Hari Rhodes
| Hari Rhodes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
10 April 1932 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | 15 January 1992 (aged 59) Canoga Park, Los Angeles California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | heart attack |
| Other names | Harry Rhodes |
| Occupation | Actor Author |
| Years active | 1957-1992 |
Hari Rhodes (10 April 1932 – 15 January 1992) was an American author and actor whose career spanned three decades beginning around 1960.
He was sometimes billed as Harry Rhodes and appeared in sixty-six films or television programs, such as ABC's 1963 TV medical drama series about psychiatry Breaking Point.
In a 1968 TV Guide interview, Rhodes described growing up in a rough section of his native Cincinnati: "We lived between the railroad tracks and the river bank. The flood ran us out every winter but we'd always come back, kick out the mud and settle down again until flood time. All the boys had to learn how to hop freights and throw pieces of coal off. All I ever knew was rats, roaches and poverty."
When he was 15, Rhodes spent two months learning to copy his mother's signature and forged it on enlistment papers to join the U.S. Marine Corps.
In the Marines, Rhodes was a member of his camp's judo team for two years. He eventually gained the rank of sergeant and served in Korea, where he led a reconnaissance platoon behind enemy lines.
"The time I got wounded at the Chosan Reservoir, a Chinese came running toward me," Rhodes told TV Guide. "My Thompson submachine gun was unloaded. I threw it down so he wouldn't shoot. His face almost smiled. He had his bayonet on my chest. He began slashing my arms. I got him with an 8-inch knife."
In 1960, Rhodes appeared in five television series: General Electric Theater, hosted by Ronald W. Reagan; The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor, Have Gun, Will Travel, starring Richard Boone, The Westerner, starring Brian Keith, and in two episodes of Adventures in Paradise, starring Gardner McKay. In 1961, he was cast in an episode of ABC's Hawaii-based drama, Follow the Sun. In 1963, he played a patrolman in "Death of a Cop" on CBS's The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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