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Percy Rodrigues was born on 13 June, 1918 in Montréal, Québec, Canada, is an actor. Discover Percy Rodrigues's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 89 years old?
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Percy Rodrigues |
Occupation |
actor |
Age |
89 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Gemini |
Born |
13 June 1918 |
Birthday |
13 June |
Birthplace |
Montréal, Québec, Canada |
Date of death |
6 September, 2007 |
Died Place |
Indio, California, USA |
Nationality |
Canada
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He is a member of famous Actor with the age 89 years old group.
Percy Rodrigues Height, Weight & Measurements
At 89 years old, Percy Rodrigues height not available right now. We will update Percy Rodrigues's Height, weight, Body Measurements, Eye Color, Hair Color, Shoe & Dress size soon as possible.
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Who Is Percy Rodrigues's Wife?
His wife is Karen Cook-Rodrigues (2003 - 6 September 2007) ( his death), Almeada Batson (1943 - 13 October 1996) ( her death) ( 3 children)
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Wife |
Karen Cook-Rodrigues (2003 - 6 September 2007) ( his death), Almeada Batson (1943 - 13 October 1996) ( her death) ( 3 children) |
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Percy Rodrigues Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Percy Rodrigues worth at the age of 89 years old? Percy Rodrigues’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from Canada. We have estimated Percy Rodrigues's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
Net Worth in 2024 |
$1 Million - $5 Million |
Salary in 2024 |
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Salary in 2023 |
Under Review |
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Source of Income |
Actor |
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Timeline
Born to a Montreal couple on June 13, 1918 (some references list 1924 as his birth year), Percy was the oldest of four children and was of African and Portuguese descent. His father abandoned the family while he was a youth and Percy started working as a teenager to help provide for his family. By his late teens, he had become a professional boxer and started scouting out acting jobs at the same time.
He joined Montreal's Negro Theater Guild and although winning a Canadian Drama Festival acting award in 1939, found job offers scarce, prompting him to work as a machinist and toolmaker for the next decade or so in order to supplement his income. His distinctive, booming voice commanded early attention and he narrated several Canadian documentary shorts and appeared on television. He finally made his Broadway debut in middle age with Lillian Hellman's drama "Toys in the Attic" starring Jason Robards, Maureen Stapleton and Anne Revere.
A symbol of intelligence, leadership and moral strength in his various 1960s and 1970s roles, African-Canadian actor Percy Rodrigues rose in Hollywood stature during the late 1960s following a couple of earlier Broadway appearances. The serenely handsome, distinguished-looking actor also became notable for helping to break racial barriers on television and went on to become a voice of great distinction behind the camera.
From the beginning, he sought out dignified roles following Sidney Poitier's emboldening Hollywood ascension and became one of just a small vanguard of 1960s black actors who was able to circumnavigate around such restrictive and negative stereotypes throughout most of his career. With just a brush of grey at his temples, he applied and projected quiet authority and inner calm to his many roles.
He broke into American television with episodes of The Nurses (1965), Naked City (1958), The Wild Wild West (1965), Route 66 (1960) and (especially) Star Trek: The Original Series (1966) (as Commodore Stone) before making big news in 1968 for his casting as a neurosurgeon during the final season of the popular nighttime soap opera Peyton Place (1964). Co-starring with Ruby Dee as his wife, it was a breakthrough white-collar role for a black actor in a series.
In the same year, Percy had an excellent supporting role in the critically-heralded film adaptation of Carson McCullers tender drama The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968), in which he carried his own story line as an embittered physician at odds with daughter Cicely Tyson. Other imposing roles came his way in the form of detectives, mayors, commissioners, lawyers, politicians, scientists, captains, ambassadors, lieutenants and doctors, which seemed to be a growing specialty.
More interesting roles came with the mini-movies The Old Man Who Cried Wolf (1970), Ring of Passion (1978), Angel Dusted (1981) and Roots: The Next Generations (1979).
Among his more notable vocal projects were his eerie voicings for the ads and trailers of the film Jaws (1975) and his narration of Michael Jackson's sci-fi musical Captain EO (1986) for Disney. Percy's marriage to his first wife Alameda produced daughter Hollis and son Gerald.
He also had recurring roles on Sanford (1980), the one-season extended series of "Sanford and Son" (minus the son) that again starred Redd Foxx, and in Benson (1979), in which he played a judge.
He continued to remain visible in the 1980s with episodes of The Fall Guy (1981), T. J.
Hooker (1982) and Dynasty (1981), but after playing a doctor in the mini-movie whodunit Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987), Percy refrained from on-camera work and focused instead on his image as "The King of Voiceovers".
Following her death, he married Karen Cook in 2003.