Donnelly Rhodes

Leo Shannon on Da Vinci's Inquest (1998–2005). He also had many American television and film credits, notably as the hapless escaped convict Dutch Leitner on the soap opera spoof Soap (1978–81), Phillip Chancellor II on the daytime soap The Young and the Restless (1974–75, 1978–81), and Doctor Cottle ("Doc") on Battlestar Galactica (2004–09). Rhodes won a Gemini Award for Best Actor in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for his performance on Da Vinci's Inquest, with three additional nominations. He received the Earle Grey Award in 2006.

• Name — Donnelly Rhodes • Born — 4 December 1937 • Birthplace — Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Died — 8 January 2018 • Place of death — Maple Ridge, British Columbia, Canada • Birth Name — Donnelly Rhodes Henry • Education — National Theatre School of Canada • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1956–2017 • Children — 2

Rhodes was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, either in 1936 or in 1937. His mother, Ann Henry, was a playwright. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a mechanic, and studied at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre and the National Theatre School of Canada. After graduating in 1963, he joined the Stratford Festival.

A large portion of Rhodes' career consists of guest-starring roles in American television. He 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. The next year, Rhodes was cast in "The Would-Be Gentleman of Laredo" as Don Carlos. In 1966, Rhodes appeared as Red Eagle in the episode "Pariah" of the Universal Television series The Road West. The same year, he guest-starred on Dundee and the Culhane. He appeared in three episodes of the original Mission: Impossible (1966-1973 TV series), in the Season 3 episode, "The Freeze" (1968), in the Season 4 episode, "Mastermind" (1969), and in the Season 7 episode, "Ultimatum" (1972). He also played the main card player, Macon, who threatens the Sundance Kid (Robert Redford) in the opening scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). In 1973, Rhodes co-starred in an episode of the sci-fi drama The Starlost (episode 12, 'The Implant People'). He 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. In 1980, Rhodes played a priest in the miniseries The Chisholms. In 1982, he played Leo, a bar patron on Cheers. In 1983 he appeared as Wilson Arthur MacLeish on Magnum P.I. on the episode "Of Sound Mind". In 1984, he had a supporting role as the beleaguered father in the short-lived TV series Double Trouble and appeared as Arland D. Williams Jr. in the television movie Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac. From 1985 to 1990, he played Dr. Grant Roberts in the series Danger Bay. In 1987, he made a guest appearance on The Golden Girls as Jake Smollens, a handsome, rough-around-the-edges caterer. In 1988, Rhodes guest-starred on Empty Nest as Leonard, an old friend of the main character. In 1991 he played the "Prodigal Father" in an episode of Murder, She Wrote. He starred as ruthless corporate lawyer R.J. Williams during the 1991-92 season of the drama Street Legal. In 1993, Rhodes played Jim Parker in "Shapes" (Season 1, episode 19) of The X-Files. He would later return to the series in 1996 in a different role for Musings of a Cigarette Smoking Man (Season 4, episode 7). For seven years (1998-2005), he played the role of Detective Leo Shannon on the acclaimed CBC television series, Da Vinci's Inquest. Rhodes played the character Milash in an episode of Smallville in 2008. On the revived Battlestar Galactica (2004–2009), Rhodes played Chief Medical Officer Sherman Cottle who smoked cigarettes in most scenes. Most recently Rhodes played Mr. Decker, Rufus Decker's father, in the two seasons of The Romeo Section on CBC in 2015-2016. Rhodes' film appearances were fewer, including roles in Gunfight in Abilene (1967), Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), Change of Mind (1969), The Neptune Factor (1973), Goldenrod (1976), Oh! Heavenly Dog (1980), Urban Safari (1995), and Tron: Legacy (2010). In February 2009, the Union of British Columbia Performers honoured Rhodes with the Sam Payne Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Rhodes provided the voice of the US president at the start of each episode of the CBC Radio One space opera/comedy series Canadia: 2056.

Rhodes died of cancer at the Baillie House Hospice in Maple Ridge, British Columbia at the age of 80.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 1960 — Bonanza — Latigo / Little Henchman — Episodes: "San Francisco" & "The Mission" • 1964–65 — data-sort-value="Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The" | The Alfred Hitchcock Hour — John Cochran — Episodes: "The Trap," "Ten Minutes From Now" • 1965 — Wagon Train — Jeremiah Stewart — Episode: "The Wanda Snow Story" • 1965–66 — Laredo — Don Carlos, Bob Jamison — 2 episodes • 1966 — data-sort-value="Road West, The" | The Road West — Red Eagle — Episode: "Pariah" • data-sort-value="Virginian, The" | The Virginian — Ben Colby — Episode: "The Wolves Up Front, the Jackals Behind" • 1967 — Custer — War Cloud — Episode: "Dangerous Prey" • Mannix — Ramon Verona — Episode: "The Cost Of A Vacation" • Dundee and the Culhane — Michael — Episode: "The Vasquez Brief" • Tarzan — Hank — Episode: "Hotel Hurricane" • data-sort-value="Wild Wild West, The" | The Wild Wild West — Captain Dansby — Episode: "The Night of the Legion of Death" S3 E12 • 1968–72 — Mission: Impossible — Joel Morgan / Lou Merrick / Raymond Barret — 3 episodes • 1973 — data-sort-value="Starlost, The" | The Starlost — Roloff — "The Implant People" • 1978–81 — Soap — Dutch Leitner — 38 episodes (Season 2-4) • 1979 — data-sort-value="New Adventures of Wonder Woman, The" | The New Adventures of Wonder Woman — Ward Selkirk — Episode: "A Date with Doomsday" • 1980 — data-sort-value="Chisholms, The" | The Chisholms — Franciscan priest — Episode: "The Siren Song" • 1982 — Report to Murphy — Charlie — 6 episodes • Cheers — Leo — Episode: "Sam's Women" • data-sort-value="Facts of Life, The" | The Facts of Life — Sal Largo — Episode: "Jo's Cousin" • Taxi — Angelo (Tony's father) — Episode: "Travels with My Dad" • 1982–83 — Hill Street Blues — Judge Paul Grogin — 4 episodes • 1983 — Magnum PI — Wilson Arthur MacLeish — Episode: "Of Sound Mind" • Gimme a Break! — Mayor — Episode: "The Centerfold: Part 2" • Amanda's — Mr. Johnson — Episode: "You Were Meant for Me" • 1984 — Alice — Frank — Episode: "Tommy Goes Overboard" • Flight 90: Disaster on the Potomac — Arland D. Williams Jr. — TV movie • 1984–85 — Double Trouble — Art Foster — 9 episodes • 1985–90 — Danger Bay — Dr. Grant Roberts — 122 episodes • 1987 — data-sort-value="Golden Girls, The" | The Golden Girls — Jake Smollens — Episode: "Diamond in the Rough" • After The Promise — Dr. Northfield — TV movie • 1988 — Empty Nest — Leonard — Episode: "Harry's Friend" • 1988–93 — Murder, She Wrote — Various roles — 3 episodes • 1989 — Bordertown — John Quincy McGraw — 1 episode: "Keenan's Raiders" • 1991–92 — Street Legal — R.J. Williams — 10 episodes • 1993 — data-sort-value="X-Files, The" | The X-Files — Jim Parker — Episode: "Shapes" • 1996, 1997 — data-sort-value="Outer Limits, The" | The Outer Limits — Senator, General James Eiger — 2 episodes • 1997 — Millennium — Peter Dumont — Episode: "Broken World" • data-sort-value="Sentinel, The" | The Sentinel — Don Dominick Lazar — Episode: "Inside Man" • Indefensible: The Truth About Edward Brannigan — Jack Bailey — TV movie • 1998 — data-sort-value="Young and the Restless, The" | The Young and the Restless — Phillip Chancellor II — 2 episodes • 1998–2005 — Da Vinci's Inquest — Leo Shannon — 91 episodes • 1999 — Hope Island — Jake Mitchum — Episode: "Look One Way and Row Another" • 2000 — Call of the Wild — Thadeus P. Rossmore — Episode: "Betrayal" • 2004–09 — Battlestar Galactica — Dr. Sherman Cottle — 36 episodes • 2005, 2013 — Supernatural — Father Simon, Mr. Shaw — 2 episodes • 2006 — Whistler — Daniel Wallace — Episode: "In the Air" • 2007 — Psych — Judge Horace Leland — Episode: "Cloudy... With a Chance of Murder" • 2008 — Smallville — Milash — Episode: "Quest" • data-sort-value="L Word, The" | The L Word — Colonel Jon Smythe — Episode: "Lesbians Gone Wild" • 2010 — Human Target — Guerrero's Friend — Episode: "Pilot" • Heartland — Eli Stark — Episode: "The Slippery Slope" • Goblin — Charlie — TV movie • 2013 — Arctic Air — Virgil Haggard — Episode: "Skeletons in the Closet" • Mr. Hockey: The Gordie Howe Story — NHL Lawyer — TV movie • 2015–16 — data-sort-value="Romeo Section, The" | The Romeo Section — Mr. Decker — 2 episodes • 2016 — data-sort-value="Flash, The" | The Flash — Agent Smith — Episode: "Invasion!" (crossover episode) • Legends of Tomorrow

His recorded language was English. He married Martha Henry.