Shmuel Wolf

Shmuel Wolf was born in 1934 in Budapest

Shmuel Wolf was born in Budapest in 1934. His mother died when he was young, and his father, a sewing machine seller, remarried. In 1944 his father was murdered by members of the Arrow Cross, and Wolf and his stepmother were sent to the Budapest ghetto, which the Red Army liberated in January 1945.

In 1948 he moved to a Bnei Akiva camp in France, and in January 1949 he immigrated to Israel with Youth Aliyah. He lived first at Kibbutz Masu'ot Yitzhak and then joined Hashomer Hatzair and moved to Kibbutz Kfar Masaryk. He served in the Nahal and came to Tel Aviv in 1959.

Wolf studied acting with Nola Chilton and performed for decades at theaters including the Ohel Theatre. In the 1970s he joined the regular company of the Haifa Theatre, where he acted until 2000. From 1970 he appeared in Josef Mundy's play It Comes Around more than 2,000 times.

His first film was Sallah Shabati, and he also appeared in An American Hippie in Israel in 1972 and in A Woman Called Golda. In 2009 he received a lifetime achievement award at the Golden Hedgehog fringe theater awards. In 2010 he played the prophet Sebastian in the youth series The Island.

Wolf was the partner of actress Miriam Nevo, and in the early 1980s he married actress Miki Marmur, with whom he had twin daughters. In 2017 his daughter Roni made a documentary about him. He died in February 2019 after an illness with multiple system atrophy and was buried at Menucha Nechona Cemetery in Kfar Saba.