Rock Hudson
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− | Rock Hudson was an American actor, born as Roy Harold Scherer, Jr | + | Rock Hudson was an American actor, born as Roy Harold Scherer, Jr on [[Nov 17]], 1925 in Winnetka, Cook County, [[Illinois]], the son of [[#Roy Harold Scherer|Roy Harold Scherer, Sr]] an auto mechanic, and his wife [[#Katherine Wood|Katherine "Kay" Wood]] (d. 1977), who had just married the year before. |
Kay was the daughter of James Wood and Mary Ellen unknown. Roy Sr left that family in 1932 and went to California. After Roy left, Kay started dating Wally FitzGerald who worked shoveling coal at the Winnetka Water Works. Kay and Wally married and he adopted Roy who became Roy FitzGerald. | Kay was the daughter of James Wood and Mary Ellen unknown. Roy Sr left that family in 1932 and went to California. After Roy left, Kay started dating Wally FitzGerald who worked shoveling coal at the Winnetka Water Works. Kay and Wally married and he adopted Roy who became Roy FitzGerald. |