Chris Wiggins
Acting
Born 1930-01-13
Died 2017-02-19
Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
83 credits
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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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Filmography
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Earth: Final Conflict
Kung Fu: The Legend Continues
American Playhouse
Spider-Man
The Care Bears
Faerie Tale Theatre
ReGenesis
Franklin
Friday the 13th: The Series
Babar and the Adventures of Badou
The Marvel Super Heroes
Night Heat
The Littlest Hobo
Folio
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
The Wonderful World of Disney
Pippi Longstocking
Dinosaucers
Rupert
Redwall
Star Wars: Droids
The NeverEnding Story
Babar
Adderly
Little Men
Seaway
A Man Called Intrepid
Virus
Shock-Trauma
Rocket Robin Hood
Murder by Decree
First Performance
Mazes and Monsters
Wojeck
Birdz
Rock & Rule
Babar: The Movie
Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
L'Homme en colère
The Neptune Factor
Our Fathers
High-Ballin'
Babar: King of the Elephants
Swiss Family Robinson
King of the Grizzlies
An American Christmas Carol
Franklin's Magic Christmas
Kids for Character
Mark Twain and Me
Married to It
Black Fox: The Price of Peace
The National Dream
Welcome to Blood City
The Windsor Protocol
Black Fox
The Piano Man's Daughter
Spearfield's Daughter
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
Evidence of Blood
Divided Loyalties
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