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Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall is Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize-winning historical novel about Thomas Cromwell's rise under Henry VIII, told in present tense; first of a trilogy adapted by the BBC and RSC.
Wolf Hall (TV series)
Wolf Hall is a BBC historical drama adapted by Peter Straughan and directed by Peter Kosminsky from Hilary Mantel's Cromwell novels, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis; six parts aired on BBC Two in 2015, winning a Golden Globe and BAFTA, with a second season in 2024–2025.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is the BBC's six-part 2024 drama adapting the final novel of Hilary Mantel's Cromwell trilogy, with Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, written by Peter Straughan and directed by Peter Kosminsky.
Wolf King
Wolf King is a 2025 British Netflix animated fantasy series adapted from Curtis Jobling's Wereworld novels, following 16-year-old Drew Ferran, the last werewolf heir fighting the Lionlords; two seasons, 16 episodes, ended September 2025.
Wolf Like Me (TV series)
Wolf Like Me is an Australian Stan/Peacock comedy-drama series (2022–2023) by Abe Forsythe, starring Isla Fisher and Josh Gad, in which new love interest Mary is secretly a werewolf; two seasons, six and seven episodes, filmed in NSW.
Wolf Man (2025 film)
Wolf Man is a 2025 American horror film directed by Leigh Whannell, in which a family man slowly transforms into a werewolf at his rural Oregon childhood home.
Wolf Pack (TV series)
Wolf Pack (TV series), Paramount+ supernatural teen drama created by Jeff Davis from Edo van Belkom's novels, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar; one season of 8 episodes aired January–March 2023 and it was canceled in January 2024.
Wolf Totem (狼图腾)
Wolf Totem (狼图腾, Lang tuteng) is Jiang Rong's 2004 semi-autobiographical novel about a Beijing student among Inner Mongolian herders during the Cultural Revolution; China's no. 2 bestseller, adapted into Jean-Jacques Annaud's 2015 film.
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts, in Vienna, Virginia, is the only U.S. national park dedicated to the performing arts, established 1966 from Catherine Filene Shouse's gift, home to the Filene Center.
Wolf Warrior
Wolf Warrior (战狼) is a 2015 Chinese military action film directed by and starring Wu Jing, with Yu Nan and Scott Adkins. Made for about 10 million RMB, it earned 545 million RMB and launched the record-setting Wolf Warrior series.
Wolf Warrior 2 (战狼2)
Wolf Warrior 2 (战狼2) is Wu Jing's 2017 Chinese military action sequel set in Africa, starring Leng Feng; it grossed 5.689 billion yuan in mainland China, becoming China's then highest-grossing film and a nationalist blockbuster landmark.
Wolf's Rain (ウルフズレイン)
Wolf's Rain (ウルフズレイン), a 2003 Bones anime series created by Keiko Nobumoto and directed by Tensai Okamura: 26 Fuji TV episodes plus 4 OVAs, wolves seeking Paradise, four recap episodes 15-18, music by Yoko Kanno.
Wolfblood
Wolfblood is a British CBBC/ZDF children's fantasy drama (2012–2017, five series, 62 episodes) created by Debbie Moon, about teenage part-wolf shape-shifters Maddy Smith and Rhydian Morris who keep their abilities secret; it won RTS and BAFTA children's awards.
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory is an Apple TV+ 2D animated series (2021-2022) created by Toff Mazery and Edward Jesse, developed by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's HITRECORD, about a masked boy who finds the Spryte realm creating everything on Earth.
Wolfdietrich Schnurre
Wolfdietrich Schnurre (1920–1989) was a German writer and co-founder of the Gruppe 47, best known for short stories of war, guilt, and ruined postwar Berlin.
Wolfen
Wolfen is a 1981 American horror film directed by Michael Wadleigh, based on Whitley Strieber's novel The Wolfen, in which a New York detective uncovers intelligent wolf-like predators.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus (Amadé) Mozart, Austrian Classical composer born Salzburg 27 January 1756, died Vienna 5 December 1791; over 600 works catalogued by Köchel, 22 operas including Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflöte.
Wolfgang Ambros
Wolfgang Ambros, born 1952 in Wolfsgraben, Austria, is a Viennese-dialect singer-songwriter and pioneer of Austropop, known for 'Schifoan', 'Da Hofa', and 'Es lebe der Zentralfriedhof'.
Wolfgang Bodison
Wolfgang Bodison, American actor and Playhouse West acting teacher, made his debut as Lance Cpl. Harold Dawson in A Few Good Men (1992) with zero prior acting experience; Rob Reiner cast him while he worked as the film's location manager.
Wolfgang Gartner
Wolfgang Gartner is the professional alias of Joey Youngman, a Grammy-nominated American electro house producer and DJ who pioneered complextro, adopted the name in 2007, and released the album Weekend in America in 2011.
Wolfgang Herrndorf
Wolfgang Herrndorf was a German writer and painter best known for the 2010 novel Tschick, which sold about 3 million copies and was translated into 36 languages.
Wolfgang Hildesheimer
Wolfgang Hildesheimer (1916–1991) was a German writer, painter, and translator counted among the most important postwar German authors, known for Tynset, absurd drama, and his best-selling Mozart biography.
Wolfgang Koeppen
Wolfgang Koeppen (1906–1996) was a German novelist and critic whose trilogy Tauben im Gras, Das Treibhaus, and Der Tod in Rom confronts postwar Germany with its Nazi past.
Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen (1941-2022) was a German film director from Emden whose Das Boot (1981) earned six Oscar nominations and led to Hollywood blockbusters including In the Line of Fire, Air Force One, The Perfect Storm, and Troy.
Wolfgang Puck
Wolfgang Puck (born 1949, Austria) is an Austrian-American celebrity chef and restaurateur who opened Spago in West Hollywood in 1982, pioneered California cuisine, gourmet pizza, and open kitchens, and built a brand of more than 100 restaurants including CUT, plus the Oscars Governors Ball.
Wolfgang Schaeffer
Wolfgang Schaeffer (Wolfgang Cecil Schaeffer), American child actor born 2009 or 2010, plays Lincoln Loud in Nickelodeon's The Really Loud House, A Loud House Christmas, and A Really Haunted Loud House, with credits in Criminal Minds and Pivoting.
Wolfgang Tillmans
Wolfgang Tillmans is a German photographer, born in Remscheid in 1968, who in 2000 became the first photographer and first non-British artist to win the Turner Prize.
Wolfgang Van Halen
Wolfgang Van Halen (born 1991), son of Eddie Van Halen and Valerie Bertinelli, was Van Halen's bassist from 2007 through A Different Kind of Truth (2012), then built the multi-instrumentalist solo band Mammoth (Mammoth WVH, Mammoth II, The End).
Wolfheart
Wolfheart is a melodic death metal band from Lahti, Finland, formed in 2013 by multi-instrumentalist Tuomas Saukkonen, whose self-described winter metal spans seven studio albums.
Wolfmother
Wolfmother is an Australian hard rock band from Sydney formed around Andrew Stockdale, also known for the 2005 debut album Wolfmother and the Grammy-winning single Woman; original members Chris Ross and Myles Heskett left in 2008.