Suzanne Rhoades

born: 27 October 1891 Nebraska, United States of America

died: 28 December 1975 Los Angeles, California, United States of America (age 84)

American actress and extra. At the end of 1934, she was one of the highest-earning female extras in Hollywood, earning $2,120.75 (equivalent to over $50,000 in 2025) for 158 days of work that year. The spelling of her surname depends on the record: spellings include Rhoades, Rhoads, or Rhodes. While her entry in the California Death Index (and presumably, her death certificate) gives her date of birth as the 27th, her entry in the Social Security Death Index gives a slightly different birth date of 09 October 1891. Her parents were Nora (née Chene; 1872-1952) and Cyrus Byron Hoch (1855-1944); she had two siblings, John Byron Hoch (1899-1922) and Esther Lilly (Hoch) Beche (1908-1970). Suzanne had three husbands over the years. Her first husband was Homer Rhoads (1888-1973), whom she married in 1909 and again in 1912; Suzanne filed for divorce in 1916. They had a son, Homer Hoch Rhoads (1910-1996). She later married actor Allan Sears (1887-1942) in 1925; she filed for divorce over a year later. She then wed automobile sales manager John Henry Seibold (1897-1973) in 1934; like her previous marriage, she filed for divorce and obtained a decree a little over a year afterward. In 1937, Seibold asked that the decree be nullified on the grounds that after Suzanne obtained it, they continued to live together; Suzanne responded that she did so under threats and coercion from Seibold. Seibold ultimately dropped his petition.

Real name: Mayme Pearl Hoch

Films listed on this page: complete Hal Roach filmography.

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1926 Mama Behave Cafe Riskae patron 1939 Zenobia Mrs. Webster, party guest Acknowledgements: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3YY-FWR (1900 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XV2J-2WG (1909 marriage) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML7Y-XK4 (1910 Census #1) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:ML7B-M1V (1910 Census #2) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVP6-6KCF (1912 re-marriage) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN1K-WVX (1920 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MN1K-WN5 (1920 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8NC-TLW (1925 marriage) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJB-V5D (1930 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9HL-25C (1940 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6XGW-LXR9 (1950 Census) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VGTQ-HZ8 (CA Death Index) https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JBQS-3WT (Social Security Death Index) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/612535162/ (Daily Legal News [Oklahoma City, OK], 15 Apr 1916) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/899758197/ (Daily Oklahoman, 16 Apr 1916) https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAEVEX19260316.1.20 (Los Angeles Evening Express, 16 Mar 1926) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380482412/ (Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep 1926) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380484146/ (Los Angeles Times, 13 Sep 1926) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380423835/ (Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar 1927) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/997638542/ (Riverside Daily Press, 16 Jul 1934) https://archive.org/details/variety117-1935-02/page/n88/mode/1up?q=%22suzanne+rhodes%22 (Variety, 12 Feb 1935) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380636345/ (Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep 1935) https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/380627130/ (Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct 1935) https://www.newspapers.com/search/results/?date=1937&keyword=%22suzanne+rhodes%22+%22henry+seibold%22&sort=paper-date-asc (Newspapers.com, search) https://www.ancestry.com/search/categories/43/?name=_Hoch&event=1975&birth=1891&birth_x=0-0-0&event_x=0-0-0&name_x=_1&searchMode=advanced (photos, Ancestry.com) 1927 L.A. City Dir.: Rhoades Suzan actor h1137 N Berendo 1928 L.A. City Dir.: Rhoads Suzanne Mrs r1137 N Berendo 1929 L.A. City Dir.: Rhoads Suzanne Mrs actor h1137 N Berendo 1930 L.A. City Dir.: Rhoads Suzanne Mrs h7169 Sunset blvd 1931 L.A. City Dir.: Rhoades Suzanne Mrs actor h7169 Sunset blvd 1938 L.A. City Dir.: Rhoades Suzanne studiowkr r2153 Beachwood ter 1938 L.A. City Dir.: Hoch Nora (wid C B) h2153 Beachwood ter Jesse Brisson (bio notes and research; identification in Mama Behave, Zenobia) This page was last updated on: 22 April 2026