Paul Soles

Paul Soles was a Canadian actor and television personality who made his first screen appearance on CFPL in 1953 and kept working for more than 60 years. Born in Toronto, he voiced Hermey the Misfit Elf in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) and Spider-Man in the original 1960s animated series, and he supplied voices for many other cartoons, among them Rocket Robin Hood and The Marvel Super Heroes. On screen he played Stanley, the owner of a pizza shop, in The Incredible Hulk (2008), the janitor Danny in The Score (2001), and he appeared in Just the Way You Are (1984). He played The Lawbreaker on This Is the Law and Costas Stavros on Riverdale, hosted Canada After Dark, and co-hosted Take 30 for 18 seasons. He took over Shylock in the Stratford Festival's 2001 Merchant of Venice, won a 2006 Gemini Award for Terminal City and a 2017 Canadian Screen Award for My 90-Year-Old Roommate. He died in 2021.