Shmuel Wolf

Shmuel Wolf

Born: February 12, 1934
Died: February 23, 2019
in Budapest, Hungary
Shmuel Wolf was an Israeli actor. Born in Budapest, Wolf's mother died at a young age and his father, who sold sewing machines, later remarried. Wolf and his stepmother were forced to relocate to the local ghetto during the Holocaust after his father was murdered by members of the Arrow Cross Party. After the ghetto was liberated in 1945, Wolf resided in a Bnei Akiva camp in France from 1948 until emigrating to Israel the following year. He lived in Masu'ot Yitzhak and then Kfar Masaryk. Wolf also served in the Hashomer Hatzair movement and the Nahal movement. He moved to Tel Aviv in 1959. From the 1960s onwards, Wolf focused on his career as an actor. He studied acting with Nola Chilton and he became a regular performer at many theatres which included the Ohel Theatre and the Haifa Theatre. Wolf's most popular stage performances was in Josef Mundy’s play It Comes Around in which he performed over 2,000 times. On film and television, Wolf made his film debut in Sallah Shabati starring Chaim Topol. He was also featured in the 1972 film An American Hippie in Israel. Other films he appeared in included Fifty-Fifty, An Intimate Story and A Woman Called Golda. He also made minor appearances in the television shows Life is Not Everything and Srugim.

Movies for Shmuel Wolf...

Cats on a Pedal Boat
Title: Cats on a Pedal Boat
Released: May 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Not the sort of film we usually see coming from Israel, this teen horror-comedy is a loving tribute to American films of the 80s. Mili and Noam are high-school students who intend to celebrate their six-month anniversary by losing their virginity. What begins as an innocent pedal boat ride full of raging hormones, becomes a struggle against monstrous cats out for blood. This self-parodying low, low budget, independently produced feature is filled with surprises as well as hilarious oddball charm.
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Don Quixote in Jerusalem
Title: Don Quixote in Jerusalem
Character: Don Quichote
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Don Quixote and Sancho Pancha arrive in Israel in the year 2005. They reach a hill on the Jerusalem by-pass road overlooking the wall, which divides Israel and the Palestinian Authority. They inspect their target. The two men are already in their 70's. Quixote is having difficulties mounting his horse and Sancho struggles with his tools. But Don Quixote is determined to attack.
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Things
Title: Things
Character: Guard
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Drama - This Israeli drama tells the story of three men living in Tel Aviv. They set off to attend a funeral. Unfortunately, they cannot find the right cemetery. Later the story shifts to their complex love lives. - Gabi Beniashvilly, Samuel Calderon, Helena Cherkasov
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The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein
Title: The Revenge of Itzik Finkelstein
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
In this surreal comedy, a ghost monk convinces Itzik, a keychain importer living with his mother, to take revenge on those who are responsible for his pathetic situation. Surprisingly, the collaboration with the monk improves Itzic's life.
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The Passport
Title: The Passport
Released: June 6, 1990
Type: Movie
A man, who becomes mistaken for his brother who was immigrating to Israel from USSR, finds himself caught up in the middle of a bureaucratic mess when he realizes that if he tells the truth about who he is, he will go to jail and his brother's family will never be allowed to leave the USSR. He therefore assumes his brother's identity to get to Israel hoping his distant uncle living there will help him out. The plan backfires, however, when he realizes that the uncle is a paranoid lunatic thinking the KGB is out to get him. He becomes stranded in Israel with no friends, no money, and no passport, trying to figure out a way to get back home.
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Esther
Title: Esther
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Ahasverus, king of Persia and Media, puts aside Vashti and makes Esther his queen, choosing her among maidens in a kingdom stretching from India to Ethiopia. Esther, using information from Mordecai, her uncle and patron, saves the king from assassination. Haman, the king's favorite, is miffed when Mordecai won't bow to him, so he orders death to all Jews in the kingdom, under the seal of the king. Esther pleads for her people, and Mordecai is in turn given license to make his own edict under the king's seal. Mordecai loses sight of his original intention, and bloody murder ensues. Purim annually celebrates the story. At the end of the film, the actors comment.
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War and Love
Title: War and Love
Character: Warszawski
Released: September 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Jacek, who is Jewish, miraculously manages to survive World War II in Nazi-occupied Poland. As a subplot to Jacek's story, which also involves a love affair with Haling ( Kyra Sedgwick ) and German soldiers' repeated attempts to kill him, is a tale of how young kids in the Warsaw ghetto devise their own method of fighting oppression.
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Der Leuchtturm
Title: Der Leuchtturm
Character: Missionar
Released: October 25, 1972
Type: Movie
A psychological and existential study of a prisoner charged with guarding an isolated lighthouse. If he makes it through two years, the remainder of his sentence for manslaughter in a bar brawl will be pardoned. Nobody before managed to cope with the solitude. One day, a rat makes its way to the island. The sea and the island, the man and the rat, friendship and vendetta.
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An American Hippie in Israel
Title: An American Hippie in Israel
Character: Komo
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Incited by a disillusioned young man who has decided to flee from civilization, a group of 4 people go searching for freedom and happiness on an isolated island . When their boat goes astray and they are left without food, their animal instincts take over, bringing the film to its catastrophic end.
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Carlos
Title: Carlos
Released: November 20, 1971
Type: Movie
In the Southwest of 1915 Carlos backs an intended uprising of the common countymen against his father Phillip, a despotic landowner who exploits the rural poors in his silver mines. But Carlos' indecision and his love for his young and beautiful stepmother leads into a failure.
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Sallah
Title: Sallah
Released: June 2, 1964
Type: Movie
Sallah Shabati, the patriarch of the big family recently arrived to Israel from Yemen, tries to make money and get better housing, in a country that can barely provide for its own and is in the midst of absorbing hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Arab countries.