| Paul Soles | |
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| Born | Paul Robert Soles 11 August 1930 Toronto, Canada |
| Years active | 1950s-present |
Paul Robert Soles (born 11 August 1930 at Toronto, Ontario)[1] is a Canadian actor and television personality.
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He is best known as the voice of Hermey the misfit elf in Rankin/Bass' Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in 1964.[2]
Soles also voiced the superhero Spider-Man in the animated television series of the late 1960s, 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.[3] Soles recently played Stanley the pizza shop owner in The Incredible Hulk.
He won a 2006 Gemini Award for his role in the television series Terminal City.[2]
He also did voices on various animated TV shows and films such as Rocket Robin Hood, The Smokey Bear Show, The Little Brown Burro, King of the Beasts, The Marvel Superheroes, the classic 1966 Incredible Hulk cartoon series, The Trolls and the Christmas Express, Take Me Up to the Ball Game, Willy McBean and his Magic Machine, Festival of Family Classics, The Reluctant Dragon and Mr. Toad Show, Noah's Animals, Iron Man, The King Kong Show and Captain America.
He was also the narrator of The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel, the voice of The Commissioner in the 2005 animated TV series Funpak and has also supplied the voice of Dr. Reboux in the animated version of the 2005 film Heidi.
He also voiced the Academy Award-nominated animated documentary The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein.[4]
He was the host of the short-lived CBC Television late-night comedy talk show Canada After Dark, and co-hosted the public affairs show Take 30 for 18 seasons with hosts such as Anna Cameron and Adrienne Clarkson.[2]
Paul Soles was also a producer of documentaries while he was an on-air talent at CFPL-TV in London, Ontario. He worked on a series called, The World Around Us, and traveled with film crews in Great Britain in the early 1960s, filming many aspects of British life. He even got on a soap-box in Hyde Park in London to speak his mind. Soles has worked with people like Dennis Goulden (a long-time documentarian who still produces television specials in the States) and Jim Plant and Tom Ashwell and Jon Boynton.
Soles and Bernard Cowan were cousins who both worked on the 1960s Spider-Man animated series.,[1][5] and also the 1967 children's series Max, the 2000-Year-Old Mouse.
| Preceded by None |
Voice of Spider-Man 1967-1970 |
Succeeded by Dan Gilvezan |