Original Australian Daybill movie poster. Wolf Larsen is a 1958 film adaptation of Jack London's novel The Sea Wolf directed by Harmon Jones and starring Barry Sullivan in the title role. The supporting cast features Peter Graves and Gita Hall. The part of the brutal sea captain Larsen has also been portrayed onscreen by writer-director Hobart Bosworth (1913), Noah Beery, Sr. (1920), Edward G. Robinson (1941), Chuck Connors (1975), and Charles Bronson (1993 TV-movie).