Erik Rhodes

Birthday: February 10th, 1906 Date of Death: February 17th, 1990 Place of Birth: El Reno, Oklahoma Territory, USA

Erik Rhodes (born Ernest Sharpe) 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.