---
name: "Wesley Strick"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/wesley-strick"
fi1m_id: "wesley-strick"
imdb_id: "nm0834338"
tmdb_id: 17880
wikidata_id: "Q1236442"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "11 February 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 66
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-04T23:45:25.797785+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."
---

# Wesley Strick

## Identity

Wesley Strick

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/wesley-strick
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** wesley-strick
- **IMDb ID:** nm0834338
- **TMDB ID:** 17880
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1236442
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Strick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1236442, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0834338/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17880

Writer. Born 11 February 1954 in New York City.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 11 February 1954, New York City
- **Active:** 1991–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 acting, 2 writing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 66 (2), 2020s 63 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Strick, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1236442, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0834338/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/17880

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Cape Fear*](https://film.one/film/cape-fear-1991.md) (71)
- **Tubi:** [*Wolf*](https://film.one/film/wolf.md) (60)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Wesley Strick is an American screenwriter, director and producer. Born on 11 February 1954 in New York City, he graduated from Vassar College and the University of California, Berkeley. He began his career as a rock journalist in New York before moving into screenwriting.

Strick wrote the screenplay for Martin Scorsese's *Cape Fear* (1991), as well as *Arachnophobia* (1990), *Wolf* (1994, co-written with Jim Harrison), *The Saint* (1997) and *Doom* (2005). He has contributed to television series including *The Man in the High Castle* (2015) and *Carnival Row* (2019). He won a Saturn Award for *Wolf* and directed the film *The Tie That Binds* (1995). He has also worked extensively as a script doctor.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Performed in (1)

- *Cape Fear* (2026), Fi1m 63, as ER Doctor — [page](https://film.one/tv/cape-fear.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Wolf* (1994), Fi1m 60, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/wolf.md)
- *Cape Fear* (1991), Fi1m 71, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/cape-fear-1991.md)

## Complete filmography (24)

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

- *Cape Fear* (2026), series, as ER Doctor · Original Film Writer — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/cape-fear.md)
- *Wolf Awakened* (2024), Original Film Writer
- *Monsterland* (2020), series, Writer
- *Carnival Row* (2019), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *The Beast Inside: Creating 'Wolf'* (2017), as Wesley Strick
- *The Man in the High Castle* (2015), series, Writer, Consulting Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer, Story, Teleplay
- *The Loft* (2014), Executive Producer, Screenplay
- *A Nightmare on Elm Street* (2010), Screenplay, Story
- *Love Is the Drug* (2006), Writer, Story
- *Glass House: The Good Mother* (2006), Characters
- *Doom* (2005), Screenplay
- *Hitched* (2001), Writer, Director
- *The Glass House* (2001), Writer
- *Return to Paradise* (1998), Screenplay
- *The Saint* (1997), Screenplay
- *The Tie That Binds* (1995), Director
- *Wolf* (1994), Writer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/wolf.md)
- *Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth* (1993), Story
- *Final Analysis* (1992), Screenplay, Novel
- *Cape Fear* (1991), Screenplay — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/film/cape-fear-1991.md)
- *Eddie Dodd* (1991), series, Creator
- *Arachnophobia* (1990), Screenplay
- *True Believer* (1989), Writer
- *Carter Beats the Devil*, series, Creator

## Gallery

- ![Wesley Strick](https://film.one/media/person/370994/gallery-25aa33861d4d.jpg) Wesley Strick — Westric, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Wesley_Strick.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Wesley Strick](https://film.one/media/person/370994/gallery-7b256b85c99c.jpg) Wesley Strick — Image via TMDB

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