Rock Hudson is a 1990 American biographical drama television film directed by John Nicolella and written by Dennis Turner.

[5] The movie was reviewed badly by many critics, attracted only 24% of the viewing audience and suffered some advertiser defections because of concern over the depiction of Hudson's homosexuality.

[8] Robert Iger claimed that research showed that ABC lost $1 million in advertising due to the broadcast of the film.

In 1948, Truck driver Roy Fitzgerald walks into talent manager Henry Willson's office, wanting to be a movie star.

Willson gets the newly named "Rock Hudson" a one-line role in a war film (1948's Fighter Squadron), which takes him 38 times to get right.

On the set of the 1966 film Seconds, where he plays a middle-aged man who underwent radical plastic surgery in an attempt to recapture his lost youth, he gets upset to the point where he has a breakdown.

[5][10] The film includes archive footage of Doris Day, Rock Hudson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., James Quinn, and Natalie Wood.

John J. O'Connor of the New York Times said the film was "a sympathetic treatment of the actor's life and career" and "a generally feasible portrait".