Richard Chamberla Once Said Beg Gay Was 'Worst' Thg — He Had Secret Relatnship wh a Man for 27 Years

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• 'THORN BIRDS' RICHARD CHAMBERLA STUNS AT 89 - HE & HIS GAY PARTNER OF 38 YEARS ARE STILL LOVE YET LIVE APART
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KILDARE, WHICH AIRED OM 1961 TO 1966. HE LATER MOVED TO ENGLAND, WHERE HE PLAYED SER ROL VAR BRISH STAGE PRODUCTNS, CLUDG HAMLET. UPON HIS RETURN TO THE UNED STAT, CHAMBERLA ASSUMED THE ROLE OF ROMANTIC LEADG MAN A NUMBER OF TV FILMS AND MISERI, CLUDG SHOGUN (1980), THE THORN BIRDS (1983) AND THE BOURNE INTY (1988).EARLY LIFE BORN ON MARCH 31, 1934, LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA, CHAMBERLA STARRED THE POPULAR 1960S MEDIL SERI DR. KILDARE AND SEVERAL H MISERI, CLUDG SHOGUN AND THE THORN BIRDS. HE GREW UP BEVERLY HILLS WH HIS PARENTS CHUCK AND ELSA AND HIS OLR BROTHER BILL. AN ACTRS AND SGER, HIS MOTHER HAD MANY CREATIVE TALENTS. HIS FATHER’S BATTLE WH ALHOLISM, HOWEVER, ST A SHADOW OVER CHAMBERLA’S CHILDHOOD. AFTER GRADUATG OM BEVERLY HILLS HIGH, CHAMBERLA ATTEND POMONA COLLEGE CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA. THERE HE STUDIED PATG AND ART HISTORY AND GOT VOLVED STUNT DRAMATIC PRODUCTNS. DURG HIS SENR YEAR, CHAMBERLA HAD “A LIFE-CHANGG BREAKTHROUGH AS A NEOPHYTE ACTOR,” HE WROTE HIS 2003 MEMOIR SHATTERED LOVE. HE REALIZED AFTER PERFORMG {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}GEE BERNARD SHAW’S ARMS AND THE MAN THAT “MAYBE I ULD EMBRACE MY FIRST LOVE AND ACTUALLY BEE AN ACTOR!” UNFORTUNATELY, FATE FORCED CHAMBERLA TO LAY HIS ACTG DREAMS. HE WAS DRAFTED TO THE U.S. ARMY DURG THE KOREAN WAR. “I HATED BEG THE ARMY. . . . I DON'T LIKE BEG ORRED AROUND. I DON’T LIKE ORRG PEOPLE AROUND. I ME OUT A SERGEANT. IT WAS ALL JT ANOTHER ROLE FOR ME," CHAMBERLA LATER TOLD THE ADVOTE.TV SUCCS: 'KILDARE' AND 'THORN BIRDS'IN 1961, CHAMBERLA BEGAN HIS N ON DR. KILDARE. THIS STARRG ROLE AS A KD, RG PHYSICIAN MA HIM A HOEHOLD NAME AND WON HIM A GOLN GLOBE AWARD 1963. HIS LEADG-MAN GOOD LOOKS ALSO OPENED THE DOOR TO OTHER PARTS. CHAMBERLA STARRED THE 1963 DRAMATIC FILM TWILIGHT OF HONOR AND THE 1965 RELATNSHIP DRAMA JOY THE MORNG. NOT LONG AFTER DR. KILDARE END 1966, HE MOVED TO ENGLAND, WHERE HE LVED TO THEATRIL WORK. IN THE 1970S, CHAMBERLA STARRED SUCH FILMS AS THE THREE MKETEERS (1973) WH MICHAEL YORK, OLIVER REED AND RAQUEL WELCH AND THE TOWERG INFERNO (1974) WH PL NEWMAN AND STEVE MCQUEEN. HE ALSO WORKED STEADILY TELEVISN, APPEARG THE 1977 ADAPTATN OF THE MAN THE IRON MASK AND THE MISERI CENTENNIAL. IN 1980, CHAMBERLA STARRED THE POPULAR MISERI SHOGUN, PLAYG AN ENGLISH NAVIGATOR JAPAN DURG THE 1600S. SHOGUN, BASED ON JAM CLAVELL’S 1975 NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME, BEME A HUGE H WH AMERIN DIENC. FOR HIS WORK ON THE MISERI, CHAMBERLA WON ANOTHER GOLN GLOBE AND RECEIVED AN EMMY AWARD NOMATN.CHAMBERLA AGA WON OVER VIEWERS WH HIS NEXT BIG TV PROJECT. HE STARRED THE 1980 MISERI THE THORN BIRDS, PLAYG A PRIT WHO STGGL TO KEEP HIS VOWS BEE OF HIS LOVE FOR A YOUNG WOMAN (PLAYED BY RACHEL WARD). CONSIRED QUE RISQUé FOR S TIME, THE DRAMA HAD VIEWERS GLUED TO THEIR TELEVISN SETS FOR SEVERAL NIGHTS. THE THORN BIRDS ALSO EARNED NUMERO ACLAS, CLUDG A GOLN GLOBE W AND AN EMMY AWARD NOMATN FOR CHAMBERLA. HE LATER PLAYED JASON BOURNE THE 1988 TV ADAPTATN OF ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE BOURNE INTY.LATER LIFE AND COMG OUTIN HIS 2003 TOBGRAPHY, SHATTERED LOVE, CHAMBERLA WENT PUBLIC WH HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN. HE HAD HIDN THE FACT THAT HE WAS GAY FOR MOST OF HIS REER, BELIEVG THAT THE REVELATN WOULD HAVE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED HIS PROFSNAL LIFE. CHAMBERLA FALLY FELT UNAAID TO TELL HIS TTH, SAYG A 2003 DATELE TERVIEW, “I'M NOT A ROMANTIC LEADG MAN ANY MORE, SO I DON’T NEED TO NURTURE THAT PUBLIC IMAGE ANYMORE.” IN MORE RECENT YEARS, CHAMBERLA HAS PARTICIPATED AN TERTG MIX OF PROJECTS. HE APPEARED A TOURG PRODUCTN OF THE MIL EDY SPAMALOT AS KG ARTHUR 2009, A LOS ANGEL STAGE ADAPTATN OF THE EXORCIST 2012 WH BROOKE SHIELDS AND AN OFF-BROADWAY REVIVAL OF DAVID RABE’S STICKS AND BON WH HOLLY HUNTER AND BILL PULLMAN 2014. CHAMBERLA HAS LAND A ROLE THE UPG REBOOT OF DAVID LYNCH'S CULT CLASSIC TV SERI TW PEAKS AS WELL. IN ADDN TO HIS MEMOIR, CHAMBERLA ALSO PENNED A LLECTN OF HAIKU POEMS, MY LIFE HAIKU, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS
• RICHARD CHAMBERLA ONCE GOT CANDID ABOUT WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT 68
• RICHARD CHAMBERLA ONCE SAID BEG GAY WAS 'WORST' THG — HE HAD SECRET RELATNSHIP WH A MAN FOR 27 YEARS
• 84-YEAR-OLD RICHARD CHAMBERLA'S FAILED RELATNSHIP WH GAY PARTNER OF 33 YEARS
• RICHARD CHAMBERLA, WHO TURNS 87 TODAY, WAS CLOSETED GAY MAN AT PEAK OF HIS FAME – BUT NO MORE!
• RICHARD CHAMBERLA: WHY I KEPT MY GAY LIFE A SECRET BY DR KILDARE

'THORN BIRDS' RICHARD CHAMBERLA STUNS AT 89 - HE & HIS GAY PARTNER OF 38 YEARS ARE STILL LOVE YET LIVE APART

Kildare" star Richard Chamberla showed up a tracksu at an event wh his gay partner of 38 years. Kildare" and was a hunk as Father Ralph the 1980s "The Thorn Birds, me out as gay at almost 70 2004, the star was asked about leadg a double life, and he admted that he hated himself and hid as a child. Kildare, " cir 1965 | Source: Getty ImagAlthough he was ially aaid to e out as gay, partly bee he worried about how that would affect his succsful reer based on a lie, Chamberla was still thrivg.

He had hidn the fact that he was gay for most of his reer, believg that the revelatn would have negatively impacted his profsnal life. Kildare, " pretend to be somebody else for several years to avoid g out as a gay actor Hollywood.

Richard Chamberla on September 29, 2014 New York Cy | Photo: Getty ImagRICHARD PRETENDING TO BE A STRAIGHT MANDurg an terview wh the Televisn Amy, Richard revealed how he felt about beg a gay man the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and why he me out publicly when he was 68 years said that, at the time, he was alg wh two thgs: a feelg of self-dislike and the "terrible, terrible danger of beg outed.

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KILDARE, WHICH AIRED OM 1961 TO 1966. HE LATER MOVED TO ENGLAND, WHERE HE PLAYED SER ROL VAR BRISH STAGE PRODUCTNS, CLUDG HAMLET. UPON HIS RETURN TO THE UNED STAT, CHAMBERLA ASSUMED THE ROLE OF ROMANTIC LEADG MAN A NUMBER OF TV FILMS AND MISERI, CLUDG SHOGUN (1980), THE THORN BIRDS (1983) AND THE BOURNE INTY (1988).EARLY LIFE BORN ON MARCH 31, 1934, LOS ANGEL, CALIFORNIA, CHAMBERLA STARRED THE POPULAR 1960S MEDIL SERI DR. KILDARE AND SEVERAL H MISERI, CLUDG SHOGUN AND THE THORN BIRDS. HE GREW UP BEVERLY HILLS WH HIS PARENTS CHUCK AND ELSA AND HIS OLR BROTHER BILL. AN ACTRS AND SGER, HIS MOTHER HAD MANY CREATIVE TALENTS. HIS FATHER’S BATTLE WH ALHOLISM, HOWEVER, ST A SHADOW OVER CHAMBERLA’S CHILDHOOD. AFTER GRADUATG OM BEVERLY HILLS HIGH, CHAMBERLA ATTEND POMONA COLLEGE CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA. THERE HE STUDIED PATG AND ART HISTORY AND GOT VOLVED STUNT DRAMATIC PRODUCTNS. DURG HIS SENR YEAR, CHAMBERLA HAD “A LIFE-CHANGG BREAKTHROUGH AS A NEOPHYTE ACTOR,” HE WROTE HIS 2003 MEMOIR SHATTERED LOVE. HE REALIZED AFTER PERFORMG {-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN-THICKNS:0.0625REM;TEXT-RATN-LOR:HER;TEXT-UNRLE-OFFSET:0.25REM;LOR:#A00000;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;TRANSN:ALL 0.3S EASE--OUT;}{LOR:#595959;TEXT-RATN-LOR:BORR-LK-BODY-HOVER;}GEE BERNARD SHAW’S ARMS AND THE MAN THAT “MAYBE I ULD EMBRACE MY FIRST LOVE AND ACTUALLY BEE AN ACTOR!” UNFORTUNATELY, FATE FORCED CHAMBERLA TO LAY HIS ACTG DREAMS. HE WAS DRAFTED TO THE U.S. ARMY DURG THE KOREAN WAR. “I HATED BEG THE ARMY. . . . I DON'T LIKE BEG ORRED AROUND. I DON’T LIKE ORRG PEOPLE AROUND. I ME OUT A SERGEANT. IT WAS ALL JT ANOTHER ROLE FOR ME," CHAMBERLA LATER TOLD THE ADVOTE.TV SUCCS: 'KILDARE' AND 'THORN BIRDS'IN 1961, CHAMBERLA BEGAN HIS N ON DR. KILDARE. THIS STARRG ROLE AS A KD, RG PHYSICIAN MA HIM A HOEHOLD NAME AND WON HIM A GOLN GLOBE AWARD 1963. HIS LEADG-MAN GOOD LOOKS ALSO OPENED THE DOOR TO OTHER PARTS. CHAMBERLA STARRED THE 1963 DRAMATIC FILM TWILIGHT OF HONOR AND THE 1965 RELATNSHIP DRAMA JOY THE MORNG. NOT LONG AFTER DR. KILDARE END 1966, HE MOVED TO ENGLAND, WHERE HE LVED TO THEATRIL WORK. IN THE 1970S, CHAMBERLA STARRED SUCH FILMS AS THE THREE MKETEERS (1973) WH MICHAEL YORK, OLIVER REED AND RAQUEL WELCH AND THE TOWERG INFERNO (1974) WH PL NEWMAN AND STEVE MCQUEEN. HE ALSO WORKED STEADILY TELEVISN, APPEARG THE 1977 ADAPTATN OF THE MAN THE IRON MASK AND THE MISERI CENTENNIAL. IN 1980, CHAMBERLA STARRED THE POPULAR MISERI SHOGUN, PLAYG AN ENGLISH NAVIGATOR JAPAN DURG THE 1600S. SHOGUN, BASED ON JAM CLAVELL’S 1975 NOVEL OF THE SAME NAME, BEME A HUGE H WH AMERIN DIENC. FOR HIS WORK ON THE MISERI, CHAMBERLA WON ANOTHER GOLN GLOBE AND RECEIVED AN EMMY AWARD NOMATN.CHAMBERLA AGA WON OVER VIEWERS WH HIS NEXT BIG TV PROJECT. HE STARRED THE 1980 MISERI THE THORN BIRDS, PLAYG A PRIT WHO STGGL TO KEEP HIS VOWS BEE OF HIS LOVE FOR A YOUNG WOMAN (PLAYED BY RACHEL WARD). CONSIRED QUE RISQUé FOR S TIME, THE DRAMA HAD VIEWERS GLUED TO THEIR TELEVISN SETS FOR SEVERAL NIGHTS. THE THORN BIRDS ALSO EARNED NUMERO ACLAS, CLUDG A GOLN GLOBE W AND AN EMMY AWARD NOMATN FOR CHAMBERLA. HE LATER PLAYED JASON BOURNE THE 1988 TV ADAPTATN OF ROBERT LUDLUM’S THE BOURNE INTY.LATER LIFE AND COMG OUTIN HIS 2003 TOBGRAPHY, SHATTERED LOVE, CHAMBERLA WENT PUBLIC WH HIS SEXUAL ORIENTATN. HE HAD HIDN THE FACT THAT HE WAS GAY FOR MOST OF HIS REER, BELIEVG THAT THE REVELATN WOULD HAVE NEGATIVELY IMPACTED HIS PROFSNAL LIFE. CHAMBERLA FALLY FELT UNAAID TO TELL HIS TTH, SAYG A 2003 DATELE TERVIEW, “I'M NOT A ROMANTIC LEADG MAN ANY MORE, SO I DON’T NEED TO NURTURE THAT PUBLIC IMAGE ANYMORE.” IN MORE RECENT YEARS, CHAMBERLA HAS PARTICIPATED AN TERTG MIX OF PROJECTS. HE APPEARED A TOURG PRODUCTN OF THE MIL EDY SPAMALOT AS KG ARTHUR 2009, A LOS ANGEL STAGE ADAPTATN OF THE EXORCIST 2012 WH BROOKE SHIELDS AND AN OFF-BROADWAY REVIVAL OF DAVID RABE’S STICKS AND BON WH HOLLY HUNTER AND BILL PULLMAN 2014. CHAMBERLA HAS LAND A ROLE THE UPG REBOOT OF DAVID LYNCH'S CULT CLASSIC TV SERI TW PEAKS AS WELL. IN ADDN TO HIS MEMOIR, CHAMBERLA ALSO PENNED A LLECTN OF HAIKU POEMS, MY LIFE HAIKU, WHICH WAS PUBLISHED {BORR:0;BORR-BOTTOM:TH SOLID BLACK;MARG:1.875REM 0;CLEAR:BOTH;}QUICK FACTS

"The fact that Richard Chamberla was gay ma him feel awful bee he grew up an era when beg homosexual was "not an optn. Had somebody outed him as a gay man at that time, "would have been a disaster, " claimed Richard.

However, he kept hidg his homosexualy until 2003, when his tobgraphy "Shattered Love: A Memoir" was released. '"After the book was released, Richard went to different TV shows to talk about him beg a gay actor Hollywood, and he was not aaid to do so!

Kildare" the ‘60s, followed by his role as the hunky Father Ralph on "The Thorn Birds" the ‘80s, me out as a gay man when he was nearly 70 years old. It wouldn't be until s later that the star me out as a gay man. There is nothg, absolutely nothg wrong wh you and your life and beg gay.

RICHARD CHAMBERLA ONCE GOT CANDID ABOUT WHY HE CAME OUT AS GAY AT 68

… I knew everyone would want to talk about me beg gay Hollywood.

RICHARD CHAMBERLA ONCE SAID BEG GAY WAS 'WORST' THG — HE HAD SECRET RELATNSHIP WH A MAN FOR 27 YEARS

The "Shogun" star was gay, and while iends and lleagu were aware of this, he hid om the public. | Source: Getty ImagChamberla had always felt different, but bee of the era he grew up , was almost like a crime to be gay. In his words:"I've grown up the 30s, 40s, 50s, where beg gay was not an optn.

“For an actor to be workg at all is a kd of miracle, bee most actors aren’t, so ’s jt silly for a workg actor to say, “Oh, I don’t re if anybody knows I’m gay” – pecially if you’re a leadg man. Personally, I wouldn’t advise a gay leadg man-type actor to e out. Chamberla is outed as a gay man when he was at the age of 55 2003.

Gay Rumors Proved.

84-YEAR-OLD RICHARD CHAMBERLA'S FAILED RELATNSHIP WH GAY PARTNER OF 33 YEARS

The same thg happened to the actor, Richard, he was surround by gay mors but he did not keep secret as others do. At first, the gay uple met one another on the set of a movie  1984 and began datg. Soon, news of his gay relatnship began to slip to the media, but the actor's team was quick to dismiss such claims, fearg would affect his stardom.

Chamberla had the perfect chance to e out 1997 when he played a gay man dyg of AIDS "A River Ma to Drown In. | Source: Getty ImagClose iends knew his secret life, but at the time when the lovebirds began datg, gay relatnships were viewed as a e for social ncern.

Chamberla Came Out but Advised Others Not to Be like HimYears after puttg up wh the heartthrob image he earned om his s Hollywood, Chamberla cid to e out, tellg the world that he's always been actor left no stone unturned when talkg about his sexualy his 2003 memoir, "Shattered Love, " which he promoted alongsi public outgs at several events to mark gay pri month. As a rult, Chamberla believ he no longer feared losg out on the admiratn that wh such fully charged much changed Chamberla's reer after g out, and he avoid beg typest to gay rol even though he had played a uple of them. Dpe g out, Chamberla advised other gay actors currently playg lead rol not to take the same path as he did.

RICHARD CHAMBERLA, WHO TURNS 87 TODAY, WAS CLOSETED GAY MAN AT PEAK OF HIS FAME – BUT NO MORE!

The "Shogun" star believ there is a homophobic culture surroundg asked if he would back other gay actors, Chamberla told the Advote, "It's plited. There's still a tremendo amount of homophobia our culture.

RICHARD CHAMBERLA: WHY I KEPT MY GAY LIFE A SECRET BY DR KILDARE

"He further add, "For an actor to be workg is a kd of miracle, bee most actors aren't, so 's jt silly for a workg actor to say, 'Oh, I don't re if anybody knows I'm gay" — pecially if you're a leadg man. Personally, I wouldn't advise a gay leadg man–type actor to e out.