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Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor. One of the most popular movie stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades. He was a prominent figure in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Jun 29, 2021 · A gay man with major ambitions in a prejudiced world, Hudson valiantly tried to be all things to all people—as Mark Griffin writes in All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson.
Apr 2, 2014 · Noted for his exceptional good looks and comedic film performance, Rock Hudson was an iconic actor who, later in life, contracted and died from the AIDS virus.
May 8, 2020 · In the new Netflix series Hollywood, Rock Hudson, played by Jack Picking, is a chiseled small-town boy hoping to become an actor while also figuring out his sexuality. Hudson, however, did not ...
Rock Hudson. Actor: Giant. Rock Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. in Winnetka, Illinois, to Katherine (Wood), a telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer, an auto mechanic. He was of German, Swiss-German, English, and Irish descent.
Jun 28, 2023 · Rock Hudson, at first, was Stewart McMillan to me, the police commissioner on the hit NBC series McMillan & Wife in the 1970s. I was just becoming a teenager, so I wasn’t aware that he was one...
May 5, 2020 · Born in November 1925, the man who would become Rock was neither a “Hudson” nor a “Fitzgerald” as he is introduced in Netflix’s Hollywood. Rather he was Roy Harold Scherer Jr., named after...