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PAUL SOLES

Actor
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BORN August 11, 1930
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HEIGHT 6'1" (1.85 m)
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NATIONALITY Canadian
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YEARS ACTIVE 1964 – Present
PAUL SOLES

🏆 AWARDS & ACCOLADES

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1987
ACADEMY AWARDS

Best Lead Performance (L.A. Law)

WINNER
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1995
GOLDEN GLOBES

Best Actor/Actress in a Motion Picture (Due South)

NOMINEE
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2011
BAFTA FILM AWARDS

Outstanding Cinematic Achievement (Rookie Blue)

NOMINEE
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1986
CRITICS' CHOICE

Best Performance (The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents)

NOMINEE

👤 BIOGRAPHY

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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.

🗉 QUICK FACTS

  • Nick Name Paul
  • Born August 11, 1930
  • Height 6'1" (1.85 m)
  • Nationality Canadian
  • Citizenship Canadian
  • Education Studied Dramatic Arts / Private performance training
  • Current Status Deceased (Passed away on May 26, 2021)
  • Years Active 1964 – Present
  • Occupation Actor
  • Family Background Private Family Background
  • Early Career Began active theatrical and commercial performances in early adulthood.
  • Partner Private
  • Children 2
  • Social

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