Career
And Free to Be..You and Maine, and television series such as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, James Bond Junior., and Sarah Ferguson’s Budgie the Little Helicopter. Wolf was also responsible for the famous Tootsie Pops “How Many Licks” commercial. In the 1960s, Wolf set up a studio in Hollywood, California with Japanese-American animator Jimmy Murakami (later of The Snowman).
The studio was called Murakami-Wolf Films.
Both Murakami and Swenson eventually left the company, and in 1992 it became Fred Wolf Films. In 1989, MWS established a satellite studio in Dublin, Ireland, known as Murakami-Wolf Dublin before eventually adopting its current name (Fred Wolf Films Dublin).
In this studio, each project is produced by a dedicated Irish crew. Among the various series produced by or involving Fred Wolf:
Alvin and the Chipmunks (1983-1990)
Barnyard Commandos (1990)
The California Raisin Show (1989)
Ducktales (1987-1991)
Hollywood Dogs (1989)
Dino Babies (1994-1995)
James Bond Junior.
(1991)
Little Clowns of Happytown (1987)
Pretty Piggies (1990)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987-1997)
The Wuzzles (1985)
The New Adventures of Speed Racer (1993-1994)
Movies produced/directed by Fred Wolf:
The Box (1967)
The Point! Puff the Magic Dragon (1978)
Puff the Magic Dragon in the Land of the Living Lies (1979)
The Little Rascals Christmas Special (1979)
Carlton Your Doorman (1980)
Strawberry Shortcake: Pets on Parade (1982)
Puff and the Incredible Mr.
Nobody (1984)
Fluppy Dogs (1986)
Adventures of the American Rabbit (1986).