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 ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES — Richard Chamberlain, the handsome hero of the 1960s television series "Dr. Kildare" who found a second career as an award-winning "king of the miniseries," has died. He was 90.

Chamberlain’s breakout role was the title character of the television series Dr. Kildare, which ran on NBC from 1961 until 1966. In 1963, he won a Golden Globe for Best Male TV Star for his ...