Rock Hudson
American actor (1925–1985)
- Fame63.3
- Momentum4.2
- United States rank#238
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- Fame63.3
- Momentum4.2
- United States rank#238
- Actors rank#178
- Wikipedia130.1K
Lived 1925–1985, aged 60United States
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He was the square-jawed leading man who owned the screen opposite Doris Day, then became the first major American celebrity to die of AIDS — a disclosure that forced the country to reckon with a disease it had tried to ignore.
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Born Roy Harold Scherer Jr. on November 17, 1925, Hudson broke through in Magnificent Obsession (1954) and became a fixture of Golden Age Hollywood, earning an Oscar nomination for Giant (1956) alongside James Dean and Elizabeth Taylor. His string of romantic comedies with Doris Day — Pillow Talk, Lover Come Back, Send Me No Flowers — turned him into one of the most popular film stars of his era, the embodiment of easy American charm. By the late 1960s, frustrated with weak scripts, he formed his own production companies (7 Pictures, then Gibraltar) before pivoting to television with McMillan…
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- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
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