Actor Richard Chamberlain, who died Saturday at age 90, scored his greatest miniseries success in 1983 with “The Thorn Birds,” based on Colleen McCullough’s best-seller. It reportedly attracted 100 million viewers.
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My very first crush. The way I loved that man. I was all of 11 when The Thorn Bird came out but my mother and I watched it religiously. Along with Shogun when I was 8 (which is when I fell head over heels for him) and he is my one and only Jason Bourne. Rest in Peace, legend.
Amazing body of work. Always got a kick out of his role in 'The Towering Inferno' -- playing the sleazy husband to Susan Blakely's character and nasty son in law to William Holden's character.
Met him twice, first in Boston at a preview of never got to Broadway past previews"Breakfast at Tiffanys"musical and later in NY at Roundabout Theatre's "Night of the Iguana.' By then he'd gone well past his teen heartthrob days and was excellent in the latter, Richard Burton movie role. Nice man.
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I even liked Richard in The Slipper and the Rose.
RIP.