Nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for Giant (1956), he was a heartthrob of Hollywood's Golden Age.
With a career spanning four decades, Rock Hudson was a striking leading man and heartthrob of Hollywood in the '50s and '60s. Sadly, he was also the first major celebrity to pass away from an illness related to AIDS.
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