biography
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Hudson, Rock
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originally Roy Scherer, Jr
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1925–85)
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| biography:
| Film actor, born in Winnetka, Illinois, USA. He had had no acting experience before being given his first chance in films, but he underwent intensive grooming to become one of the biggest box-office idols of the 1950s, starring with Doris Day in the comedy hit Pillow Talk (1959). Other films include A Farewell to Arms (1958), Tobruk (1967), and Ice Station Zebra (1968). In the 1970s he went on to have a successful television career in McMillan and Wife. |
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