Name
Chris Wiggins
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1930-01-13
Deathday
2017-02-19 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Biography
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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- 1983 Rock & Rule as Toad (voice)
- 1991 Married to It as Dave
- 2001 Franklin's Magic Christmas as Mr. Collie (voice)
- 1973 The Neptune Factor as Capt. Williams
- 1986 Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation as Great Wishing Star (voice)
- 1984 The Bay Boy as Chief Charlie McInnes
- 1979 Murder by Decree as Dr. Hardy
- 1998 The Windsor Protocol as Sir Charles Ferguson
- 1978 High-Ballin' as King Caroll
- 1977 Welcome to Blood City as Gellor
- 1970 King of the Grizzlies as The Colonel
- 1977 A Cosmic Christmas as Mayor (voice)
- 1979 L'Homme en colère as MacKenzie
- 1982 Mazes and Monsters as King
- 1985 The Pied Piper of Hamelin as Alderman
- 1980 Easter Fever as Santa Claus (voice)
- 1979 Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet as Pa Spademinder (voice)
- 1995 Black Fox: The Price of Peace as Ralph Holtz
- 1980 The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog as Dr. Vic Walker
- 1990 Divided Loyalties as Sir William Johnson
- 1982 Shock-Trauma as Dr. McCall
- 1986 Spearfield's Daughter as Sylvester Spearfield
- 1998 Thunder Point as Charles Ferguson
- 1981 Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper as John Sheardon
- 1983 A Case of Libel as Col. Douglas
- 1977 Why Shoot the Teacher? as Lyle Bishop
- 1999 Babar: King of the Elephants as Cornelius
- 1980 Fish Hawk as Marcus Boggs
- 1998 Evidence of Blood as Horace Talbott
- 1995 Black Fox as Ralph Holtz
- 1992 A Cry in the Night as Clyde
- 1996 Sins of Silence as Father Flannigan
- 1995 Butterbox Babies as Senator Danver
- 1980 Virus as Dr. Borodinov
- 1987 The Liberators as Marchand de farine
- 1969 The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar as Emery Prometer
- 1976 Tom Sawyer as Lawyer
- 1998 The Defenders: Taking the First
- 2003 The Piano Man's Daughter as James Kilworth
- 1995 Voices as Angus Fergusson
- 1979 An American Christmas Carol as Nathaniel Brewster
- 1991 Mark Twain and Me as Captain
- 1978 The Devil and Daniel Mouse as B.L. Zebub (voice)
- 2000 Redwall: The Movie as Abbot Mortimer (voice)
- 1997 Star Wars: Droids - The Pirates and the Prince as Mon Julpa
- 1979 Riel as General Frederick Dobson Middleton
- 2005 Our Fathers as Angelo's Old Priest
- 2005 Four Minutes as Burnett
- 1996 Kids for Character as Cornelius(voice)
- 1989 Babar: The Movie as Cornelius
- 1997 Pippi Longstocking as Fridolf (voice)
- 1966 Wojeck ( 2 episodes ) as Gilbert
- 1974 The National Dream ( 7 episodes ) as Donald Smith
- 1967 Spider-Man ( 1 episode ) as Police officer / Director / Mysterio (voice) (uncredited)
- 1989 Babar ( 65 episodes ) as Cornelius (voice)
- 1987 Friday the 13th: The Series ( 72 episodes ) as Jack Marshak
- 1985 The Care Bears ( 98 episodes ) as No Heart (voice)
- 1987 Dinosaucers ( 65 episodes ) as Dimetro (voice)
- 1966 The Marvel Super Heroes ( 195 episodes ) as Thor (Dr. Donald Blake) (voice)
- 1986 Adderly ( 1 episode )
- 1995 The NeverEnding Story ( 26 episodes ) as Mr. Correander (voice)
- 1998 Birdz ( 13 episodes ) as Officer Pidgeon (voice)
- 1997 Pippi Longstocking ( 13 episodes ) as Fridolf
- 1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans ( 1 episode ) as Jess Adams
- 1966 Rocket Robin Hood ( 63 episodes ) as Will Scarlet / Infinata / Baron Blank (voice)
- 2010 Babar and the Adventures of Badou ( 104 episodes ) as Cornelius (voice)
- 1993 Kung Fu: The Legend Continues ( 1 episode ) as Mike West
- 1974 Swiss Family Robinson ( 26 episodes ) as Johann Robinson
- 1982 Faerie Tale Theatre ( 1 episode ) as Alderman
- 1985 Night Heat ( 1 episode )
- 1979 The Littlest Hobo ( 2 episodes ) as Ed Thompson
- 1997 Franklin ( 4 episodes ) as Mr. Groundhog (voice)
- 1991 Rupert ( 12 episodes ) as Additional Voices (voice)
- 1991 Rupert ( 1 episode ) as Bill Bottles / Additional Voices (voice)
- 1965 Seaway ( 1 episode ) as McCrea
- 1965 Seaway ( 1 episode ) as Bob Roberts
- 1954 The Wonderful World of Disney ( 1 episode ) as Flour Merchant
- 1997 Earth: Final Conflict ( 1 episode ) as Tim O'Malley
- 1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans ( 1 episode ) as Sheriff Peterson
- 2004 ReGenesis ( 3 episodes ) as Vascily Popov
- 1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans ( 1 episode ) as Mr. Travers
- 1999 Redwall ( 39 episodes ) as Abbott Mortimer (voice)
- 1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans ( 1 episode ) as Major Duffy
- 1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans ( 1 episode ) as Mort Bailey
- 1955 Folio ( 3 episodes )
- 1957 Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans ( 1 episode ) as Major Conn
- 1955 First Performance ( 1 episode )
- 1985 Star Wars: Droids ( 5 episodes ) as Mon Julpa (voice)
- 1998 Little Men ( 1 episode ) as Dr. Thomas Welch
- 1979 A Man Called Intrepid ( 3 episodes ) as Heisenberg
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Victor Adams
- 1982 American Playhouse ( 1 episode ) as Colonel Douglas
- 1965 Moment of Truth ( 220 episodes ) as Dexter
