Shmuel Wolf

Shmuel Wolf was an Israeli actor Born in Budapest Wolfs 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 Masuot 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 Wolfs most popular stage performances was in Josef Mundys play It Comes Around in which he performed over 2000 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 FiftyFifty An Intimate Story and A Woman Called Golda He also made minor appearances in the television shows Life is Not Everything and Srugim