Actor GEORGE NADER was born in Pasadena, California in 1921, the 2nd son of GEORGE & ALICE NADER. His father, a native of Illinois was vice-president of a grocery chain. His mother was born in Kansas.
Good looking and athletically inclined by his mid teens he stood 6'1" and had a lithe natuarally muscular build that weighed in about 180 lbs. He started participating in drama while still in high school. Eventually he parlayed his acting abilities into becoming a stock player at the PASADENA PLAYHOUSE.
His first listed film credit is from 1950 in RUSTLERS ON HORSEBACK. NADER did get a contract with UNIVERSAL but really few of his roles were noteworthy as he appeared to get the parts that were already passed over other contract players there including ROCK HUDSON with whom he had an afair that led to a lifelong friendship.
Among his movie credits most critics consider his part in AWAY ALL BOATS (1956) a WWII actioner to be his best work. Actress JULIE ADAMS played his wife in the film. In real life she and her husband, actor RAY DANTON were good friends with NADER as was DAVID JANSSEN and JEFF CHANDLER. Other films were noting in which he appeared include
PHONE CALL FROM A STRANGER (1952), CARNIVAL STORY (1954), and THE FEMALE ANIMAL (1958) which is worth mentioning mainly because it was HEDY LaMARR'S last film.
with LaMARR
His affair with HUDSON was squashed when rumors of ROCK'S homosexuality started to become hard to keep a lid on and it was GEORGE whose career was sacrificed instead of the that of his bed partner who had already marked bigger territory and was on his way to being one of filmdom's top draws.
out for a spin.........ROCK & GEORGE around 1953
NADER got the lead in the tv series THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ELLERY QUEEN which was done on location in New York City. The series lasted one season 1958-59. The following season he starred as DR. GLEN BARTON in the series THE MAN AND THE CHALLENGE.
GEORGE'S real challenge was finding steady acting work as this series too last all of one season.
LORETTA YOUNG saw to it that he was cast on her tv show whenever they had a part he was suited for and he guest starred 8 times from 1953-61. He later played JOE SHANNON an insurance investigtor for a year in another tv series simply entitled SHANNON 1961-62.
1965
Moving to West Germany in the mid-60s, GEORGE was his popularity soar in a series of crime solving capers as JERRY COTTON. There would be a total of 8 movies produced between 1965 and 1972.
Following a shoot for the pilot for a tv series called NAKIA which starred ROBERT FORSTER in the lead role, GEORGE retired. He had injured his eye and had glaucoma. This was in 1974. GEORGE lived for some time in the PALM SPRINGS area, a large gay haven. His longtime lover MARK MILLER was also one-time secretary to ROCK HUDSON.
While in retirement GEORGE wrote a sci-fi book and dabbled in real estate. Some were surprised to find out that GEORGE was named one of the beneficiaries of ROCK HUDSON'S estate following the actor death from an AIDS related illness in 1985; the amount left was ample. ROCK had always felt guilty that his career was saved at the cost of another's.
GEORGE lived 16 years longer than his onetime paramour and died from heart failure while he was battling pneumonia along with brain hemorrhaging. He was 80.
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