William Wolf (1925 – March 28, 2020) was an American film and theater critic and the author.
Wolf was a film critic for Cue and New York magazines in the 1960s–1980s.
Audio tapes of his interviews with directors, actors, producers, and others in the world of cinema and the stage constitute the William Wolf Film and Theater Interview Collection (1972–1998), part of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, that he donated to the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts.
He has contributed chapters on "Easy Rider" and "Duck Soup" to "The A List: 100 Essential Films" a collection of reviews by members of the National Society of Film Critics, and "The Eroticism of Words" and "Kinsey" chapters in the National Society's sequel, "The X List."
He died from complications brought on by COVID-19 on March 28, 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York (state).