18 Facts About Paul Soles

Paul Robert Soles was a Canadian character actor, voice artist and television personality.

Paul Soles voiced the title character in Spider-Man, and portrayed Hermey in the 1964 television special Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer; Soles was one of the last surviving participants of the special's voice cast.

Paul Soles's family were Jewish emigrants from Poland and Lithuania.

Paul Soles is the cousin of Bernard "Bunny" Cowan, and they both worked on the original 1960s Spider-Man animated series and the 1967 children's series Max, the 2000-Year-Old Mouse.

Paul Soles voiced Marvel superhero Spider-Man and various characters in the original animated television series from the 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, Paul Soles 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 scheduled to play the part, died.

Paul Soles played Stanley the pizza shop owner in The Incredible Hulk, and his other film appearances have included roles in Ticket to Heaven, Just the Way You Are and The Gunrunner opposite Kevin Costner.

Paul Soles played Danny, the Montreal Customs House janitor in the 2001 crime thriller The Score.

Paul Soles won a 2006 Gemini Award for his role in the television series Terminal City, and a 2017 Canadian Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Digital Production for My 90-Year-Old Roommate.

Paul Soles was the narrator of The Wonderful Stories of Professor Kitzel, the voice of The Commissioner in the 2005 animated television series Funpak and has supplied the voice of Dr Reboux in the 2005 animated film version of the Johanna Spyri novel Heidi.

Paul Soles voiced the Academy Award-nominated animated documentary The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein.

Paul Soles was the host of the short-lived CBC Television late-night comedy talk show Canada After Dark, and co-hosted the public affairs show Take 30 for 18 seasons with hosts such as Anna Cameron and Adrienne Clarkson.

Paul Soles hosted the CFPL television game show Take Your Choice for one year in the early 1960s.

Paul Soles was a producer of documentaries while he was an on-air talent at CFPL-TV in London, Ontario.

Paul Soles worked on a series called, The World Around Us, and travelled with film crews in Great Britain in the early 1960s, filming many aspects of British life.

Paul Soles even got on a soap-box in Hyde Park in London to speak his mind.

Paul Soles has worked with people like Dennis Goulden and Jim Plant and Tom Ashwell and Jon Boynton.

Paul Soles died of natural causes in his sleep at his home in Toronto, Ontario, on May 26,2021, at the age of 90.