Paul Soles
Actor
Biography
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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.
Filmography
The Score
as Danny 2001
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
as Hermey (voice) 1964
Shadow Builder
as Mr. Butterman 1998
The Five Senses
as Mr. Bernstein 1999
Just the Way You Are
as Arthur 1984
Siblings
as Grandpa 2004
My First Wedding
as Harry 2006
Ticket to Heaven
as Morley 1981
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
as Mr. Schindler 1992
The Gunrunner
as Loebman 1990
Hidden Agenda
as Wilhelm Engelmann 1999
The Trolls and the Christmas Express
as Other Voices (voice) 1981
The Marriage Fool
as Warren 1998
Willy McBean & His Magic Machine
as Pablo the Monkey / King Ferdinand (voice) 1965
The Little Brown Burro
as Omar (voice) 1978
Falling Over Backwards
as Harvey 1990