Shmuel Wolf

Biography

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...