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Perry Wolff

Film Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Belmont Village Westwood – Los Angeles

Perry Wolff is an award-winning documentarian with a passion for history and the arts. His career spans more than fifty years included a post as executive producer for “CBS Reports.” It was during his time at CBS that Mr. Wolff directed the 1962 documentary, A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy. He later went on to focus on the arts in a series of files for public broadcasting including An Essay on Matisse, for which he received an Academy Award nomination. He has won 15 Emmy awards, 14 Peabody Awards, and numerous Writers Guild, Du Pont, and Polk awards. He regularly hosts screenings for residents and guests at Belmont Village Westwood and for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UCLA.

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