So long, Richard Chamberlain

[Bob Jersey]

My mother, like many an American hausfrau, fawned over him as Dr. Kildare, especially when he backed up the role with a string of sappy ballads released by "Kildare" studio MGM's sister record label (only "Rome Will Never Leave You," a Bacharach/David tune performed on the show, cracked the Billboard Hot 100)... he went strictly acting after that (I saw him in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers as a kid)... but his greatest was still to come: Shogun, The Thorn Birds... with occasional returns to Broadway, where he'd first shined in Hamlet... should I go on? Saturday (29) in Hawai'i, where he'd been based from the late 80s till 2010; 90.

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/richard-chamberlain-dead-dies-shogun-thorn-birds-1236351970/ (link)

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