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Fred Wolf is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Animation American born on 13 september 1932 at Brooklyn (USA)
Fred Wolf is an American animator. His works include the 1967 short subject The Box, for which he won an Academy Award; television specials such as The Point! and Free to Be...You and Me, and television series such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, James Bond Jr., and Sarah Ferguson’s Budgie the Little Helicopter. Wolf was also responsible for the famous Tootsie Pops “How Many Licks” commercial.
In the 1960s, Wolf set up a studio in Hollywood, California with Japanese-American animator Jimmy Murakami (later of The Snowman). The studio was called Murakami-Wolf Films. In 1978, animator Charles Swenson became a partner, and the company became known as Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. Both Murakami and Swenson eventually left the company, and in 1992 it became Fred Wolf Films.
In 1989, MWS established a satellite studio in Dublin, Ireland, known as Murakami-Wolf Dublin before eventually adopting its current name (Fred Wolf Films Dublin). In this studio, each project is produced by a dedicated Irish crew.
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In the 1960s, Wolf set up a studio in Hollywood, California with Japanese-American animator Jimmy Murakami (later of The Snowman). The studio was called Murakami-Wolf Films. In 1978, animator Charles Swenson became a partner, and the company became known as Murakami-Wolf-Swenson. Both Murakami and Swenson eventually left the company, and in 1992 it became Fred Wolf Films.
In 1989, MWS established a satellite studio in Dublin, Ireland, known as Murakami-Wolf Dublin before eventually adopting its current name (Fred Wolf Films Dublin). In this studio, each project is produced by a dedicated Irish crew.
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, 1h22Directed by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Superhero films
Actors Fred Wolf, Pat Fraley, Kenneth Mars, Hal Smith, Bob Holt, Lorenzo Music
Roles Fred Red (voice)
Rating53%
The story begins just after the birth of Robert Rabbit (Barry Gordon). As his parents and friends welcome him into the world, a mysterious old rabbit who walks with a cane greets young Rob and disappears. Neither parent knows who he is, each assuming that he was from the opposite side of the family. Rob grows up as a normal child, skilled at sports and playing the piano, and the old rabbit shows up a few times to inquire about Rob's talents and attitude before disappearing. One day, when his parents become endangered by a falling boulder, Rob sprints towards them and changes into a striped and star-spangled superhero on golden rollerskates. The old rabbit reappears and tells Rob that he is the American Rabbit, capable of changing into superhero form when he sprints and changing back to normal when he says his own name.
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, 1h22Directed by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantasy, Animation
Themes Superhero films
Actors Fred Wolf, Pat Fraley, Kenneth Mars, Hal Smith, Bob Holt, Lorenzo Music
Rating53%
The story begins just after the birth of Robert Rabbit (Barry Gordon). As his parents and friends welcome him into the world, a mysterious old rabbit who walks with a cane greets young Rob and disappears. Neither parent knows who he is, each assuming that he was from the opposite side of the family. Rob grows up as a normal child, skilled at sports and playing the piano, and the old rabbit shows up a few times to inquire about Rob's talents and attitude before disappearing. One day, when his parents become endangered by a falling boulder, Rob sprints towards them and changes into a striped and star-spangled superhero on golden rollerskates. The old rabbit reappears and tells Rob that he is the American Rabbit, capable of changing into superhero form when he sprints and changing back to normal when he says his own name.
Peter and the Magic Egg (1983)
, 24minutesDirected by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Actors Ray Bolger, Joan Gerber, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely, Russi Taylor
Rating65%
The Doppler family, Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, are in debt to Tobias Tinwhiskers. Tobias Toot, a local farmer that successfully mechanized his farm leading to him taking over neighboring farms, the local bank and the town itself, previously had been converted into Tobias Tinwhiskers as he so loved machines he underwent a procedure to become mechanical altogether himself. Mother Nature sends a baby, Peter Paas, to help the Dopplers out of their desperate situation. Peter Paas grows up and works on the farm and in order to pay the mortgage on the farm to Tinwhiskers, he arranges a contract with the Easter Bunny to supply colored eggs for Easter. He is helped by cast of anthropomorphic farm animals to produce and dye the eggs and make the annual mortgage payment on Easter day. Tinwhiskers, enraged that he cannot repossess the farm, challenges Peter to a ploughing contest and arranges for Peter to fall down a well. Peter remains in a coma and sadness hangs over the farm until and egg provided by Mother Nature hatches into the Kookibird bringing laughter back to the farms. This wakes Peter and returns Tinwhiskers to human form. Tobias Toot gives back the town, renamed Paasville, and goes to work for the Dopplers while Peter leaves the farm to return to Mother Nature to help other families in need.
, 23minutesDirected by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Russi Taylor, Robert Ridgely, Romeo Muller, Julie McWhirter, Joan Gerber
Rating75%
Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade chronicles Strawberryland's "Second Annual Grand Old Petable Pet Show and Pet Parade." Strawberry Shortcake and her cat, Custard, are the judges of the pet show, but the Purple Pieman and Sour Grapes plan to enter their own pets into the show and frame Strawberry for cheating.
, 30minutesDirected by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about dragons
Actors Burgess Meredith, Frank Nelson, David Mendenhall, Joan Gerber, Bob Holt, Billy Jayne
Rating74%
Puff finds a young boy named Terry who has an overactive imagination, and who therefore has trouble making friends with other children, instead having an imaginary friend - a duck wearing a saucepan as a hat named Mr. Nobody. When Terry's imagination starts to get him in trouble, he begins to blame Nobody for imagining the things that Terry has dreamed up, until Terry ceases to believe that he has any imagination of his own. Eventually, Mr. Nobody abandons him and Puff must take Terry on a quest to find Nobody, teaching him along the way to embrace his creativity.
, 24minutesDirected by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Randi Kiger, Frank Welker, Darla Hood, Stymie Beard, Cliff Norton, Frank Nelson
Rating70%
Spanky (Philip Tanzini) and Porky (Robby Kiger)'s mother (Darla Hood) is a single mother during the Depression. Money is tight with very little left over to buy anything nice. When the boys overhear Mom talking on the phone about a Blue Comet, they think she is ordering for them the Blue Comet train set for the holidays. However, Mom wasn't talking about the train, but rather a vacuum cleaner. Realizing that she confused her sons, she exchanges a coat she had ordered for the train. When she gets sick and the boys realize the truth, they enlist the help of the gang to raise the money to get the coat back. Meanwhile, two neighborhood bullies steal the train set so now there are no gifts for the boys or their mom. A grouchy Santa (Jack Somack) arrives to spread cheer.
, 30minutesDirected by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about dragons
Actors Burgess Meredith, Ike Eisenmann, Joan Gerber, Robert Ridgely
Rating74%
The film begins with Puff acting out the lies of a girl named Sandy, who has developed a persistent habit of making up absurd lies on most occasions, and shows how this has alienated most of her friends and leaving only her dog as a companion. Puff moves to intervene when she causes a household accident and falsely blames her innocent dog who is sent away as punishment.
Puff, the Magic Dragon (1978)
, 30minutesDirected by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about dragons
Actors Burgess Meredith, Frank Nelson, Robert Ridgely, Regis Cordic
Rating74%
The film begins with Puff's narration about a little boy named Jackie Draper, who is filled with so much self-doubt and fear that he has stopped talking altogether. His parents are so concerned that they have three doctors examine him, and they say it is hopeless and that little Jackie will never talk again. Jackie returns to his room, where he sits until Puff comes to his bedroom window and starts a conversation with him.
The Mouse and His Child (1977)
, 1h23Directed by Fred Wolf, Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Peter Ustinov, Neville Brand, Cliff Norton, Andy Devine, Cliff Osmond, Sally Kellerman
Rating67%
The mouse and his child are two parts of a single small wind-up toy, which must be wound up by means of a key in the father's back. After having been unpacked, they discover themselves in a toy shop where they befriend a toy elephant and toy seal. The child mouse proposes staying at the shop to form a family, which the other toys ridicule. After breaking due to a fall from the counter, they are thrown in the trash. Outside, they become enslaved by Manny the rat, who runs a casino in the city dump and uses broken wind-up toys as his slave labor force. With the aid of a psychic frog, the mice escape and meet various animal characters on a quest of becoming free and independent self-winding toys. They rediscover the elephant and seal, who are somewhat broken down. Together they manage to form a family and destroy the rat empire.
The Point (1971)
, 1h14Directed by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Ringo Starr, Paul Frees, Dustin Hoffman, Lennie Weinrib, Alan Thicke, Joan Gerber
Rating74%
Scriptwriter
Grown Ups 2 (2013)
, 1h41Directed by Christopher Nolan, Dennis Dugan
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Steve Buscemi, Kevin James, David Spade, Salma Hayek
Rating54%
Three years after the events of the first film, Lenny Feder has relocated his family back to his Connecticut hometown of Stanton where he and his friends grew up.
Tommy Boy (1995)
, 1h37Directed by Peter Segal
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Road movies, Buddy films
Actors Dan Aykroyd, Chris Farley, David Spade, Bo Derek, Brian Dennehy, Rob Lowe
Rating70%
After seven years at college, Thomas R. "Tommy" Callahan III (Chris Farley) barely graduates from Marquette University and returns to his hometown of Sandusky, Ohio. His father, industrialist and widower Thomas R. "Big Tom" Callahan, Jr. (Brian Dennehy), gives him an executive job at the family's auto parts plant, Callahan Auto. In addition to the new job and office, Big Tom reveals that he plans to marry Beverly Barrish-Burns (Bo Derek), a woman he had met at a fat farm, and that her son, Paul (Rob Lowe), will become Tommy's new stepbrother. At the wedding, Big Tom suddenly dies of a heart attack. After the funeral, doubting the future of the company without Big Tom, the bank reneges on promises of a loan for a new brake pad division and seeks immediate payment of Callahan Auto's debts. Ray Zalinsky (Dan Aykroyd), owner and operator of rival automotive parts company, Zalinsky Auto Parts, offers to buy them out while the company's shares are high, but Tommy suggests a deal: he will let the bank hold his inherited shares and house in exchange for helping the sales of brake pads going. The bank agrees, but they also want the company to prove it still has viability by selling 500,000 brake pads. If they fail, the bank will foreclose, but if they succeed, the bank will underwrite Big Tom's brake pad venture. Tommy volunteers to go on a cross-country sales trip with his father's sycophantic assistant, Richard Hayden (David Spade), a childhood acquaintance who has a particularly antagonistic relationship with Tommy.
The Point (1971)
, 1h14Directed by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical theatre, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Actors Ringo Starr, Paul Frees, Dustin Hoffman, Lennie Weinrib, Alan Thicke, Joan Gerber
Rating74%
Producer
Peter and the Magic Egg (1983)
, 24minutesDirected by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Actors Ray Bolger, Joan Gerber, Bob Holt, Robert Ridgely, Russi Taylor
Roles Producer
Rating65%
The Doppler family, Pennsylvania Dutch farmers, are in debt to Tobias Tinwhiskers. Tobias Toot, a local farmer that successfully mechanized his farm leading to him taking over neighboring farms, the local bank and the town itself, previously had been converted into Tobias Tinwhiskers as he so loved machines he underwent a procedure to become mechanical altogether himself. Mother Nature sends a baby, Peter Paas, to help the Dopplers out of their desperate situation. Peter Paas grows up and works on the farm and in order to pay the mortgage on the farm to Tinwhiskers, he arranges a contract with the Easter Bunny to supply colored eggs for Easter. He is helped by cast of anthropomorphic farm animals to produce and dye the eggs and make the annual mortgage payment on Easter day. Tinwhiskers, enraged that he cannot repossess the farm, challenges Peter to a ploughing contest and arranges for Peter to fall down a well. Peter remains in a coma and sadness hangs over the farm until and egg provided by Mother Nature hatches into the Kookibird bringing laughter back to the farms. This wakes Peter and returns Tinwhiskers to human form. Tobias Toot gives back the town, renamed Paasville, and goes to work for the Dopplers while Peter leaves the farm to return to Mother Nature to help other families in need.
, 23minutesDirected by Fred Wolf
Origin USA
Genres Animation
Themes Children's films
Actors Russi Taylor, Robert Ridgely, Romeo Muller, Julie McWhirter, Joan Gerber
Roles Producer
Rating75%
Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade chronicles Strawberryland's "Second Annual Grand Old Petable Pet Show and Pet Parade." Strawberry Shortcake and her cat, Custard, are the judges of the pet show, but the Purple Pieman and Sour Grapes plan to enter their own pets into the show and frame Strawberry for cheating.