Paul Soles
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 11 August 1930 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Died
- 26 May 2021
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.
Known for
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- 2014Lost Heroes as Narrator (voice)
- 2012The Magic Hockey Skates as Nick (voice)
- 2008The Incredible Hulk as Stanley
- 2006My First Wedding as Harry
- 2004Siblings as Grandpa
- 2002Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen as Harold Arlen
- 2001The Score as Danny
- 1999Hidden Agenda as Wilhelm Engelmann
- 1999The Five Senses as Mr. Bernstein
- 1998Shadow Builder as Mr. Butterman
- 1998Teen Knight as Mr. Percy/Parcival
- 1998The Marriage Fool as Warren
- 1996The Abduction
- 1996Einstein: Light to the Power of 2 as Albert Einstein
- 1993The Lotus Eaters as Tobias Spittle
- 1992Beethoven Lives Upstairs as Mr. Schindler
- 1991A Star for Two
- 1990Falling Over Backwards as Harvey
- 1990The Gunrunner as Loebman
- 1986Really Weird Tales as Professor Tistaert (segment "I'll Die Loving")
- 1984Just the Way You Are as Arthur
- 1981The Trolls and the Christmas Express as Other Voices (voice)
- 1981Ticket to Heaven as Morley
- 1980Take Me Up to the Ball Game as The Announcer (voice)
- 1980Last of the Red-Hot Dragons as (voice)
- 1978The Little Brown Burro as Omar (voice)
- 1978The Making of a President
- 1977King of the Beasts as (voice)
- 1976Noah's Animals as (voice)
- 1973Festival of Family Classics: Alice in Wonderland as Cheshire Cat / Five of Spades (voice)
- 1972A Christmas Tree
- 1972Jack O'Lantern as (voice)
- 197220,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- 1965Willy McBean & His Magic Machine as Pablo the Monkey / King Ferdinand (voice)
- 1964Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer as Hermey (voice)