Peter Wolf (cameraman)

Peter Sych Wolf (* 25. January 1945 in Birmingham , England as Peter Wolf Wechsberg ) is a deaf American actor , cameraman , director and producer . He teaches American Sign Language at California Lutheran University .

Life

After the war, Wolf's parents, Reneé Lawrence, a former member of the Royal Ballet, and Max Wechsberg, a survivor of the Auschwitz concentration camp , moved to the United States with their son, who was deaf by birth, to improve his educational opportunities.

Wolf attended the New York School for the Deaf , graduated from Gallaudet University, and attended the University of Southern California . After touring with the National Theater of the Deaf for two years , he later, with the help of then Governor Ronald Reagan, started a daily news program for KRON television in San Francisco called NewSign 4 . As part of the program he worked as a reporter on the scene and announcer, this behaved releasing the text.

Wolf later switched to the film industry where he worked as an actor, cameraman, director and producer. He made his first full-length feature film in 1975 under the title Deafula . The focus of his work is on films for the hearing. He is also regularly responsible for the sound engineering.

Wolf is the founder and owner of SignScope, LLC, a film studio in Camarillo . He is married and has three grandchildren.

Filmography (excerpts)

camera

• 1975: Think Me Nothing
• 1985: Survival
• 1988: Evil Altar
• 1989: Devil Rider
• 1989: Terror in Beverly Hills

Director

• 1975: Think Me Nothing
• 1975: Deafula
• 1998: I Love You, But

actor

• 1975: Think Me Nothing (Paul)
• 1975: Deafula
• 1981: "Barney Miller" ( Stormy Weather as Tiano)
• 1991: Prime Target (Trucker)

Documentaries about Peter Wolf

• The cameraman - Peter Wolf - Director of Photography in Hollywood , seeing instead of hearing , Saturday, August 21, 2010 (pdf; 37 kB)

Web links

• Peter Wolf in the Internet Movie Database (English)