Erik Rhodes

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.

  • Title: Erik Rhodes
  • Popularity: 6.775
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1906-02-10
  • Place of Birth: El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, USA
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  • Also Known As: Ernest Sharpe, Eric Rhodes
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Erik Rhodes Movies

  • 1935
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    Top Hat
    Top Hat

    7.293 1935 HD

    Showman Jerry Travers is working for producer Horace Hardwick in London. Jerry demonstrates his new dance steps late one night in Horace's hotel...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Fred Astaire

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  • 1935
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    Charlie Chan in Paris
    Charlie Chan in Paris

    6.6 1935 HD

    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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Warner Oland

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  • 1934
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    The Gay Divorcee
    The Gay Divorcee

    6.9 1934 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Fred Astaire

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  • 1938
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    Mysterious Mr. Moto
    Mysterious Mr. Moto

    5.7 1938 HD

    The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Peter Lorre

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    Special Investigator
    Special Investigator

    5.8 1936 HD

    A lawyer changes from defending public enemies to bringing them to justice after his brother is killed.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Richard Dix

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    On Your Toes
    On Your Toes

    3.9 1939 HD

    A Russian dance company agrees to stage the new ballet written by a vaudeville hoofer.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Vera Zorina

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    Another Face
    Another Face

    4.2 1935 HD

    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!

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Wallace Ford

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    Dramatic School
    Dramatic School

    6.25 1938 HD

    Aspiring actress Louise Muban attends the prestigious Paris School of Drama during the day and works at a dreary factory assembling gas meters at...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Luise Rainer

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    Chatterbox
    Chatterbox

    6 1936 HD

    Teenage orphan Jenny Yates becomes starstruck when a revival of an old Victorian melodrama passes through her small New England town, to the...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Anne Shirley

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    Criminal Lawyer
    Criminal Lawyer

    5.9 1937 HD

    Barry Brandon, a criminal lawyer, visits the night club of Denny Larkin, his primary client, with Betty Walker, a spoiled society girl. The police...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Lee Tracy

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    Meet the Girls
    Meet the Girls

    4.5 1938 HD

    Entertainers lose their jobs and their fares from Honolulu back to San Francisco so they must become stowaways.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: June Lang

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    Fight for Your Lady
    Fight for Your Lady

    4.3 1937 HD

    Wrestling trainer puts himself in charge of a singer's love life when the singer is jilted by a rich girl.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: John Boles

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  • 1935
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    Old Man Rhythm
    Old Man Rhythm

    6.3 1935 HD

    Romantic rivalries between father and son enrolled at the same college.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Charles "Buddy" Rogers

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    Beg, Borrow or Steal
    Beg, Borrow or Steal

    4.5 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Frank Morgan

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    Say It in French
    Say It in French

    1 1938 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ray Milland

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    Woman Chases Man
    Woman Chases Man

    5.6 1937 HD

    A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Miriam Hopkins

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    The Nitwits
    The Nitwits

    6.1 1935 HD

    A would-be songwriter and a would-be inventor run a cigar stand and get mixed up in the murder of a song publisher.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bert Wheeler

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    Two in the Dark
    Two in the Dark

    5.7 1936 HD

    Ford Adams regains consciousness in Boston, bloody and suffering from amnesia. Information he eventually uncovers (with the help of Marie Smith)...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Walter Abel

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    Music for Madame
    Music for Madame

    5 1937 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Nino Martini

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    A Night at the Ritz
    A Night at the Ritz

    3 1935 HD

    A PR man talks a swanky hotel into hiring his girlfriend's brother as chef.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: William Gargan

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    One Rainy Afternoon
    One Rainy Afternoon

    4.6 1936 HD

    Suave French actor Philippe Martin provokes a scandal when, in a darkened theater, he mistakes young Monique for his mistress, Yvonne, and tries to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Francis Lederer

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    Smartest Girl in Town
    Smartest Girl in Town

    5.5 1936 HD

    A girl in search of a rich husband mistakes a millionaire for a male model.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Gene Raymond

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    A Night at the Biltmore Bowl
    A Night at the Biltmore Bowl

    6 1935 HD

    Join vocalists broadcasting from the Biltmore Bowl in Los Angeles.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Betty Grable

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  • 1938
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    The Canary Comes Across
    The Canary Comes Across

    3.5 1938 HD

    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...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Erik Rhodes

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  • 1997
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    The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
    The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

    5 1997 HD

    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...

    Genre: History

    Cast: Dan Butler

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  • 1934
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    Give Her a Ring
    Give Her a Ring

    1 1934 HD

    A telephonist falls for her employer.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Clifford Mollison

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    Second Wife
    Second Wife

    1 1936 HD

    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.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gertrude Michael

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  • 1966
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    Perry Mason
    Perry Mason

    7.694 1966 HD

    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.

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Raymond Burr

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  • 1957
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    Lux Video Theatre
    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1957 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1963
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    Naked City
    Naked City

    5.333 1963 HD

    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...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Harry Bellaver

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  • 1957
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    Lux Video Theatre
    Lux Video Theatre

    5.5 1957 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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  • 1984
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    The Bob Hope Show
    The Bob Hope Show

    8 1984 HD

    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...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Bob Hope

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