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ACTOR DONNELLY Rhodes (right), Deanne Henry and dog Beatrice
recently relocated to Deep Cove. Here they enjoy their seaside home,
which comes with its own dock.

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HE STANDS 5’8%”’ tall — “‘the % is important’? — and
weighs 190 pounds, but admits it should be 185. He lives
with his actress wife, Deanne Henry, in a spacious water-
front home in Deep Cove. His name is Donnelly Rhodes.

On-camera he has been known
as many people, from a drinker in
the bar on Cheers to a judge in
Hill Street Blues to Dutch in the
soap opera spoof Soap. At home
he is just himself, a man dressed in
jeans and a casual! shirt, flecks of
grey showing in his sideburns.

PHONE STILL RINGS

Now playing the crusty father-
figure on the B.C.-filmed Danger
Bay, Rhodes is, at 50, not worried
about getting old. The phone still
rings with possibilities for further
film and television work, and “‘!
know myself well enough to know
that I'm fortunate doing some-
thing I like doing.

“If they want me, great. If
not....’” He shrugs. .

But they apparently do want
him, as witnessed by his list of
credits — television series
Magnum, P.I., Double Trouble,
Taxi and Golden Girls; films Butch
Cassidy & the Sundance Kid,
Dalton and After the Promise.

Of this series of credits, he says,
not without sincerity: ‘‘It’s a sur-
prise being able to make a living as
an actor.”’

Working with the Manitoba
Theatre Centre in his native Win-
nipeg, his first paying stage role
was that of Stanley the waiter in
Arthur Miller’s Death of a
Salesman. Off-stage, his role was

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janitor.

Since then he has played good
guys, bad guys and guys
everywhere in between. He has, as
he jokes, ‘thad children on ail the
neiworks,”’ playing the roles of
innumerable fathers.

As an actor he says he has found
himself, and now knows who he is.
He has taken some of the younger
principals on Danger Bay under his
wing, and they have surprised him
by turning around and using his
worldly wisdoms: ‘‘They say things
to me, and I say ‘Where did you
learn that?’ They say ‘You told
us,’?”

BOAT FAN

Tied to the wharf outside his
home is the 45-foot wooden
Cresthaven, one of a total of 15 or
so boats to have sailed into his life.
He promises that a new boat he
recently commissioned is ‘‘the
last,’’ but he isn’t very convincing.

- Feiday, October 23, 1987 — North Shore News

Sharing the Deep Cove home is
two-year-old Beatrice Lilly Bag-
gins, the couple’s dog, who spends
her lime with the numerous
squeaky toys scattered around the
house, or lounges on the floor
cushions heaped near the floor-
to-ceiling living room window.

The oldest of three children,
Rhodes was raised by his mother,
author Anne Henry. His recol-
lection of his father, who deserted
the family when he was young, is a
vague memory from when he was
two years old.

“I figure like the Duke (John
Wayne), those are your respon-
sibilities (to stay with your family)
— you don’t duck ’em no matter
what.”’

DEEP COVE

Just recently moved into his new °
Deep Cove home, Rhodes says he
really enjoys the special hot water
tap on the sink because he can use
it to make instant ccffee without
waiting for a kettle to boil.

From just about every room in
his house — including the kitchen
— there is a splendid view of Deep
Cove, the piace that with his wife,
his. dog and his boat has become
his haven. ‘Working and living in
Hollywood is like working and liv-
ing in New York, it’s not a (so-
called) normal place.’’

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