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Erik Rhodes
Born: 10th Feb 1906 El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, USA - Died 17th Feb 1990
Dept: Acting
Erik Rhodes (born Ernest Sharpe; February 10, 1906 - February 17, 1990) was an American stage, film, and television actor best remembered for his comedic performances as delightful hyperactive Italian gentlemen in the classic Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Hollywood musicals The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935). With a good baritone voice, he was successful, both prior to and subsequent his film career, in Broadway musicals.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 31
Film: 27 (87%)
Television: 4 (13%)
Remaining genres not in graph: Action
Filmography
1997
A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one ti ... view
Character:
Self (archive footage)
Sep 1958 (first aired)
Naked City is a police drama series which aired from 1958 to 1963 on the ABC television network. It was inspired by the 1948 motion picture of the sam ... view
Character:
Gardell (1 ep.)
Sep 1957 (first aired)
The cases of master criminal defense attorney Perry Mason and his staff who handled the most difficult of cases in the aid of the innocent. ... view
Character:
Herman Albright (1 ep.)
Oct 1950 (first aired)
Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original telep ... view
Character:
Dr. Gardiner (1 ep.)
Mr. Purdy (1 ep.)
Apr 1950 (first aired)
The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC rotated with other variety shows in a Sunday night bl ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1939
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer. ... view
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Konstantin Morrisine
1938
Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at nigh ... view
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Georges Mounier
1938
An American golf pro falls in love with a woman while visiting France; before long they are married and in the US. Upon their arrival, they are dismay ... view
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Irving
1938
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways. ... view
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Maurice Leon
1938
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard. ... view
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David Scott-Frensham
1938
A prisoner with a good singing voice escapes, only to grow jealous when an opera singer who looks like him is delivered back to the prison and receive ... view
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Canary Dillon
1937
We find con-man Ingraham Steward living by his wits by steering wealthy Paris visitors to sellers of fake paintings and other assorted dodges. He and ... view
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Lefevre
1937
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl. ... view
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Anton Spadissimo
1937
An Italian immigrant singer, Nino, hoping to succeed in Hollywood, falls in with a gang of crooks who use his talent to distract everyone at a party w ... view
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Spaghetti Nadzio
1937
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project. ... view
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Henri Saffron
1937
Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police rai ... view
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Tony Bandini
1936
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model. ... view
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Baron Enrico Torene
1936
Kenneth discovers that his son by his first wife is ill in a remote Swiss village, and is forced to leave Wife Number Two alone during childbirth. ... view
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Dave Bennet
1936
Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to ki ... view
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Count Alfredo Donstelli
1936
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed. ... view
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Benny Gray
1936
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapprov ... view
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Archie Fisher
1936
When Mr. X (Walter Able) wakes up in the city park with amnesia, bloody and apparently connected to a murder of a well-known producer.
Fast talking M ... view
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Carlo Gheet
1935
The surgeon who did the job was dead. Only the nurse knew what this gangster looked like in his new face. He learned about women from her! ... view
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Grimm
1935
Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel room, ... view
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Alberto Beddini
1935
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college. ... view
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Frank Rochet
1935
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles. ... view
Character:
Erik Rhodes
1935
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher. ... view
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George Clark
1935
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef. ... view
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Leopold
1935
Charlie's visit to Paris, ostensibly a vacation, is really a mission to investigate a bond-forgery racket. But his agent, apache dancer Nardi is kille ... view
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Max Corday
1934
Seeking a divorce from her absentee husband, Mimi Glossop travels to an English seaside resort. There she falls in love with dancer Guy Holden, whom s ... view
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Rodolfo Tonetti
