Paul Soles
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 (51 Appearances)
Nurses
Wishfart
My 90 Year Old Roommate
Lost Heroes
The Magic Hockey Skates
Rookie Blue
The Incredible Hulk
My First Wedding
The Jane Show
Terminal City
Siblings
Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen
The Score
Hidden Agenda
The Five Senses
Shadow Builder
Teen Knight
The Marriage Fool
Riverdale
FX: The Series
The Abduction
Einstein: Light to the Power of 2
Due South
The Lotus Eaters
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Beethoven Lives Upstairs
A Star for Two
The Hidden Room
Falling Over Backwards
The Gunrunner
Really Weird Tales
L.A. Law
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Just the Way You Are
The Trolls and the Christmas Express
Ticket to Heaven
Take Me Up to the Ball Game
Last of the Red-Hot Dragons
Spider-Woman
The Little Brown Burro
The Making of a President
King of the Beasts
Noah's Animals
Festival of Family Classics: Alice in Wonderland
A Christmas Tree
The Smokey Bear Show
Spider-Man
The King Kong Show
The Marvel Super Heroes
Willy McBean & His Magic Machine
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer