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Chris Wiggins

 
Actor: Chris Wiggins
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  • Born: in Canada
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-'90s
  • Major Genres: Drama, Children's/Family
  • Career Highlights: Why Shoot the Teacher, Babar: The Movie, Babar: King of the Elephants
  • First Major Screen Credit: King of the Grizzlies (1970)

Biography

Canadian character actor Chris Wiggins is occasionally employed in U.S. films, albeit usually those that have been extensively filmed Above the Border. Wiggins can be seen in sizeable roles in films ranging from the 1979 Sherlock Holmes opus Murder by Decree to the 1984 Canadian award-winner Bay Boy. On television, a bearded Wiggins starred in the syndicated semiserial Paul Bernard, Psychiatrist (1971); he later played retired magician Jack Marshak in Friday the 13th -The Series (1987-90). A prolific voiceover artist, Chris Wiggins has been heard on such cartoon series as Babar (as Cornelius), Care Bears, Dinosaucers, The Ewoks, Nelvanamation, Rocket Robin Hood and Rupert. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Chris Wiggins
Born January 13, 1931 (1931-01-13) (age 78)
Blackpool, England
Occupation Actor, former banker
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Chris Wiggins was born on January 13, 1931 in Blackpool, England. 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 TV 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.

In addition to his TV and film work, Wiggins was also a very popular radio actor, making over 1200 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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