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Acting

Richard Chamberlain

Career: Active from 1960 to 2019, busiest in 1974 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 51
top three billing

Average score: 57/100

Highest rated: Shōgun
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 52 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Richard Chamberlain Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Contemporary Realism
3.6, average 5.4
Uncanny
1.4, average 2.5
Absurdist Humor
1.1, average 2.0
Pop Culture
1.2, average 2.2

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Period Piece 7
Political Intrigue 5
Character Study 5
Character-Driven 4
Social Commentary 4
Witty Dialogue 3
Historical Drama 3
Biographical Drama 3
Period Drama 3
Swashbuckling Adventure 2
80s Television 2
American West 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

88

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

1 title

Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens

as Nat

2010s

8 titles · average score 64

Finding Julia

as Igor

Nightmare Cinema

61

as Dr. Mirari

The Black Ghiandola

60

as Creepy Oncologist

Justice League: Gods and Monsters

78

as Highfather (voice)

Three Days of Hamlet

as Polonius

We Are the Hartmans

as Mr. Hartman

The Perfect Family

40

as Monsignor Murphy

ThunderCats

81

TV show · as Zigg (voice)

2000s

13 titles · average score 65

Leverage

80

TV show · as Archie Leach

Chuck

82

TV show · as Adelbert De Smet

Strength and Honour

32

as Denis O'Leary

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

42

as Councilman Banks

Blackbeard

55

TV show · as Gouverneur Charles Eden

Brothers and Sisters

70

TV show · as Jonathan Byrold

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire

TV show · as Narrator

Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire

as Narrator

Desperate Housewives

76

TV show · as Glenn

Hustle

73

TV show · as James Whittaker Wright III

Nip/Tuck

74

TV show · as Arthur Stiles

The Pavilion

as Huddlestone

1990s

14 titles · average score 61

Too Rich: The Secret Life of Doris Duke

60

TV show · as Bernard Lafferty

Will & Grace

76

TV show · as Clyde

River Made to Drown In

54

as Thaddeus MacKenzie

All the Winters that Have Been

as Dane Corvin

The Lost Daughter

as Andrew McCracken

The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years

65

as Ralph de Bricassart

Bird of Prey

50

as Jonathan Griffith

The Drew Carey Show

69

TV show · as Maggie Wick

Ordeal in the Arctic

54

as Captain John Couch

Night of the Hunter

48

as Harry Powell

Aftermath: A Test of Love

69

as Ross Colburn

Twin Peaks

84

TV show · as Bill Kennedy

1980s

13 titles · average score 56

Island Son

TV show · Producer

The Bourne Identity

66

TV show · as Jason Bourne

Casanova

49

as Giacomo Casanova

Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold

41

as Allan Quatermain

Dream West

TV show · as John Charles Fremont

King Solomon's Mines

33

as Allan Quatermain

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

68

TV show · as Raoul Wallenberg

The Thorn Birds

50

TV show · as Ralph de Bricassart

Cook & Peary: The Race to the Pole

as Frederick Cook

Murder by Phone

49

as Nat Bridger

Shōgun

80

TV show · as Pilot-Major John Blackthorne / Anjin-san

Shogun

71

as John Blackthorne

1970s

21 titles · average score 62

Centennial

80

TV show · as Alexander McKeag

The Swarm

28

as Dr. Hubbard

The Last Wave

77

as David Burton

The Man in the Iron Mask

65

as Louis XIV / Philippe

The Slipper and the Rose

76

as Prince Edward

The Count of Monte-Cristo

70

as Edmond Dantès

The Four Musketeers

63

as Aramis

The Towering Inferno

70

as Simmons

The Three Musketeers

76

as Aramis

Lady Caroline Lamb

29

as George Gordon, Lord Byron

The Music Lovers

64

as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Hamlet

as Hamlet

1960s

11 titles · average score 54

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

TV show · as Hamlet

The Madwoman of Chaillot

35

as The Reverend

Petulia

77

as Dave Danner

The Portrait of a Lady

TV show · as Ralph Touchett

Hold On: It's The Dave Clark Five

as The Director

Joy in the Morning

23

as Carl Brown

Twilight of Honor

54

as David Mitchell

Dr. Kildare

63

TV show · as Dr. James Kildare

A Thunder of Drums

49

as Lt. Porter

The Secret of the Purple Reef

as Dean Christopher

Thriller

74

TV show · as Larry Carter

1950s

7 titles · average score 76

The Deputy

67

TV show · as Jerry Kirk

Mr. Lucky

71

TV show · as Alec

Bourbon Street Beat

69

TV show · as Dale Wellington

Alfred Hitchcock Presents

86

TV show · as Clay Pine

Gunsmoke

76

TV show · as Pete

The Red Skelton Show

77

TV show · as Clarence Narrow

Hallmark Hall of Fame

85

TV show · as Hamlet