Rock Hudson

**Rock Hudson** (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American movie and television actor. He is famous for his good looks and remembered as a romantic star during the 1950s and 1960s, especially several movies where he starred with actress Doris Day.

Hudson was voted _Star of the Year_ and _Favorite Leading Man,_ by many movie magazines and was one of the most popular movie stars of the time. He made nearly 70 movies and acted in several television productions during a career of more than three decades, and he received the Golden Globe Award four times.

Hudson was a closeted homosexual. He was one of the first major Hollywood personalities to die from AIDS.

## Movies

- _Fighter Squadron_ (1948)
- _Undertow_ (1949)
- _One Way Street_ (1950)
- _I Was a Shoplifter_ (1950)
- _Peggy_ (1950)
- _Winchester '73_ (1950)
- _The Desert Hawk_ (1950)
- _Shakedown_ (1950)
- _Tomahawk_ (1951)
- _Air Cadet_ (1951)
- _The Fat Man_ (1951)
- _Bright Victory_ (1951)
- _Iron Man_ (1951)
- _Bend of the River_ (1952)
- _Here Come the Nelsons_ (1952)
- _Scarlet Angel_ (1952)
- _Has Anybody Seen My Gal?_ (1952)
- _Horizons West_ (1952)
- _The Lawless Breed_ (1953)
- _Seminole_ (1953)
- _Sea Devils_ (1953)
- _The Golden Blade_ (1953)
- _Gun Fury_ (1953)
- _Back to God's Country_ (1953)
- _Beneath the 12-Mile Reef_ (1953) (narrator)
- _Taza, Son of Cochise_ (1954)
- _Magnificent Obsession_ (1954)
- _Bengal Brigade_ (1954)
- _Captain Lightfoot_ (1955)
- _One Desire_ (1955)
- _All That Heaven Allows_ (1955)
- _Never Say Goodbye_ (1956)
- _Giant_ (1956)
- _Written on the Wind_ (1956)
- _Battle Hymn_ (1957)
- _Something of Value_ (1957)
- _A Farewell to Arms_ (1957)
- _The Tarnished Angels_ (1958)
- _Twilight for the Gods_ (1958)
- _This Earth Is Mine_ (1959)
- _Pillow Talk_ (1959)
- _The Last Sunset_ (1961)
- _Come September_ (1961)
- _Lover Come Back_ (1961)
- _The Spiral Road_ (1962)
- _Marilyn_ (1963) (documentary) (narrator)
- _A Gathering of Eagles_ (1963)
- _Man's Favorite Sport?_ (1964)
- _Send Me No Flowers_ (1964)
- _Strange Bedfellows_ (1965)
- _A Very Special Favor_ (1965)
- _Blindfold_ (1965)
- _Seconds_ (1966)
- _Tobruk_ (1967)
- _The Man Who Makes the Difference_ (1968) (short subject)
- _Ice Station Zebra_ (1968)
- _A Fine Pair_ (1969)
- _The Undefeated_ (1969)
- _Darling Lili_ (1970)
- _Hornets' Nest_ (1970)
- _Pretty Maids All in A Row_ (1971)
- _Showdown_ (1973)
- _Embryo_ (1976)
- _The Mirror Crack'd_ (1980)
- _The Ambassador_ (1984)

## Other websites

- Transcript of CNN Larry King 7. june 2001, Special on Rock Hudson offscreen with Dale Olson
- Transcript of CNN Larry King 1. October 2003, 18th anniversary of Hudson's death
- Rock Hudson biography at TCM
- Rock Hudson at AllExperts
- Rock Hudson at classic movies - many links
- fan page by LMScully
- Rock Hudson at Brian's drive-in theatre

## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Rock Hudson
- **image**: Rock Hudson - portrait.jpg
- **caption**: Hudson in the 1950s
- **birth name**: Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.
- **birth place**: Winnetka, Illinois, Winnetka, Illinois, U.S.
- **death place**: Beverly Hills, California, Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
- **resting place**: Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City), Forest Lawn Cemetery, Cathedral City, (cenotaph)
- **death cause**: AIDS-related complications
- **other names**: Roy Harold Fitzgerald
Roc Hudson
- **occupation**: Actor
- **years active**: 1947–1985
- **spouse**: (divorced)