Richard Chamberlain Looks Back on His Celebrated TV Career, Including Working With Barbara Stanwyck in ‘The Thorn Birds’

What did he have to say about Mary Tyler Moore?

Fun fact: Dick was the first person to record the eventual huge breakthrough hit for the Carpenters, "Close to You." Give it a listen and you'll realize how much a decent arrangement (and a great voice) can make or break a song.

Look at his cheekbones in OP’s post. The kids today are trying to look like him, but his face was just sculpted naturally that way. His facial landscape is a masterpiece.

He's a doll.

[quote]What did he have to say about Mary Tyler Moore?

That she could turn the world on with her smile.

Your little rose has nasty thorns

(or something like that)

Whoever was looking for classic novels from 1970/1980 should read this.

The only mini-series I ever watched was Shogun and damn he was good in it

I read his memoir and can't remember a thing about it. But if this picture is recent he is the best looking 90 year old the world has ever seen.

Sorry for the sizing, you will have to click on it.

I loved him in Centennial. He was Alexander McKeag, Scottish brogue and all.

Is he terminally ill?

Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey. Two hot docs.

Gorgeous and gracious. He looks very healthy for 90 years old.

He posted on here for a while using his real name.

Noticeably bad facelift just before TV remake of Night of the Hunter.

"Never heard of him but we must never forget this old Queer and his birds! He is living his truth!! Trans Queer Lives Matter!!"-------------Trans TikTok.

"I remember him. He was at the Stonewall Cabin and protested with Harvey Milken to protest the AIDS that Nixon refused to fund. Richard was also married to Elizabeth Taylor before she drowned on the boat with Robert Wagner Woods.. We must honor our Queer Forefathers. R.I.P."---Queer TikTok Historian

He's dead. Just breaking.

Richard Chamberlain on Desert Island Discs.

Wonderful choices: Vivaldi, Mozart, Joni Mitchell, Dylan Thomas, and Bach.

A class act

[quote] Look at his cheekbones in OP’s post. The kids today are trying to look like him,

Yes, my students at the college where I teach are just absolutely obsessed with looking like him. They carry around "Dr. Kildare" lunchboxes, and talk constantly about getting their faces lifted to look more like Father Ralph.

R18 is a lying asshat.

Handsome then and handsome now. Was he ever linked with any other closeted Hollywood gays? Wagner? Conrad? Hunter?

Wesley Eure, R22. Back when Wesley was on Land of the Lost. He's nearly twenty years younger than Richard.

r18 He is fine AND he sends his love. Now, let us never speak of this again. Or at least until he's actually dead.

He was in my favorite Cinderella adaptation of all time. He look very good in period a powdered wig and frock coat.

I did a play with Richard in the early 1980s. He was very sweet, reserved and rather modest. No surprise, very handsome and healthy.

I believe at that time he was with his long-time lover, a younger actor, preppy type, named Martin Rabett. Though they remained partnered for many years living in Hawaii, they eventually broke up. Not sure why as I'd think they'd gotten through all the difficult years presumably happy together..

R3, I have a similar facial bone structure and yes, it’s young people who seem most impressed.

You're so modest, r27!

"Looked"

Yes, R28, next to my high cheekbones & square jawline, it’s my best quality.

Of courses r16 used this thread to shit on trans people, even though this thread has nothing to do with them!

Pretty to look at but limited as an actor. Casey was way more interesting than Kildare and Sam Jaffee was a more distinguished sidekick than Raymond Massey.

Dr. Kildare was NOT a homo! He was just waiting for the right girl to come along, like George Maharis, Tab Hunter, and Sal Mineo!

Kildare was pretty but Casey was a big hunk of man.

I think there was something about “nasty, hooky” in there, too, Rachel at R6.

[quote] Wesley Eure, [R22]. Back when Wesley was on Land of the Lost. He's nearly twenty years younger than Richard.

I guess Richard liked 'em young and Wesley must have been into daddies. It's a documented fact that he and Wesley were bumping uglies back in the mid 70s for a year or 2.

Wesley was quite a, shall we say, popilar lad.

From what he's said in his own writings I get the feeling Wesley's rump was in big demand. He was quite a little vixen back then.

I liked his robes.

Much bigger fan of Vince ("Ben Casey") Edwards! What a hunk o' man. Someone start a thread!

R40 I found one from 2 years ago, could post in that one.....?

Chamberlain was objectively attractive in Kildare, but he's never been what I would call "sexy". And I wouldn't apply the term "heartthrob", either. But a lot of people seem to feel that way. I don't mind being the odd one out on this.

He was definitely a heartthrob. He was huge back then, girls loved him

He was one hot number back in the day, especially when he took his top off.

OP- A photo of a HOMO and a LESBO.

R42- You are not the only one. He never had any sex appeal to me nor did Christopher Reeve or Matt Bohmer.

[quote] Matt Bohmer.

It's BOMER, you fat whore!

I can remember all the girls in my 7th grade class wearing Dr. Kildare smocks to school. This would have been around 1962. Chamberlain was HUGELY popular in those couple of years before the Beatles hit and completely changed the standard of male beauty for teeny-boppers.

His greatest work is The Music Lovers!

[quote]He posted on here for a while using his real name.

Until it occurred to him what kind of a place this really is

Ok I’m ashamed to admit this, but I always get him mixed up with Stephen Collins. I actually opened this expecting to see lots of “that old pedo” replies. Of COURSE Richard isn’t.

I wonder why I mix them up? Maybe it’s because they both are so pretty, and have that 80s tv miniseries vibe?

Maybe you're just not all that bright, r51?

Yes r51, anyone who’s ever mixed up two pretty, milquetoast actors must not be very bright.

^^^ r52

He made me gay thru the TV. When I grew up I dated a friend of his who, knowing I'd make a fool of myself, never introduced me to him. Bastard.