Dick Wolf

Dick Wolf's biography

Dick Wolf is 76 years old television producer born at New York City. He was born on Friday 20th of December 1946. According to year of birth 1946 he belongs to Silent Generation. Birthday on 20th of December means he is Sagittarius. Sagittarius is a Fiery sign of Zodiac Belt. These people are highly learned and love to gain knowledge throughout their life.

He is native english speaker. He is citizen of United States of America. His primary profession is to be television producer. You can know him also as film producer, screenwriter, writer, actor, executive producer. He is recently known as showrunner.

Dick Wolf's schools

We found 4 schools He attended. Complete list of schools: University of Pennsylvania, Phillips Academy, The Gunnery, Saint David's School.

Detailed informations about his schools

• Attended prep school, which served as basis later for his screenplay for School Ties (1992).
• Attended and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (Class of 1969). Was a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity.

Dick Wolf's career

His main focus is to be television producer.

Awards and competitions

Dick Wolf's Awards

• He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7040 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on March 29, 2007.

Dick Wolf's Rankings

• Ranked #50 in the Power Rankings and #12 in the Money Rankings on Forbes' 2006 Celebrity 100 list, with $70 million in earnings, primarily from the syndication of the various "Law & Order" series.

Dick Wolf's quotes

• Desperate Housewives is a cultural phenomenon. But, in my mind, it's a sprinter. These shows (the Law & Order shows) are marathon runners. These shows are designed to run for unreasonable periods of time.
• If you're going to the theater and the actor does not have a 'Law & Order' credit on the Playbill, it means he's just got off the bus [to New York], or is really a bad actor.
• [on the cancellation of Law & Order after 20 years on air] That's business. That's life. Every show is born under a death sentence, they just don't tell you the date of execution.
• [on the Chicago franchise on NBC] I have ludicrously high hopes that the 'Chicago' shows will be on for a long time because they have settled in, nobody else is making television like this.
• I've been on the air continuously at NBC for 21 years. So this is an extraordinarily long relationship, and it's like a very long-term marriage. I mean, there are stresses and strains intermittently, but we're kind of stuck with each other forever.
• The heart and soul of network programming is series programming, the weekly repetition of characters you like having in your house.
• I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.
• And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.
• Drama or comedy programming is still the surest way for advertisers to reach a mass audience. Once that changes, all bets are off.
• Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.
• As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.
• I get bored with establishing shots of people getting out of cars and walking into buildings, getting into elevators and then 45 seconds later they have a line.
• I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.
• Everybody knows things are not the same. The people running the TV end of a major vertically integrated company know how much money a successful show can make.
• I hardly see myself as a futurist.
• I think most people don't react well to being screamed at. It's counterproductive.
• I try to just communicate what I want done as clearly and simply as possible.
• I would say that if you really wished to be a working member of the community, don't go out on strike because then there's no work and no potential of work.
• I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.
• I was running Miami Vice, but it wasn't my show so I got to learn an enormous amount. You were basically getting trained to have your own show.
• It was like in Samoa when they'd put up a movie screen on the beach and show movies and the locals would run behind the sheet to see where the people went. It was pretty grim.
• If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.
• It's a very competitive business. And everybody I know who does it is extremely competitive, but they show it or don't show it in different ways.
• If the scripts are not good, I'll tell somebody, 'This isn't good.
• [on Law & Order's early years] When it went on the air, the sales department hated it. It was the highest advertising pullout show in the history of NBC. At the early focus groups, people were saying, 'Who are these people? Why should we watch them?
• The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
• People recognize certain things, like 'D' means 'this dialogue stinks.' We're dealing with shows that are written here, shot in New York and posted back here. Accurate communication is a necessity.
• [on the 1988 writers strike] People do have viewing patterns, and you disrupt those at your own peril. That's something that everybody learned after 1988. The numbers have gone down every year since that strike. Big time.
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Dick Wolf's body shape

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