Erik Rhodes (actor)

Erik Rhodes origin. Ernest Sharpe ( born February 10, 1906 in El Reno ( an Indian reservation in present-day Oklahoma ), † 17 February 1990 in Oklahoma City ) was an American actor.

Erik Rhodes was a musical actor on Broadway, the next Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the movies Dance with me! and I dance me into your heart into his greatest film successes celebrated. Since 1928, he stood on Broadway stages and already played in the theater version of dance along with. The film adaptation of the musical brought him to Hollywood in 1934. However, he only played until 1939 in about 20 films and then returned to the theater boards. During the Second World War, he was socially engaged back in New York City. From 1947 to 1964 he played again in musicals on Broadway. His greatest stage successes were songs like Can-Can and toll it drove the ancient Romans.

In 1972 he married his wife emala. The couple lived there until the early 1980s in New York. Rhodes died in 1990 at the age of 84 of pneumonia. It is located on the El Reno Cemetery in Oklahoma buried next to his wife.