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no_hypocrisy

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Sun Mar 30, 2025, 08:51 AM Sunday

Richard 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/

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Richard Chamberlain, TV heartthrob and 'king of the miniseries,' dies at 90 (Original Post) no_hypocrisy Sunday OP
I remember him best from The Thorn Birds Mad_Dem_X Sunday #1
Shogun. He was so good. And the Three/Four Musketeers. He was so much more than Dr Kildare. marble falls Sunday #2
Good actor. RIP, sir... hlthe2b Sunday #3
Angin-san eShirl Sunday #4
Good-bye, Dr. Kildare. sinkingfeeling Sunday #5
Alexander McKeag from Centennial VGNonly Sunday #6
The best screen Aramis ever. Aristus Sunday #7
Here is an IMDB link: Ilsa Sunday #8
I was so into that love story but my parents made me come home applegrove Sunday #9

Aristus

(69,495 posts)
7. The best screen Aramis ever.
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 10:53 AM
Sunday

The Four Friends narrowly escape being poisoned by a “gift” of wine sent by Milady DeWinter. One of Rochefort’s 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…”

applegrove

(125,326 posts)
9. I was so into that love story but my parents made me come home
Sun Mar 30, 2025, 12:19 PM
Sunday

when I was watching it at a friend's house because it was on too late. I never did see the end of it.

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