Erik Rhodes (February 10, 1906 - February 17, 1990) He was an American film and Broadway singer and actor. He is most well known today for two Hollywood films he made with stars Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, The Gay Divorcee (1934) and in Top Hat (1935).
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Erik Rhodes (born February 8 1982) is an American pornographic actor (porn star) who makes gay pornographic movies. He is an exclusive for Falcon Studios.
Rhodes is only the second porn star to perform in the top role with noted top-man Matthew Rush as the bottom in the film, Heaven to Hell.
Rhodes was pulled up on stage to kiss Kathy Griffin on My Life on the D-List (Season 3) at the GayVN Awards. Rhodes was featured in an ad campaign for Loehmann's Department Store in 2007. Rhodes filmed a small role in the Mandy Moore film "Dedication".
Stage actor best remembered in films as the mustachioed, feather- brained, Continental type in two Astaire-Rogers mistaken-identity romps: 'The Gay Divorcee' (1934) and 'Top Hat' (1935).
Appeared in the Broadway version of _The Gay Divorce_ in 1932.
Died of pneumonia in Oklahoma City at age 84.
