Paul Soles
Acting
Born August 11, 1930, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
- Nurses — Roy
- Wishfart — Santa Claus (voice)
- My 90 Year Old Roommate — Joe
- Squirrels Just Being Squirrels — Shelldon / Additional Voices
- 2014Lost Heroes — Narrator (voice)
- 2012The Magic Hockey Skates — Nick (voice)
- Rookie Blue — Peterson
- 2008The Incredible Hulk — Stanley
- 2006My First Wedding — Harry
- The Jane Show — Stella's Father
- Terminal City
- 2004Siblings — Grandpa
- 2002Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen — Harold Arlen
- 2001The Score — Danny
- 1999Hidden Agenda — Wilhelm Engelmann
- 1999The Five Senses — Mr. Bernstein
- 1998Shadow Builder — Mr. Butterman
- 1998Teen Knight — Mr. Percy/Parcival
- 1998The Marriage Fool — Warren
- Riverdale — Costas Stavros
- 1996Einstein: Light to the Power of 2 — Albert Einstein
- FX: The Series — Mr. Merton
- 1996The Abduction
- Due South — Creeve
- Kung Fu: The Legend Continues — Marv
- 1993The Lotus Eaters — Tobias Spittle
- 1992Beethoven Lives Upstairs — Mr. Schindler
- 1991A Star for Two
- The Hidden Room — Fabian
- 1990Falling Over Backwards — Harvey
- 1990The Gunrunner — Loebman
- L.A. Law — Robert Fellmeth
- 1986Really Weird Tales — Professor Tistaert (segment "I'll Die Loving")
- The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Moses Harper
- 1984Just the Way You Are — Arthur
- 1981The Trolls and the Christmas Express — Other Voices (voice)
- 1981Ticket to Heaven — Morley
- 1980Last of the Red-Hot Dragons — (voice)
- 1980Take Me Up to the Ball Game — The Announcer (voice)
- Spider-Woman — Spider-man (voice)
- 1978The Little Brown Burro — Omar (voice)
- 1978The Making of a President
- 1977King of the Beasts — (voice)
- 1976Noah's Animals — (voice)
- 1973Festival of Family Classics: Alice in Wonderland — Cheshire Cat / Five of Spades (voice)
- 1972A Christmas Tree
- 1972Jack O'Lantern — (voice)
- The Smokey Bear Show — Benny / Floyd (voice)
- Spider-Man — Peter Parker / Spider-Man (voice)
- The King Kong Show — Dr. Who (voice)
- The Marvel Super Heroes — Rick Jones (voice)
- 1965Willy McBean & His Magic Machine — Pablo the Monkey / King Ferdinand (voice)
- 1964Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer — Hermey (voice)