Chris Wiggins born January 13 1930 is 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 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 Aleph9 the highspeed 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 1986s 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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