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name: "Frank Wolff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/frank-wolff"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "11 May 1928"
died: "12 December 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T21:14:19.030703+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Frank Wolff

Actor. Born 11 May 1928 in San Francisco, California, USA. Died 12 December 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 11 May 1928, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Died:** 12 December 1971
- **Also known as:** Frank Wolf, Walter Frank Hermann Wolff

## Biography

Frank Wolff was an American actor. Born Walter Frank Hermann Wolff in San Francisco, he studied acting at the University of California, Los Angeles, and appeared in several early films directed by Roger Corman.

He moved to Europe in the early 1960s and became a familiar face in Italian cinema, with roles in films including *Salvatore Giuliano* (1962), *America America* (1963), *The Great Silence* (1968) as Sheriff Gideon Corbett and *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968) as Brett McBain. He also appeared in television series such as *The Twilight Zone* and *The Saint*.

Wolff died in Rome in December 1971.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Once Upon a Time in the West* (1968), Fi1m 91, as Brett McBain — [page](https://film.one/film/once-upon-a-time-in-the-west.md)

## Also known for

- *The Great Silence* (1968), Sheriff Gideon Corbett
- *God Forgives... I Don't!* (1967), Bill San Antonio
- *Caliber 9* (1972), Police Commissioner
- *The Saint* (1962), Jim Reston
- *The Wasp Woman* (1959), First Delivery Man
- *Salvatore Giuliano* (1962), Gaspare Pisciotta
- *America America* (1963), Vartan Damadian
- *Beast from Haunted Cave* (1959), Alexander Ward

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