Tall, sharp-featured American comic actor Erik Rhodes made his film debut in the 1934 Astaire/Rogers musical Gay Divorcee, playing genial Italian "professional correspondent" Tonetti ("Your wife is safe with Tonetti: He prefers spaghetti."). Rhodes essayed virtually the same part in Astaire's and Rogers' 1935 vehicle Top Hat, then settled into a short but lively Hollywood career, playing mostly gigolos and sharpers. A master dialectician, Rhodes was at home with the "silly ass Englishman" cadence of his character in Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938) as he was with the Manhattanite intonations of his murder suspect character in The Nitwits (1935). He forsook Hollywood in favor of stage work in 1939, working without interruption (except for wartime service in the Army Air Force) until his retirement in the early '70s.
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On Your Toes
Actor |
1939 | |||
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Dramatic School
Actor |
1938 | |||
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Meet the Girls
Actor |
1938 | |||
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
Actor |
1938 | |||
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Say It in French
Actor |
1938 | |||
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
Actor |
1937 | |||
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Criminal Lawyer
Actor |
1937 | |||
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Fight for Your Lady
Actor |
1937 | |||
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Music for Madame
Actor |
1937 | |||
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Woman Chases Man
Actor |
1937 | |||
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Chatterbox
Actor |
1936 | |||
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Give Her a Ring
Actor |
1936 | |||
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One Rainy Afternoon
Actor |
1936 | |||
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Second Wife
Actor |
1936 | |||
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Smartest Girl in Town
Actor |
1936 | |||
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Special Investigator
Actor |
1936 | |||
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Two in the Dark
Actor |
1936 | |||
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A Night at the Ritz
Actor |
1935 | |||
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Another Face
Actor |
1935 | |||
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Charlie Chan in Paris
Actor |
1935 | |||
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Old Man Rhythm
Actor |
1935 | |||
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The Nitwits
Actor |
1935 | |||
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Top Hat
Actor |
1935 | |||
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The Gay Divorcee
Actor |
1934 |


