Hari Rhodes

Hari Rhodes was an American actor and author whose screen career began in 1957 and lasted three decades. Across 66 films and television programs, he took parts in the 1963 medical drama Breaking Point and the 1964 Outer Limits episode Moonstone, playing Lieutenant Ernie Travers in a pioneering African-American role in science fiction television. He was a regular on Daktari from 1966 to 1969, starred in The Bold Ones: The Protectors, and appeared in the 1977 miniseries Roots as a leader of Kunta Kinte's village. In 1985 he played Mr. Wanda in an episode of Magnum P.I. His films included Shock Corridor (1963), The Satan Bug (1965), Mirage (1965), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972), Detroit 9000 (1973), Coma (1978) and Sharky's Machine (1981). He also published the novel A Chosen Few in 1965.