickens redirects here. ...

Wolf's least favorite of more than 350 episodes, up to this point, is the one in which the daughter of Detective Lennie Briscoe (played by Jerry Orbach) gets killed by a drug dealer. “It was exactly what the show wasn't, but Jerry has pled for years, ‘Please let someone die in my arms so I can get nominated.’” Detective Leonard W. Lennie Briscoe was a popular fictional character on NBCs long running crime drama, Law & Order, for twelve seasons, from 1992 to 2004. ... Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor best known for his starring role as wisecracking Detective Lennie Briscoe in the Law & Order television series and for his musical theater roles. ...

Credits

• Conviction (2006) TV Series
• Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005) TV Series
• Dragnet (2003) TV Series
• Twin Towers (2003)
• Crime & 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
• School Ties (1992)
• Law & Order (1990) TV Series
• H.E.L.P. (1990) TV Series
• Nasty Boys (1990) TV Series
• Christine Cromwell (1989) TV Series
• Gideon Oliver (1989) TV Series
• Masquerade (1988)
• No Man's Land (1987)
• Miami Vice (1984) TV Series
• Skateboard (1978)

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References

2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the CE era. ... April 4 is the 94th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (95th in leap years). ...

External links

• Dick Wolf at the Internet Movie Database
• Archive of American Television interview Video
• Interview with Wolf on NPR's Fresh Air (March 11, 2005)
• Behind the Scenes of Dick Wolf's "Nasty Boys"