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Art Wolff

Art Wolff

American television director (1938–2020)

Art Wolff (1938 – November 16, 2020) was an American television director and acting coach.

Not to be confused with Art Wolfe.
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Wolff amassed a number of notable directing credits, directing episodes of The Tracey Ullman Show, It's Garry Shandling's Show, The Powers That Be, Dream On, and most notably the original Seinfeld pilot episode "The Seinfeld Chronicles".[1]

In later years, Wolff directed theatre at a number of venues,[2] as well as taught courses at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and the Actors Studio.[2]

As an acting coach, Wolff ran an acting studio in Hollywood and worked with Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Sean Penn, Matthew Perry, Harry Shearer, Michael McKean, Julie Hagerty, Steve Martin, Brian Benben, and many others.[2][3]

Wolff died of congestive heart failure at Mount Sinai West in New York City on November 16, 2020; he was 82.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    The Seinfeld scripts: The first and second seasons By Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David obtained through Google Books
  2. [2]
    Art Wolff biography at official website Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    Contact info for the Art Wolff acting studio Archived July 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. [4]
    Countryman, Eli (November 20, 2020). "Art Wolff, Director of 'Seinfeld' Pilot, Dies at 82". Variety.
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