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Chris Wiggins

Chris Wiggins

Actor · 1930 – 2017 · Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Wiggins, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia .

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  • Movie5.8

    Pippi Longstocking

    1997 · 43 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Murder by Decree

    1979 · 183 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Virus

    復活の日

    1980 · 74 votes

  • Movie4.3

    Mazes and Monsters

    1982 · 107 votes

  • Movie6.3
  • Movie6.0

    Rock & Rule

    1983 · 101 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Shock-Trauma

    1982 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.5

    Our Fathers

    2005 · 11 votes

  • Movie5.1

    The Neptune Factor

    1973 · 56 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie5.8

    High-Ballin'

    1978 · 20 votes

  • Movie7.6

    Mark Twain and Me

    1991 · 10 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Babar: The Movie

    1989 · 50 votes

  • Movie10.0
  • Movie6.2
  • Movie5.7
  • Movie6.0

    King of the Grizzlies

    1970 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Jig-Saw

    L'Homme en colère

    1979 · 20 votes

  • Movie7.7
  • Movie5.4

    Welcome to Blood City

    1977 · 7 votes

  • Movie5.8
  • Movie8.0
  • Movie4.4

    A Cry in the Night

    1992 · 7 votes

  • Movie7.5

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  • TV6.6

    American Playhouse

    1982 · 8 votes

  • TV6.7

    Moment of Truth

    1965 · 3 votes

  • TV6.8

    Earth: Final Conflict

    1997 · 102 votes

  • TV6.7
  • TV8.1

    Faerie Tale Theatre

    1982 · 24 votes

  • TV7.3
  • TV6.7

    The Marvel Super Heroes

    1966 · 22 votes

  • TV6.7

    Franklin

    1997 · 118 votes

  • TV7.4

    ReGenesis

    2004 · 65 votes

  • TV7.9
  • TV6.1

    The Care Bears

    1985 · 97 votes

  • TV7.0

    Night Heat

    1985 · 8 votes

  • TV7.9

    Spider-Man

    1967 · 242 votes

  • TV7.5

    The Littlest Hobo

    1979 · 13 votes

  • TV5.8
  • TV5.4

    Star Wars: Droids

    1985 · 94 votes

  • TV5.8

    The NeverEnding Story

    1995 · 12 votes

  • TV10.0

    Folio

    1955 · 1 votes

  • TV4.3
  • TV8.4

    Little Men

    1998 · 7 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rupert

    1991 · 29 votes

  • TV7.5

    Dinosaucers

    1987 · 32 votes

  • TV7.3

    Adderly

    1986 · 4 votes

  • TV6.8

    Pippi Longstocking

    1997 · 29 votes