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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 in the syndicated TV horror show Friday the 13th: The Series, which ran from 1987-1990.

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 programs. He was the voice of the Great Wishing Star in 1986's The Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, and voiced 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. One of Chris's other roles in children's cartoon series included AlfTales, Star Wars: Droids, Rock and Rule and Babar.

Most recently, Wiggins appeared in the 2005 Showtime original picture, Our Fathers.

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