Richard Chamberlain’s death, the 80’s TV star

This is one of the biggest stars of the small screen that comes to leave us … Richard Chamberlain, a multiple actress of shoguns and birds that died, died as a result of a stroke. He was 90 years old.

An irritated beginning

It was a year of study at the University of Pomona in California, Richard Chamberlain discovered a passion for the scene. He intends to do military service for 16 months in South Korea, he loses a great opportunity to sign a contract with Paramount.

On his return, he moved to Hollywood and won small roles for television, often in the episode, especially in the current TV series Alfred Hitchcock. He made his debut on the big screen in 1960, with the mystery of the purple reef, the young first and foremost: Peter Folk.

Popular success on TV

Until 1961, he caught the friendliness of the community, the greatest young physician of the series. The first fertile career in the television industry.

After several small films in the early 1960s, he met with Richard Leicester, who offered him the role of Petulia; First of the productive cooperation. The public -recognized film and criticism in which he responds to George C. Scott and Julie Chris.

Actor of Adventure Movie

In the 1970s, he multiplied projects for cinema: Julius Caesar, where he responded to Charlton Heston; Cape and sword films led by Richard LeicesterAs three musketeers and his suits. The actor will see a film director for the last time in 1989 to return the musketeers.

In 1974, the Disaster Film The Hellish Tower, who won 3 Oscars, was one of the greatest successes of the decade. What an inevitable disaster (1978), which is a bitter failure, cannot reach. In 1977, Australian Peter Weir gave him the lead role in the strange last wave, a film that was supernatural in the heart of Aboriginal culture.

In the mid-1980s, he tried to succeed Indiana Jones in the mines of Allan Quatermain Dyptic and King Solomon and Alan Katerman and Cité de L’Or.

Someone who does not hide screens

However, I have never made a career for her film, often reduced to second knives. Since the 1970s, and especially since the 1980s, it has returned to a small screen. In 1975, he played Monte Cristo counting, admired by the public, until two years later he was given its characteristics to King Louis XIV, adapting to a man in adapting an iron mask.

He played in 1980, next to the Great Toshiri Mifun, an Englishman John Blumthorn, who took over the feudal Japanese disorder in mini series ShogunAccording to James Klavel’s work.

1983 undoubtedly points to the peak of his career on television with a mini series Birds hide to dieRespectively Bestseller Colleen McCullo. The priest Ralph de Bricassart’s impossible love story leaves tens of millions of people and won 4 Golden Globes in 1984, including the best actress of Chamberlain. The rest, which came out in 1996, does not meet the same echo.

Retire

The actor became small in 1990-2000, most often played Guests-stars Series such as WILL & GRACE or NIP/TUCK. Semi -retired in Hawaii, he wrote his memories in 2003, “Disappeared Love”In which he officially reveals his homosexuality and the suffering of silence for decades to protect his icon and career.

His latest film will be Julia, directed by Igor Skhara, in which he appears with Has Fouong and Andrew McCarthy.