---
name: "Ira Wohl"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ira-wohl"
fi1m_id: "ira-wohl"
imdb_id: "nm0937390"
tmdb_id: 1380238
wikidata_id: "Q22102096"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "1 January 1944"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T01:10:02.733466+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."
---

# Ira Wohl

## Identity

Ira Wohl

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ira-wohl
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ira-wohl
- **IMDb ID:** nm0937390
- **TMDB ID:** 1380238
- **Wikidata ID:** Q22102096
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Wohl, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22102096, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0937390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1380238

Editor. Born 1 January 1944 in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 1 January 1944, New York City
- **Also known as:** Irah Wohl
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Wohl, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22102096, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0937390/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1380238

## Biography

Ira Wohl is an American documentary filmmaker, director and editor. Born in New York City in 1944, he attended Forest Hills High School. His first professional film role was as an apprentice editor on Orson Welles's unfinished *Don Quixote* in Madrid.

Wohl directed and edited the documentary *Best Boy* (1979), which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. He later made the sequels *Best Man: 'Best Boy' and All of Us Twenty Years Later* (1997) and *Best Sister* (2006). He also worked as a director and editor on episodes of the children's television series *The Big Blue Marble*.

In the early 1990s Wohl returned to study clinical social work at the University of Southern California. He has worked as a psychotherapist for students at the University of California, Los Angeles for more than twenty years.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Don Quixote* (1992), Fi1m 54, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/don-quixote.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Best Sister* (2006), Director
- *Best Man: 'Best Boy' and All of Us Twenty Years Later* (1997), Editor, Producer, Director, Writer
- *Don Quixote* (1992), Editor — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/don-quixote.md)
- *Point of View* (1988), series, Director
- *Jay Leno: The American Dream* (1986), Director
- *Best Boy* (1979), Editor, Director, Writer, Producer
- *Lialeh* (1974), Editor
- *The Magic Beauty Kit* (1973), Director
- *Co-Co Puffs* (1972), Director

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