Acting
Virgil Runnels
1945-10-12 · Austin, Texas, USA
Virgil Riley Runnels, Jr., better known as "The American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, was an American professional wrestler, booker/writer, and trainer who most notably worked for the National Wrestling Alliance, NWA Championship Wrestling from Florida, Jim Crockett Promotions (JCP), and WWE. Rhodes is considered one of the greatest wrestlers and talkers in the history of professional wrestling. Rhodes was a three-time NWA World's Heavyweight Champion, and during his time in Jim Crockett Promotions' Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling, later known as World Championship Wrestling (WCW), he was a NWA United States Heavyweight Champion, and multi-time NWA World Television, NWA Tag Team and NWA World 6-Man Tag Team Champion. He also won many regional championships, and is one of seven men inducted into each of the WWE, WCW, Professional Wrestling, and Wrestling Observer Newsletter Halls of Fame. His sons, Dustin and Cody, both pursued careers in professional wrestling, performing for WWE and AEW. Following his retirement from wrestling, he made occasional on-air appearances on WWE television and pay-per-views and worked as a backstage booker/writer and producer in WWE's NXT developmental territory. Billed as "the son of a plumber", Rhodes did not have a typical wrestler's physique; his character was that of the "common man", known for the personality exhibited in his interviews. WWE chairman Vince McMahon remarked that no wrestler "personified the essence of charisma quite like Dusty Rhodes".
Known for
Raw
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
WWE NXT
TNA iMPACT!
WWE Royal Rumble 2006
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
WWE Royal Rumble 2007
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event
WCW Monday Nitro
American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes
WWE WrestleMania VI
Nature Boy
The Rise & Fall of WCW
Biography: WWE Legends
WWE Battleground 2013
Movie credits · 213
Bray Wyatt: Becoming Immortal
American Nightmare: Becoming Cody Rhodes
You Cannot Kill David Arquette
A Future WWE: The FCW Story
Randy Savage Unreleased: The Unseen Matches of The Macho Man
Nature Boy
WWE Unreleased: 1986-1995
Fight Owens Fight: The Kevin Owens Story
Scooby-Doo! and WWE: Curse of the Speed Demon
TNA: Best of the Asylum Years, Vol 2
WWE: The U.S. Championship: A Legacy of Greatness
Sting: Into the Light
Dusty Rhodes: Celebrating the Dream
ECW - Unreleased Vol. 3
WWE Tribute to the Troops 2014
WWE United We Slam: The Best of The Great American Bash
WCW'S Greatest Pay-Per-View Matches Volume 1
WWE Battleground 2013
Legends of Mid-South Wrestling
WCW War Games: WCW's Most Notorious Matches
WWE WrestleMania 29 Kickoff
WWE: The Attitude Era
nWo: The Revolution
The Best of WCW Clash of the Champions
WWE: Starrcade - The Essential Collection
ROH: Ring of Hardcore
WWE: Top 50 Superstars of All Time
The Rise & Fall of WCW
Macho Madness - The Randy Savage Ultimate Collection
Jeff Jarrett: King of the Mountain
WWE: The Best of Saturday Night's Main Event
Nature Boy Ric Flair - The Definitive Collection
Life In The Fast Lane
Mid-South Wrestling Giants, Midgets, Heroes & Villains vol. 1
WWE The Great American Bash 2007
Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen
WWE Hall of Fame 2007
WWE Royal Rumble 2007
WWE Survivor Series 2006
WWE Cyber Sunday 2006
TV credits · 26
WWE Rivals
Biography: WWE Legends
WWE Rivalries
Wrestlemania Rewind
The JBL and Cole Show
WWE NXT
WWE Hall of Fame
TNA iMPACT!
Major League Wrestling: Underground TV
ECW on TNN
WWE Friday Night SmackDown
WCW Thunder
WCW Monday Nitro
Burke's Law
ECW Hardcore TV
Raw
Clash of the Champions
WWF Wrestling Challenge
WWF Superstars
NWA World Championship Wrestling
WWE Saturday Night's Main Event
WCW Arena Shows
Mid-South Wrestling
Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling
WWF All-Star Wrestling
WWE Old School
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