Rhody Hathaway (1868–1944; né Marquis Henry Rudolph de Fiennes), was an American film actor, and a Belgian marquess.
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.
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.
[6] In his early career, Hathaway worked as an advance man, and as a stage manager.