- Producer Dick Wolf is old friends with producer Tom Fontana. They often use actors from each other's television series, usually resulting in the actors working on two shows at once. Examples are J.K. Simmons on Law & Order (1990) and Oz (1997), Christopher Meloni and Dean Winters on Oz (1997) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Kathryn Erbe on Oz (1997) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001). Richard Belzer famously leaped from producers' show to show as Detective John Munch.
- Worked as copywriter and/or producer of over 100 television commercials (1969-76).
- Is a close friend of famous crime novelist James Ellroy. Wolf even hired Ellroy's best friend, LAPD Homicide Detective William Stoner, as a technical advisor on his television series Dragnet (2003).
- Attended prep school, which served as basis later for his screenplay for School Ties (1992).
- Claims the scariest movie he has ever seen is Roman Polanski's Repulsion (1965).
- Classmates with George W. Bush at Phillips Academy Andover (Class of 1964). Named to Andover's list of notable alumni.
- His father was an advertising executive, his mother was a housewife.
- Was an altar boy at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York back when Cardinal Spellman was Archbishop.
- Ranked #50 in the Power Rankings and #12 in the Money Rankings on Forbes' 2006 Celebrity 100 list, with $70 million in earnings, primarily from the syndication of the various "Law & Order" series.
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7040 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on March 29, 2007.
- Inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame (2013).
- Attended and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia (Class of 1969). Was a member of Zeta Psi Fraternity.
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