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