Annett Wolf (11 September 1936–23 February 2025; age 88) was a Danish documentary film director, writer, and producer who directed the promotional documentary short The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture for Paramount Pictures in 1979.
During her career, which spanned over fifty years, Wolf directed over a hundred television documentaries and documentary shorts, commercials, and concert films in her native Denmark and internationally. [1]
Wolf filmed several portrait documentaries about actors and celebrities, such as Charles Chaplin: The Man, the Clown and the Director (1965), The World of Jerry Lewis (1972), The World of Peter Ustinov (1973), The World of Peter Sellers (1975), Jack Lemmon – A Twist of Lemmon (1976), Telly Savalas Alias Theo Kojak (1976), The World of Alfred Hitchcock (1977), and Face to Face with Rudolf Nureyev (1985).
Aside Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Wolf also directed promotional "making of" documentaries for Jaws 2 (1978, with Susan French and Billy Van Zandt), Dracula (1979, starring Frank Langella), 48 Hrs. (1982, with Margot Rose, Denise Crosby, and Nick Dimitri), and Missing (1982, with David Clennon, Jerry Hardin, Keith Szarabajka, and Ward Costello).
She was also known as Annett Wolf, Sr. to distinguish her from her daughter, Annett Wolf, Jr. who works as a public relations agent in Hollywood.
External links[]
- AnnetWolf.com – official website
- Annett Wolf at Wikipedia
- Annett Wolf at the Internet Movie Database