Dick wolf biography

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There are a lot of TV writers. Few make it to become showrunners, writing and producing their own series.

Even fewer end up with multiple successful shows under their helm. It's rarer still for those writers to become legendary producers who remake the television landscape.

Dick wolf biography wikipedia

Dick Wolf is near the top of that very short, very vaunted list. Wolf had his first feature script produced in 1978 and first started writing for TV in 1985, but he's best known for changing the world of network police dramas with his brainchild "Law & Order" in 1990.

Since then, the series has had spinoff after spinoff, and Wolf's other procedurals have further built his genre-defining reputation.

Wolf is still producing more and more series, and still has a "Law & Order" spinoff on the air, the record-setting "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit." He's achieved levels of financial success reached by few creatives, influenced