Oh, I had such a crush on Dr. Kildare! Good-looking, sensitive, so caring… 
Also loved him in The Thorn Birds – but I am a sucker for the “troubled priest” story genre.
And of course, in TV’s first Shogun.
You were loved by millions, Richard. Rest in well-earned peace. 
He played MacKeag in the Centennial miniseries.
In 1988 he was Jason Bourne.
Michael York is now the last remaining Musketeer.
I had a massive crush on him after I watched The Thorn Birds. I, too, am a sucker for the “troubled priest” stories. I also had massive crushes on local priests but that’s a whole other story.
Sorry to hear of his passing but 90 is a good run.
He’s responsible for that burning skyscraper in San Fran.
Even though his portrayal is much closer to the novel, I really prefer the Doug Liman movie and Matt Damon’s take on the character (and the first sequel, at least). His role as Aramis in the 1973 version of The Three Musketeers, though, is inarguably the best, and I though he was well cast in the 1980 Shōgun miniseries.
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I loved the Three Musketeer movies, and he was very good in The Slipper and the Rose as well.
++ Richard Herring Voice ++
He’s probably best known to me as Archie Leach* in two episodes of Leverage, and was also the first Allan Quatermain I saw.
*Yes, Cary Grant’s real name
Weird timing for us. We’ve been watching one hour long episode (or two half-hour long episodes from season 6) of Dr. Kildare for a while now.
We are exactly 4 half-hour episodes from finishing the series. If only he had lasted a couple more weeks it would be a more appropriate wrap up of the whole thing.
With his death, the next person who appeared in the most episodes still living might be Steve Bell (20 episodes). But since he hasn’t done anything in quite some time and isn’t famous, his death might have gone unnoticed. The next one who is definitely alive is nurse Lee Meriwether (6 episodes, often uncredited).
Mrs. FtG is a big fan. Esp. Shogun and The Thorn Birds as well as Kildare.
The bad wiring was his father in law’s fault. Show me another way to save millions on the construction costs. Duncan was always the real villain.
God, I love that movie.
I was always pissed that Robert Vaughn had to dipsy-doodle all the way to the pavement while Duncan survived.
I’ve played that soundtrack to death. John Williams at his finest.
..in two of the worst things nominally based on the works of H. Rider Haggard ever made. Made by Golden Globus. I’m still impressed by the star power they managed to get for the first film, evidently by waving a lot of money around – Richard Chamberlin, Sharon Stone, Herbert Lom, and John Rhys Davies from the Indiana Jones movies (because they were clearly going for that Indy Jones vibe). (And they got J. Lee Thompson – of The Guns of Navarone! – to direct)
But i forgive Chamberlin for this. I’m sure he needed the money.
Wasn’t Golan Globus basically the 80s version of Uwe Boll films? Basically a tax dodge where the actors basically got a free vacation and a decent paycheck for adding their name to the cast list.
Same here! My eldest sister had a crush on Dr. Ben Casey, but from ages 5-8, I was besotted with Dr. Kildare. Just last week, I googled him and found he was still alive, which made me ridiculously happy.
I’m sorry he passed, but even sorrier he had to keep his sexual identity hidden for so long.
I was walking home from elementary school with my friend, and we had to stop at this little street that leads out of MGM Studios because a car was coming.
A car with Richard Chamberlain in it. Sqeeeeeee!!!
He was driving a light blue Corvette and wearing a coat with a hood lined in fur. We squealed “Hi, Richard Chamberlain!” And he gave us a little wave, a ‘hi,’ a glorious smile and drove on. Sigh.
Heh, too bad he wouldn’t have been attracted to us. We were real jail bait, too, in our Catholic schoolgirl uniforms.
Yeah, I didn’t mean to make light of it. At the time, I was completely unaware of his identity.
My wife and I were watching Password Plus, and the celebrity that week was Wesley Eure, who most people (not either of us) know from Land of the Lost. So we looked him up in Wikipedia. He was Richard’s boyfriend! Wow, did not see that coming!
And he faked flirting with the female contestants so perfectly! It was the way things were done back then, I guess.
Yet another obituary where I’m thinking “He was still alive?” I’m glad that he seems to have had a long life and in the latter part of it was able to live openly as who he was.
Aside: I’ve had lots of gay male friends over the years. (There were only 40 people at our wedding in 1990, and six of them were gay friends of mine.) As a woman, I feel that gay men are so much fun to flirt with, and, at least the men I’ve known, are really good at it. They relate to you as a person, not as a potential sex partner. So you can toss those harmless bons mots back and forth with great affection and neither one of you ever has to be concerned about where it is going.
Richard was the original Jason Bourne.
I primarily remember Richard for miniseries. I rarely watched them. I was focused on school and going out at night.
RIP