Rodney Harvey

Rodney Harvey was an American actor who also worked as a model, singer and dancer. Born in Philadelphia, he attended South Philadelphia High School until 11th grade, then dropped out to begin a film career. Director Paul Morrissey spotted him in 1984 and gave him parts in the 1984 film Mixed Blood and the 1988 film Spike of Bensonhurst. Harvey later signed with an agent and moved to Los Angeles, where he kept acting and took up modeling, including a Calvin Klein job and a Life magazine layout that featured Madonna and was shot by Bruce Webber. In 1990 he played Sodapop Curtis on the Fox show The Outsiders. That series lasted one season, after which he guested on Twin Peaks. He then took a role in Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho (1991). He also appeared in Salsa (1988) with Draco Rosa. His final screen role came in the 1996 drama God's Lonely Man. He died in 1998.