Earl Rhodes

Earl Rhodes (born July 1962) is an English former television and cinema actor, who was active professionally from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. Acting career Rhodes first appeared on British television at the age of 14 years old in the British Broadcasting Corporation series I, Claudius (1976), playing Emperor Augustus's grandson Gaius Caesar. The same year he played Chief in the film The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea, opposite Sarah Miles and Kris Kristofferson. In 1978 he played the character of 'Willi Frisch' in two episodes of the science-fiction television series The Tomorrow People in a storyline concerning Nazi Germany during World War II. He also had a role in The Medusa Touch, starring Richard Burton, and appeared in the 1982 Vietnam war film How Sleep the Brave. In the mid-1980s he appeared on British television in several roles. He played the character of 'Jiff' in the mini-series Johnny Jarvis (1983); appeared in the television film Thank You, Mrs. Clinkscales (1984), and played role of 'Kennard', a schoolboy in a television mini-series dramatisation of Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1984). He also acted in the role of 'Ben Golding' in several episodes of the medical soap opera The Practice (1985).