Hari (Harry) RhodesFilmography

Born:
April 10, 1932 in Cincinnati, OH
Occupation:
Actor
Biography:
African-American actor Hari Rhodes first came to the widespread attention of televiewers with his portrayal of African native Mike on the TV series Daktari. Though he seldom had as much to do as series star Marshall Thompson, Rhodes developed a fan following during his three-year (1966-69) run...Read More
  • Detroit 9000

    Synopsis: Titled Detroit Heat for video release, this blaxploitation flick concerns two Motor City detectives (Hari Rhodes, Alex Rocco) on the trail of a gang of thieves who attacked a political rally. Noted blaxploitation fan Quentin Tarantino sponsored a theatrical re-release in 1998, with a video reissue Read More

    10/16/98
  • Murder Without Motive: The Edmund Perry Story

    Actors: Guy Killum

    Synopsis: Adapted from Robert Sam Anson's fact-based book Best Intentions, Murder without Motive stars Curtis McClarin as Harlem teenager Edmund Perry. A brilliant student, Perry is transferred from the inner city to an exclusive prep school principally attended by whites. Ten days after graduating with Read More

    1992
  • Donor

    Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Jack Scalia, Pernell Roberts, Wendy Hughes, Gregory Sierra

    Synopsis: Donor is a variation on a familiar theme, played to the hilt by a topnotch cast. Doctor Melissa Gilbert-Brinkman is shocked when her close friend is strangled by an elderly patient. Before she has a chance to investigate, the killer himself dies in a mysterious accident. Probing further, Melissa Read More

    1990
  • Magnum, P.I.: Old Acquaintance

    Synopsis: Magnum (Tom Selleck) and T.C. (Roger E. Mosley) are reunited with their high school classmate Goldie Morris (Lee Purcell), who is still the same zany, impulsive political activist she'd been back in the good old days when she was Magnum's tutor. Goldie wants the detective to help her locate a Read More

    1985
  • The Dukes of Hazzard: The Sound of Music - Hazzard Style

    Synopsis: Mickey Gilley shows up in Hazzard County to perform a charity concert. Figuring that charity begins at home, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) plans to cash in on the concert by making a bootleg tape and selling it to a pirate record company. When the FBI shows up, Boss' flunkeys make their escape by Read More

    1982
  • Sharky's Machine

    Actors: Burt Reynolds, Vittorio Gassman, Rachel Ward, Bernie Casey, Brian Keith

    Synopsis: A William Diehl novel was the source of the noirish nailbiter Sharky's Machine. Sharky (Burt Reynolds) is an undercover cop who fouls up an assignment and is kicked downstairs to the vice squad -- a rough-shod bunch of hellraisers who make life miserable. Soon, however, Sharky's life does a 180 Read More

    1981
  • Backstairs at the White House

    Actors: Leslie Uggams, Olivia Cole, Louis Gossett, Jr., Robert Hooks, Leslie Nielsen

    Synopsis: Based on the best-selling memoirs of Lillian Rogers Parks, the NBC miniseries Backstairs at the White House traces over five decades of American political history as witnessed from the vantage point of the servants' quarters. Played by Tania Johnson as a teenager and by Leslie Uggams as an adult, Lillian Rogers Parks Read More

    1979
  • Coma

    Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Elizabeth Ashley, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark

    Synopsis: A feisty, feminist intern uncovers a medical conspiracy in this icy thriller about mysterious goings-on at Boston Memorial Hospital. When her best friend and aerobics partner, Nancy Greenly (Lois Chiles), emerges in a vegetative state from a routine abortion, Dr. Susan Wheeler (Genevieve Bujold) Read More

    2/1/78
  • A Woman Called Moses

    Actors: Orson Welles

    Synopsis: The made-for-TV A Woman Called Moses stars Cicely Tyson as real-life escaped slave Harriet Tubman. A the risk of recapture, Tubman helped organize the underground railroad, which enabled hundreds of enslaved African Americans to make their way to the freedom of the Northern states. Adding to the Read More

    1978
  • Quincy, M.E.: Death by Good Intention

    Synopsis: An affirmative-action program at a major metropolitan hospital is threatened when a young African American resident, who owes his job to the program, is suspected of causing a patient's death through negligence (to use the old cliché, the operation was successful but the patient died). The young Read More

    1978
  • The Streets of San Francisco: The Thrill Killers, Part 1

    Synopsis: The two-part opener of Streets of San Francisco's fifth and final season marks a major transition, as SFPD homicide detective Mike Stone (Karl Malden) loses his longtime partner Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) and gains a new one, athletic young inspector Dan Robbins (Richard Hatch). But before Read More

    1976
  • Quincy, M.E.: Go Fight City Hall--To the Death!

    Synopsis: Originally telecast as a component of The NBC Sunday Mystery Movie, the feature-length opening episode of Quincy, M.E. quickly establishes the prickly personality and crusading nature of LA County Coroner's Office medical examiner Quincy (Jack Klugman). We're also introduced to several others Read More

    1976
  • Matt Helm

    Actors: Anthony Franciosa, Patrick Macnee, Ann Turkel, Gene Evans, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

    Synopsis: In this detective adventure, the pilot episode for the short-livedTV series, suave Matt Helm gets involved with the smugglers who have been providing black market munitions to African mercenaries when he assigned to protect the life of a movie star. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

    1975
  • The Return of Joe Forrester

    Synopsis: Lloyd Bridges stars as plainclothes policeman Joe Forrester. When a gang of robber-rapists besiege his old beat, Forrester voluntarily returns to uniform duty. He hopes that his presence will encourage the frightened residents to help bring the gang to justice, but the most immediate results of Read More

    1975
  • The Streets of San Francisco: A String of Puppets

    Synopsis: A robbery gang comes to the attention of homicide detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) when the crooks murder a fellow gang member. Going undercover, Keller tries to determine if there is a link between the criminals' activities and a sultry nightclub singer. Lola Falana Read More

    1974
  • The Streets of San Francisco: For Good or Evil

    Synopsis: Mike Evans, who at the time this episode aired was also starring as Lionel on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons, guest stars as Paul Hudson, a neurotic kid living in a tough ghetto neighborhood. After witnessing a murder, Paul promises to keep his mouth shut, providing that the killer find Paul a job Read More

    1974
  • The Streets of San Francisco: Death Watch

    Synopsis: Without taking anything away from series stars Karl Malden and Michael Douglas, it must be admitted that this episode is stolen hands-down by its formidable array of guest actors, headed by future Little House on the Prairie and Highway to Heaven costar Victor French as ruthless alien smuggler Read More

    1973
  • A Dream for Christmas

    Synopsis: Created by Earl Hamner, A Dream for Christmas is set in the 1950s. African-American minister Will Douglas (Hari Rhodes) moves his family from Arkansas to the Watts section of Los Angeles to take charge of an impoverished church. The attendance, at least at first, is as poor as the congregation. Read More

    1973
  • The Streets of San Francisco: A Collection of Eagles

    Synopsis: John Saxon and Joseph Cotten head the guest cast in this episode, wherein homicide detectives Stone (Karl Malden) and Keller (Michael Douglas) investigate an elaborate scam that has gone fatally awry. Unscrupulous coin dealer Vince Hagopian Jr. (Saxon) has arranged to purchase several valuable Read More

    1973
  • The F.B.I.: Fatal Reunion

    Synopsis: After a decade's absense, an affable gent named Hamilton (Ed Nelson) returns to his home town. The locals welcome him effusively, never suspecting that Hamilton is a professional thief--and that he is currently being sought after by the FBI. Inevitably, Hamilton's past catches up to him in a Read More

    1973
  • Trouble Comes to Town

    Synopsis: The "trouble" that comes to a small southern town is (ostensibly) Thomas Evans, an African American youth from the north. Town sheriff Lloyd Bridges, whose life was saved in Korea by Evans' father, invites the boy to live with his family. Racial tensions run high, but temporarily remain under Read More

    1972
  • Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

    Actors: Roddy McDowall, Don Murray, Ricardo Montalban, Natalie Trundy, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

    Synopsis: The fourth Planet of the Apes film is set in 1991, 20 years since the assassination of talking, time-traveling apes Cornelius and Zira at the end of Escape From the Planet of the Apes. The couple's infant son, Caesar (Roddy McDowall), has grown to adulthood in the care of kindly circus owner Read More

    1972
  • Skin Game

    Actors: Susan Clark, James Garner

    Synopsis: Skin Game was historically significant as the 2000th film produced by Warner Bros. studios. The film is a comedy western starring James Garner and Louis Gossett Jr. as a pair of clever Antebellum con men. Garner regularly "sells" the black Gossett into slavery for an exalted price, then Read More

    1971
  • Mission: Impossible: Cat's Paw

    Actors: Peter Graves, Leonard Nimoy, Lesley Ann Warren, Greg Morris, Peter Lupus

    Synopsis: This time it's personal for IMF agent Barney Collier: His brother Larry (Marc Hannibal), a crusading newspaper editor has been murdered at the behest of a crooked police chief. Larry had been on the verge of proving the chief's connection with a ghetto gang that is in the employ of the Syndicate. Read More

    1971
  • Earth 2

    Synopsis: The all-purpose science fiction title Earth 2 was utilized in 1971 for this TV pilot film. Producer/writers Allan Balter and William Read Woodfield consulted both NASA and the Rockwell Corporation to guarantee a modicum of authenticity for their futuristic teleplay. The story takes place in "Earth Read More

    1971
  • The F.B.I.: The Deadly Pact

    Synopsis: Brooker Bradshaw returns as African American FBI agent Harry Dane. Going undercover, Dane hopes to bring a halt to the activities of Daniel Dodds (Hari Rhodes), a black loan shark hired by the mob to shake down his own people. Caught in the crossfire is Dodds' old friend Terry Maynard (Ivan Read More

    1970
  • Deadlock

    Actors: James McEachin, Leslie Nielsen, Fred Williamson

    Synopsis: The made-for-TV Deadlock stars Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Sam Danforth (since this is long before the Police Squad era, Nielsen plays it straight). The white Danforth finds himself at ideological loggerheads with black district attorney Leslie Washburn (Hari Rhodes). Racial tensions are escalated when Read More

    1969
  • Mirage

    Actors: Gregory Peck, Diane Baker, Walter Matthau, Kevin McCarthy, Jack Weston

    Synopsis: A dazed man, David Stillwell (Gregory Peck), wanders down the stairs of a New York skyscraper during a power blackout, only vaguely aware of who he is, where he's been, and why he has this nagging feeling that danger lurks all about him. Stillwell does know that many of the people in the building Read More

    1966
  • Blindfold

    Actors: Rock Hudson, Claudia Cardinale, Jack Warden, Guy Stockwell, Brad Dexter

    Synopsis: In this offbeat mixture of espionage and slapstick comedy, Arthur Vincenti (Alejandro Rey) is a scientist working on secret military projects for the United States government. Vincenti is becoming increasingly unstable as he works in solitude in a backwater swamp; his superiors fear that he might Read More

    1966
  • The Satan Bug

    Actors: George Maharis, Richard Basehart, Anne Francis, Dana Andrews, Ed Asner

    Synopsis: Adapted from an Alistair MacLean novel, The Satan Bug is one of the best efforts in the "deadly virus at large" genre. Insane scientist Dr. Hoffman (Richard Basehart) steals several vials containing a lethal germ culture from a government lab. Hoffman has been unhinged by the notion of the Read More

    1965
  • Taffy and the Jungle Hunter

    Synopsis: In this African adventure, a big game hunter's 8-year-old son finds fun and danger with his friends: a chimp and an elephant. The trouble begins when the three adventurers venture too far into the jungle and get lost. Later the boy's governess and others launch an exhaustive search for the lad. Read More

    1965
  • The Fugitive: Decision in the Ring

    Synopsis: Posing as "Ray Miller", Dr. Richard Kimble (David Janssen) is hired as cut-man for young African American prizefighter Joe Smith (James Edwards). It turns out that Joe had once wanted to be a doctor himself, but gave up his dream, figuring that a black man in the mid-1960s didn't stand a chance of Read More

    1963
  • Shock Corridor

    Actors: Peter Breck, Constance Towers, Gene Evans, James Best, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

    Synopsis: Shock Corridor represents filmmaker Samuel Fuller at his most excessive, but few would have it otherwise. Peter Breck plays a ruthless journalist who believes that the quickest way to a Pulitzer Prize is to uncover the facts behind a murder at a mental hospital. To glean first-hand information, Breck Read More

    1963
  • Drums of Africa

    Actors: Frankie Avalon, Mariette Hartley, Lloyd Bochner, Torin Thatcher, Hari (Harry) Rhodes

    Synopsis: Spliced together with plentiful strips of old footage from previous films set in Africa, this routine romantic drama takes place on the east, equatorial region of the so-called "dark continent," in 1897. The story features Mariette Hartley as Ruth Knight and Lloyd Bochner as David, an engineer and Read More

    1963
  • The Nun and the Sergeant

    Actors: Robert Webber, Anna Sten, Leo Gordon, Hari (Harry) Rhodes, Robert Easton

    Synopsis: In this war drama set during the Korean War, a grizzled GI must undertake a potentially suicidal mission. He decides not to waste his best soldiers and instead chooses from amongst his very worst. He then attempts to train them. His methods are harsh, and his men hate him. Secretly, they conspire Read More

    1962
  • The Fiercest Heart

    Actors: Stuart Whitman, Juliet Prowse, Ken Scott, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Fitzgerald

    Synopsis: Something of a variant on the American western where colonialists face off with Native Americans, The Fiercest Heart by George Sherman is set in 1837 and focuses on a group of Boers (Dutch colonialists in South Africa) and their enemies, the Zulus. Similar to the former portrayals of Native Read More

    1961
  • Return to Peyton Place

    Actors: Carol Lynley, Jeff Chandler, Eleanor Parker, Mary Astor, Tuesday Weld, Robert Sterling

    Synopsis: If anything, this star-studded sequel is even sillier than the original, adding to its problems by completely recasting all the roles, combining several of them into existing characters. Carol Lynley is the heroine this time, and she leaves Peyton Place for New York to write a book about the Read More

    1961
  • Have Gun, Will Travel: The Shooting of Jesse May

    Synopsis: Seeking revenge against those who lynched his Rebel father during the Civil War, young gun Jesse May Turnbow (Robert Blake) has cut a violent swath throughout the frontier, killing ten men in cold blood. Hired to bring Turnbow to justice, Paladin (Richard Boone) conducts a search which ends up in Read More

    1960
  • This Rebel Breed

    Actors: Rita Moreno, Mark Damon, Gerald Mohr, Jay Novello, Eugenio Martín

    Synopsis: Race hatred and drug trafficking threaten to tear apart a California high school in this teen drama. Frank White (Mark Damon) and Don Walters (Doug Hume) are a pair of undercover police officers who are sent to a high school dominated by three gangs. Don, who is white, tries to infiltrate the Read More

    1960

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