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In addition to numerous film appearances,<ref>{{cite news|date=June 23, 1987|title=Grandon Rhodes; Character Actor|page=7|work=The Daily Register|agency=Associated Press|location=Ohio, Dover|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20734092/grandon_rhodes/}}</ref> he was also a regular in two long-running television shows, playing the doctor in ''[[Bonanza]]'' and the judge in ''[[Perry Mason (1957 TV series)|Perry Mason]]''.<ref name="LAtimes">{{cite news|date=1987-06-20|title=Veteran Actor Grandon Rhodes Dies|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-06-20-mn-8480-story.html|access-date=4 May 2014|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140505043557/http://articles.latimes.com/1987-06-20/news/mn-8480_1_veteran-character-actor |archive-date=May 5, 2014}}</ref> He also appeared in a recurring role as Beverly Hills banker Chester Vanderlip throughout most of the run of ''[[The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show]]''.<ref>Clements, Cynthia; Weber, Sandra (1996). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=dSBaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22chester+vanderlip%22+%22grandon+rhodes%22 George Burns and Gracie Allen: A Bio-Bibliography]''. Bloomsbury, NJ: Bloomsbury Academic. p.&nbsp;198. {{ISBN|9780313268830}}.</ref>
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Rhodes acted in [[repertory theatre]] in Hartford, Montreal, Oklahoma City, and Omaha. In January 1932, Hehe became the leading man of the Auditorium Permanent Players in Rochester, New York.<ref>{{cite news |title=Grandon Rhodes Succeeds Walter Bonn as Auditorium Leading Man |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20733430/grandon-rhodes/ |access-date=September 13, 2020 |work=Democrat and Chronicle |date=January 21, 1932 |location=New York, Rochester |page=11|via = [[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> Rhodes's Broadway credits included ''A Boy Who Lived Twice'' (1945), ''The Deep Mrs. Sykes'' (1945), ''Flight to the West'' (1940), ''Abe Lincoln in Illinois'' (1938), ''Ceiling Zero'' (1935), ''Lost Horizons'' (1934), and ''Antony and Cleopatra'' (1924).<ref>{{cite web |title=Grandon Rhodes |url=https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/grandon-rhodes-57619 |website=Internet Broadway Database |publisher=The Broadway League |access-date=September 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200913194453/https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-cast-staff/grandon-rhodes-57619 |archive-date=September 13, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 
== Personal life and death ==
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* ''[[The Lost Volcano]]'' (1950) - Dr. Charles Langley
* ''[[Wyoming Mail]]'' (1950) - Senator Dowell (uncredited)
* ''[[Tripoli (film)|Tripoli]]'' (1950) - CommandreCommander Barron
* ''[[The Second Face]]'' (1950) - Floyd Moran
* ''[[The Du Pont Story]]'' (1950) - President [[Thomas Jefferson]]
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* ''[[A Man Alone (film)|A Man Alone]]'' (1955) - Luke Joiner
* ''[[Texas Lady]]'' (1955) - Nickerson (uncredited)
* ''[[Miracle in the Rain (film)|Miracle in the Rain]]'' (1956) - Mr. Baldwin, City Editor (uncredited)
* ''[[Earth vs. the Flying Saucers]]'' (1956) - General Edmunds
* ''[[These Wilder Years]]'' (1956) - Roy Oliphant