Universal's horror cycle continued into the 1940s, these included The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), not the first werewolf film, but certainly the most influential, as well as a number of films uniting several of their monsters.

The Wolf Man ( wearing a very obvious mask ) and The Mummy are also tossed in for comic relief.

The script was written by his younger brother Curt Siodmak, later the screenwriter of The Wolf Man ( 1941 ).

" Alabama Song " was written and composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1927, for their opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny ( Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny ); " Back Door Man " was written by Willie Dixon and originally recorded by Howlin ' Wolf.

In his Man into Wolf ( 1948 ), anthropologist Robert Eisler drew attention to the fact that many Indo-European tribal names and some modern European surnames mean " wolf " or " wolf-men ".

A more tragic character is Lawrence Talbot, played by Lon Chaney, Jr. in 1941's The Wolf Man.

The form a werewolf assumes was generally anthropomorphic in early films such as The Wolf Man and Werewolf of London, but larger and powerful wolf in many later films.

Werewolves are often depicted as immune to damage caused by ordinary weapons, being vulnerable only to silver objects, such as a silver-tipped cane, bullet or blade ; this attribute was first adopted cinematically in The Wolf Man.

Wolf Messing is a major character in Steve Englehart's series of Max August novels, beginning with The Point Man in 1980, and continuing through The Long Man and The Plain Man.

Jon Bon Jovi is a credited actor in the movies Moonlight and Valentino, The Leading Man, Destination Anywhere, Homegrown, Little City, No Looking Back, Row Your Boat, Vampires Los Muertos, U-571, Cry Wolf, National Lampoon's Pucked, and New Year's Eve.

These were " Cheryl's Canon ", " Metal Man Has Won His Wings " and a Howlin ' Wolf styled rendition of Little Richard's " Slippin ' and Slidin '".

He was known for many roles in Hollywood films, among them the title role in The Invisible Man ( 1933 ), The Wolf Man ( 1941 ), a corrupt senator in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ( 1939 ), Mr. Dryden in Lawrence of Arabia ( 1962 ), and, perhaps his most notable performance, as Captain Renault in Casablanca ( 1942 ).

In this film, they encounter Count Dracula, Frankenstein's monster and the Wolf Man, while subsequent films pair the duo with the Mummy, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and the Invisible Man.

The film is considered the swan song for the " Big Three " Universal horror monsters – Count Dracula, the Wolf Man and Frankenstein's monster – although it does not appear to fit within the loose continuity of the earlier films.

However, before he is able, a full moon rises and Talbot becomes The Wolf Man and the call disconnects.

As they search for Joan, Talbot transforms into the Wolf Man and stalks Wilbur.

Wilbur escapes, but the Wolf Man finds and injures McDougal.

The next morning, Chick and Talbot meet and Talbot tells Chick that he is the Wolf Man.

Just as Talbot is about to untie Wilbur, he once again transforms into the Wolf Man.

Dracula returns to the lab to find the Wolf Man there and flees, with the Wolf Man giving chase.

* 1907 – Walter Wolf, German politician ( d. 1977 )

Films such as Audition ( 1999 ), Wrong Turn ( 2003 ), and the Australian film Wolf Creek ( 2005 ), took their cues from The Last House on the Left ( 1972 ), The Texas Chain Saw Massacre ( 1974 ), and The Hills Have Eyes ( 1977 ).

Elric as depicted by Michael Whelan on the 1977 cover of The Weird of the White Wolf.

* The Weird of the White Wolf ( 1977 )

* Wolf Vostell, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Centro Miró, Barcelona, 1977.

She began to study ballet at the age of five, and chose it as her field of concentration when she attended Juilliard in New York City in 1976 and 1977, during which time she performed with the Princeton Ballet Company in Peter and the Wolf, The Nutcracker, and Coppélia, also appearing in community theater musicals.

* Leo Kadanoff -- Distinguished Research Chair ; Wolf Prize ( 1980 ); Lorentz Medal ( 2006 ); Boltzmann Medal ( 1989 ); Buckley Prize ( 1977 )

Driver Dino Crescentini of Rochester Hills, MI-a ten-year veteran of vintage racing-lost control of his 1977 Wolf Dallara Can-Am car, which previously had been driven by the late Gilles Villeneuve.

Nambu has won numerous honors and awards including the Dannie Heineman Prize ( 1970 ), the J. Robert Oppenheimer Prize ( 1977 ), Japan's Order of Culture ( 1978 ), the U. S .' s National Medal of Science ( 1982 ), the Max Planck Medal ( 1985 ), the Dirac Prize ( 1986 ), the Sakurai Prize ( 1994 ), the Wolf Prize in Physics ( 1994 / 1995 ), and the Franklin Institute's Benjamin Franklin Medal ( 2005 ).

In 1977, with conductor Karl Böhm, she won a Grammy Award for Best Album for Children for Prokofiev: Peter and the Wolf and Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals.

* Hillary Wolf ( born 1977 ), American child actress

He also played the role at Wolf Trap, Virginia, in June 1976, opened the national tour for 3 weeks in Fall 1977 in Chicago, and starred in the limited run Broadway revival in 1989.

In recognition of these achievements, he won the Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society ( 1977 ), the Wolf Prize in Physics ( 1980 ), the 1989 Boltzmann Medal of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics, and the 2006 Lorentz Medal.

Her other films include I Don't Want to Be Born ( 1975 ), Equus ( 1977 ), The Dresser ( 1983 ), Wolf ( 1994 ), Jack and Sarah ( 1995 ), Gosford Park ( 2001 ), Cold Mountain ( 2003 ), Vanity Fair ( 2004 ) and Ask the Dust ( 2006 ).

He was one of the most hated heels in wrestling ( winning Pro Wrestling Illustrated's " Most Hated Wrestler " award in 1977 ), and often used his Swinging Full Nelson to " injure " babyface opponents during matches ( most notably Billy White Wolf in August 1977 ).

Also, if needed, Stephenson has been known to do a take-off on Paul Lynde as heard on the 1977 series Scooby's All-Star Laff-a-Lympics as the character Mildew Wolf.

Vienna, VA: The Wolf Trap Associates, 1977.

A box of General Mills ’ Cookie Crisp breakfast cereal from 2008, featuring Chip the Wolf. Cookie Crisp is a breakfast cereal introduced in 1977 by Ralston Purina and attempts to recreate “ the great taste of chocolate chip cookies and milk .” It is currently manufactured by General Mills in the United States since Ralston Purina ’ s spin-off of cereals in 1997 and Cereal Partners ( under the Nestlé brand ) in other countries.

* J. Plaridel Silvestre World Organization of the Scout Movement Scouting notable, awardee of the Bronze Wolf in 1977

Their reign was cut short in August 1977 when the belts were vacated due to White Wolf suffering a neck injury at the hands of Ken Patera's Swinging Full Nelson.

* Lone Wolf ( 1977 )

* 1977 Mary Winslow Chapman publishes I Remember Raleigh, which including vivid descriptions of a pre-channelized Wolf River ( early-to-middle 20th century ).

Manuel Trazazas " Lone Wolf " Gonzaullas ( July 4, 1891 – February 13, 1977 ) was a Texas Rangers captain and a staff member of the Texas government.