Elizabeth Rhodes

born: 23 November 1869
Union Township, Belmont County, Ohio,
United States of America
died: 03 May 1943
Los Angeles, California,
United States of America
(chronic myocarditis, age 73)

Elderly American actress. In 1888, she married George William Rhoades (1864-1940), who worked as a railroad brakeman. They had two sons: Warren Donald Rhoades (1892-1958), who like Dad also worked as a railroad brakeman and later as a postal inspector, and Harold Emerson Rhoades (1912-1999), who like Mom also worked in films as a child actor. Elizabeth, George, and Harold are all interred at Cypress Lawn Memorial Park in Colma, California (Warren is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery in Santa Monica, California).
Elizabeth's death certificate gives her date of birth as the 17th rather than the 23rd, the latter of which is confirmed by birth records and is thus given above.
Real name: Lizzie Florence Heed
Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

2


1930
Shivering Shakespeare
Mother

1935
Vagabond Lady
Second old woman

Acknowledgements:
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VR9D-WGL (birth register)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X62Y-H68 (birth register)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XXZF-5F4 (birth record)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6VF-VLV (1870 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8YJ-NGM (1880 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X58M-FPM (1888 marriage)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV2T-LW5 (1910 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MH79-YB6 (1920 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJB-3F7 (1930 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9CC-Z5V (1940 Census)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VG5N-D4Z (CA Death Index)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QP39-S4G5 (death certificate)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HG8Z-Y1MM (death/burial record)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9BC-NQJD-C (funeral service record)
https://www.familysearch.org/en/tree/person/details/MTD7-7VC (family tree, FamilySearch.org)
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/87648217 (Find a Grave)
https://archive.org/details/standardcastingd03unse/page/155/mode/1up?q=rhoades (The Standard Casting Directory, Jul 1925)
https://digitalcollections.oscars.org/digital/collection/p15759coll35/id/4820/rec/10 (The Standard Casting Directory, Aug 1925)
Kelts' Geographical Directory, Los Angeles: September, 1927, Vol. 1: "HOOVER--N: 1169 - Rhoades Elizabeth - 595-586" (same phone no. given in Standard ads)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QPH4-GLLN (son Harold Emerson Rhoades' birth certificate, 1912)
Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research)

This page was last updated on: 17 November 2025