Donnelly Rhodes 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.
14 Facts About Donnelly Rhodes
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Donnelly Rhodes starred as Doctor Cottle on Battlestar Galactica.
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Donnelly Rhodes was a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada.
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Donnelly Rhodes 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.
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The next year, Donnelly Rhodes was cast in "The Would-Be Gentleman of Laredo" as Don Carlos.
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In 1966, Donnelly Rhodes appeared as Red Eagle in the episode "Pariah" of the Universal Television series The Road West.
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Donnelly Rhodes played the main card player, Macon, who threatens the Sundance Kid in the opening scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
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In 1973, Donnelly Rhodes co-starred in an episode of the sci-fi drama The Starlost.
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Donnelly Rhodes 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.
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In 1980, Donnelly Rhodes played a priest in the miniseries The Chisholms.
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In 1988, Donnelly Rhodes guest-starred on Empty Nest as Leonard, an old friend of the main character.
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In 1993, Donnelly Rhodes played Jim Parker in "Shapes" of The X-Files.
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Donnelly Rhodes played the character Milash in an episode of Smallville in 2008.
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Donnelly Rhodes died of cancer at the Baillie House Hospice in Maple Ridge, British Columbia at the age of 80.