Digby Wolfe
Digby Wolfe belongs to the generation of British comic writer-performers who kept moving until they found a room that would have them. He worked in Britain, then Australia, then the United States, and his name attaches less to characters than to formats: the satirical sketch programme That Was the Week That Was, and later Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, whose speed and cutaway grammar he helped write. He took a Primetime Emmy and a Logie for that work.
The screen credits collected here are the leftovers of the career rather than its centre, and they are honest about it: an uncredited voice among the vultures in Disney's The Jungle Book, a room clerk on The Second Hundred Years, an appearance on the mid-sixties sitcom Love on a Rooftop. The material he is remembered for was written, not performed, which is the usual fate of a comedy writer and the reason his filmography understates him so badly.
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Where to start with Digby Wolfe
There is not much of him to watch here, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. The Jungle Book is the only title of real weight, and his part in it is an uncredited voice in the vulture sequence.
Love on a Rooftop and The Second Hundred Years are period sitcom curios, watchable for the era rather than for him.
To meet Wolfe properly you want the shows he wrote, That Was the Week That Was and Laugh-In, which are not among the credits listed here.