James Digby Wolfe[1] was born to a father who was an international banker and a mother who was a Vogue magazine artist.

Together with Jimmy Wilson he wrote a revue, with music by John Pritchett and Norman Dannatt, for the Irving Theatre.

He appeared alongside Ronnie Corbett, Hattie Jacques and Charles Hawtrey, in his own television show Wolfe at the Door before moving to Sydney, Australia in 1959, where he made frequent television appearances and was host of the variety shows, Revue '61 and Revue '62.

Wolfe returned to England for a while in the early 1960s and was a writer on the seminal television satirical review That Was the Week That Was.

[7] Wolfe died in Albuquerque, New Mexico, aged 82, on 3 May 2012, after a short battle with cancer, and was survived by his wife, Patricia Mannion, and his sister, Hilary Hammond-Williams.