{{Short description|American actor (1868–1944)}} {{Infobox person | name = Rhody Hathaway | other_names = Henry Rudolph Defiennes,<br /> Henry Rodolph De Fiennes,<br /> Rudolph Henry de Fiennes<br />Marquis Henry Rudolph de Fiennes | birth_name = Henry Rudolph de Fiennes | birth_date = October 5, 1868 | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | death_date = February 18, 1944 | death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S. | burial_place = Forest Lawn Memorial Park | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1910s–1940s | spouse = Jean Hathaway (m. 1894–1938; her death) | children = 4, including Henry }}
'''Henry Rudolph ''Marquis'' de Fiennes''' (October 5, 1868 – February 18, 1944), known by the stage name '''Rhody Hathaway''', was an American actor, publicist, and stage manager. He worked both in silent films and talkies. He was the husband of actress Jean Hathaway and the father of Oscar-nominated director Henry Hathaway.
== Early life == Hathaway was born Henry Rudolph de Fiennes on October 5, 1868, in San Francisco, California.<ref name="Doyle">{{Cite book |last=Doyle |first=Billy H. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RHtZAAAAMAAJ |title=The Ultimate Directory of the Silent Screen Performers: A Necrology of Births and Deaths and Essays on 50 Lost Players |date=1995 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |isbn=978-0-8108-2958-9 |pages=195 |language=en}}</ref> His father Henry J. de Fiennes was born in Belgium, and his mother Mary Hanson was from the East Coast.
His title of Marquis was inherited from his grandfather Jean-Baptiste de Fiennes (or J.B. de Fiennes), a Belgian nobleman and barrister<ref name="Jarves">{{Cite book |last=Jarves |first=James Jackson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8YRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA228 |title=History of the Hawaiian Islands: Embracing Their Antiquities, Mythology, Legends, Discovery by Europeans in the Sixteenth Century, Re-discovery by Cook, with Their Civil, Religious and Political History, from the Earliest Traditionary Period to the Present Time |date=1847 |publisher=C.E. Hitchcock |pages=215, 228}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SOoKAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA6-PA88 |title=Annual Report of the Hawaiian Historical Society |date=1923 |publisher=Hawaiian Historical Society |pages=88 |quote=J. B. de Fiennes, a Belgian lawyer who is said to have been prominent in several land and financial schemes}}</ref> in service to King Leopold I of Belgium. When his grandfather failed in his commission to establish commercial relations between the Sandwich Islands (now Hawai'i) with Belgium, the disgraced Marquis self-exiled to San Francisco in 1850 where he worked as a lawyer.<ref name="Jarves" /><ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=August 7, 2013 |title=Henry Hathaway, un marquis devenu roi du western à Hollywood |trans-title=Henry Hathaway, a marquis who became king of the western in Hollywood |url=https://www.lecho.be/dossier/amerique/henry-hathaway-un-marquis-devenu-roi-du-western-a-hollywood/9385888.html |work=L'Echo |language=Fr |quote=grandson of the Marquis de Fiennes who had settled in California after acting as intermediary between the first Belgian king and the Hawaiian authorities in the 1860s.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Recacha |first=Pedro Gutiérrez |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gKRnAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 |title=Hathaway, Hitchcock, Stroheim: Directores católicos en el Hollywood clásico |date=2014-02-28 |publisher=Encuentro |isbn=978-84-9055-254-4 |pages=24 |language=es}}</ref>
== Career == In his early career, Hathaway worked as an advance man, and as a stage manager. By 1909, he was part of the Allan Dwan's American Film Manufacturing Company, starring in films alongside his wife Jean and sometimes with their young son Henry.<ref name="Pomainville">{{Cite book |last=Pomainville |first=Harold N. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kWA0DAAAQBAJ |title=Henry Hathaway: The Lives of a Hollywood Director |date=2016-06-10 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4422-6978-1 |pages=6–7, 9, 14}}</ref><ref name="TheLosAngelesTimes">{{Cite news |date=1938-08-25 |title=Obituary for Jean Hathaway |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-los-angeles-times-obituary-for-jean/140414601/ |url-access=limited |access-date=2024-02-07 |work=The Los Angeles Times |pages=7 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> From 1911 until 1914, the Hathaway family worked for Thomas Ince's Inceville Studios.<ref name="Pomainville" />
In the 1920s, Rhody abandoned his family and started to act in film.<ref name="Pomainville" />
== Personal life == He married Hungarian-born actress Jean Hathaway (née Lillie Bishop) in 1894 and they had four children, including film director Henry Hathaway.<ref name="Pomainville" /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Canham |first1=Kingsley |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=myUeQwAACAAJ |title=The Hollywood Professionals: Michael Curtiz, Raoul Walsh, Henry Hathaway, Volume 1 |date=1973 |publisher=The Tanvity Press, A. S. Barnes Co. |isbn=978-0900730580 |location=New York |pages=139}}</ref> The family was Roman Catholic.<ref name="Pomainville" />
=== Death === Hathaway died on February 18, 1944, in a sanatorium in Los Angeles.<ref name="Doyle" /><ref name="LosAngelesEveningCitizenNews">{{Cite news |date=1944-02-22 |title=Deaths and Funerals: Rhody Hathaway obituary |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/los-angeles-evening-citizen-news-rhody-h/140415311/ |url-access=limited |access-date=2024-02-07 |work=Los Angeles Evening Citizen News |pages=14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref> He was laid to rest in the mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.<ref name="LosAngelesEveningCitizenNews" />
== Filmography == * ''Not a Drum Was Heard'' (1924), directed by William A. Wellman; as James Ross<ref>{{cite journal |last=Brumell |first=Marguerite A. |date=9 February 1924 |title=Box Office Reviews: ''Not a Drum Was Heard'' |url=https://archive.org/details/exhibit00newy/page/n764/mode/1up |journal=Exhibitors Trade Review |location=New York |publisher=Exhibitors Review Publishing Corporation |volume=15 |issue=12 |pages=27}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Wellman Jr. |first=William |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=u_RvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA530 |title=Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel |date=2015-04-07 |publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-307-37770-8 |pages=530}}</ref> * ''Riders of the Plains'' (1924), directed by Jacques Jaccard<ref>{{Cite web |title=Riders of the Plains |url=https://www.silentera.com/PSFL/data/R/RidersOfThePlains1924.html |access-date=2024-02-08 |website=Silent Era}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rainey |first=Buck |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vL_eCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA203 |title=Serials and Series: A World Filmography, 1912-1956 |date=2015-06-08 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0448-0 |pages=203}}</ref> * ''A Daughter of the Sioux'' (1925), directed by Ben Wilson; as Maj. John Webb<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Daughter of the Sioux (1925) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/1419 |access-date= |website=AFI Catalog |publisher=American Film Institute}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Gevinson |first=Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bsoUXGZSxZcC&pg=PA303 |title=Within Our Gates: Ethnicity in American Feature Films, 1911-1960 |date=1997 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-20964-0 |pages=303}}</ref> * ''The Phantom of the Forest'' (1926), directed by Henry McCarty; as John Wallace<ref>{{Citation |last=Pardy |first=George T. |title=Pre-Release Review of Features: ''The Phantom of the Forest'' |date=6 February 1926 |journal=Motion Picture News |volume=33 |issue=6 |pages=704 |url=https://archive.org/details/motionpic33moti/page/n723/mode/1up |access-date=8 February 2024 |location=New York City, New York |publisher=Motion Picture News, Inc. |author-link=}} {{Source-attribution}}</ref> * ''Bigger Than Barnum's'' (1926), directed by Ralph Ince<ref>{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rlLbRAPOgP0C&pg=PA60 |title=The American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States |date=1997 |publisher=University of California Press, American Film Institute (AFI) |isbn=978-0-520-20969-5 |pages=60}}</ref> * ''Into the Night'' (1928), directed by Duke Worne; as Jim Marden * ''The Old Code'' (1928), directed by Ben F. Wilson; as Father Le Fane<ref>{{Cite book |last=Connelly |first=Robert B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7tPAAAAYAAJ |title=The Silents: Silent Feature Films, 1910-36 |date=1998 |publisher=December Press |isbn=978-0-913204-36-8 |pages=194}}</ref> * ''Whom the Gods Destroy'' (1934), directed by Walter Lang; as the doctor (uncredited)<ref name="AFI31">{{Cite book |last= |first= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e024jm9X7gQC&pg=PA318 |title=The 1931-1940: American Film Institute Catalog of Motion Pictures Produced in the United States: Feature Films |date=1993 |publisher=University of California Press, American Film Institute (AFI) |isbn=978-0-520-07908-3 |pages=318}}</ref> * ''Atlantic Adventure'' (1935), directed by Albert S. Rogell; as the reported (uncredited)<ref name="AFI31" /> * ''Fighting Shadows'' (1935), directed by David Selman; as the trapper or woodsman (uncredited)<ref name="AFI31" /> * ''Life Begins at 40'' (1935), directed by George Marshall; as the townsman (uncredited)<ref name="AFI31" />
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|id=nm0368898}}
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Category:1868 births Category:1944 deaths Category:20th-century American male actors Category:American male silent film actors Category:Belgian nobility Category:Male actors from San Francisco Category:American male film actors Category:American male stage actors Category:American people of Belgian descent