Digby Wolfe (born James Digby Wolfe 4 June 1929 – 2 May 2012) was an English actor, screenwriter and university lecturer in dramatic writing.

Biography

Wolfe was born in London, England, with some accounts saying he was born in Norway, to a father who was an international banker and his motherVogue magazine artist. His mother named him after a character in Beau Geste. When he was four, his father died after being hit by a golf ball and he was brought up by his mother in Felixstowe.

He made his film debut in the 1948 film The Weaker Sex. He began writing and performing in comedy series in England in the 1950s. Together with Jimmy Wilson he wrote a revue, with music by John Pritchett and Norman Dannatt, for the Irving Theatre. He appeared alongside Ronnie Corbett, Hattie Jacques and Charles Hawtrey, in his own television show Wolfe at the Door before moving to Australia in 1959, where he made frequent television appearances and was host of the variety shows Review '61 and Review '62. In the late 1950s and early 1960s he lived at the southern end of Whale Beach, Sydney. At that time, his resident comedian was Dave Allen, who later became a household name in the UK and Australia.