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In the Columbia Pictures feature film Meet Nero Wolfe (1936), the character of Fritz was transformed into a Scandinavian cook named Olaf, played by John Qualen. In the ABC-TV movie Nero Wolfe (1977), Fritz is portrayed by David Hurst. In the NBC TV series Nero Wolfe (1981), Fritz Brenner is played by George Voskovec.
The newspaper comic strip Nero Wolfe appeared from 1956 to 1972, [69] originally written by France Herron [70] and drawn by Mike Roy, [71] and syndicated by Columbia Features. Nero Wolfe is referred to in Ian Fleming's book On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1963), by the character M while in conversation with James Bond who acknowledges that he ...
Nero Wolfe "Fourth of July Picnic" is a Nero Wolfe mystery novella by Rex Stout , first published as "The Labor Union Murder" in the July 9, 1957, issue of Look magazine. It first appeared in book form in the short-story collection And Four to Go , published by the Viking Press in 1958.
"Nero Wolfe talks in a way that no human being on the face of the earth has ever spoken, with the possible exception of Rex Stout after he had a gin and tonic," said Michael Jaffe, executive producer of the A&E TV series, A Nero Wolfe Mystery. [1] Nero Wolfe's erudite vocabulary is one of the hallmarks of the character.
Nero Wolfe is an American drama television series based on the characters in Rex Stout's series of detective stories. The series aired on NBC from January 16 to August 25, 1981. [ 1 ] William Conrad fills the role of the detective genius Nero Wolfe , and Lee Horsley is his assistant Archie Goodwin .
A group of authors and publishers hires Nero Wolfe to investigate a series of plagiarism claims. Wolfe, by his own admission, bungles the investigation so badly that three murders result. In Plot It Yourself , Stout draws on his lengthy experience with book publishers, with authors (via, for example, his presidency of the Authors Guild ), and ...
The story starts with detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant, Archie Goodwin, being forced to dine on food from a delicatessen as Fritz, Wolfe's private chef and housekeeper, has been in bed for several days, ill with influenza. A jar of liver pâté made by Tingley's Tidbits is found to have a foul taste. Poison is suspected as there are a ...
Meet Nero Wolfe was the second film directed by Herbert Biberman (1900–1971), a director rooted in the theater who became best known as one of the Hollywood Ten. "Fresh from the theater, Biberman blocked shots instead of composing them," wrote Bernard F. Dick in Radical Innocence: A Critical Study of the Hollywood Ten (1989):