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Chris Wiggins (January 13, 1930 - February 19, 2017) was an English actor.
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Chris Wiggins (January 13, 1930 - February 19, 2017) was an English actor.
He started out as a banker in his home country before he began his acting career in Canada, where he moved in 1952.
Wiggins is probably best recognized for his role as Jack Marshak, the benevolent, resourceful expert on the occult in the syndicated television horror show Friday the 13th: The Series, and which ran from 1987 to 1990. Another well known role was Johann Robinson (Father) on Swiss Family Robinson.
He won a Canadian Film Award in 1969 for best Actor for his role in The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar.
In addition to his television and film work, Wiggins was also a very popular radio actor, making over 1,200 appearances in various series over the years, particularly on CBC Radio. One of his most popular roles was that of Dante, the insufferably brilliant (and insufferably arrogant) computer that ran the Aleph-9: the high-speed interdimensional spacecraft belonging to Johnny Chase: Secret Agent of Space. Wiggins' also made numerous guest appearances on such CBC Radio programs as CBC Playhouse, Nightfall, Vanishing Point and dozens of others.
Wiggins also lent his voice to many animated TV series and movies. He was the voice of The Mighty Thor on the 1966 The Marvel Super Heroes series, the voice of Will Scarlet on Rocket Robin Hood, the Great Wishing Star in 1986's Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, and the Care Bears' head villain, No Heart, on the Nelvana version of their TV show. He also voiced the character Dimetro in the '80s cartoon Dinosaucers. His other roles in animated series and films included ALF Tales, Star Wars: Droids, Rock & Rule, Star Wars: Ewoks, Babar, Rupert, Richard Scarry, Franklin and Redwall. Most recently, Wiggins appeared in the 2005 Showtime original picture, Our Fathers.
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Gender
Male
Birthday
January 13, 1930
Died
February 19, 2017
Birthplace
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Virus
1980
Rock & Rule
1983
High-Ballin'
1978
Murder by Decree
1979
Mazes and Monsters
1982
Our Fathers
2005
Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
1986
Married to It
1991
The Neptune Factor
1973
Black Fox
1995
The Windsor Protocol
1998
L'Homme en colère
1979
Easter Fever
1980
Tom Sawyer
1976
Evidence of Blood
1998
Riel
1979
The Defenders: Taking the First
1998
Divided Loyalties
1990
The Bay Boy
1984
Thunder Point
1998
+ 29 more movies
Earth: Final Conflict
1997
ReGenesis
2004
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
1993
Friday the 13th: The Series
1987
The Marvel Super Heroes
1966
Franklin
1997
The Care Bears
1985
The Littlest Hobo
1979
Night Heat
1985
Spider-Man
1967
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
1957
Rupert
1991
Rupert
1991
Star Wars: Droids
1985
+ 19 more TV shows