Death of actor Richard Chamberlain, Bird of Paradise – Liberation

Before Noah Wyle and George Clooney in EMERGENCIES, There was Richard Chamberlain in the series Dr Kildare, Big Success TV in America in the 60s narrating no less than five years for the NBC channel The daily life of a beautiful blond intern sailing lives at the General Hospital in Blair. Large, angular face, light eyes, a little robotic and surfer, it becomes the new sex symbol with white coat. Born in Beverly Hills (California) on March 31, 1934, he died on March 29 in Waimanalo (Hawaii) at 90. Coming from a modest background (seller’s father, housewife mother), he said in particular: “I didn’t like real life. But the films – I loved going to the movies! This is where I wanted to be. Pretending to be other people was something I did anyway. ”

His career is both rich and extraordinarily bizarre, recording discs for midinettes and playing Shakespeare, pursued by an image of a ladies’ fall but which will end with his coming out in a book of late memories, published in 2003 (he is seventy years old), Shattered Love, Where he evokes his various fights after a difficult childhood with an alcoholic father and the haunt that if his homosexual inclinations were made public, his hopes of finding roles would be definitively annihilated. Like the star rock Hudson therefore, swept through AIDS, Chamberlain is one of his great figures of Straight seducers on the screen (he thus defined