# Now go off and grumble. Donnely Rhodes dead at 80

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** celebrity-death\
**Created:** [January 9, 2018, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-go-off-and-grumble-donnely-rhodes-dead-at-80/806199 "2018-01-09T03:24:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-go-off-and-grumble-donnely-rhodes-dead-at-80/806199/1 "2018-01-09T03:24:25Z")

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[Doc Cottle from Battlestar Galactica.](http://tvline.com/2018/01/08/donnelly-rhodes-dead-battlestar-galactica-dr-cottle/) On TV since the 1960’s, though. Soap, Mission Impossible, Da Vinci’s Inquest.

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**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-go-off-and-grumble-donnely-rhodes-dead-at-80/806199/2 "2018-01-09T05:33:09Z")

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Dutch!! ☹

Loved him in _Soap_.

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**Author:** ![all\_timestamps\_displayed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/958977/32.png) [@all\_timestamps\_displayed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/all_timestamps_displayed)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-go-off-and-grumble-donnely-rhodes-dead-at-80/806199/3 "2018-01-09T07:40:03Z")

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I met him randomly once and got him high as fuck. Cool guy. RIP.

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-go-off-and-grumble-donnely-rhodes-dead-at-80/806199/4 "2018-01-09T18:32:08Z")

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Here’s his IMDb [page](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0722413/).

We just watched his appearances on _Hill Street Blues_ recently.

The guy _worked_.