Rock Hudson

This ABC television movie biography stars Thomas Ian Griffith as Rock Hudson and focuses on the actor's struggle with his homosexuality, including his famous lavender marriage to Phyllis Gates (Daphne Ashbrook). Based on Gates's book and court records, the film depicts the arranged marriage in detail.

Andrew Robinson portrays Henry Willson, Hudson's agent who orchestrated the marriage to his own secretary to quash a Confidential magazine expose. William R. Moses plays Marc Christian, Hudson's former lover whose lawsuit after Hudson's AIDS diagnosis brought many of these details to light.