Richard Chamberlain, right, as John Blackthorne, and John Rhys-Davies, left, as the Portuguese Pilot Vasco Rodrigues in the Shogun television miniseries.

George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934 in Beverly Hills, California) is an American actor who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961-1966). Image File history File links Rodrigo&Blackthorne. ... Image File history File links Rodrigo&Blackthorne. ... John Blackthorne is the hero of James Clavells 1975 novel Shogun, and is loosely based on the life of the 17th century British trader William Adams, who was the first Briton to visit Japan. ... John Rhys-Davies (born May 5, 1944) is a Welsh actor. ... This page is about the TV miniseries. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (91st in leap years), with 275 days remaining. ... 1934 (MCMXXXIV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Beverly Hills is a city in the western part of Los Angeles County, California. ... Teen Idol Ricky Nelson See Teen Idol (novel) for the 2004 novel by Meg Cabot For the pop punk band, see Teen Idols A teen idol is a famous person who generates adulation from large numbers of teenagers. ... Dr. James Kildare was the primary character in a series of American theatrical films in the late 1930s and early 1940s, an early 1950s radio series, and a 1960s television series of the same name. ...

Biography

Coinciding with his rise to fame on Kildare, Chamberlain also had a brief but moderately successful career as a pop singer. Chamberlain subsequently became disenchanted with Hollywood and turned to the theater, finding success in England among British audiences. ...

In 1966, Chamberlain was cast opposite Mary Tyler Moore in the ill-fated Broadway musical Breakfast at Tiffany's which, after a torturous out-of-town tryout period, closed after only four previews. It is considered one of the most notorious flops in theater history. Decades later he returned to Broadway in revivals of My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music. This article is about Mary Tyler Moore, the actress. ... Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in history. ... Studio recording Breakfast at Tiffanys is one of the most notorious flops in the history of Broadway musicals. ... The original poster for the Broadway production of the show designed by Al Hirschfeld My Fair Lady is a 1956 musical theater production with lyrics and book by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe. ... The Sound of Music is a musical with music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, and a book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, based on the book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp. ...

During the first half of the 1970s Chamberlain enjoyed some success in films with The Towering Inferno, The Last Wave, The Three Musketeers and sequels and The Count of Monte Cristo though was never regarded as an out-and-out leading man. In The Slipper and the Rose, a musical version of the Cinderella story, co-starring Gemma Craven, he displayed his vocal talents, which had already resulted in a hit single during his days as Dr. Kildare. The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster movie adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. ... The Last Wave is a 1977 film directed by Peter Weir. ... The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... The Count of Monte Cristo is a 2002 movie based upon the book The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas (père). ... The Slipper and the Rose (1976) (143 min) is a British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. ... Gustave Dorés illustration for Cendrillon For other uses, see Cinderella (disambiguation). ... Gemma Craven (born 1 June 1950 in Dublin, Ireland), is a British actress. ...

Chamberlain later appeared in several popular television miniseries (earning him the sobriquet of "King of the Miniseries"), including Centennial, William Bast's The Man in the Iron Mask, Shogun, and The Thorn Birds playing Father Ralph de Bricassart opposite Rachel Ward. In the late 1980s he experienced a belated breakthrough as a leading man with King Solomon's Mines, and also played Jason Bourne in the original 1988 version of The Bourne Identity. A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... Centennial was a 12-episode American television miniseries that aired on NBC from October 1978 to February 1979. ... William Bast is a screen and television writer and author currently living in Los Angeles. ... The Man in the Iron Mask was a prisoner believed to have been held in the Bastille prison from an unknown date to his death on November 19, 1703. ... Shogun is an Japanese- United States miniseries based on the namesake novel by James Clavell. ... The Thorn Birds is a 1983 television mini-series starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham, Philip Anglim and Jean Simmons. ... Father Ralph de Bricassart is a fictional priest in The Thorn Birds, a 1977 best selling novel by Colleen McCullough, an Australian author. ... Rachel Ward Rachel Claire Ward (born at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, September 12, 1957), granddaughter of the 3rd Earl of Dudley, is an English actress (and more recently, a director) who has made most of her career in Australia. ... Original movie poster For other films of this name, see King Solomons Mines (film). ... The Bourne Identity is a 1980 spy fiction thriller by Robert Ludlum about an amnesiac who must discover who he is and why several different groups, including an assassin and the CIA, are trying to kill him. ...

He eventually "retired" to Hawaii where he owns land with his partner, agent-producer-director Martin Rabbett, but he never has stopped working. Since the 1990s Chamberlain has mostly appeared in television movies and as a guest star on series including The Drew Carey Show and Will & Grace. In the fall of '05, Chamberlain appeared in the title role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the Broadway National Tour of Scrooge: The Musical alongside Larry Adams, Roberta Duchak, Todd Gross, George Keating, and Ben Ratskoff as Tiny Tim. In 2006, Chamberlain guest starred in an episode of the hit BBC drama series Hustle. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The Drew Carey Show was a long-running American sitcom (set in Cleveland, Ohio) that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004 and was known for its everyman characters and themes . ... Will & Grace was a popular Emmy Award-winning American television situation comedy that focused on Will Truman, a gay lawyer and his best friend Grace Adler, a straight Jewish woman who runs her own interior design firm, as well as Karen Walker, a very rich socialite and Jack McFarland, an... Hustle may mean: Hustle (TV series), a BBC TV drama series shown on BBC One. ...

Although it was generally known that Chamberlain was gay, having been outed by the French women's magazine Nous Deux in December 1989, it was not until 2003, at age 69, that he came out as such in his biography entitled Shattered Love (ISBN 0-06-008743-9), which describes how he felt obliged to hide his sexuality in order to have an acting career. He evidently ceased having any such inhibitions when he appeared in very high drag as Nigel Wick's (played by Craig Ferguson) (British) mother on The Drew Carey Show. He lives with his partner Martin Rabbett in Honolulu. GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... // While outing often refers to an outdoor excursion, in the late twentieth century, the term acquired an additional meaning, taking someone out of the closet, that is, publicising that someone is secretly homosexual. ... Coming out of the closet (very often shortened to coming out in winking reference to the public introduction of debutantes) describes the voluntary public announcement of ones (often homosexual or bisexual) sexual orientation or gender identity. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Craig Ferguson (born 17 May 1962) is a Scottish actor, film director, screenwriter, comedian, composer, and novelist. ... The Drew Carey Show was a long-running American sitcom (set in Cleveland, Ohio) that aired on ABC from 1995 to 2004 and was known for its everyman characters and themes . ... “Honolulu” redirects here. ...

Filmography

• The Secret of the Purple Reef (1960)
• A Thunder of Drums (1961)
• Twilight of Honor (1963)
• Joy in the Morning (1965)
• Petulia (1968)
• The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
• Julius Caesar (1970)
• The Music Lovers (1970)
• Lady Caroline Lamb (1972)
• The Three Musketeers (1973)
• The Towering Inferno (1974)
• The Four Musketeers (1974)
• The Count of Monte Cristo (1975)
• The Little Mermaid (1975)
• The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
• The Last Wave (1977)
• The Swarm (1978)
• Centennial (1978) (TV miniseries)
• Shōgun (1980) (TV miniseries)
• Murder by Phone (1982)
• The Thorn Birds (1983) (TV miniseries)
• King Solomon's Mines (1985)
• Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold (1987)
• The Bourne Identity (1988) (TV)
• The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
• Bird of Prey (1995)
• A River Made to Drown In (1997)
• The Pavilion (1999)
• Strength and Honor (2006)

Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (416x648, 204 KB) This image is of a movie poster, and the copyright for it is most likely owned by either the publisher of the movie or the studio which produced the movie in question. ... Twilight of Honor is a 1963 film with Nick Adams. ... Joy in the Morning is a 1965 film directed by Alex Segal and starring Richard Chamberlain, Yvette Mimieux and Oskar Homolka. ... This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedias deletion policy. ... The Madwoman of Chaillot is a 1969 satirical comedy-drama film made by Commonwealth United Entertainment and distributed by Warner Bros-Seven Arts. ... Julius Caesar is a 1970 independent (Commonwealth United Entertainment) film of William Shakespeares play. ... The Music Lovers is a 1971 biopic of the 19th century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, as conceived by maverick director Ken Russell. ... Lady Caroline Lamb is a 1972 film based on the life of the notorious Lady Caroline Lamb, lover of Lord Byron and wife of William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne. ... The Three Musketeers is a 1973 film based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... The Towering Inferno is a 1974 disaster movie directed by John Guillermin adapted by Stirling Silliphant from the novels The Tower by Richard Martin Stern and The Glass Inferno by Thomas N. Scortia and Frank M. Robinson. ... The Four Musketeers is the title of a 1974 Richard Lester film, which follows upon his film of the previous year, The Three Musketeers, and covers the second half of Dumass novel. ... The Count of Monte Cristo is a 1975 television film based upon the book The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... The Slipper and the Rose (1976) (143 min) is a British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. ... The Last Wave is a 1977 film directed by Peter Weir. ... Swarm, see Swarm (disambiguation). ... Centennial was a 12-episode American television miniseries that aired on NBC from October 1978 to February 1979. ... Rodrigues & Blackthorne aboard Toranagas galley Lord Ishido Toranaga sits in audience, shortly after the earthquake. ... The Thorn Birds is a 1983 television mini-series starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham, Philip Anglim and Jean Simmons. ... Original movie poster For other films of this name, see King Solomons Mines (film). ... Movie poster Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold is a movie directed by Gary Nelson and released on May 16, 1987 in the USA. It is based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard of the same name. ... For the 2002 film staring Matt Damon, see The Bourne Identity (film). ... The Return of the Musketeers is a 1989 film based on the novel Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas, père. ... A River Made to Drown In is a 1997 drama film starring Michael Imperioli, Richard Chamberlain, Ute Lemper and James Duval. ...

Singles discography

The following are songs which were popular for Chamberlain during his stint as a singer:

"The Slipper and the Rose" (CD)

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• "Theme From Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight)" (1962)
• "Love Me Tender" (1962)
• "All I Have to Do Is Dream" (1963)
• "Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" (1963)
• "I Will Love You" (1963)
• "True Love" (1963)

From Twilight of Honor: Theme From Dr. Kildare (Three Stars Will Shine Tonight) is the name of a song written by Jerry Goldsmith, Pete Rugolo, and Hal Winn. ... Love Me Tender is a song sung by Elvis Presley, to the tune of Aura Lee (or Aura Lea), a Civil War song by George R. Poulton. ... All I Have to Do Is Dream is a popular song. ... Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo is a popular song. ... I Will Love You is the name of a song written by Shelby Flint and Barry DeVorzon. ... True Love is a popular song. ...

• "Blue Guitar" (1963)
  

From Richard Chamberlain (aka Joy in the Morning): This should not be confused with the Justin Hayward and John Lodge song of the same name. ...

• "Rome Will Never Leave You" (1964)
  

From The Slipper and the Rose: Rome Will Never Leave You is the name of a song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. ... The Slipper and the Rose (1976) (143 min) is a British musical film retelling the classic fairy tale of Cinderella. ...

• "Secret Kingdom" (1976)
• "She Danced With Me" (1976)
• "What a Comforting Thing to Know" (1976)
• "Why Can't I Be Two People?" (1976)
• "Bride-Finding Ball" (1976)

The Slipper and the Rose (CD) Secret Kingdom is a passionate love song from the 1976 film, The Slipper and the Rose. ... Academy Award winning songwriter Robert B. Sherman with the Queen Mother at the 1976 Royal Command Performance of The Slipper and the Rose. ... The Slipper and the Rose (CD) What a Comforting Thing to Know is a song and dance number from the Academy Award nominated score song of The Slipper and the Rose. ... The Slipper and the Rose (CD) Why Cant I Be Two People? is a song from the 1976 film, The Slipper and the Rose. ... The Slipper and the Rose (CD) Bride-Finding Ball is a song and dance number from the Academy Award nominated score song of The Slipper and the Rose. ...

Charles Chamberlain

Chamberlain's father, Charles Chamberlain ("Chuck C.") was well known within the fellowship of Alcoholics Anonymous. He traveled far and wide for years speaking at A.A. conventions. His book, A New Pair of Glasses was the transcript from a weekend retreat at his Laguna Beach home. The book is a highly regarded and noteworthy piece of complementary literature for those in 12 Step recovery programs. He died in 1984. Logo for AA Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) is an informal society of more than two million recovered and recovering alcoholics in the United States, Canada, and other countries. ... Laguna Beach is the name of several places in the United States, and a TV show: Laguna Beach in California Laguna Beach in Florida Laguna Beach the reality soap opera on MTV This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Richard Chamberlain at the Internet Movie Database

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