Robert Park Mills, the attorney who represented the Hudson estate against Christian in court, released a book titled Between Rock and a Hard Place: In Defense of Rock Hudson
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Figure timeline
Rock Hudson
Rock Hudson was an American actor. One of the most popular film stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades, and was a prominent figure in the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
entertainment · American actor (1925–1985) · film actor · television actor · stage actor · military personnel · actor · HIV/AIDS activist · military officer · activist · also Rock Hudson, Hudson
Born 17 November 1925 · Died 2 October 1985 · Q184378
35 published statements · 0 followers
See & hear
Photos & media
12 photos
Media from Wikimedia Commons, hotlinked at the source under its own licence — see each file for author and terms.
Live now
In the news
Pulling headlines from trusted outlets — this usually takes a few seconds
Checking the wires…
Feed scan
These are live links, not archived citations — they only join the timeline once a collect run verifies and archives them.
Live pulse
Recent highlights
Most recent outstanding titles, awards, and quotes
- Quote
- Quote
s Make Love with Marilyn Monroe but Universal-International Pictures denied him permission; the role went to Yves Montand. In late 1959, Hudson formed a new film production company, Gibraltar Productions. Now that his contract with Universal-International Pictures was about to end, he used his company to lease his acting services to Universal-International Pictures (and others), retaining a percentage of his film
76%Wikipedia
2010· 1 entry
2005· 2 entries
Bob Hofler published a biography of Hudson's agent Henry Willson, titled The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
In 2005, Bob Hofler published a biography of Hudson's agent Henry Willson, titled The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
2002· 1 entry
A Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars was dedicated to him
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
2001· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “Jim Nabors married Rock Hudson were married to each other.” False.
Shown as reported and rated by a fact checker, not as an established fact.
- #fact-check
- #rated
- #claim-about-figure
1990· 1 entry
Hudson's live-in publicist, Tom Clark, and publicist Dick Kleiner published Rock Hudson, Friend of Mine
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1986· 1 entry
According to the 1986 authorized biography Rock Hudson: His Story by Sara Davidson, Hudson was good friends with novelist Armistead Maupin, who states that the two had a brief fling.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1985· 5 entries
Hudson died in his sleep from AIDS-related complications at his home in Beverly Hills at the age of 59
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Died 1985-10-02.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #death
Hudson joined Doris Day for a Hollywood press conference, announcing the launch of her new cable TV show Doris Day's Best Friends, for which he was the inaugural guest
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
“I am not happy that I am sick. I am not happy that I have AIDS. But if that is helping others, I can at least know that my own misfortune has had some positive worth.”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
- #corroborated
- #nytimes.com
- #wikiquote
- #saying
- #undated
- #lang:it
Stated: "If Rock Hudson can have it, nice people can have it
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1984· 3 entries
Three years after the emergence of the first cluster of symptomatic patients in the United States, and a year after the initial conclusion by scientists that HIV causes AIDS
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Hudson was diagnosed with AIDS
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Gave a rare solo television interview; appearing gaunt on BBC's Wogan talk show, he reviewed his career, declaring that fate had played a huge part in his success
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1981· 1 entry
Never acknowledging that their relationship went beyond being roommates, and characterized Christian as disreputable
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1971· 1 entry
Starred in another unsuccessful film, Roger Vadim's Pretty Maids All in a Row
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1959· 1 entry
“s Make Love with Marilyn Monroe but Universal-International Pictures denied him permission; the role went to Yves Montand. In late 1959, Hudson formed a new film production company, Gibraltar Productions. Now that his contract with Universal-International Pictures was about to end, he used his company to lease his acting services to Universal-International Pictures (and others), retaining a percentage of his film”
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #quote
1958· 1 entry
Press coverage of the wedding quoted Hudson as saying: "When I count my blessings, my marriage tops the list." Gates filed for divorce after three years in April 1958, citing mental cruelty (a standard practice at the time to bypass the mandatory wait for divorces to be approved).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1955· 3 entries
Hudson formed his first film production company, 7 Pictures Corporation, with partners producer Henry Ginsberg, his agent Henry Willson, and his lawyer Greg Bautzer
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Confidential magazine threatened to publish an exposé about Hudson's secret homosexuality
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
In 1955, Confidential magazine threatened to publish an exposé about Hudson's secret homosexuality.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #life
- #personal-life
1954· 1 entry
Exhibitors voted Hudson the 17th most popular star in the country
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1953· 1 entry
Appeared in a Camel commercial that showed him on the set of Seminole
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1951· 1 entry
Hudson was billed third in William Castle's The Fat Man
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1950· 1 entry
Acted in One Way Street, Shakedown, I Was a Shoplifter, Peggy, Winchester '73, and The Desert Hawk
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1949· 1 entry
Hudson received his first film credit, as Roc Hudson, in William Castle's Undertow, made by Universal
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1948· 1 entry
Hudson made his acting debut with a small part in the Warner Bros
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1947· 1 entry
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
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1946· 1 entry
Returned to San Francisco aboard an aircraft carrier, and was discharged the same year
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1943· 2 entries
Studied at New Trier High School (1943).
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #education
And the following year enlisted in the United States Navy during World War II
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1932· 1 entry
His mother married Wallace Fitzgerald, a former Marine Corps officer whom young Roy despised
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
1925· 2 entries
In Winnetka, Illinois, the only child of Katherine (née Wood), a homemaker and later telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer Sr
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikipedia
- #event
Born 1925-11-17.
Text from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
- #wikidata
- #birth