Donnelly Rhodes

Donnelly Rhodes
Born	Donnelly Rhodes Henry (1937-12-04)December 4, 1937 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died	January 8, 2018(2018-01-08) (aged 80) Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–2017
Spouses	Martha Buhs ​ ​ (m. 1962; div. 1965)​ Virginia Haxall Harrison ​ ​ (m. 1966; div. 1970)​ Maggie Thrett ​ ​ (m. 1975; div. 1977)​ Diane Dewey ​ ​ (m. 1978, divorced)​ Sarah Wilson ​ (m. 2011)​
Children	2

Donnelly Rhodes Henry (December 4, 1937 – January 8, 2018) was a Canadian actor. He had many American television and film credits, probably best known to American audiences as the hapless escaped convict Dutch Leitner on the soap opera spoof Soap and as Phillip Chancellor II on The Young and the Restless. Rhodes was well-known to Canadian audiences as Sgt. Nick Raitt in the CBC TV series Sidestreet (1975–1978), as Grant "Doc" Roberts in another CBC TV series, Danger Bay (1984–1990) and as Leo on Da Vinci's Inquest (1998-2005). He also starred as Doctor Cottle ("Doc") on Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009). He is the brother of actor, Tim Henry.

Life and career

Rhodes was born in 1937, although some sources say 1936, and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.

A large portion of Rhodes' career consists of guest-starring roles in American television. He appeared twice on Laredo: in 1965, he played Bob Jamison in "Rendezvous at Arillo" and played a lead role in "The Trap", an episode on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour. The next year, Rhodes was cast in "The Would-Be Gentleman of Laredo" as Don Carlos.

In 1966, Rhodes appeared as Red Eagle in the episode "Pariah" of the Universal Television series The Road West. The same year, he guest-starred on Dundee and the Culhane. He appeared in three episodes of the original Mission: Impossible (1966-1973 TV series), in the Season 3 episode, "The Freeze" (1968), in the Season 4 episode, "Mastermind" (1969), and in the Season 7 episode, "Ultimatum" (1972). He also played the main card player, Macon, who threatens the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) in the opening scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).

In 1973, Rhodes co-starred in an episode of the sci-fi drama The Starlost (episode 12, 'The Implant People'). He played Phillip Chancellor II in The Young and the Restless from 1974 to 1975, and from 1978 to 1981, he played escaped convict Dutch Leitner on Soap.

In 1980, Rhodes played a priest in the miniseries The Chisholms. In 1982, he played Leo, a bar patron on Cheers. In 1983 he appeared as Wilson Arthur MacLeish on Magnum P.I. on the episode "Of Sound Mind". In 1984, he had a supporting role as the beleaguered father in the short-lived TV series Double Trouble and appeared as Arland D. Williams Jr. in the television movie Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac. From 1985 to 1990, he played Dr. Grant Roberts in the series Danger Bay. In 1987, he made a guest appearance on The Golden Girls as Jake Smollens, a handsome, rough-around-the-edges caterer.

In 1988, Rhodes guest-starred on Empty Nest as Leonard, an old friend of the main character. In 1991 he played the "Prodigal Father" in an episode of Murder, She Wrote. He starred as ruthless corporate lawyer R.J. Williams during the 1991-92 season of the drama Street Legal. In 1993, Rhodes played Jim Parker in "Shapes" (Season 1, episode 19) of The X-Files. He would later return to the series in 1996 in a different role for Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (Season 4, episode 7).

For seven years (1998-2005), he played the role of Detective Leo Shannon on the acclaimed CBC television series, Da Vinci's Inquest.

Rhodes played the character Milash in an episode of Smallville in 2008. On the revived Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), Rhodes played Chief Medical Officer Sherman Cottle who smoked cigarettes in most scenes. Most recently Rhodes played Mr. Decker, Rufus Decker's father, in the two seasons of The Romeo Section on CBC in 2015-2016.

Rhodes' film appearances were fewer, including roles in Gunfight in Abilene (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Change of Mind (1969), The Neptune Factor (1973), Goldenrod (1976), Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980), Urban Safari (1995), and Tron: Legacy (2010).

In February 2009, the Union of British Columbia Performers honoured Rhodes with the Sam Payne Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Radio work

Rhodes provided the voice of the US president at the start of each episode of the CBC Radio One space opera/comedy series Canadia: 2056.

Death

Rhodes died of cancer at the Baillie House Hospice in Maple Ridge, British Columbia at the age of 80.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1956	Reprisal!	Buck
1957	The 27th Day	Television Technician	Uncredited
1967	Gunfight in Abilene	Joe Slade	Uncredited
1969	Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid	Macon
1969	Change of Mind	Roger Morrow
1973	The Neptune Factor	Diver Bob Cousins
1973	The Hard Part Begins	Jim King
1976	Goldenrod	Keno McLaughlin
1980	Oh! Heavenly Dog	Montanero
1984	Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac	Arland D. Williams Jr.	TV movie
1987	After The Promise	Dr. Northfield	TV movie
1989	The Penthouse	Lt. Valeri
1991	The Legend of Kootenai Brown	'McTooth'
1996	Urban Safari	Harry
1997	Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan	Jack Bailey	TV movie
2001	Touched by a Killer	Bernie Gordon
2002	Pressure	Sheriff Cooper
2002	Snow Dogs	Race Official #1
2009	Damage	Deacon
2010	Goblin	Charlie	TV movie
2010	Ramona and Beezus	Crusty Photographer
2010	Hunt to Kill	Sheriff Westlake
2010	Tron: Legacy	Grandpa Flynn
2011	Marley & Me: The Puppy Years	Fred Grogan
2012	Barricade	Sheriff Howes
2013	Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story	NHL Lawyer	TV movie

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1960	Bonanza	Latigo / Little Henchman	Episodes: "San Francisco" & "The Mission"
1965–1966	Laredo	Don Carlos / Bob Jamison	2 episodes
1964-1965	The Alfred Hitchcock Hour	John Cochran	Episodes: "The Trap," "Ten Minutes From Now"
1965	Wagon Train	Jeremiah Stewart	Episode: "The Wanda Snow Story"
1966	The Road West	Red Eagle	Episode: "Pariah"
1966	The Virginian	Ben Colby	Episode: "The Wolves Up Front, the Jackals Behind"
1967	Custer	War Cloud	Episode: "Dangerous Prey"
1967	Mannix	Ramon Verona	Episode: "The Cost Of A Vacation"
1967	Dundee and the Culhane	Michael	Episode: "The Vasquez Brief"
1967	Tarzan	Hank	Episode: "Hotel Hurricane"
1967	The Wild Wild West	Captain Dansby	Episode: "The Night of the Legion of Death" S3 E12
1968–1972	Mission: Impossible	Joel Morgan / Lou Merrick / Raymond Barret	3 episodes
1973	The Starlost	Roloff	"The Implant People"
1978–1981	Soap	Dutch Leitner	38 episodes (Season 2-4)
1979	The New Adventures of Wonder Woman	Ward Selkirk	Episode: "A Date with Doomsday"
1980	The Chisholms	Franciscan priest	Episode: "The Siren Song"
1982	Report to Murphy	Charlie	6 episodes
1982	Cheers	Leo	Episode: "Sam's Women"
1982	The Facts of Life	Sal Largo	Episode: "Jo's Cousin"
1982	Taxi	Angelo (Tony's father)	Episode: "Travels with My Dad"
1982–1983	Hill Street Blues	Judge Paul Grogin	4 episodes
1983	Magnum PI	Wilson Arthur MacLeish	Episode: "Of Sound Mind"
1983	Gimme a Break!	Mayor	Episode: "The Centerfold: Part 2"
1983	Amanda's	Mr. Johnson	Episode: "You Were Meant for Me"
1984	Alice	Frank	Episode: "Tommy Goes Overboard"
1984–1985	Double Trouble	Art Foster	9 episodes
1985–1990	Danger Bay	Dr. Grant Roberts	122 episodes
1987	The Golden Girls	Jake Smollens	Episode: "Diamond in the Rough"
1988	Empty Nest	Leonard	Episode: "Harry's Friend"
1988–1993	Murder, She Wrote	William Mahaffy / Ned Jenks / Ed Bellamy	3 episodes
1989	Bordertown	John Quincy McGraw	1 episode: "Keenan's Raiders"
1991–1992	Street Legal	R.J. Williams	10 episodes
1993	The X-Files	Jim Parker	Episode: "Shapes"
1996-1997	The Outer Limits (1995)	Senator / General James Eiger	2 episodes
1997	Millennium	Peter Dumont	Episode: "Broken World"
1997	The Sentinel	Don Dominick Lazar	Episode: "Inside Man"
1998	The Young and the Restless	Phillip Chancellor II	2 episodes
1998–2005	Da Vinci's Inquest	Leo Shannon	91 episodes
1999	Hope Island	Jake Mitchum	Episode: "Look One Way and Row Another"
2000	Call of the Wild	Thadeus P. Rossmore	Episode: "Betrayal"
2004–2009	Battlestar Galactica	Chief Medical Officer Dr. Cottle	36 episodes
2005–2013	Supernatural	Father Simon / Mr. Shaw	2 episodes
2006	Whistler	Daniel Wallace	Episode: "In the Air"
2007	Psych	Judge Horace Leland	Episode: "Cloudy... With a Chance of Murder"
2008	Smallville	Milash	Episode: "Quest"
2008	The L Word	Colonel Jon Smythe	Episode: "Lesbians Gone Wild"
2010	Human Target	Guerrero's Friend	Episode: "Pilot"
2010	Heartland	Eli Stark	Episode: "The Slippery Slope"
2013	Arctic Air	Virgil Haggard	Episode: "Skeletons in the Closet"
2015–2016	The Romeo Section	Mr. Decker – Rufus Decker's father	2 episodes
2016	The Flash	Agent Smith	Episode: "Invasion!"
2016	Legends of Tomorrow	Agent Smith	Episode: "Invasion!"

External links

• Donnelly Rhodes at IMDb
• Donnelly Rhodes at TV Guide