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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsRichard Chamberlain, TV heartthrob and 'king of the miniseries,' dies at 90
The cause was complications from a stroke, said his publicist, Harlan Boll.
Blue-eyed and porcelain-faced, and with an acting style that veered from earnest to wooden, Mr. Chamberlain was rarely a critical favorite in his prime. People magazine once summed up his reputation as an actor: pretty and passionless.
Over the years, he tried to correct that impression by tackling Hamlet and other Shakespearean parts on the English stage, growing a beard and wielding a samurai sword for Shogun (1980), and playing a hunky but tormented Catholic priest wrestling with illicit love in The Thorn Birds (1983), one of the most-watched miniseries of all time.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/richard-chamberlain-tv-heartthrob-and-king-of-the-miniseries-dies-at-90/ar-AA1BWjkk?ocid=msedgntp&pc=DCTE&cvid=6f549ccda3294e1fb8abbe3407d94f85&ei=73
Another of The Three/Four Muskateers and Dr. Kildare has passed.
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000328/

Mad_Dem_X
(9,895 posts)Rest in Peace, Sir.
marble falls
(64,271 posts)hlthe2b
(108,848 posts)
eShirl
(19,233 posts)
sinkingfeeling
(54,777 posts)VGNonly
(7,997 posts)A fine mini-series.
Aristus
(69,495 posts)The Four Friends narrowly escape being poisoned by a gift of wine sent by Milady DeWinter. One of Rocheforts henchmen is done in first, alerting the Musketeers.
Aramis cautiously sniffs the poisoned bottle and remarks I always had my doubts about the Anjou 22
Ilsa
(62,647 posts)applegrove
(125,326 posts)when I was watching it at a friend's house because it was on too late. I never did see the end of it.