Richard Chamberlain
Born: 1934-03-31 in Beverly Hills, California, USA
Died: 2025-03-29
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2020
2019
- Finding Julia as Igor
2018
- Nightmare Cinema as Dr. Mirari
2017
- The Black Ghiandola as Creepy Oncologist
2015
- Justice League: Gods and Monsters as Highfather (voice)
2014
- Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films as Self - Actor
2012
- Three Days of Hamlet as Polonius
- We Are the Hartmans as Mr. Hartman
- Christmas Around the World with Perry Como as Self
2011
- ThunderCats as Zigg (voice)
- The Perfect Family as Monsignor Murphy
2008
- Leverage as Archie Leach
2007
- Chuck as Adelbert De Smet
- I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry as Councilman Banks
- Strength and Honour as Denis O'Leary
2006
- Brothers and Sisters as Jonathan Byrold
- Blackbeard as Gouverneur Charles Eden
2004
- Desperate Housewives as Glenn
- Hustle as James Whittaker Wright III
- Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire as Narrator
- Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire as Narrator
2003
- Nip/Tuck as Arthur Stiles
- The Making of Shōgun
2000
- The Pavilion as Huddlestone
- Endangered Hawaiʻi as Narrator
1999
- Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke as Bernard Lafferty
1998
- Will & Grace as Clyde
1997
- The View as Self
- The Lost Daughter as Andrew McCracken
- All the Winters that Have Been as Dane Corvin
- River Made to Drown In as Thaddeus MacKenzie
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)
1996
- Bird of Prey as Jonathan Griffith
- The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years as Ralph de Bricassart
1995
- The Drew Carey Show as Maggie Wick
1994
- Touched by an Angel as Jack Clay / Everett Clay
1993
- Ordeal in the Arctic as Captain John Couch
1991
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
- Aftermath: A Test of Love as Ross Colburn
- Night of the Hunter as Harry Powell
- The Astronomers as Narrator
1990
- Twin Peaks as Bill Kennedy
1989
- The Return of the Musketeers as Aramis
- Island Son
1988
- The Bourne Identity as Jason Bourne
1987
- Sacrée Soirée as Self
- Casanova as Giacomo Casanova
1986
- Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold as Allan Quatermain
- Dream West as John Charles Fremont
1985
- King Solomon's Mines as Allan Quatermain
- Wallenberg: A Hero's Story as Raoul Wallenberg
1983
- The Thorn Birds as Ralph de Bricassart
- Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole as Frederick Cook
1982
- Champs-Elysées as Self
- Murder by Phone as Nat Bridger
- Na sowas! as Self
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Entertainment Tonight as Self
1980
- Shōgun as Pilot-Major John Blackthorne / Anjin-san
1978
- The Swarm as Dr. Hubbard
- Centennial as Alexander McKeag
- Inside 'the Swarm' as Self
- Challenge of the Super Friends
- The Good Doctor as Anton Chekhov / Various Roles
1977
- The Last Wave as David Burton
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Louis XIV / Philippe
1976
- The Slipper and the Rose as Prince Edward
1975
- The Count of Monte-Cristo as Edmond Dantès
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- The Four Musketeers as Aramis
- The Towering Inferno as Simmons
- The Lady's Not for Burning as Thomas Mendip
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles as F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Little Mermaid as Narrator
1973
- The Three Musketeers as Aramis
1972
- Lady Caroline Lamb as George Gordon, Lord Byron
- The Woman I Love as King Edward VIII
1971
- Great Performances as Anton Chekhov
- The Music Lovers as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Film '72 as Self
1970
- Julius Caesar as Octavius Caesar / Augustus
1969
- The Madwoman of Chaillot as The Reverend
1968
- Petulia as Dave Danner
- Petulia: The Uncommon Movie as Himself
- The Portrait of a Lady as Ralph Touchett
1967
- The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest
1965
- Joy in the Morning as Carl Brown
1963
- Twilight of Honor as David Mitchell
1962
- The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson as Self
- The Merv Griffin Show as Self
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- Dr. Kildare as Dr. James Kildare
- A Thunder of Drums as Lt. Porter
1960
- Thriller as Larry Carter
- The Secret of the Purple Reef as Dean Christopher
1959
- The Deputy as Jerry Kirk
- Mr. Lucky as Alec
- Bourbon Street Beat as Dale Wellington
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1955
- Gunsmoke as Pete
- Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Clay Pine
1953
- The Oscars as Self
1952
- Today as Self
1951
- The Red Skelton Show as Clarence Narrow
- Hallmark Hall of Fame as Hamlet
1950
- What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest
- The Bob Hope Show as Self
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter