Biography
George Richard Chamberlain (March 31, 1934 – March 29, 2025) was an American actor of stage and screen who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961–1966). He subsequently appeared in several TV mini-series, such as Shōgun (1980) and The Thorn Birds (1983) and was the first to play Jason Bourne in the 1988 made for TV movie "The Bourne Identity". Chamberlain has also performed classical stage roles and worked in musical theatre. Description above from the Wikipedia article Richard Chamberlain, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Awards & recognition
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award · 1982
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Steiger Award
Filmography50+ titles
Twin Peaks
ThunderCats
Desperate Housewives
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Chuck
Hustle
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Shogun
The Carol Burnett Show
Leverage
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
The Red Skelton Show
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films
Nip/Tuck
Touched by an Angel
The Thorn Birds
Justice League: Gods and Monsters
Brothers and Sisters
Three Days of Hamlet
The Towering Inferno
What's My Line?
Will & Grace
Challenge of the Super Friends
The Slipper and the Rose: The Story of Cinderella
All the Winters that Have Been
The Count of Monte-Cristo
The Three Musketeers
The Pavilion
The Last Wave
Thriller
Gunsmoke
Mr. Lucky
The Drew Carey Show
The Bourne Identity
The Four Musketeers
The Music Lovers
The Deputy
The Man in the Iron Mask
The Return of the Musketeers
I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry
Great Performances
Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole
Petulia
Aftermath: A Test of Love
Julius Caesar
Nightmare Cinema
A Thunder of Drums
Blackbeard
King Solomon's Mines