A Tribute To Iconic Star Actor Richard Chamberlain, Who Passed Away At 90
Actor Richard Chamberlain passed away at 90, just one day shy of his 91st birthday. He died last night at his home in Hawaii from complications of a stroke. His breakout role came when he played the title role in one of television’s early medical dramas. Here’s entertainment guru George Pinocchio with more on his life and legacy.
When you’re blind, you just don’t care. Richard Chamberlain struck TV gold in 1961 as the star of Dr. Kildare. You look lost, doctor. Can I help? Oh, yeah, I’m killed there. Chamberlain’s work as the handsome young doctor turned him into a TV superstar of the time and a teen idol. His work would continue on television and in the movies for decades.
In 1973, he starred in The Three Musketeers. In 74, the cast reunited for The Four Musketeers, Milady’s Revenge. That same year, Chamberlain was part of the epic, star-studded disaster film, The Towering Inferno. Did you change any of Doug’s electrical specifications? I most certainly did.
In 1978, he returned for another star-studded disaster film, The Swarm, about deadly killer bees. Let’s get the hell out of here! Chamberlain found great success on television again in 1980, playing pilot Major John Blackthorn in the original Shogun miniseries. It was a massive hit with viewers.
Actor Richard Chamberlain passed away at 90
Many lands in the Americas have already been plundered by the Spanish and their treasures taken back to Spain. Shogun marked one of Chamberlain’s four Emmy nominations. He got another nomination a few years later for The Thorn Birds, which was even more popular than Shogun.
Chamberlain played a Catholic priest tormented by his love for a beautiful woman. My life belongs to God. In the 80s, he starred on the big screen in King Solomon’s Mines and its sequel, Alan Quartermain and the Lost City of Gold. In 1989, he spent one season playing a TV doctor again, this time in Hawaii on a show called Island Sun.
In 2002, I met Chamberlain when he guest starred on The Drew Carey Show. You never could hide anything from your glamorous mannequins. Ha, ha. It’s really kind of weird, but it’s fun. After about 45 years in show business, Chamberlain released his autobiography, Shattered Love, a memoir.
In it, he confirmed being gay, sharing how he came to terms with his true self. Chamberlain, who was also a singer, spent more than 60 years working in show business on screens big and small and on stages from Pasadena to Broadway. Chamberlain was a graduate of Beverly Hills High who served our country in Korea and then returned home from the Army and became a star.
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