Paul Soles
Born: 1930-08-11 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Died: 2021-05-26
Known For: Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paul Robert Soles (11 August 1930 - 26 May 2021) was a Canadian actor and television personality. He was best known as the original voice of Hermey the misfit elf in Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964. Soles voiced the Bruce Banner character in the 1966 Incredible Hulk cartoon series. He also voiced fellow Marvel superhero Spider-Man in the animated television series also from the late 1960s, and he played "The Lawbreaker" on the CBC panel quiz show This Is the Law in the 1970s, and played Costas Stavros on the Canadian soap opera Riverdale. In 2001, he took over the role of Shylock the Jew in the Stratford Festival of Canada production of The Merchant of Venice after Al Waxman, who was originally scheduled to play the part, died. Soles played Stanley the pizza shop owner in The Incredible Hulk. He also played Danny, the Montréal Customs House janitor in the 2001 crime thriller, The Score.
Filmography
2020
- Nurses as Roy
2017
- Wishfart as Santa Claus (voice)
2016
- My 90 Year Old Roommate as Joe
2014
- Lost Heroes as Narrator (voice)
2012
- The Magic Hockey Skates as Nick (voice)
2010
- Rookie Blue as Peterson
2008
- The Incredible Hulk as Stanley
2006
- The Jane Show as Stella's Father
- My First Wedding as Harry
2005
2004
- Siblings as Grandpa
2002
- Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen as Harold Arlen
2001
- The Score as Danny
1999
- Hidden Agenda as Wilhelm Engelmann
- The Five Senses as Mr. Bernstein
1998
- Shadow Builder as Mr. Butterman
- Teen Knight as Mr. Percy/Parcival
- The Marriage Fool as Warren
1997
- Riverdale as Costas Stavros
1996
- FX: The Series as Mr. Merton
- The Abduction
- Einstein: Light to the Power of 2 as Albert Einstein
1994
- Due South as Creeve
1993
- Kung Fu: The Legend Continues as Marv
- The Lotus Eaters as Tobias Spittle
1992
- Beethoven Lives Upstairs as Mr. Schindler
1991
1990
- The Gunrunner as Loebman
- Falling Over Backwards as Harvey
1986
- L.A. Law as Judge Robert Fellmeth
- Really Weird Tales as Professor Tistaert (segment "I'll Die Loving")
1985
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Moses Harper
1984
- Just the Way You Are as Arthur
1981
- Ticket to Heaven as Morley
- The Trolls and the Christmas Express as Other Voices (voice)
1980
- Take Me Up to the Ball Game as The Announcer (voice)
- Last of the Red-Hot Dragons as (voice)
1979
- Spider-Woman as Spider-man (voice)
1978
- The Little Brown Burro as Omar (voice)
- The Making of a President
1977
- King of the Beasts as (voice)
1976
- Noah's Animals as (voice)
1973
- Festival of Family Classics: Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat / Five of Spades (voice)
1969
- The Smokey Bear Show as Benny / Floyd (voice)
1967
- Spider-Man as Peter Park / Spider-Man (voice)
1966
- The Marvel Super Heroes as Rick Jones (voice)
- The King Kong Show as Dr. Who (voice)
1965
- Willy McBean & His Magic Machine as Pablo the Monkey / King Ferdinand (voice)
1964
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as Hermey (voice)