Wolf Roth [1] (born August 30, 1944)[2] is a German theatre and television actor.
Roth was born in Torgau, Germany, where his family had fled during World War II.
In 1961 he moved to the United States and graduated from the Edsel Ford High School in Detroit, Michigan.
He spent the next months travelling through the Midwest of the U.S. Having returned to Germany, he graduated in Bremen and went on to the Free University of Berlin.
He took courses in sociology and economics, but found his vocation when he was taken by friends to the entrance examinations of the famous Max Reinhardt Seminar for actors.