Attorney Perry Helmar / ... 3 episodes, 2001 Angelo Tsarouchas ... Cabbie / ... 3 episodes, 2002 Jody Racicot ... Apartment Night-Man / ... 3 episodes, 2001 Nancy Beatty ... Mrs. Irwin
Nero Wolfe 14 episodes, 1981 Lee Horsley ... Archie Goodwin 14 episodes, 1981 George Voskovec ... Fritz Brenner 14 episodes, 1981 Robert Coote ... Theodore Horstmann 14 …
In the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery the role of Hewitt is played by David Hemblen. Nathaniel Parker — Wolfe's lawyer (and occasionally a client's lawyer, on Wolfe's recommendation) when only a lawyer will do. Parker succeeded Henry H. Barber, who played this role earlier in the series.
Lawyer Alger Kates Member of the Research Department of the BPR. Algernon Goodman aka Archie Goodwin. Alice Hart Operator for Bagby Answers, Incorporated at East 69th Street. Alice Porter Writer, sometime member of the NAAD (drops in and out depending on payment of dues).
Toronto, CanadaMaury Chaykin / Place of death
On a sad note for hard-boiled detective fans, cable TV station A&E announced it has cancelled its Nero Wolfe. The network cited escalating production costs of the one-hour show, claiming the budget has risen to more than $1 million for each episode.Aug 29, 2002
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Carla Lovchen — Wolfe's adopted daughter, who appears in two stories, Over My Dead Body and The Black Mountain. Her murder in The Black Mountain, as well as that of Marko Vukčić, prompts Wolfe to leave the country for the only time in the series and return to Montenegro.
MontenegroNero Wolfe is a fictional character, a brilliant, oversized, eccentric armchair detective created in 1934 by American mystery writer Rex Stout. Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky....Nero WolfeNationalityMontenegrinCitizenshipUnited States by naturalization7 more rows
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Maury Alan Chaykin (July 27, 1949 – July 27, 2010) was an American–Canadian actor, best known for his portrayal of detective Nero Wolfe, as well as for his work as a character actor in many films and television programs.
83Â years (January 17, 1939)Maury Povich / Age
61 years (1949–2010)Maury Chaykin / Age at death
(League of Frightened Men). However, some years later a government agent asked if he was married and Wolfe said "No." so any earlier marriage had been ended.
And to Wolfe's favorite beer -- Remmers.Feb 23, 2012
According to his memoir The Brownstone House of Nero Wolfe as told by Archie Goodwin (ed. Ken Darby, after the death of Rex Stout), Archie married his long-term on-off girlfriend Lily Rowan.
In the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery (2001–2002), the role of Inspector Cramer is played by Bill Smitrovich.
Saul Panzer, Fred Durkin, and Orrie Cather are collectively known as the 'teers, the three freelance detectives who make up the extended professional family. Though Wolfe hired a range of freelance operators, after the first few novels the 'teers were always Wolfe's first choices when extra manpower was needed. If only one extra detective was needed, Saul Panzer was the automatic first choice.
^ The room is described verbatim in " Fourth of July Picnic " (1957, chapter 6) — a story in which Wolfe again visits it — and A Family Affair (1975, chapter 15).
Fritz Brenner is an exceptionally talented Swiss cook who prepares and serves all of Wolfe's meals except those that Wolfe occasionally takes at Rusterman's Restaurant. Fritz also acts as the household's majordomo and butler.
Cramer is usually assisted by Sergeant Purley Stebbins, and at times by Lt. George Rowcliff, Archie's personal nemesis. Wolfe and Archie collaborate with Cramer on his homicide cases, but the relationship is a contentious one.
Police Commissioner Hombert — In some of the novels, the New York police commissioner. A politician, rather than a policeman, he is not especially respected by either Wolfe or Cramer. Skinner — district attorney for Manhattan. Mandelbaum (aka Mandel) — assistant district attorney for Manhattan.
Arnold Zeck appears in three Nero Wolfe novels. Zeck is a mysterious and powerful crime boss possessed of a superior intellect. He and Wolfe become mutual admirers and antagonists in the course of several cases; when he is first mentioned in And Be a Villain, Archie indicates that he became aware of Zeck following a telephone call to Wolfe made several months before the events of the novel during an unreported case, but Wolfe has warned him not to investigate any further and to do his best to forget that the criminal exists.
According to a memo prepared by Rex Stout in 1949, Nero Wolfe's age is 56, although this is not directly stated in the stories. "Those stories have ignored time for thirty-nine years," Stout told his authorized biographer, John McAleer. "Any reader who can't or won't do the same should skip them.
Wolfe was born in Montenegro and keeps his past murky. He lives in a luxurious brownstone on West 35th Street in New York City , and he is loath to leave his home ...
[Fritz] served Wolfe's beer first, the bottle unopened because that's a rule, and Wolfe got his opener from the drawer , a gold one Marko Vukcic had given him that didn't work very well.
The stories have been adapted for film, radio, television and the stage. The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated for Best Mystery Series of the Century at Bouchercon 2000, the world's largest mystery convention, and Rex Stout was a nominee for Best Mystery Writer of the Century.
Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's sharp-witted, dapper young confidential assistant with an eye for attractive women, narrates the cases and does the legwork for the detective genius. Stout published 33 novels and 41 novellas and short stories featuring Wolfe from 1934 to 1975, with most of them set in New York City.
Wolfe had once remarked to me that the orchids were his concubines: insipid, expensive, parasitic and temperamental. He brought them, in their diverse forms and colors, to the limits of their perfection, and then gave them away; he had never sold one.
According to the same memo, Wolfe's height is 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) and his weight is 272 lb (123 kg). Archie Goodwin, the narrator of the stories, frequently describes Wolfe as weighing "a seventh of a ton".
After the publication of Fer-de-Lance in 1934, several Hollywood studios were interested in the movie rights. In one of many conversations with his authorized biographer, Rex Stout told John McAleer that he himself had wanted Charles Laughton to play Nero Wolfe:
I met Laughton only once, at a party. Of all the actors I have seen, I think he wo…
If he had done nothing more than to create Archie Goodwin, Rex Stout would deserve the gratitude of whatever assessors watch over the prosperity of American literature. For surely Archie is one of the folk heroes in which the modern American temper can see itself transfigured. Archie is the lineal descendant of Huck Finn ... Archie is spiritually larger than life. That is why his employer and companion had to be made corpulent to match.— Jacques Barzun
• Fritz Brenner – exceptionally talented Swiss cook who prepares and serves all of Wolfe's meals except those that Wolfe occasionally takes at Rusterman's Restaurant. Fritz also acts as the household's majordomo and butler.
• Theodore Horstmann – orchid expert who assists Wolfe in the plant rooms.
1. ^ Rex Stout prepared a confidential memo dated September 14, 1949 to assist the producers of the Sydney Greenstreet radio series The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe. Under the heading "Description of Nero Wolfe", Stout begins: "Height 5 ft. 11 in. Weight 272 lbs. Age 56."
2. ^ In Too Many Women (1947, chapter 5), Archie estimates Wolfe's weight at close to 340. In In the Best Families (1953), Wolfe temporarily sheds 117 pounds.