Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

116

Gender

Male

Birthday

1934-03-31

Deathday

2025-03-29 (90 years old)

Place of Birth

Beverly Hills, California, USA

Also Known As

რიჩარდ ჩემბერლენი
George Richard Chamberlain
ریچارد چمبرلین

Richard Chamberlain

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.

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Acting

2020

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens as Nat

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		Christmas Around the World with Perry Como as Self
2012		We Are the Hartmans as Mr. Hartman
2012		Three Days of Hamlet as Polonius

2011		ThunderCats as Zigg (voice)
2011		The Perfect Family as Monsignor Murphy

2008

Leverage as Archie Leach

2007		Strength and Honour as Denis O'Leary
2007		Chuck as Adelbert De Smet
2007		I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry as Councilman Banks

2006		Brothers and Sisters as Jonathan Byrold
2006		Blackbeard as Gouverneur Charles Eden

2004		Desperate Housewives as Glenn
2004		Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire as Narrator
2004		Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire as Narrator
2004		Hustle as James Whittaker Wright III

2003		The Making of Shōgun
2003		Nip/Tuck

2000		The Pavilion as Huddlestone
2000		Endangered Hawaiʻi as Narrator

1999

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke as Bernard Lafferty

1998

Will & Grace as Clyde

1997		River Made to Drown In as Thaddeus MacKenzie
1997		All the Winters that Have Been as Dane Corvin
1997		The View as Self
1997		Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line as Self (archive footage)
1997		The Lost Daughter as Andrew McCracken

1996		Bird of Prey as Jonathan Griffith
1996		The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years as Ralph de Bricassart

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		Barbara Stanwyck: Fire and Desire as Self (archive footage)
1991		Night of the Hunter as Harry Powell
1991		The Astronomers as Narrator
1991		Aftermath: A Test of Love as Ross Colburn

1990

Twin Peaks as Bill Kennedy

1989		Island Son
1989		The Return of the Musketeers as Aramis

1988		The Bourne Identity Original film as Jason Bourne
1988		The Bourne Identity as Jason Bourne

1987		Sacrée soirée as Self
1987		Casanova as Giacomo Casanova

1986		Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold as Allan Quatermain
1986		Dream West

1985		King Solomon's Mines as Allan Quatermain
1985		Wallenberg: A Hero's Story as Raoul Wallenberg

1983		Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole as Frederick Cook
1983		The Thorn Birds as Ralph de Bricassart

1982		Murder by Phone as Nat Bridger
1982		Na sowas! as Self
1982		Night of 100 Stars as Self
1982		Champs-Elysées as Self

1981		Entertainment Tonight as Self
1981		Wetten, dass..? as Self

1980		Shogun as Pilot-Major John Blackthorne
1980		Shōgun as Pilot-Major John Blackthorne / Anjin-san
1980		Shōgun as Self

1979

Musical Comedy Tonight

1978		The Good Doctor as Anton Chekhov / Various Roles
1978		Centennial as Alexander McKeag
1978		Challenge of the Super Friends
1978		The Swarm as Dr. Hubbard
1978		Inside 'the Swarm' as Self

1977		The Last Wave as David Burton
1977		The Man in the Iron Mask as Louis XIV / Philippe

1976

The Slipper and the Rose as Prince Edward

1975

The Count of Monte-Cristo as Edmond Dantès

1974		The Towering Inferno as Simmons
1974		The Lady's Not for Burning as Thomas Mendip
1974		The Four Musketeers as Aramis
1974		F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Last of the Belles as F. Scott Fitzgerald
1974		The Little Mermaid as Narrator

1973

The Three Musketeers as Aramis

1972		Lady Caroline Lamb as George Gordon, Lord Byron
1972		The Woman I Love as King Edward VIII

1971		The Music Lovers as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1971		Great Performances as Anton Chekhov

1970

Julius Caesar as Octavius Caesar / Augustus

1969

The Madwoman of Chaillot as The Reverend

1968		Petulia as Dave Danner
1968		The Portrait of a Lady
1968		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
1962		The Merv Griffin Show as Self

1961		The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1961		Dr. Kildare as Dr. Kildare
1961		A Thunder of Drums as Lt. Porter

1960		The Secret of the Purple Reef as Dean Christopher
1960		Thriller as Larry Carter

1959		Mr. Lucky as Alec
1959		Bourbon Street Beat

1957

Tonight Starring Jack Paar as Self

1956		Tony Awards as Self - Host/Performer
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Presenter
1956		Tony Awards as Self - Host

1955		Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Clay Pine
1955		Gunsmoke as Pete

1953

The Oscars as Self

1952

Today as Self

1951		Hallmark Hall of Fame as Hamlet
1951		The Red Skelton Show as Clarence Narrow

1950		The Bob Hope Show as Self
1950		What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest

1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee/Presenter
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Nominee
1944		Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner

Production

1989

Island Son as Producer