Dick Wolf Biography

Fast Facts

• Best known for creating the Law & Order franchise
• At age 12, wrote a detective serial that ran for two years in his school paper
• Attended Phillips Andover Academy in Massachusetts with future president George W
• Bush
• A former ad copywriter, helped create the "I'm Cheryl, fly me" campaign for National Airlines, as well as the toothpaste slogan "You can't beat Crest for fighting cavities
• " Serves as Monaco's honorary consul for Los Angeles, and is involved in the country's annual Monte-Carlo Television Festival
• Received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in March 2007
• Signed a deal to write two novels for HarperCollins in July 2010