Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series “Dr. Kildare” who found a second career as “king of the ...

Dr Kildare is dead. The actor who played him in the series during the 1960s, Richard Chamberlain–and who I met briefly on a ...

Richard Chamberlain, an actor who got his start playing a hunky TV doctor and went on to become a miniseries maestro, died on ...

When he played Dr. Kildare, the tall, blond, blue-eyed, 27-year-old former college sprinter became a fan-magazine favorite who was soon generating up to 12,000 fan letters a week. Dubbed the ...

Future TV star was too shy to get onstage until his college days in Claremont, columnist David Allen writes. The star of ...

An overnight star as Dr. Kildare in the 1960s, he achieved new acclaim two decades later as the omnipresent leading man of mini-series. By Anita Gates Richard Chamberlain, who rose to fame as the ...