PAUL SOLES
'Paul Soles' (born 1930) is a Canadian actor and television personality from Toronto, Ontario.He is best known as the voice of Hermie the misfit elf in Rankin/Bass' "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" in 1964. He was the host of the short-lived CBC late-night comedy talk show ''Canada After Dark'' and co-hosted the public affairs show ''Take Thirty'' with Adrienne Clarkson.
Soles also voiced the character of Spider-Man in the ''Spider-Man'' 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 in the Stratford Festival of Canada production of ''The Merchant of Venice'' after Al Waxman, who was originally scheduled to play the part, died.
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. Paul is an inspirational and very talented man. He 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.
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★ ''Globe and Mail'' article on Soles as Spider-Man
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Soles also voiced the character of Spider-Man in the ''Spider-Man'' 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 in the Stratford Festival of Canada production of ''The Merchant of Venice'' after Al Waxman, who was originally scheduled to play the part, died.
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. Paul is an inspirational and very talented man. He 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.
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