Richard Chamberlain

Known for: Acting
Born: March 31, 1934, Beverly Hills, California, USA
Died: March 29, 2025
Movies: 64

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.

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Best-Known Movies

6.1

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

2007

7.0

The Towering Inferno

1974

7.1

Justice League: Gods and Monsters

2015

5.4

King Solomon's Mines

1985

6.7

The Three Musketeers

1973

4.9

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

1986

5.8

Nightmare Cinema

2018

6.5

The Four Musketeers

1974

6.7

The Last Wave

1977

5.0

The Swarm

1978

Filmography

2024	Henry Mancini: 100 at the Hollywood Bowl	Self
2020	Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens	Nat
2019	Finding Julia	Igor
2018	Nightmare Cinema	Dr. Mirari
2017	The Black Ghiandola	Creepy Oncologist
2015	Justice League: Gods and Monsters	Highfather (voice)
2014	Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films	Self - Actor
2012	Christmas Around the World with Perry Como	Self
2012	We Are the Hartmans	Mr. Hartman
2012	Three Days of Hamlet	Polonius
2011	The Perfect Family	Monsignor Murphy
2007	Strength and Honour	Denis O'Leary
2007	I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry	Councilman Banks
2004	Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire	Narrator
2003	The Making of Shōgun
2003	ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration	Self
2000	The Pavilion	Huddlestone
2000	Endangered Hawaiʻi	Narrator
1997	River Made to Drown In	Thaddeus MacKenzie
1997	All the Winters that Have Been	Dane Corvin
1997	Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line	Self (archive footage)
1997	The Lost Daughter	Andrew McCracken
1996	Bird of Prey	Jonathan Griffith
1996	The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years	Ralph de Bricassart
1993	Ordeal in the Arctic	Captain John Couch
1991	Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire	Self (archive footage)
1991	Night of the Hunter	Harry Powell
1991	Aftermath: A Test of Love	Ross Colburn
1989	The Return of the Musketeers	Aramis
1987	Casanova	Giacomo Casanova
1986	Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold	Allan Quatermain
1985	King Solomon's Mines	Allan Quatermain
1983	Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole	Frederick Cook
1982	Murder by Phone	Nat Bridger
1982	Night of 100 Stars	Self
1980	Shogun	John Blackthorne
1979	Musical Comedy Tonight
1978	The Good Doctor	Anton Chekhov / Various Roles
1978	The Swarm	Dr. Hubbard
1978	Inside 'the Swarm'	Self
1977	The Last Wave	David Burton
1977	The Man in the Iron Mask	Louis XIV / Philippe
1976	The Slipper and the Rose	Prince Edward
1975	The Christmas Messenger	Christmas Messenger
1975	The Count of Monte-Cristo	Edmond Dantès
1974	The Towering Inferno	Simmons
1974	The Lady's Not for Burning	Thomas Mendip
1974	The Four Musketeers	Aramis
1974	The Little Mermaid	Narrator
1974	F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles	F. Scott Fitzgerald
1973	The Three Musketeers	Aramis
1972	Lady Caroline Lamb	George Gordon, Lord Byron
1972	The Woman I Love	King Edward VIII
1971	The Music Lovers	Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1970	Hamlet	Hamlet
1970	Julius Caesar	Octavius Caesar / Augustus
1969	The Madwoman of Chaillot	The Reverend
1968	Hold On: It's The Dave Clark Five	The Director
1968	Petulia	Dave Danner
1968	Petulia: The Uncommon Movie	Self
1965	Joy in the Morning	Carl Brown
1963	Twilight of Honor	David Mitchell
1961	A Thunder of Drums	Lt. Porter
1960	The Secret of the Purple Reef	Dean Christopher

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