Erik Rhodes
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.686 |
| Birthday | 1906-02-10 |
| Place of Birth | El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, USA |
| Also Known As | Ernest Sharpe, Eric Rhodes, |
1935
Top Hat
7.257/343
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,...
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Top Hat
1935
Charlie Chan in Paris
6.6/22
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...
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Charlie Chan in Paris
1934
The Gay Divorcee
6.9/150
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...
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The Gay Divorcee
1938
Mysterious Mr. Moto
6.2/21
The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
1936
Second Wife
7/1
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.
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Second Wife
1937
Beg, Borrow or Steal
6/4
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...
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Beg, Borrow or Steal
1935
Old Man Rhythm
7/4
Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.
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Old Man Rhythm
1935
The Nitwits
6.7/10
A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.
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The Nitwits
1936
Two in the Dark
6.1/10
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...
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Two in the Dark
1937
Music for Madame
6.333/3
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...
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Music for Madame
1938
Say It in French
7.5/2
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...
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Say It in French
1936
One Rainy Afternoon
5/12
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...
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One Rainy Afternoon
1936
Smartest Girl in Town
5.8/5
A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.
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Smartest Girl in Town
1937
Woman Chases Man
5.9/9
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.
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Woman Chases Man
1939
On Your Toes
4.5/5
A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.
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On Your Toes
1937
Fight for Your Lady
5.6/5
Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.
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Fight for Your Lady
1936
Special Investigator
5.429/7
A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.
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Special Investigator
1935
Another Face
4.8/5
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!
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Another Face
1935
A Night at the Ritz
6.5/2
A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.
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A Night at the Ritz
1938
Meet the Girls
5/4
Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.
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Meet the Girls
1936
Chatterbox
7/3
Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the disapprov...
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Chatterbox
1938
Dramatic School
6.5/7
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...
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Dramatic School
1937
Criminal Lawyer
6.5/5
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...
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Criminal Lawyer
1935
A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
8/2
Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.
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A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
1938
The Canary Comes Across
5.25/4
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...
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The Canary Comes Across
1997
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
5.267/15
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...
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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
1934
Give Her a Ring
9/1
A telephonist falls for her employer.
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