Paul Soles
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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.
Acted in
Nurses
2020
as Roy
Wishfart
2017
as Santa Claus (voice)
My 90 Year Old Roommate
2016
as Joe
Lost Heroes
2014
as Narrator (voice)
The Magic Hockey Skates
2012
as Nick (voice)
Rookie Blue
2010
as Peterson
The Incredible Hulk
2008
as Stanley
My First Wedding
2006
as Harry
The Jane Show
2006
as Stella's Father
Terminal City
2005
Siblings
2004
as Grandpa
Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen
2002
as Harold Arlen
The Score
2001
as Danny
Hidden Agenda
1999
as Wilhelm Engelmann
The Five Senses
1999
as Mr. Bernstein
Shadow Builder
1998
as Mr. Butterman
Teen Knight
1998
as Mr. Percy/Parcival
The Marriage Fool
1998
as Warren
Riverdale
1997
as Costas Stavros
FX: The Series
1996
as Mr. Merton
The Abduction
1996
Einstein: Light to the Power of 2
1996
as Albert Einstein
Due South
1994
as Creeve
The Lotus Eaters
1993
as Tobias Spittle
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993
as Marv
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
1992
as Mr. Schindler
A Star for Two
1991
Falling Over Backwards
1990
as Harvey
O MATADOR (The Gunrunner)
1990
as Loebman
Really Weird Tales
1986
as Professor Tistaert (segment "I'll Die Loving")
L.A. Law
1986
as Judge Robert Fellmeth
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
1985
as Moses Harper
The Trolls and the Christmas Express
1981
as Other Voices (voice)
Ticket to Heaven
1981
as Morley
Take Me Up to the Ball Game
1980
as The Announcer (voice)
Last of the Red-Hot Dragons
1980
as (voice)
Spider-Woman
1979
as Spider-man (voice)
The Little Brown Burro
1978
as Omar (voice)
The Making of a President
1978
King of the Beasts
1977
as (voice)
Noah's Animals
1976
as (voice)
A Christmas Tree
1972
The Smokey Bear Show
1969
as Benny / Floyd (voice)
Spider-Man
1967
as Peter Park / Spider-Man (voice)
The King Kong Show
1966
as Dr. Who (voice)
The Marvel Super Heroes
1966
as Rick Jones (voice)
Willy McBean and His Magic Machine
1965
as Pablo the Monkey / King Ferdinand (voice)
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1964
as Hermey (voice)