Rhody Hathaway
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| Born | Marquis Henry Rudolph de Fiennes October 5, 1868
San Francisco, California, United States
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| Died | February 18, 1944
Los Angeles, California, United States
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| Burial place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park |
| Other names | Henry Rudolph Defiennes, Henry Rodolph De Fiennes, Rudolph Henry de Fiennes |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1910s–1940s |
| Spouse(s) | Jean Hathaway (née Lillie Bishop; m. 1894–1938; her death) |
| Children | 4, including Henry Hathaway |
Rhody Hathaway (1868–1944; né Marquis Henry Rudolph de Fiennes), was an American film actor, and a Belgian marquess. He also worked as an advance man, and stage manager. Hathaway worked both in silent films and talkies.
Rhody Hathaway was born as Henry Rudolph de Fiennes on October 5, 1868, in San Francisco, California.[1] 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[2][3] 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.[2][4][5]
He married Hungarian-born actress Jean Hathaway (née Lillie Bishop) in 1894 and they had four children, including film director Henry Hathaway.[6][7] The family was Roman Catholic.[6]
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 Rhody Hathaway and sometimes with their young son Henry Hathaway.[6][8] From 1911 until 1914, the Hathaway family worked for Thomas Ince's Inceville Studios.[6] In the 1920s, Rhody abandoned his family[6] and started to act in film.
Hathaway died on February 18, 1944, in a sanatorium in Los Angeles.[1][9] He was laid to rest in the mausoleum at Forest Lawn Memorial Park.[9]
J. B. de Fiennes, a Belgian lawyer who is said to have been prominent in several land and financial schemes
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.
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