BBC 2, Rock Hudson stars in Ice Station Zebra. The macho spy thriller showed off the incredible Hollywood star as the hero of the story, but this went against the picture he had painted of himself behind the scenes.
Rock was an out and proud gay man who eventually died because of his sexual escapades, but he had previously dabbled in relationships with women.
Eventually, one of these surprise sexual encounters came back to haunt him. Rock was a Hollywood star in the purest sense. He starred in more than 60 movies across the four decades of his career and worked with countless leading ladies.
As a young man, he declared he didn't "want to be an actor, I want to be a movie star". He would hasten to add: "And I don't give a damn how many casting couches I have to lie on!"The star, who was a former truck driver, kept his oath.
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