Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., later Roy Harold Fitzgerald (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985), known professionally as Rock Hudson, was an American film and television actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with Doris Day. Hudson was voted “Star of the Year”, “Favorite Leading Man”, and similar titles by numerous movie magazines. The 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall actor was one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. He completed nearly 70 motion pictures and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned over four decades. Hudson was also one of the first major Hollywood celebrities to die from an AIDS-related illness.
Rock Hudson Biography / Wiki
| Name | Rock Hudson |
| Also Know | Roy Harold Scherer Jr. |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Winnetka, Illinois, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1925-11-17 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 59 |
| Deathday | 1985-10-02 |
Rock Hudson Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Send Me No Flowers | George Kimball | 1964-10-14 | At one of his many visits to his doctor, hypochondriac George Kimball mistakes a dying man’s diagnosis for his own and believes he only has about two … |
| Pillow Talk | Brad Allen | 1959-10-07 | A man and woman share a telephone line and despise each other, but then he has fun by romancing her with his voice disguised…. |
| Seconds | Antiochus ‘Tony’ Wilson | 1966-10-05 | A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically al… |
| Come September | Robert L. Talbot | 1961-01-01 | Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given … |
| Tobruk | Major Donald Craig | 1967-02-07 | In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which th… |
| Lover Come Back | Jerry Webster | 1961-12-20 | Jerry Webster and Carol Templeton are rival Madison Avenue advertising executives who each dislike each other’s methods. After he steals a client ou… |
| Gun Fury | Ben Warren | 1953-10-09 | After a stagecoach holdup, Frank Slayton’s notorious gang leave Ben Warren for dead and head off with his fiancée. Warren follows, and although none … |
| The Tarnished Angels | Burke Devlin | 1957-11-21 | In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, wor… |
| Seminole | Lance Caldwell | 1953-03-20 | 19th-century army officer Lance Caldwell is assigned to Fort King in the Everglades. Immediately clashing with his commanding officer Major Dade, Cald… |
| Man’s Favorite Sport? | Roger Willoughby | 1964-01-31 | Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss, has never cast a line in his life. One day, he cr… |
| The Last Sunset | Dana Stribling | 1961-06-08 | Brendan O’Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Tex… |
| Ice Station Zebra | Cdr. James Ferraday | 1968-10-23 | A top-secret Soviet spy satellite — using stolen Western technology — malfunctions and then goes into a descent that lands it near an isolated Arcti… |
| Something of Value | Peter McKenzie | 1957-05-08 | As Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising tears the country apart, former childhood friends Kimani (Sidney Poitier), a native, and Peter (Rock Hudson), a British co… |
| Strange Bedfellows | Carter | 1965-02-09 | In London, stuffy statesman Carter Harrison meets Toni, a Bohemian artist with a hot Italian temper. The two impulsively marry and then find that they… |
| A Farewell to Arms | Lieutenant Frédéric Henry | 1957-12-14 | An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to … |
| Pretty Maids All in a Row | Michael ‘Tiger’ McDrew | 1971-04-28 | At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, a married teacher hides his flings with nubile s… |
| Written on the Wind | Mitch Wayne | 1956-10-04 | Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jared, works hard to establish the family business,… |
| Taza, Son of Cochise | Taza | 1954-02-18 | Three years after the end of the Apache wars, peacemaking chief Cochise dies. His elder son Taza shares his ideas, but brother Naiche yearns for war….. |
| Battle Hymn | Col. Dean E. Hess | 1957-02-14 | Battle Hymn was inspired by the true story of American minister Dean Hess, played here with rare sensitivity by Rock Hudson. A bomber pilot during Wor… |
| Showdown | Chuck Jarvis | 1973-06-20 | Two men who have been friends since childhood find themselves on opposite ends of the law…. |
| Twilight for the Gods | Captain David Bell | 1958-08-04 | An alcoholic captain sails a two-master through danger with a call girl and others on board…. |
| Hornets’ Nest | Turner | 1970-09-08 | An American commando who’s the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the N… |
| The Golden Blade | Harun | 1953-08-12 | Harum is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan, a princess disguised as a commoner, … |
| The Lawless Breed | John Wesley Hardin | 1952-12-28 | After being released from prison, ex-gunfighter John Wesley Hardin hopes to have his autobiography published in order to rehabilitate his tarnished re… |
| A Gathering of Eagles | Col. Jim Caldwell | 1963-06-21 | Rock Hudson plays an Air Force Colonel who has just been re-assigned as a cold war B-52 commander who must shape up his men to pass a grueling inspect… |
| Embryo | Dr. Paul Holliston | 1976-05-21 | A scientist doing experiments on a human fetus discovers a method to accelerate the fetus into a mature adult in just a few days…. |
| Captain Lightfoot | Michael « Mike » Martin | 1955-03-26 | A boggy swashbuckler of Irish freedom-fighter Michael Martin. In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to s… |
| This Earth Is Mine | John Rambeau | 1959-07-08 | Set during the Prohibition era, when wine makers were financially challenged and had to decide whether or not they wanted to cooperate with bootlegger… |
| Back to God’s Country | Peter Keith | 1953-11-01 | In a small village in the icy wilderness of Alaska Captain Peter Keith has to defend himself against two especially mean villains, who are after his w… |
| Avalanche | David Shelby | 1978-09-29 | After an avalanche of snow crashes into their ski resort, a holiday at a winter wonderland turns into a game of survival for a group of vacationers…. |
| Blindfold | Dr. Bartholomew Snow | 1966-05-23 | A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as “Base X,” forcing Dr. Snow to… |
| Never Say Goodbye | Dr. Michael Parker | 1956-03-10 | In present-day U.S., Dr. Michael Parker, a prominent surgeon, unexpectedly runs into his German-born wife whom he thought was dead. Victor, an artist … |
| The Vegas Strip War | Neil Chaine | 1984-11-25 | Neil Chaine, a charming Las Vegas hotel/casino owner, tries to turn his decaying building into the Strip’s top attraction to avenge his outing by his … |
| Marilyn | Host / Narrator | 1963-04-18 | This 1963 documentary, released less than a year after Marilyn Monroe’s death, showcases the star in memorable scenes from her 20th Century Fox films,… |
| Rock Hudson: Dark and Handsome Stranger | Himself (archive footage) | 2010-02-13 | Rock Hudson was a virile screen idol who was the epitome of clean-cut masculinity. He was one of the first Hollywood celebrities to die of acquired im… |
| Bengal Brigade | Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne | 1954-11-06 | Year 1856, British India. Capt. Jeffrey Claybourne is severely punished after disobeying an order. Feeling unworthy of his fiancée Vivian Morrow, the… |
| Once Upon a Dead Man | Stewart McMillan | 1971-09-17 | The wife of a San Francisco police commissioner drags him into a charity auction theft, which leads to a murder…. |
| The Star Maker | Danny Youngblood | 1981-05-11 | Danny Youngblood is a famed Hollywood director with a reputation for modeling sexy starlets into superstar actresses, and then turning his discoveries… |
| A Fine Pair | Capt. Mike Harmon | 1968-09-27 | A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective inv… |
| These Dead Souls | (archive footage) | An audiovisual essay on Douglas Sirk’s The Tarnished Angel. Analyzes a central scene 40 minutes into the narrative, and also refers both backward and … | |
| Giant | Jordan “Bick” Benedict Jr. | 1956-11-08 | Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She m… |
| Magnificent Obsession | Bob Merrick | 1954-08-07 | When churlish, spoiled rich man Bob Merrick foolishly wrecks his speedboat, the rescue team resuscitates him with equipment therefore unavailable to a… |
| Darling Lili | Major William Larrabee | 1970-06-18 | World War I. Lili Smith is a beloved British music hall singer, often providing inspiration for the British and French troops and general populace sin… |
| All That Heaven Allows | Ron Kirby | 1955-12-25 | Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, pro… |
| Has Anybody Seen My Gal? | Dan Stebbins | 1952-06-25 | When a 1920s millionaire tests the fiber of his Vermont family, a young lady and her boyfriend feel the repercussions…. |
| Sea Devils | Gilliatt | 1953-05-23 | Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells h… |
| One Desire | Clint Saunders | 1955-07-20 | The “one desire” of ex-gambler Clint Saunders and bar woman Tacey Cromwell is to escape their shady former lives and settle down to respectability. Wi… |
| The Spiral Road | Dr. Anton Drager | 1962-08-03 | A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed “need” a higher spiritual being and o… |
| George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey | Self | 1985-03-03 | Biography of the legendary filmmaker directed by his son…. |
| Scarlet Angel | Frank Truscott | 1952-06-20 | After robbing a sea captain in New Orleans, a beautiful saloon girl flees and assumes a dead woman’s identity…. |
| The Undefeated | Colonel James Langdon | 1969-10-04 | After the Civil War, ex-Union Colonel John Henry Thomas and ex-Confederate Colonel James Langdon are leading two disparate groups of people through st… |
| The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special | Himself | 1971-03-14 | This was the first of two one-hour musical specials which were part of CBS’ 1968 multi-million-dollar contract with Doris Day’s production company, a… |
| When Fear Eats the Soul | Ron Kirby (archive footage) | 2007-02-01 | Mixing scenes of Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows and Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, François Ozon creates a new film about cinephilic co… |
| The Beatrice Arthur Special | Himself | 1980-01-19 | The Beatrice Arthur Special was a prime time U.S. television special broadcast on CBS on January 19, 1980. The production centered around Bea Arthur, … |
| Rock Hudson’s Home Movies | Himself (archive footage) | 1992-09-12 | In this revisionist documentary, actor Eric Farr re-creates the character of Rock Hudson in order to take a look back at his films. It compares the ac… |
| Horizons West | Neil Hammond | 1952-10-11 | Brothers Dan and Neil Hammond return to Texas after the Civil War. Ambitious Dan turns to rustling and then shady land deals to build an empire. Being… |
| Bend of the River | Trey Wilson | 1952-01-23 | Two men with questionable pasts, Glyn McLyntock and his friend Cole, lead a wagon-train load of homesteaders from Missouri to the Oregon territory…… |
| The Fat Man | Roy Clark | 1951-05-19 | A innocent dentist is murdered and the only apparent motive seems to be to steal a set of dental x-rays. To the police it looks like an accident, but … |
| A Very Special Favor | Paul Chadwick | 1965-08-02 | The long-lost father of a frigid, uptight Freudian psychologist contracts a wealthy American playboy who owes him a favor to woo his daughter…. |
| The Ambassador | Frank Stevenson | 1985-01-11 | An American ambassador to Israel tries to bring peace to the Middle East conflict through unconventional methods, but his efforts are hampered at ever… |
| Elizabeth Taylor: An Intimate Portrait | Himself | 1975-02-27 | Vintage 1975 documentary about the life of movie queen Elizabeth Taylor hosted by Peter Lawford, and featuring appearances by actors Roddy McDowall an… |
| Iron Man | Tommy ‘Speed’ O’Keefe | 1951-09-20 | In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke … |
| New York Premiere Telecast ‘Giant’ | Himself | 1956-10-09 | Star studded charity New York premiere of the film Giant… |
| Here Come the Nelsons | Charlie Jones | 1952-02-23 | The homespun Nelson family must deal with various comical situations, including an encounter with gangsters…. |
| The Desert Hawk | Captain Ras | 1950-08-05 | A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph’s daughter…. |
| A Tale of Two Sisters – Lorna Luft and Liza Minnelli | Himself (archive footage) | 2004-01-01 | Documentary which aired on television in 2004, about the two daughters of Judy Garland and their relationship…. |
| Acting for Douglas Sirk | 2008-11-05 | The stars and director of ‘Written on the Wind’ and ‘The Tarnished Angels’ talk about director Douglas Sirk’s techniques. Archival interviews original… | |
| Peggy | Johnny “Scat” Mitchell | 1950-07-01 | Professor Brookfield along with daughters Peggy and Susan move to small town Pasadena, California. Their new neighbor Mrs. Fielding helps them move in… |
| The Mirror Crack’d | Jason Rudd | 1980-09-19 | Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim…. |
| Air Cadet | Upper Classman | 1951-03-14 | A group of cadets have assorted problems at the U.S. Air Force Pilot Training Academy…. |
| Verifica incerta – Disperse Exclamatory Phase | (archive footage) | 1965-05-31 | A short film containing a collection of clips from various Hollywood movies…. |
| James Dean Remembered | Self (voice) | 1974-01-01 | Peter Lawford hosts this documentary taking a look at the life and films of James Dean…. |
| Musical Comedy Tonight | 1979-10-01 | First of three programs about musical theatre hosted by writer-composer-lyricist Sylvia Fine…. | |
| Tomahawk | Burt Hanna | 1951-02-05 | In 1866, a new gold discovery and an inconclusive conference force the U.S. Army to build a road and fort in territory ceded by previous treaty to the… |
| Beatles: Big Beat Box | Self (archive footage) | 2001-12-03 | The early days of The Beatles are captured in this fascinating film. Featuring behind the scenes clips, it traces the Fab Four’s start as Liverpool la… |
| Undertow | Detective (as Roc Hudson) | 1949-12-03 | Undertow stars Scott Brady as a gambler just out of wartime military service. No longer interested in wagers and speculations, Brady wants only to ope… |
| Hollywood Scandals | Self (archive footage) | 2011-04-02 | … |
| Winchester ’73 | Young Bull | 1950-07-12 | Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one… |
| Dominick Dunne: After the Party | Self (archive footage) | 2008-10-23 | Vanity Fair Special Correspondent Dominick Dunne has become known the world over for his vociferous championing of the rights of the victim in high-pr… |
| Beneath the 12-Mile Reef | Narrator (uncredited) | 1953-12-02 | Mike and Tony Petrakis are a Greek father and son team who dive for sponges off the coast of Florida. After they are robbed by crooks, Arnold and the … |
| Fighter Squadron | Second Lieutenant (uncredited) | 1948-11-27 | During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he’s promoted…. |
| Bright Victory | Dudek | 1951-08-01 | A soldier blinded in war returns home and attempts to adjust to civilian life…. |
| Tab Hunter Confidential | Himself (archive footage) | 2015-03-15 | In the 1950s, Tab Hunter was number one at the box office and number one on the music charts and was Hollywood’s most sought-after young star. Natal… |
| Judy Garland: By Myself | Himself | 2004-02-25 | As Hollywood biographies go, Judy Garland’s story is one of the saddest success stories you’ll ever hear. The sanitized studio version of her life pre… |
| Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It | Self (archive footage) | 2021-06-18 | Rita Moreno defied both her humble upbringing and relentless racism to become one of a select group who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award… |
| Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt | Self (archive footage) | 1989-12-01 | On the eve of 1987’s Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS pr… |
| The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender | Self (archive footage) | 1997-11-01 | A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let’s lift those veils, one by one, to find how images, at one ti… |
| Hollywood: The Selznick Years | Self (uncredited) | 1961-12-31 | Henry Fonda hosts this retrospective on the career and films of iconic filmmaker David O. Selznick, who epitomized the era of the auteur producer in t… |
| And the Oscar Goes To… | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 | The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry’s most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO… traces the history of the Academy … |
Rock Hudson Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Seconds | Associate Producer | 1966-10-05 | A secret organisation offers wealthy people a second chance at life. The customer picks out someone they want to be and the organisation surgically al… |
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