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
2024
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
- We Are the Hartmans as Mr. Hartman
- Three Days of Hamlet as Polonius
- 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
- ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration as Self
- 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
- Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line as Self (archive footage)
- River Made to Drown In as Thaddeus MacKenzie
- All the Winters that Have Been as Dane Corvin
- The Lost Daughter as Andrew McCracken
1996
- The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years as Ralph de Bricassart
- Bird of Prey as Jonathan Griffith
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
- The Astronomers as Narrator
- Night of the Hunter as Harry Powell
- Aftermath: A Test of Love as Ross Colburn
- Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
1990
- Twin Peaks as Bill Kennedy
1989
- Island Son
- The Return of the Musketeers as Aramis
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
- Na sowas! as Self
- Murder by Phone as Nat Bridger
- Night of 100 Stars as Self
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Entertainment Tonight as Self
1978
- Challenge of the Super Friends
- Centennial as Alexander McKeag
- The Swarm as Dr. Hubbard
- Inside 'the Swarm' as Self
- The Good Doctor as Anton Chekhov / Various Roles
1977
- The Man in the Iron Mask as Louis XIV / Philippe
- The Last Wave as David Burton
1976
- The Slipper and the Rose as Prince Edward
1975
- The Count of Monte-Cristo as Edmond Dantès
- The Christmas Messenger as Christmas Messenger
1974
- Dinah! as Self
- The Towering Inferno as Simmons
- The Four Musketeers as Aramis
- F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles as F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The Lady's Not for Burning as Thomas Mendip
- 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
- Film '72 as Self
- The Music Lovers as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1970
- Julius Caesar as Octavius Caesar / Augustus
- Hamlet as Hamlet
1969
- ITV Saturday Night Theatre as Hamlet
- The Madwoman of Chaillot as The Reverend
1968
- Petulia as Dave Danner
- The Portrait of a Lady as Ralph Touchett
- Hold On: It's The Dave Clark Five as The Director
- Petulia: The Uncommon Movie as Himself
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
- Bourbon Street Beat as Dale Wellington
- Mr. Lucky as Alec
1957
- Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Host
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