Richard Chamberlain is obituary

Richard Chamberlain, who died today at the age of 90, shot a fame in TV fame in the 1960s.

His good appearance won it in the legions of the fans, and its guarantee at work in a large number of TV films that can be somewhat forgotten.

However, in middle age, his career rose again.

Chamberlain became the property of the mini -TV series in the eighties of the twentieth century: he played a Western prisoner in Shujun and a Catholic priest who is tempted by love in thorny birds.

He denied that he was gay when he faced a French magazine in 1989, and did not publicly talk about homosexuality until he reached 70.

In the interviews that are promoted his memoirs of 2003, he advised other leading actors to preserve their sexual lives for themselves.

“There is still a huge amount of homosexual phobia in our culture,” he said. “Please, don’t pretend that we are suddenly acceptable.”

George Richard Chamberlain was born on March 31, 1934, in Beverly Hills, California. He died one day before his birthday 91.

His father faced a problem with Drink, who affected Yong Richard’s childhood. He described himself as “a shy, dangerous, shy, painful, painful, with a long face.”

He admitted that he was “the most cooperative child in school,” but he discovered a taste and talent for athletics.

At Pomona College, he was bitten by the insect on behalf – and a role in the Bernard Show arms and the man convinced him that he found his call.

Paramount Studios was interested in him, but the ideas of a profession were suspended after his summoning, as he spent 16 months with the American army, where he rose to the rank of sergeant while he was in Korea.

Upon discharge, he made a number of veils in TV programs, including an episode of famous Western weapons.

Not everyone had chosen Chamberlain as a future star.

He was handsome enough: with profiles while he was flowing on his “well -lining, referring to a noble young Florentine – directly from the Renaissance.”

But he was naturally widespread – who worked in his favor when he tested him to play Dr. James Kilder, a medical trainee who is struggling to learn his profession, in the new medical drama in NBC.

A friend and competitors said: “This may be inevitable.” “Who can look very hostile like Dick?”

The series ran for about 200 programs during five seasons.

A new floor was broken, by raising issues such as drug addiction – which have not been shown before on American television.

There was a great reaction from female fans.

Chamberlain received 12,000 messages per week. In Pittsburg, 450,000 people turned to see him in a procession, and in New York, he caused almost riots when he monitored a child and called his name.

The studio benefited from this interest, as it launched the novels, cartoons and games that include the Chamberlain image.

Even the fans write in the request of “Dr. Kilder” to solve their various medical problems.

Chamberlain had one unlikely song: Three Stars will shine tonight, as romantic words were added to the melody of the distinctive presentation theme.

He won the Golden Globe Award for Best TV actor in 1963. But after three years the fans began to decrease, and NBC pulled the plug.

Now an international star, Chamberlain struggled to leave Kelder.

In 1966, he was hoping to storm films, but reviews identified his performance in the light romantic comedy, Joy in the Morning.

They said that the masses laughed at “all wrong places.” Therefore, he decided to ignore Hollywood and gain living on the stage.

A rock start started when a musical version of breakfast was closed in Tiffany – which he starred against Mary Tyler Moore – after only four shows.

Production is still seen as one of the largest Roman roosters in Broadway. But moving to England gave him an opportunity to re -invent himself as a “serious actor”.

In 1967, there was a starring role in the image of Henry James of a woman and reflected Catherine Hepburn in a satirical comedy called “Cheylot’s madness”.

Two years later, he became the first American to play Hamlet at the Birmingham Reportoric Theater since John Barrymore in 1925.

This time, the reviews were excellent and re -considered the role of the prince most tortured in Denmark to get a TV version of the Holmark.

However, Chamberlain was filmed in the role of Tchaikovsky in the excessive Biography of Kane, music lovers, where he starred in Glena Jackson.

Critics represented the film, where a wonderful play was produced from the relationship between the composer composer and his Huwairiya wife, although it later became a success in worship.

Chamberlain continued the role of Lord Peron against Sarah Miles in Lady Caroline Lamb and the amazing French swords in Aramis, Richard Leicester.

As he appeared – along with half of Hollywood – in tall hell, as a twisted electrical engineer that divides the angle into the amazing destruction of the 138 -floor building.

In 1977, the roots of the TV series – which were placed in the era of American slavery – attracted huge fans and were nominated for about 40 Emmy awards.

The revival of the mini series that has brought Chamberlain back to the TV.

He defeated Roger Moore and Albert Fennie to be photographed in the role of John Blackmoren – an English -captive explorer in Japan in the seventeenth century – in Shogon.

The series was shown on NBC for five nights in 1980, when the fans reached nearly 30 million.

After winning Golden Globe, Chamberlain picked up another as the father of Ralph de Brekasart in fork birds, a torn priest between God and his sexual longing, Rachel Ward.

It was more successful than Shogon, winning an audience of 60 % of TV viewers and 16 Emmy nomination.

In the nineties, the Chamberlain profession began to fade.

There was a series of solid, not distinguished shows, in films created for openness on television and endless guests in the shows of other people.

This included a supplement to the thorny birds called the missing years, with the replacement of Amanda Donoho Rachel Ward.

In 2003, a long time after he stopped romantic romantic men playing, Chamberlain posted a shattered CV, as he first confirmed that he was gay.

Despite the relationship of more than 30 years with the actor and director Martin Rabbet, who starred in Alan Kirin and the lost city of gold, they kept their private lives.

He said: “I thought there was something very wrong with me, and I wanted to cover up it.

Chamberlain and the rabbi of their separate path went in 2010.

In subsequent years, Chamberlain was happy to play a gay man, especially in desperate housewives and Will & Grace.

Continue performance in music theater, including Touring Productions of Spamalot, My Fair Lady and Sound of Music.

But he never regretted hiding his sexual life to protect his career.

He told El Pais in 2024: “I would have been a happier person than the cabinet and became free,” he told El Pais in 2024.

It will be remembered as the property of the mini -TV series: the pioneering man who is shattered in everything from Dr. Kilder to the thorny birds.

Despite attempts to re -invent himself as a dangerous actor on the stage, he was at his best on the small screen, as he enjoyed watching millions at home on the sofa.

Because, although there are always better actors than Richard Chamberlain, a few of them compete with his ability to hold a TV audience.