Paul Soles

Paul Soles

Born: August 11, 1930
Died: May 26, 2021
in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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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.

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Title: Nurses
Character: Roy
Released: January 6, 2020
Type: TV
Follow five young nurses working on the frontlines of a busy hospital in downtown Toronto, dedicating their lives to helping others, while struggling to help themselves.
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Title: Wishfart
Character: Santa Claus (voice)
Released: September 5, 2017
Type: TV
Dez is a young cool rebel-Leprechaun with rookie wish-granting powers, who has wild misadventures as he and his friends, a Japanese ghost girl named Akiko and a puffin called Puffin, scramble to undo the consequences of wishes (wishfarts) gone fantastically out of control
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Title: My 90 Year Old Roommate
Character: Joe
Released: September 26, 2016
Type: TV
Ethan, a 31-year-old single man, moves in with his 90-year-old grandfather and the pair quickly realize that they have a lot to learn from each other.
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Lost Heroes
Title: Lost Heroes
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: February 28, 2014
Type: Movie
Lost Heroes is the story of Canada's forgotten comic book superheroes and their legendary creators. A ninety-minute journey to recover a forgotten part of Canada's pop culture and a national treasure few have ever heard about. This is the tale of a small country striving to create its own heroes, but finding itself constantly out muscled by better-funded and better-marketed superheroes from the media empire next door.
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The Magic Hockey Skates
Title: The Magic Hockey Skates
Character: Nick (voice)
Released: December 13, 2012
Type: Movie
A boy begrudgingly buys second hand skates which turn out to make him the best hockey player ever - via three wishes.
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Title: Rookie Blue
Character: Peterson
Released: June 24, 2010
Type: TV
Ambitious young cops try to prove themselves in their high-stakes careers, in which the smallest mistake can have deadly consequences. At the core of the close-knit group is perfectionist Andy McNally, whose father was a homicide detective before he burned out on the job. The series follows Andy and her four colleagues -- Dov Epstein, Gail Peck, Traci Nash and Chris Diaz -- as they experience the trials, triumphs and tribulations of police work, as well as its effect on their personal lives.
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The Incredible Hulk
Title: The Incredible Hulk
Character: Stanley
Released: June 12, 2008
Type: Movie
Scientist Bruce Banner scours the planet for an antidote to the unbridled force of rage within him: the Hulk. But when the military masterminds who dream of exploiting his powers force him back to civilization, he finds himself coming face to face with a new, deadly foe.
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My First Wedding
Title: My First Wedding
Character: Harry
Released: August 18, 2006
Type: Movie
A young lady about to get married realizes that she has a problem: she fantasizes about every man she sees. She goes to confess at church but unknowingly confesses to a young man who is not a priest. He agrees to help her, but falls in love with her along the way. Unfortunately she still thinks he is a priest.
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Title: The Jane Show
Character: Stella's Father
Released: June 1, 2006
Type: TV
Aspiring novelist Jane Black suddenly winds up unemployed. Hoping for a more conventional lifestyle, she goes in search of a job, hoping to find something with a 40-hour work week and maybe even dental insurance. Her adventures in the corporate world are not so ordinary, however, and she learns that a normal life may not be so normal after all.
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Title: Terminal City
Released: October 17, 2005
Type: TV
Terminal City was a Canadian mini-series about a woman diagnosed with breast cancer while running a failing reality tv show turning it into a hit as her life and body begin to change.
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Siblings
Title: Siblings
Character: Grandpa
Released: September 14, 2004
Type: Movie
Joe and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.
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Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen
Title: Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen
Character: Harold Arlen
Released: April 15, 2002
Type: Movie
Some of today's most original recording artists perform the work of famed composer Harold Arlen.
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The Score
Title: The Score
Character: Danny
Released: July 13, 2001
Type: Movie
An aging thief hopes to retire and live off his ill-gotten wealth when a young kid convinces him into doing one last heist.
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Hidden Agenda
Title: Hidden Agenda
Character: Wilhelm Engelmann
Released: November 2, 1999
Type: Movie
A young medical student travels to Berlin to investigate the apparent death of his brother and discovers a secret life of espionage, betrayal and murder at the highest levels.
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The Five Senses
Title: The Five Senses
Character: Mr. Bernstein
Released: May 18, 1999
Type: Movie
Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.
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Shadow Builder
Title: Shadow Builder
Character: Mr. Butterman
Released: November 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A demon is summoned to take the soul of a young boy who has the potential to become a saint. By doing this he will open a doorway to hell and destroy the world.
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Teen Knight
Title: Teen Knight
Character: Mr. Percy/Parcival
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
A young teenager wins a contest for a "Medieval Adventure" from a soda company. The winners, plus a film crew from the soda company arrive at the castle for the adventure. During the night, a spell cast over 600 years prior brings the castle and all the people in it back to 1383. The evil Lord Raykin plans on retrying to take the castle. It is up to the group to stop him, and thereby return to the 20th century. They enlist the help of the former court magician, Percival, to help them.
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The Marriage Fool
Title: The Marriage Fool
Character: Warren
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: Movie
Recently widowed after 41 years of marriage, Frank Walsh meets the outgoing Florence, sparking joy back into his life again. However, there is clear disapproval of her from his grown children, especially his eldest son Robert. As Frank and Florence grow closer in their relationship, Robert begins to change his perspective on their commitment and devotion to one another.
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Title: Riverdale
Character: Costas Stavros
Released: September 22, 1997
Type: TV
CBC’s first prime time soap opera follows the intertwined lives of four families in Toronto’s Riverdale community.
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Title: FX: The Series
Character: Mr. Merton
Released: September 9, 1996
Type: TV
Rollie Tyler, a special effects expert, helps his detective friend solve crimes by making criminals see what they want to see. But what is real and what is illusion?
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The Abduction
Title: The Abduction
Released: July 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Kate finds herself in harrowing danger when her cop ex-husband, Paul, will stop at nothing to get her back -- and the harassment, which includes sexual assault and battery, doesn't end because the authorities won't hear of it. Also at the receiving end of the maniacal stalker is Kate's boyfriend, Dan.
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Einstein: Light to the Power of 2
Title: Einstein: Light to the Power of 2
Character: Albert Einstein
Released: June 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Nine-year old Lannie is unmotivated and struggling at school because of a racist teacher. Reminded of his own intellectual and political challenges, Einstein steps into 1950 to spark a love of learning in Lannie.
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Title: Due South
Character: Creeve
Released: September 22, 1994
Type: TV
Constable Benton Fraser, an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is attached to the Canadian consulate but works with Chicago Police Department to solve crimes.
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The Lotus Eaters
Title: The Lotus Eaters
Character: Tobias Spittle
Released: September 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Set off the West Coast of Canada in 1965, a hip new teacher with a miniskirt and lots of ideas turns a small town upside down. The soft autumn light of Galiano Island is beautifully rendered in writer/producer Peggy Thompson's The Lotus Eaters, and that's not the only elusive element that this film has captured. In revisiting its particular time and place - the Gulf Islands of the early '60s -Thompson obviously draws on her own family experiences there. For those who share Thompson's love of Gulf Islands magic, the elements she has assembled will feel as familiar as their own childhood blanket. But there are problems at the core of this story about a family's loss of innocence.
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Title: Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
Character: Marv
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues is a spin-off of the 1972–1975 television series Kung Fu. David Carradine and Chris Potter starred as a father and son trained in kung fu - Carradine playing a Shaolin monk, Potter a police detective. This series aired in syndication for four seasons, from January 27, 1993 to January 1, 1997, and was broadcast in over 70 countries. Filming took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Reruns of the show have been aired on TNT. The show was canceled when its producer, Prime Time Entertainment Network, ceased operations and no other network opted to continue the series.
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Beethoven Lives Upstairs
Title: Beethoven Lives Upstairs
Character: Mr. Schindler
Released: September 30, 1992
Type: Movie
When his mother rents their vacant room to a peculiar composer, Christoph can't believe his bad luck. But as the abrasive boarder, Ludwig Van Beethoven, begins creating his masterful 9th Symphony, Christoph is won over by the majesty of his music. This lighthearted family drama was awarded the 1993 Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program.
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A Star for Two
Title: A Star for Two
Released: August 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Love between a man and a woman that endures the ravages of time.
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Falling Over Backwards
Title: Falling Over Backwards
Character: Harvey
Released: August 23, 1990
Type: Movie
All Melvyn Rosenbloom wants is to go back to the days when things were simpler and people were kinder -- the good old days. Deciding to renounce women altogether, he finds a house in his old neighbourhood and persuades his elderly crotchety father Harvey to move in with him. Harvey is something of a comic and, as Mel rediscovers, none too easy to live with. To add to the friction, there's the landlady, Jackie. From Mel's point of view as an aspiring celibate, she's all wrong: far too intelligent, attractive and unconventional. But, strangely enough, Jackie becomes the focus of the Rosenblooms' refashioned lives.
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The Gunrunner
Title: The Gunrunner
Character: Loebman
Released: June 1, 1989
Type: Movie
1926. The Chinese Civil War. Drifter Ted Beaubien is captured and forced to witness his girlfriend's execution. He finally escapes and vows to avenge her death by taking on a deadly mission to buy guns abroad and smuggle them back. Arriving in his hometown, Ted is shocked to find his elderly mother and younger brother George are penniless. But time is running out, and before he can help them, he's got to get the guns. In setting up the deal, Ted meets and falls for the seductive nightclub owner Maud Ryan who introduces him to the treacherous gangsters who will sell him the artillery. For a gun-runner, falling in love is like pointing a pistol at your heart - and pulling the trigger!
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Really Weird Tales
Title: Really Weird Tales
Character: Professor Tistaert (segment "I'll Die Loving")
Released: October 4, 1986
Type: Movie
The movie consists of three odd and strange tales that each teach a different lesson.
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Title: L.A. Law
Character: Judge Robert Fellmeth
Released: September 15, 1986
Type: TV
L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.
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Title: The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Character: Moses Harper
Released: September 29, 1985
Type: TV
The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
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The Trolls and the Christmas Express
Title: The Trolls and the Christmas Express
Character: Other Voices (voice)
Released: November 26, 1981
Type: Movie
The Trolls and the Christmas Express is an animated classic about six roguish trolls who are determined to sabotage Christmas by infiltrating Santa's village disguised as elves. After a week of wreaking havoc but still not completely ruining Christmas, they are about to give up when they get a devilishly clever idea. On the day before Christmas Eve they get the reindeer dancing and singing songs all night long. The poor reindeer are so tired the next day that they cannot find the energy to pull Santa's sleigh. Christmas looks like it has finally been ruined - but everyone knows you can't stop Christmas! The elves quickly devise a plan to link the train from Santa's village with tracks that travel all over the world. Santa can deliver the toys using the Christmas Express.
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Ticket to Heaven
Title: Ticket to Heaven
Character: Morley
Released: October 9, 1981
Type: Movie
David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless shadow of his former self...and his ultimate salvation when friends and family launch a plan to kidnap and deprogram him.
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Take Me Up to the Ball Game
Title: Take Me Up to the Ball Game
Character: The Announcer (voice)
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
In this interplanetary baseball story, a group of friends are playing a sandlot game on Earth that is noticed by Irwin, an outer space promoter of baseball. The haphazard team consists of an eagle, a beaver, a bear, a kangaroo, and a mole. Irwin invites the Earth team to play against the Outer Space All-Stars, an awesome team that has never lost a game, of that matter, been scrored upon. Their secret: they are the biggest cheaters in the universe.
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Last of the Red-Hot Dragons
Title: Last of the Red-Hot Dragons
Character: (voice)
Released: April 1, 1980
Type: Movie
When the animals on their way to Noah's Ark find themselves stranded at the North Pole, an old dragon that has lost its ability to breathe fire sets out to help them.
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The Little Brown Burro
Title: The Little Brown Burro
Character: Omar (voice)
Released: December 15, 1978
Type: Movie
A sad little burro who feels that no one wants him and that he doesn't belong anywhere finds out differently when he is bought by Joseph to transport Mary on their travel to Jerusalem for the birth of Jesus.
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The Making of a President
Title: The Making of a President
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
In wartime Sault Ste. Marie, the mayor invites the president of the Jewish congregation to speak at the town’s upcoming ecumenical war bonds rally. However, the president has just quit and nobody wants the thankless job. A funny and endearing drama featuring Melvyn Douglas, Nehemiah Persoff, Paul Soles and a 15-year-old Mike Myers. Based on a semi-autobiographical short story by Order of Canada winner Morley Torgov. Collie-haired Myers, in one of his first TV roles, is more behaved than usual as a skateboard-riding young piano prodigy. Hollywood veteran Douglas does most of the heavy lifting as a Jewish elder trying the impossible — recruiting a new president who can, in Torgov’s words, handle himself “among the goyim” at an upcoming town war bond rally. The town’s new tailor (Soles) — thought of as a bit of a peacock — is seen as the perfect candidate. (CBC TV-Movie 1978)
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King of the Beasts
Title: King of the Beasts
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
The second of three animated TV specials about the animals of Noah's Ark.
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Noah's Animals
Title: Noah's Animals
Character: (voice)
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
The first of a trilogy of animated specials about the animals of Noah's Ark.
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Title: The Smokey Bear Show
Character: Benny / Floyd (voice)
Released: September 6, 1969
Type: TV
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Title: Spider-Man
Character: Peter Park / Spider-Man (voice)
Released: September 9, 1967
Type: TV
Spider-Man was an animated television series that ran from September 9, 1967 to June 14, 1970. It was jointly produced in Canada and the United States and was the first animated adaptation of the Spider-Man comic book series, created by writer Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko. It first aired on the ABC television network in the United States but went into syndication at the start of the third season. Grantray-Lawrence Animation produced the first season. Seasons 2 and 3 were crafted by producer Ralph Bakshi in New York City. An internet meme, commonly known as 1960s Spiderman, regarding the series has received an overwhelming amount of popularity. The meme consists of a screenshot taken at a random part of the series and adding inappropriate and/or witty text.
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Title: The King Kong Show
Character: Dr. Who (voice)
Released: September 10, 1966
Type: TV
An animated series about the adventures of King Kong and his young pal Bobby Bond. Also featured were the adventures of "Tom of T.H.U.M.B.", a 6" tall secret agent.
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Title: The Marvel Super Heroes
Character: Rick Jones (voice)
Released: September 5, 1966
Type: TV
This cartoon series, characterized by extremely limited animation, features five of the most popular super-powered heroes from Marvel Comics: the Incredible Hulk, the Mighty Thor, Captain America, Iron Man, and the Sub-Mariner.
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Willy McBean and His Magic Machine
Title: Willy McBean and His Magic Machine
Character: Pablo the Monkey / King Ferdinand (voice)
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Little Willy McBean joins up with a Mexican monkey named Pablo to travel back in time and stop the evil Prof. von Rotten from changing history.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Title: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Character: Hermey (voice)
Released: December 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudolph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa's sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea...