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Richard Chemberlen, who died today at the age of 90, fired at the glory like the Heaarthrob D -Kilder TV in the 1960s.

His evil kind won the legion of fans of women, and guaranteed him work in many rather unforgettable television films.

But, at the middle age, his career has emerged again.

Camberlen became King of the 1980s mini-series: playing a Western prisoner in Shogun and a Catholic priest who was tempted by love with thorns.

He denied gay when he collided with a French magazine in 1989, and did not speak publicly about his homosexuality until he was 70 years old.

In an interview, promoting his recollection of 2003, he advised another beautiful leading actor to keep his sexuality to himself.

“Our culture still has a huge amount of homophobia,” he said. “Please do not pretend that we are suddenly all wonderful, bluntly accepted.”

George Richard Cemberlen was born on March 31, 1934 in Bverly -Hills, California. He died the day before his 91st birthday.

The seller’s father had problems with the drink who touched upon the young Richard’s childhood. He described himself as “shy, serious, intricate child, painfully skinny, with a long and sad face.”

He confessed that he was the most “unemployed child at school” but found the taste and talent for athletics.

At the college of Pomon, his acting mistake – and the role in the ants and men Bernard Shaw was convinced that he had found his call.

Paramount Studios became interested in them, but the thoughts of the acting career were stopped after being summoned after serving 16 months as a sergeant in the US Army during the Korea war.

In his category, he made a number of cameras on the television program, including in the episode of the popular Western, Gunsmoke.

Not everyone had a Chemberlen, chosen as a future star.

He was beautiful enough: with profiles at the time that poured over his “exquisite aristocratic face, judging by the young Florentine noble – right from the Renaissance.”

But he, of course, was unpleasant – who worked in his favor when he was listening to play Doctor James Kilder, a medical trainee fighting for his profession, in the new NBC medical drama.

“It may have been inevitable,” said one of the friends and the high level. “Who else might look like an anti-smoke as a wild?”

The series took place for almost 200 programs for five seasons.

It broke the new soil, raising questions such as addiction – which has not previously been shown on US television.

There was a huge reaction from fans of women.

Camberlen receives 12,000 letters per week. In Pittsburgh, 450,000 people were at the parade, and in New York he almost caused riots when the child noticed him and called his name.

The studio has taken maximum attention by releasing novels, comics and games with Chamberlen.

Fans would even write, asking Dr. Kilder to solve different medical problems.

And Chamberlain was unlikely single: three stars will shine tonight, where romantic words were added to the distinctive tune of the introductory theme of the show.

He received the “Golden Globe” award for the best television actor in 1963. But three years later, the audience began to diminish, and NBC pulled the plug.

Now the International Star, Chemberlen has left Kilder behind.

In 1966, he hoped to break into movies, but the reviews planned his performance in the light romantic comedy “Joy in the morning”.

The audience, according to them, laughed at “all the wrong places”. So he decided to ignore Hollywood and earn a living on stage.

He came to the rocky start when the musical version of the breakfast in Tiffany – in which he starred opposite Mary Tyler Moore – closed only after four shows.

The production is still considered as one of Broadway’s largest turkeys. But moving to England gave him the opportunity to rethink himself as a “serious actor”.

In 1967, Henry James’ portrait of Henry James was the leading roles and opposite Catherine Hepburn in a satirical comedy called “Crazy Chala”.

And two years later, he became the first American to play Hamlet at the Birmingham Theater since Bolshoi John Barimar in 1925.

This time the reviews were excellent, and he revised the role of the most catastropostic prince of Denmark for the television version for Hallmark.

But Chemberlen was shot as Tchaikovsky in the closed biopics of Ken Russell, music lovers in which he starred opposite Glend Jackson.

Critics rubbed the film in which a big game was held between the composer with repressed homosexual trends and his nymphoman, although she later became something cult success.

Camberlen continued to play Lord Byron across from Sarah Miles in Lady Caroline Lamb and French sword Aramis in three musketeers Richard Lester.

It also appeared – along with half the Hollywood – in the elevating hell, like a curves, an electric engineer whose corner cut leads to impressive destruction of the building 138 floor.

In 1977, the television series “roots – established in the era of American slavery,” attracted a huge audience and was nominated for almost 40 Amy awards.

This caused the revival of the mini-series, which attracted Chamberlen back to television.

He won Roger Moore and Albert Finnie to speak with John Blactor – captive English navigator in Japan 17th century – in Shogun.

The series was shown on NBC over five nights in 1980, and the audience reached almost 30 million.

Ordering the Golden Globe, Chamberlen took another one, because Father Ralph de Brikosarta from The Thorn Birds, a priest, torn between God and His Sex Tugo, to actress Rachel Ward.

It was even more successful than Shogun, winning the audience with 60% viewers and 16 Amy nominations.

In the 1990s, Camberlen’s career began to decrease.

Was the continuity of solid, not excellent performances in movies made for television and endless guest performances on other people.

This included a continuation for birds -ship, called missing years, and Amanda Donaho replaced Rachel Ward.

In 2003, long after he stopped playing romantic presenters, Chemberlen published his biography of a broken love, in which he first confirmed that he gay.

Despite his relationship with more than 30 years with actor and director Martin Rabbeth, with whom he once starred in the movie Alan Kehtman and the lost city of gold, they kept their personal life.

“I thought something very, very deeply wrong,” he said, “and I wanted to cover it. I remember doing a pact that I will never reveal this secret.

Camberlen and Rabbeth went their own paths in 2010.

In the coming years, Chamberlen gladly played gay, in particular desperate housewives and Will and Grace.

He continued to perform at the Music Theater, including touring performances by Spamalot, My Fair Lady and the sound of music.

But he never regretted hiding his sexuality to protect his career.

“I would be a happier man who came out of the closet and was free,” he said in El Pais in 2024.

He will be remembered as King of the TV mini-series: the evil presenter in everything, from Dr. Kilder to Thorne Birds.

Despite attempts to reinvent himself as a serious stage actor, he was at best on a small screen, entertaining millions, watching the house on the couch.

After all, although there were always better actors than Richard Cheberlen, few people turned to their ability to keep a television audience.