Chris Wiggins
Date of birth: 1930-01-13
Place of birth: Blackpool, Lancashire, England, UK
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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 .
Movie Credits
Rock & Rule
1983-04-15
A malevolent rock star kidnaps a female singer to force her to participate in the summoning of a dem
Married to It
1991-09-11
While setting up a school pageant, the parents at an elite private academy in New York City with con
Franklin's Magic Christmas
2001-03-08
Franklin and his family are off on a Christmas visit with Grandma and Grandpa at Faraway Farm. When
The Neptune Factor
1973-08-03
When an underwater ocean lab is lost in a earthquake, an advanced submarine is sent down to find it
Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation
1986-03-21
This animated adventure goes back in time to the Care Bears' first-ever Caring Mission, when True He
The Bay Boy
1984-09-06
A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces va
Murder by Decree
1979-02-01
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper, who is killing prostitutes in London's Ea
The Windsor Protocol
1998-11-10
Based on the novels by Jack Higgins, Sean Dillon is a maverick British agent who uncovers a plot to
High-Ballin'
1978-05-26
When a rash of targeted hijackings threatens to derail the independent trucking business, rig driver
Welcome to Blood City
1977-08-23
Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their t
King of the Grizzlies
1970-02-11
Moki, a Cree Indian, is made foreman of a sprawling cattle ranch owned by his former army commander.
A Cosmic Christmas
1977-12-04
Three aliens from an unknown planet, who bear a strong resemblance to the Biblical Magi, visit earth
L'Homme en colère
1979-03-14
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However, the
Mazes and Monsters
1982-12-27
Bound together by a desire to play "Mazes and Monsters," Robbie and his four college classmates deci
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1985-04-05
The town of Hamelin pays the ultimate price after reneging on their promise to the pied piper. Based
Easter Fever
1980-03-29
A jive-talking Easter Bunny named Jack decides to retire, so his friends throw him a crazy roast bef
Intergalactic Thanksgiving, or Please Don't Eat the Planet
1979-11-01
With a new twist on an old holiday, Intergalatic Thanksgiving or Please Don't Eat the Planet is a de
Black Fox: The Price of Peace
1995-08-04
After blaming Britt for his wife's decision to stay with the Native Americans who captured her, an a
The Courage of Kavik, the Wolf Dog
1980-01-20
The story of a champion sled dog named Kavik who survives a plane crash in the wilds of Alaska and i
Divided Loyalties
1990-02-13
Story of Joseph Brant, chief of the Mohawks. During the time of the American Revolution, Britain fac
Shock-Trauma
1982-10-27
Dr. R. Adams Cowley, the Baltimore physician who pioneered medicine's first shocktrauma unit, fights
Spearfield's Daughter
1986-05-25
The daughter of a leading politician tries to carve out a career in the world of international journ
Thunder Point
1998-05-30
Former IRA agent Sean Dillon comes to the rescue when a woman discovers a briefcase containing plans
Escape from Iran: The Canadian Caper
1981-05-17
A dramatized account of how the staff of the Canadian Embassy helped a group of American diplomats e
A Case of Libel
1983-10-17
Fact-based courtroom drama about a news reporter in 1954 who sued a columnist for libel after he pro
Why Shoot the Teacher?
1977-06-23
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadi
Babar: King of the Elephants
1999-02-26
Babar is a young elephant in the great forest. Whilst out with his mother a hunter kills his mother
Fish Hawk
1980-01-25
A hardened and embittered man turns his life around with the help of a farm boy in this uplifting fa
Evidence of Blood
1998-04-13
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst f
Black Fox
1995-07-28
A former slave affects peace between Indian tribes and homesteaders in 1860s West Texas.
A Cry in the Night
1992-09-17
A divorced mother suspects that she and her two children may be in danger because of her insanely je
Sins of Silence
1996-02-20
A former nun who has become a rape counselor defies a court order to release her file on a rape vict
Butterbox Babies
1995-01-01
A couple operates a shady maternity home in 1930s/1940s Nova Scotia. Based on a true story.
Virus
1980-06-26
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a p
The Liberators
1987-02-08
The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar
1969-03-01
"The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar" tells the story of Emery Prometer, a proud bush wo
Tom Sawyer
1976-11-07
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, two friends in a Mississippi River town, have one adventure after a
The Defenders: Taking the First
1998-10-25
A racist provokes four teens into beating a Latino youth to death after one of his fiery speeches on
The Piano Man's Daughter
2003-09-22
Terrified of passing on the madness that runs in his family, Charlie Kilworth (Christian Campbell) s
Voices
1995-09-15
A story about real life early 20th century British composer and music critic Philip Arnold Heseltine
An American Christmas Carol
1979-12-16
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue at
Mark Twain and Me
1991-11-22
During the final years of his life, the famous writer Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens is befriended by a
The Devil and Daniel Mouse
1978-10-05
When a young female mouse makes a deal with the devil to become a rock star and learns the price, he
Redwall: The Movie
2000-02-01
Redwall is a compelling tale of fantasy, courage and adventure; the fable of a daunting quest to rec
Star Wars: Droids - The Pirates and the Prince
1997-10-26
Artoo, Threepio and a broken down android are traded into the hands of young miner Jann Tosh. The an
Riel
1979-04-11
A film about the actions of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two sepera
Our Fathers
2005-05-11
In the '80s, priests and especially the Father Geoghan arrested for sexual abuse of minors. Cardinal
Four Minutes
2005-10-06
Sir Roger Bannister's historic running of the sub-four-minute mile is celebrated in Four Minutes, an