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George Garfield Nader, Jr. (October 19, 1921 – February 4, 2002) was an American actor and writer. [3] He appeared in a variety of films from 1950 to 1974, mainly action and adventure film roles. [4] He won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year – Actor for the film Four Guns to the Border (1954).
After he sent talent scout Henry Willson a picture of himself in 1947, Willson took him on as a client and changed the young actor's name to Rock Hudson; later in life, Hudson admitted that he hated the name. [7] The name was coined by combining the Rock of Gibraltar and the Hudson River. Hudson later named his independent film production ...
Phyllis Lucille Gates (December 7, 1925 – January 4, 2006) was an American secretary and interior decorator, known for her three-year marriage to the actor Rock Hudson. The story of their marriage was depicted in the TV film Rock Hudson (1990), starring Daphne Ashbrook as Gates and Thomas Ian Griffith as Hudson.
When it came to Hudson's HIV-positive status, Taylor found out the news with the rest of the world, just months before he would die of AIDS-related complications in 1985. "He didn’t tell anyone.
On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson died from AIDS. One of the most famous actors of his day, Rock Hudson was the quintessential leading man. With his dark brown hair, 6'4'' built, overall good ...
HBO's "Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed" reexamines Hudson’s legacy as an idealized heartthrob whose 1985 death changed the public perception of AIDS.
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.
During his lifetime, Rock Hudson was a model for American masculinity. That changed after his death, when the strapping, straight-acting (but occasionally sensitive) hunk from Winnetka became the ...