Bio biography jack wolfman

(b. 21 January 1938 in Brooklyn, New York; d. 1 July 1995 in Belvidere, North Carolina), legendary radio personality, television host, actor, and commercial spokesperson.

Smith was the younger of two children of Anson Weston Smith, Jr., an Episcopal Sunday school teacher, writer, editor, and executive vice president of the Financial World, and Rosamund Small.

Bio biography jack wolfman

His parents divorced while Smith was young. His father, who suffered financial losses during the Great Depression, sold shoes for a time, then started his own public relations consulting firm and wrote for the Wall Street Transcript.

Both parents remarried and shared custody of Smith and his sister.

Smith later referred to himself as a “budding juvenile delinquent,” and his father bought him a large transoceanic radio to keep him out of trouble.

Smith became an avid fan of rhythm and blues (R&B) and the disc jockeys who promoted it, such as Philadelphia’s “Jocko” Henderson, New