Trivia

Worked as copywriter and/or producer of over 100 television commercials (1969-76).

Producer Dick Wolf is old friends with producer Tom Fontana. They often use actors from each other's television series, usually resulting in the actors working on two shows at once. Examples are J.K. Simmons on New York - Police judiciaire (1990) and Oz (1997), Christopher Meloni and Dean Winters on Oz (1997) and New York - Unité spéciale (1999) and Kathryn Erbe on Oz (1997) and New York - Section criminelle (2001). Richard Belzer famously leaped from producers' show to show as Detective John Munch.

Is a close friend of famous crime novelist James Ellroy. Wolf even hired Ellroy's best friend, LAPD Homicide Detective William Stoner, as a technical advisor on his television series Dragnet (2003).

Claims the scariest movie he has ever seen is Roman Polanski's Répulsion (1965).

Attended prep school, which served as basis later for his screenplay for La différence (1992).

Classmates with George W. Bush at Phillips Academy Andover (Class of 1964). Named to Andover's list of notable alumni.

Was an altar boy at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York back when Cardinal Spellman was Archbishop.

His father was an advertising executive, his mother was a housewife.

Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame (2013).

Ranked #50 in the Power Rankings and #12 in the Money Rankings on Forbes' 2006 Celebrity 100 list, with $70 million in earnings, primarily from the syndication of the various "Law & Order" series.

Attended and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (Class of 1969). Was a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity.

As a kid, he had once appeared in the "Peanut Gallery" on Puppet Playhouse (1947).

He left Capitaine Furillo (1981) to go work on Deux flics à Miami (1984).