Wolf Rilla

Born in Berlin to Jewish actors, Wolf Rilla escaped Nazi Germany with his family in 1934 and continued his education at the progressive Frensham Heights School before studying at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge; he entered the BBC’s German service as a script editor in 1942 and shifted to television by the late 1940s. Leaving the corporation in 1952, he directed episodes for ITV series such as T… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources