Wolf Larson

{{Short description|Canadian actor}} {{Infobox person | birth_name = Wolfgang Wyszecki | image = Wolf Larson by Gage Skidmore.jpg | caption = Larson at the 2024 WonderCon | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1959|12|22|mf=y}} | birth_place = West Berlin, West Germany | alma_mater = Queen's University at Kingston, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (MBA)<ref name="edu">{{cite news |last1=Lague |first1=Louise |title=Tarzan Today! |url=https://people.com/archive/tarzan-today-vol-36-no-20/ |accessdate=30 April 2020 |work=People |date=25 November 1991}}</ref> | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1985–2006 | spouse = {{marriage|Carolyn J. Larson|March 30, 1998}} }}

'''Wolfgang Wyszecki''' (born December 22, 1959), known professionally as '''Wolf Larson''', is a German-Canadian former actor, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his roles as Tarzan in the 1991 syndicated series Tarzán and as Detective Chester "Chase" McDonald in L.A. Heat.

== Biography == Larson was born in West Germany to Günter Wyszecki and Ingeborg Wyszecki. <ref name="edu" /> He has an older sister named Joana (1957 - 2017). In his teens, he worked as a waiter at the Chippendales nightclub.

Since December 2023, Larson has served as the Vice President of ERB Entertainment, a division of Edgar Rice Burroughs Inc. <ref>https://www.edgarriceburroughs.com/wolf-larson-joins-erb-inc-to-head-erb-entertainment-andchristopher-paul-carey-promoted-to-vice-president-of-publishing/ </ref>

==Filmography== ===Film=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes ! class="unsortable"| Source |- | 1987 | ''Hard Ticket to Hawaii'' | J.J. Jackson | | |- | 1988 | ''Picasso Trigger'' | Jimmy-John | | <ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ehkcZFT8fMoC&pg=PA246|title=The Espionage Filmography: United States Releases, 1898 through 1999|author=Paul Mavis|page=246|publisher=McFarland & Co|year=2000|isbn=978-0786408610}}</ref> |- | 1990 | ''Mad About You'' | Jeff Clark | | |- | 1995 | ''Tracks of a Killer'' | Patrick Hausman | | |- | rowspan="2" | 1996 | ''Hostile Force'' | Tony Reineke | | |- | ''Expect No Mercy'' | Warbeck | | |- | 1999 | ''Crash and Byrnes'' | Jack "Crash" Riley | also screenplay | <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b83190c52|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190422092214/https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b83190c52|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 22, 2019|title=Crash and Byrnes (1999)|website=British Film Institute}}</ref> |- | 2000 | ''Castlerock'' | Cade | | |- | rowspan="2" | 2001 | ''The Elite'' | Griffin | | |- | ''Just Can't Get Enough'' | {{n/a}} | executive producer only | |- | 2002 | ''Shakedown'' | Agent Alec "Mac" MacKay | | |}

===Television=== {| class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable"| Notes ! class="unsortable"| Source |- | 1991-1994 | ''Tarzán'' | Tarzan | 75 episodes | <ref>{{cite news |title=Tarzan: 1991 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/tarzan-1912-2014/1991/ |accessdate=30 April 2020 |publisher=The Daily Telegraph |date=6 July 2016}}</ref> |- | 1996 | ''Tarzan: The Legacy of Edgar Rice Burroughs'' | Himself | TV special | |- | rowspan="2" | 1998 | ''C-Pop'' | Max "Jet" Ease | TV movie | |- | ''Storm Chasers: Revenge of the Twister'' | Will Stanton | TV movie | |- | 1999 | ''L.A. Heat'' | Detective Chester "Chase" McDonald | 48 episodes | |- | 2001 | ''Avalanche Alley'' | Alex | TV movie | |- | rowspan="2" | 2004 | ''She Spies'' | Justin Decker | Episode: "London Calling" | |- | ''Creating America's Next Hit Television Show'' | Walter Montgomery #3 | | |}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0489112|name=Wolf Larson}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Larson, Wolf}} Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Canadian male television actors Category:German emigrants to Canada Category:Male actors from Berlin