Robert Hewitt Wolfe

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Robert Hewitt Wolfe is an American television producer and scriptwriter. He is mostly known for his work as a writer on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and for developing and producing the series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. He currently (2005) lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Celeste, and dog, Tonka.

1 Background
2 Star Trek work
3 Andromeda and other later work
4 External links

[edit] Background

Wolfe was born in 1964 in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of a career army officer and a surgical nurse. As an army family, the Wolfes moved frequently before finally settling in San Francisco in the mid-seventies. During his childhood, Wolfe tried three times to write a novel (at the ages of ten, thirteen and twenty), but never finished. In college he discovered that television and film writing suited him better.

Wolfe graduated UCLA, receiving a bachelor's degree in Film and Television and a MFA in Screenwriting. His first screenplay, Paper Dragons, placed second in the prestigious Goldwyn awards. The prize money allowed Wolfe to buy his first computer. At this point he decided to try and make himself a career in showbusiness.

[edit] Star Trek work

Wolfe's career didn't seem to be rising for five years, until he sold the story for A Fistful of Datas to the series Star Trek: The Next Generation. His writing of the screenplay for the episode secured him a place in the creative staff of the series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, that had made its debut in the following year.

Wolfe worked on DS9 for five years, under the supervision of showrunners Michael Piller and Ira Steven Behr. During this time, he wrote or co-wrote over thirty episodes. These include action-packed episodes with high story-arc importance (The Way of the Warrior, Call to Arms), dramatic character studies (The Wire, Hard Time) and even comedic farces (Family Business, Little Green Men).

[edit] Andromeda and other later work

In the period that followed his departure from Deep Space Nine, Wolfe made several attempts at writing television pilots. One of these, Futuresport, was produced as an ABC TV movie starring Dean Cain and Wesley Snipes. He has also written several (unproduced) features, including “Splicers” for 20th Century Fox and Zero Gee for John Woo and Terrance Chang's Lion Rock Productions.

In 1999, working from notes by Gene Roddenberry, Wolfe developed the syndicated series Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda. The series premiered in the fall of 2000 as the number one original hour in syndication, a position it held for most of its five-year run.^{[citation needed]} Robert served as head writer and executive producer on “Andromeda” for its first two seasons, during which the series was nominated for two Saturn Award for Best Syndicated Series and for a BC Film Commission Leo Award for Best Dramatic Series. Wolfe left Andromeda in the fall of 2001.

Subsequently Wolfe wrote freelance scripts for both "The Dead Zone" and UPN's revival of "The Twilight Zone". In 2004, he served as a consulting producer and writer on the first season of "The 4400" on USA Network, helping launch the successful series.

Wolfe is currently an executive producer on the current Sci Fi Channel series The Dresden Files, along with David Simkins, Nicholas Cage and others. It is a production of Lions Gate Television and Saturn Films. It premiered on January 21st, 2007 on the Sci-Fi Channel. Wolfe and Hans Beimler wrote the screenplay for the pilot and developed the series, which is based on the books by Jim Butcher.