The Sea-Wolf - Film Adaptations

Film Adaptations

Jack London's novel has been adapted for motion pictures:

• The Sea Wolf (1913 film), a silent motion picture starring Hobart Bosworth, with author Jack London appearing as an unnamed sailor
• The Sea Wolf (1920 film) a silent motion picture starring Noah Beery (Larsen) and Tom Forman (van Weyden);
• The Sea Wolf (1926 film), a silent motion picute starring Ralph Ince and Claire Adams (Maud);
• The Sea Wolf (1930 film), starring Milton Sills and the former USRC Bear as the sealer Macedonia;
• The Sea Wolf (1941 film) starring Edward G. Robinson (Larsen), Ida Lupino (Maud), and John Garfield;
• Wolf Larsen (1958 film), starring Barry Sullivan and Peter Graves;
• Der Seewolf (Germany, 1972, TV, 4 part miniseries), starring Raimund Harmstorf and Edward Meeks;
• Il Lupo dei Mari (Italy, 1975, The Legend of the Sea Wolf), starring Chuck Connors and Giuseppe Pambieri;
• Morskoj volk (Russia, 1991, TV), starring Liubomiras Lauciavicius and Andrei Rudensky;
• The Sea Wolf (1993, TV), starring Christopher Reeve and Charles Bronson;
• The Sea Wolf (1997), starring Stacy Keach;
• The Sea Wolf (ProSieben, Germany, 2008), starring Thomas Kretschmann;
• Sea Wolf (ZDF, Canada/Germany, 2009), starring Sebastian Koch, Stephen Campbell Moore, Neve Campbell and Tim Roth; Produced by TeleMünchen;

Radio Adaptation The book was adapted in four hour-long episodes for BBC Radio Four, with Jack Klaff as Wolf and Kerry Shale as Humphrey van Weyden. It was then re-broadcast on four consecutive days on BBC Radio Four Extra on June 5, 6, 7, 8 2012.