Renowned actor Paul Soles, who voiced the lead role in Stan Lee's original "Spider-Man" animated series and Hermey the elf in "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," has died. His sister, Ruth-Ellen Soles, says he died of natural causes last Wednesday at home in Toronto.
He was 90. Soles was the first actor to play the teenage Peter Parker and his arachnid-powered alter-ego onscreen in "Spider-Man" in the 1960s. Soles also acted on stage in Canada and the U.S., but his roles as Spider-Man and Hermey, the misfit elf and Rudolph's sidekick from the 1964 stop-motion animated TV special elevated his fame.
"Spider-Man" was produced in Canada and the U.S., and ran on ABC from 1967 to 1970 with a cast of mostly Canadians.
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